why is it hard to predict where your plate is going to go next?
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Yeah, like the guy above me said. More elequently, it's not knowing WHERE they are going to go, but WHEN.\n\nIt is virtually impossible to tell exactly when sudden displacement along a fault will occur, although the fact that it will eventually occur can be predicted. This is done by comparing the displacement of regions along the fault that move regularly (and without violent earthquakes) to quiet regions that are not experiencing any little quakes. It's the quiet regions that are to be worried about. They just sit and build up elastic potential and then snap all at once without warning.\n\nRule of thumb, do not live along active fault zones, nor on top of any tsunamite deposits (can be recognized by large angular blocks deposited in a diamicton).
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A plate flying around the room was my first clue.
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I can mix it up, mix it back down, and then get so confused that I don't remember where I am.  Wait, was there a question?
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At a subduction fault, one plate is being forced under the advancing plate, so it depend which fault you're refering to. Click on the site below for much more.
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Also, when speaking about velocity, you need to know the direction in which something is travelling.
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Well I would have to guess that maybe your looking for something that you havent found. I am  not sure but you are really the only one that can decide what that might be.. If your happy in a place and you still want to move then it just seems you cant help but think there is something waiting for you somewhere else. Kinda hard to tell with not knowing more about you or how you have lived your life. I do know it isnt normal to want to move all the time tho. \nI hope you find what your looking for in life and maybe you will find the true you while looking. good luck to you..
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If you are talking about Product Life Cycle and you are talking about projections (possibly a big stretch), then there really is no down side.  Its just a way to plan out what you will do when the time comes and estimate when milestones will occur.  The important thing is that you remain flexible so that when variants in the PLC show up, you can adapt.
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There is no right answer for this question. Just because the plates are moving and right now most of the land mass is in the northern hemisphere. That is just where the bulk of it is right now, and someday it will change.
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Even if you plan out everything in advance there are still going to be mistakes. A typo in someones code or just something nobody had thought of before comes up.
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You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.
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I suppose it is due to forgetfulness, or being distracted by something at the time. All of us have probably had one of those "Ooops! I left the pizza/cake in the oven!" moments. Things happen. I have probably done it without realizing it. Sorry if it gets on your nerves.
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Ida know...  My GPS doesn't always take the right route...
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You might not be eating the right foods.
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It would depend on the map.  There should be a 'scale' on it someplace (usually in a corner) that will tell you.
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Imagine that a travelling salesman has to hit, say, 100 cities in the USA, and he knows road distances between them, what's the minimum distance he has to travel to do all of them and come back home?  There are numerous variations on this problem, but this kind of a problem usually defies mathematical analysis.  It's called a "NP-hard' problem, which is a measure of the time it takes a computer to determine the optimum path.
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It all depends on what you eat!
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In a nutshell, their is no way to predict earthquakes because there are little to no warnings signs. For example in California, This is a transform fault where two plates are sliding past each other... Eventually the stress builds up so much that it moves a lot at one time.. This is what causes Earth Quakes there, and when they happen they are devastating... We just cant tell when the stress is so much that an earthquake is going to happen.. It is not possible and probably will never be.