Open Heart
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Yes, there was an earthquake. There were a great many earthquakes. It's not like the continents snapped apart in one day.Due to the inherent expansion of the universe I am inclined to postulate that the continental drift was more than the result of a great earthquake, but by an earthquake which was caused by the Mantle snap, crack and popping from under the pressure of the inherent (universal) firmament which (for the moment) continues to expand, thus causing the continents to continue to drift apart.
A good thing to examine is the mid-Atlantic ridge. It's the line of undersea volcanoes that pretty much is exactly midway between the Americas and Europe/Africa, and you can visually see how the continents once hooked up there. What happens at the ridge is that the lava comes out of the volcanoes and forms new land, pushing the crack apart. Indeed you can see the rows of successive volcano flows in mirror images on either side of the ridge. It's pretty doggone cool.
Meanwhile, over in the Pacific, you have these deep sea trenches near the coastlines. These are the subduction zones, where the ocean floor is getting sucked under the continents, so that the earth stays the same size.
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