Earthquakes 2011

[Exterminator]

[Palehorse]

[The Troll]

uh,....this is the earthquake thread.........maybe you should go to the metorite thread...

  Thank you for your intelligent answer Machele, oh, I'm sorry, Henery. 

[Henry Hawk]

  Thank you for your intelligent answer Machele, oh, I'm sorry, Henery. 

glad to help...

[Anne]

Talked to my daughter again today and she said some buildings were badly damaged and/or collapsed in small towns close to her. Kids are out of school today while the schools are being checked for damage. Hurricane due on Saturday.

[The Troll]

Talked to my daughter again today and she said some buildings were badly damaged and/or collapsed in small towns close to her. Kids are out of school today while the schools are being checked for damage. Hurricane due on Saturday.

  Where does she live.  I haven't seen any collapsed homes on TV.   

[Palehorse]

7.0 in Peru today.

I saw plenty of collapsed buildings and damaged structures on the local news at noon today; from the Virginia EQ yesterday.

[Locutus]

Talked to my daughter again today and she said some buildings were badly damaged and/or collapsed in small towns close to her. Kids are out of school today while the schools are being checked for damage. Hurricane due on Saturday.

Jeebus is coming!    

[Anne]

She lives in a small town near Warrenton VA about 25/30 miles from DC. The national news pretty much only covered DC and NY.

[The Troll]

She lives in a small town near Warrenton VA about 25/30 miles from DC. The national news pretty much only covered DC and NY.

  It looks like she might get some wind and rain.   

[Anne]

That is what they are telling her. They were hoping to be going to grandson's first double header of fall baseball. Guess they will put it off awhile.

[Palehorse]

7.2 in Turkey today has an early death toll of 138. Expected to rise.

A large number of buildings down. . .

[Palehorse]

A 5.6-magnitude quake struck 4 miles east of Sparks, OK in Lincoln County at 11:53 p.m. ET Saturday.
Roads buckled and structural damage. . .

It is the largest quake to ever hit the area since records have been kept! A 4.7 hit earlier in the day.

[The Troll]

  Let's face it, you can run, but there is no place that is perfectly safe under the heaven.   

[Palehorse]

And to those who off-handedly dismissed my stated theories surrounding nuclear generation plants here in the midwest failing at levels similar to what we saw in Japan, I will present the following excerpts from the media surrounding the event today in Virginia, (a mere 5.8 I might add):

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/23/virginia.quake/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

...A strong earthquake in Virginia shut down a nearby nuclear power plant Tuesday afternoon and sent out seismic waves felt by millions from Georgia to northern New England. Three aftershocks were reported by Tuesday evening.. . .

. . .The earthquake triggered the automatic shutdown of a nuclear power plant less than 20 miles from the epicenter after it lost electricity. The quake signaled "unusual events" at 12 other nuclear facilities across the East Coast and Michigan, U.S. authorities reported.
Dominion Virginia Power said both reactors at its North Anna plant shut down after the first tremors. Reidelbach said the plant vented steam, but there was no release of radioactive material. Dan Stoddard, senior vice president of nuclear operations for Dominion, said there was no damage to the spent fuel pool.
Officials were restoring full power to the site, which was operating on diesel generators. Stoddard said that might happen by late Tuesday, but that was before the evening aftershock. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was monitoring the plant.. . .

Now, hypothetically speaking, should the New Madrid fault line decide to burp, as it did last in 1812, (a magnitude 7 to 8.4), just how confident are we really that these midwest facilities will be capable of weathering such a temblor? Seriously, a LOT of those facilities are rolled via man made, "perched" bodies of water well inland from any natural source that could reasonably be utilized to cool an out of control reactor that has had it's main cooling source destroyed by a seismic event. And a few of those babies are relatively close to the New Madrid Fault area. . .

And guess who is downwind from them? 

I've been saying for some time now that world wide seismic activity has been taking place in areas that historically have not seen such activity within modern times. And the two events here in the US today serve only to validate that line of thinking. And while the locations of todays events may experience a tremor periodically, the event in Colorado was the largest in 40 years, and the one in Virginia was the largest in history. . .

Today's events happened on both sides of the New Madrid Fault line. It's fairly reasonable to assume that todays events may very well have increased the likelihood of an event taking place here via the transfer of pressures along the tectonic plates and the associated fault lines said shifts have created.

It has been 199 years, and as each day goes by the day of the next event draws nearer. Are you prepared?

Heres a map, (courtesy of USGS), that shows the major fault lines within the US, and the associated hazard ratings for those fault lines:



See that big red area on the southern end of Indiana? That would be the one we need to be worrying about!

I resurrect this topic and post, not because of an earthquake imposing a failure, but to point out that I feel the following incident today, in ILLINOIS, (which the jet stream and prevailing winds pass through before heading to Indiana), validates my position!


Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Exelon Corp. shut the Byron 2 reactor in Illinois after losing offsite power, a spokeswoman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

"There were reports of smoke around the transformer, but they found there was no fire," Victoria Mitlyng, an agency spokeswoman based in Chicago, said in a telephone interview.

Exelon, the largest U.S. utility holding company, declared an unusual event, the lowest of four emergency categories, at 10:18 a.m. The 1,136-megawatt reactor is 85 miles (137 kilometers) west of Chicago, where Exelon is based. Another unit at the site, the 1,164-megawatt Byron 1, is operating at full capacity.

The cause of the power failure hasn't been determined, Mitlyng said. Diesel generators are supplying power to the reactor and the federal agency has inspectors at the plant monitoring the situation, she said.

"The facility remains in a safe condition and station experts are looking into the cause," Krista Lopykinski, a spokeswoman at the plant, said in an e-mail. "There's no impact to public health or safety."


What this story doesn't tell you is that the reactor was in the process of a melt down, and the diesel generators designed to back up the cooling system, would not start for a period of time, which ultimatley led to the release of steam in order to prevent melt-down from beginning. . .