Earthquakes 2011

[The Troll]

6.4 EQ being reported in New Zeland. . .

  And it burns, burns and shakes the Ring of Fire. Music1:  The Ring of Fire.   As long as the Earth has a molted core, we will have earthquakes and really big quakes.  Even the moon has quakes that have been recorded. 

[Palehorse]

And another Icelandic volcano has erupted beneath a glacier!!!!

[followsthewolf]

If it has a molted core, we'll certainly have enough feathers for our nests.

[Palehorse]

If it has a molted core, we'll certainly have enough feathers for our nests.

[Henry Hawk]

7.8 near New Zealand....

[Palehorse]

A moderate 5.3-magnitude earthquake that rattled southern Colorado early Tuesday morning was the largest to hit the state in more than 40 years, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake's epicenter was seven miles southwest of Cokedale, and 180 miles south of Denver. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

[Henry Hawk]

5.9 MAG EARTHQUAKE ROCKS DC-NYC

[Anne]

My daughter sent me a text, couldn't get through on the phone. She lives about 30 miles from DC and said their house shook, the windows rattled and some pictures fell off the wall. No one was injured. They are checking the schools for structural damage before they decided if they will have school tomorrow.

[Sandy Eggo]

I'm glad everyone is okay, Anne. They're bracing for a hurrcane too.

[Palehorse]

I will remind everyone that there is a real substantial fault line running through the midwest right at Evansville; and it is RIPE for burping. Especially given the fact it has been over 100 years since it last did so, and now the plates on both sides of it have burped today!

[Anne]

Thanks, Sandy. They really like it out there but they have had a lot of unusual weather the last two years and now the earthquake.

[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!

[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!

If you really want a good scare, look up the mapped locations of the Illinois nuclear facilities in relation to that big red fault line. The ones in Clinton, Lasalle, Dresdon, and Braidwood specifically!

[The Troll]

  All of the scientist, astronomers say, it is not if we are going to be hit by a metorite, it when we are going to be hit by a metorite.   What happen if the metorite comes and hits the nuclur power plants or the East coast.  Hummmmmmm?

[Henry Hawk]

  All of the scientist, astronomers say, it is not if we are going to be hit by a metorite, it when we are going to be hit by a metorite.   What happen if the metorite comes and hits the nuclur power plants or the East coast.  Hummmmmmm?

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