Burnsville Shaken With Fear
June 2 2010, on a day like any other or so the people of Minnesota would think. At About 4:00 P.M. a massive earthquake hits in the city of Burnsville. A regular sunny day turns into a horrible nightmare when 10 houses crumble to the ground, families become stranded and many individuals are killed. Amy Howard a well known seismologist looked over the reports of the earths crust, "From what I can tell the strain and tectonic pressure in the earths crust has caused plates to move in a different direction then normal and is affecting the plates below Burnsville to brush against each other causing them to get stuck which causes a rupture in the surface which in turn caused the quake to happen". So far there have been a total of fifty-three deaths in the last twenty-four hours and seems to be rising. Seismologists all over the United States are working together to try and stop the strain on some of the plates but at this time do not yet know the cause for the change in direction. Matthew Jackson a Grad student from the University of Phoenix is also looking at the problem. Matthew when asked about the problem said, "I don't think that this is a problem that can be easily solved if it can be solved at all," President Obama has put every effort into solving this problem but so far hasn't had much progress.
written by: Annabell West
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