What could have caused this?

[KillSwitch_J]

While sitting in the break room at work acouple of the guys started talking about strange earth anomalies, and one of them brought the article below. My question is how could this have happened without a massive earth quake?

'Uplift' baffles scientists, transforms area beach

BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG
STAFF WRITER

Like a giant fist punching through the earth, a 1,000-foot long section of the beach below Bluff Point rose up 20 feet from the tidelands sometime last Friday or late Thursday, pushing boulders up from the ocean bottom, cracking sandstone slabs and toppling rocks upside down.

Full story
http://www.homernews.com/stories/070809/news_1_002.shtml

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Since you posted this here, I'm gunna hazard a guess at some sort of sorcerer. Maybe the druids.

[Speedy]

thats awesome

[driveby]

Your grossly limited intellectual capacity seems to be to blame for this.

[KillSwitch_J]

Since you posted this here, I'm gunna hazard a guess at some sort of sorcerer. Maybe the druids.

I posted it here because of the following statements in the story.

It would take an earthquake over magnitude 7to cause an uplift that high.....The Hesses said they didn't feel any major earthquakes, and none were measured by USGS. They said they felt some small earthquakes last week.

"They felt like three-pointers to us," Marilyn Hess said. "We thought 'It's probably Redoubt.' They didn't feel like hook-and-shake. They felt like little bumps."

Haeussler ruled out an earthquake causing the uplift.

"You would have felt a huge earthquake if it was earthquake related," he said.

So, if an earthquake didn't do this, then what did?

[Transparent]

A magnitude of 7 isn't paranormal...

[KillSwitch_J]

A magnitude of 7 isn't paranormal...

I never said it was. A magnitude 7 is a major earthquake though. One in which you would see the following:

All buildings suffer major damage. Ground cracks, pipes break, foundations shift. Major damage. Structures destroyed. Ground is badly cracked. Landslides occur.

Since this wasn't recorded and the cause is unknown, it falls into the strange earth anomaly category.

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It's very interesting, and yet another event that goes unnoticed.