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Written October 16, 2010
Reading Z's answers to Oct 9 chat, made me think. Quoting: The sequence of events is, thus:
1. a tipping Indo-Australia Plate with Indonesia sinking,
2. a folding Pacific allowing S America to roll,
3. a tearing of the south Atlantic Rift allowing Africa to roll and the floor of the Mediterranean to drop,
4. great quakes in Japan followed by the New Madrid adjustment,
5. which is followed almost instantly by the tearing of the north Atlantic Rift with consequent European tsunami.
If so, the drop of Mediterranean floor (3.) will probably trigger a tsunami in Mediterranean as well. If so, Europe will actually experience two tsunamis: first sloshing East Spain, South France and West Italy (and Africa) and second (the one Z's probably refer to as European tsunami) sloshing West Spain and Portugal, West France, UK, Ireland, Benelux and northern Europe states. Is that correct?
Also, European plate goes into African at Crete, so rolling of Africa will likely affect the Greek islands, too. Can we expect major quakes there and Santorini to abruptly erupt, or is this "scheduled" for later stages? How far can pushing of Greece go, will it also cause Balkans to slide under Italy at this stage and Italian vulcanos to erupt?
The Z's also hinted at "Middle East inferno" a while ago. With some underground fires featured in last week's newsletter, I guess, they are not far either. Where do that inferno fit in? I'd say it follows rolling of Africa in step 3., which makes room for middle east adjustments? On the other hand, tipping of Indo-Australian Plate in step 1. gives some room for middle east adjustments, too?
The fact that the African Plate, during previous rolls, created mountain
building can be seen on a relief map. Morocco and Algeria have mountains
due to the rolling in the past. One can see in the mountains of Spain and
Italy and the Balkans and Turkey that this was the case there, too, in the
past. The Alps themselves were built during previous African rolls. But
this time the African Plate will drop away significantly, slipping to the
south during the roll. This movement is possible because as the South
Atlantic Rift tears open, there is room for the tip of Africa to slid into
that void, thus dropping the entire African Plate as it rolls. The African
Plate not only moves to the south during this process, it also further to
the west, although the southern portion of Africa moves more in this
direction more than the parts abutting the Mediterranean.
That said, why would the floor of the Mediterranean just above Algeria be
more vulnerable than other areas during this roll? The border of the
African Plate slices across northern Algeria, and thus when the plate
rolls and drops, the Mediterranean floor there will suddenly find itself
unsupported. Where the land mass housing Morocco and Algeria will not lose
elevation, in the main, retaining its floatation strength to ride on the
magma beneath, the floor of the Mediterranean is of a different
composition. It will sink there, unsupported on the African side where the
plates will pull apart. The Mediterranean coastline of Algeria will then
find more than tsunami worries as they will have a loss of elevation by 12
feet or more. Their coastline is not part of the African Plate. What sinks
and what continues to float on the magma beneath is a factor of the rock
density, and the floor of the Mediterranean above Algeria has only been
floating as it has due to the connection with the African Plate.
Elsewhere, where the Mediterranean floor spreads during the roll, the
floor is either too deep for a change to be noticed or at a distance from
the plate border.
Tsunami will not occur to any ostensible degree because there is a void
being created, where the waters will rush. However, turmoil and wave
action can be anticipated. The shifting of the African Plate will also not
incite any mountain building in Italy or the Balkans or Turkey, as the
northern edge of the African Plate is not the solid, jutting line through
the center of the Mediterranean that mankind assumes. The sea is deep
there, to the south of Italy and the Balkans and Greece, and for good
reason. This part of the great plates has fractured in the past, so that
many fault lines lie under the surface, unknown to man until dramatic
plate movements begin. The roll of the African Plate during the 7 of 10
scenarios thus spares all but the Mediterranean floor above Algeria! The
roll will incite the Arabian Plate to roll also, to some degree, as across
from Egypt there will be pressure, but further down the Red Sea there will
be a tearing apart, inviting the Arabian Plate to migrate in this
direction. However, this is not the disaster we have predicted for Iraq,
not yet. Nor will the Afar Triangle, the African Rift Valley, experience
changes all that dramatic during this roll.
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