[lord_gabriel]

Originally posted by /)eathKiller: we get Earthquakes in Cuba too. They mostly come as the aftershocks from other nearby carribean islands and other underwater eruptions. Cuba, from what i've seen of it, has little if no evidence supporting that it may, in fact, be Volcanic. Most of the surface is desert, formed from Coral. Our beaches are of WHITE sand too. Which also supports coral. Our hills are mostly white, and so are large sections surrounding water. HOWEVER at some beaches there are bits of black sand mixed with white... it is quite odd... and also: On the main road, driving up to David's house from mine, near the post office, there is a large BLACK rock that just JETS OUT in a sea of white and brown. And it is SO black that it is a volcanic-type black. This single standing rock, along with some odd evidence given by our mudd makes me wonder if, infact, Cuba was a gigantic coral bed that had been lifted UP by volcanic eruptions, and if that is the case... then... eruptions COULD end up happening around here... some day... any day... @_@ then again, the rock could just happen to be a really impacted mound of dirt that had caught fire... somehow... The hills are constantly aflame with burning sugar caine... I'm not sure though... hmm maybe some day, when Geologists can examine cuba, we can understand how the island came to be more... That also reminds me, that there is a small part of cuba that has these odd cave drawings. They are made up of spirals and circles, there also are numerical tables and tablets written into the walls along with some primitive cave drawings. What is frightening is that there seems to be evidence supporting the concept of ZERO and the Spirals themselves seem to show NO ACTUAL PURPOSE 0.o go figure... it's not too odd though for us to have a little tremor and every now and then. Its more of just a loud BUMP then a rattling. I still have all of my gundam's feet glued down...

as far as i can see southcuba forms the northermost boundary of the caribbian plate wich moves east. thus, this boundary is rather a transform fault and the occurenca of earthquakes and volcanism is higly likely. there should be a major earthquake every 100-150 yrs, i think. cuba being a coral bed, lifted by eruptions is in my opinion absolutely impossible. although i can imagine that lots of coral debris formed your beaches. the black rock you spoke about can however be some kind of bomb remaining from an ancient eruption. BTW. Cuba is geologically queite well examined, if u are really interested in that questions you can just look it up.