Falling Apart

Starting off my blogging very late seems to be a disaster in itself, although real natural disasters have been striking the world seemly harder then ever. I recently read a article about the causes and effects of the earthquake that led to a tsunami in the Solomon islands in 2007. This article was found in the Star Tribune. Earthquakes are generally formed when a crust of earth moves downward beneath other sections of crust. This is what happened in the sea by the Solomon islands on the boundary between the Australia and Pacific plates. The shifting plates caused a tsunami that swept through the islands killing 52 people and causing extreme property damage. Geoscientist Kevin Furlong was surprised at the tsunami causing the devastation that it did stating, "Normally we think earthquakes should stop at the plate boundaries”. He also released another statement telling the media that the younger crusts of the earth like that in the Solomon islands are not expected to be major sights for earthquakes.

This article can be found at www.Startribune.com