Hurricane Irene and North Carolina Earthquake Connection
Published by On August 20th hurricane Irene started as Tropical Storm Irene passing over the Leeward Islands early August 21st. Early August 22nd Irene strengthened to a Category one hurricane with winds of up to 120 km/h). On August 23rd it had reached Category 2, the same day that the North Carolina earthquake hit. What is the connection between the two?
On August 20th hurricane Irene started as Tropical Storm Irene passing over the Leeward Islands early August 21st. Early August 22nd Irene strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane with winds of up to 120 km/h). On August 23rd it had reached Category 2, the same day that the North Carolina earthquake hit. What is the connection between the two?
One possibility is that hurricane Irene in its increasing movement and shifting of air and massive amounts of water was able to shift enough of the pressure sitting on juncture where the Caribbean plate meets the North American plate that it added enough pressure on one of the plates to allow the friction between the two plates to give way. When friction gives way to stored force, the result is always violent movement, similar to a wound spring effect. If this is the case then Irene causes North Carolina to shake and tremor.
The question that arises is what impact will the hurricane Irene have on the Northern edge of the North American tectonic plate as it works its way up the American west coast? With the storm increasing in strength, the amount of air and water mass that it moves will produce increasing pressure on the North American plate in the recently active fault associated with the North Carolina earthquake.
Since the tectonic plates are all connected and held in place by various pressures above the surface, at surface and below surface, including gravity itself any change in any one of these dynamics will produce additional effects and possibly an extended chain reaction. Though we don’t know what will happen next and over the next couple of weeks, it is quite possible that if anything abnormal is going to happen, it’ll happen in this period.
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On August 26, 2011 at 5:25 pm
My parents live in North Carolina, and I’m in Costa Rica. When they told me about the earthquake I said “Welcome to the party!”
On August 26, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Interesting connection between the earthquake and the hurricane, if it’s true. But wouldn’t there have been other earthquakes in the NC area in the past four years if hurricanes really do exert that kind of effect?
On August 26, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Meg, it would depend on the hurricane’s path and its strength at various points of that path if and when that path passed by the fault lines that connect the tectonic plate. My point is that it the hurricane could have added pressure to the existing pressure on the fault line that was keeping the friction in tact. With the additional pressure the friction resistance gave way causing the earthquake.