Re: 5.2 Gulf of Mexico probably a slump

Aidan Karley wrote:
In article <11vq9je6fi9nu2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Skywise wrote:

"An undersea landslide - technically, a "slump" - about 90
miles off Galveston once sent some 12 to 14 cubic miles of
earth sliding down.


Did they manage to get a hypocentric depth for the original quake?

3.1 miles according to CERI in Memphis, Tennessee: http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/usizan.html

There's mixing going on between the story of this Feb quake, and the historical one I'm quoting about above. I was getting close to asking if there was evidence of turbidity out in the Gulf from the slump.

I'll ask if any regional meteorologists know of someone who may have been monitoring turbidity in the area then. It's quite possible no one was. See, for instance: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/coos/texas_gulf.html The closest monitor to the area on this map was a data buoy, which would just be monitoring surface atmospheric and wave conditions.

Barb
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