Earthquakes 2011

[damfast]

i was in an earthquake once, long time ago.  seriously.  it was a really small one, but i was wrestling on the floor with my boys, and we missed the whole thing.  we went outside to find neighbors standing around, and found out that there had been an earthquake that made little stuff jumble around in the houses...i was so disappointed to have missed it that we drove down south of Cincinnati to a farm that advertised a "hole in the ground caused by the earthquake"  the hole was not impressive, it looked like an old well hole.  so i bought some green beans from the farmer for some weird reason. i can only attribute to the insanity in my head, i thought i didnt want to waste the trip.  so if i bought the beans, i would cover the loss of the unimpressive hole siting.

[me]

 

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[Palehorse]

6.0 struck near Bologna, Italy today.

[Palehorse]

At least 12 people were killed in a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in northern Italy. The second in 9 days to strike the country.

[Locutus]

Jeebus is coming!  ....er, uhhh..., or maybe it's just December 22, 2012 on the way.    

[Palehorse]

Jeebus is coming!  ....er, uhhh..., or maybe it's just December 22, 2012 on the way.    

That whole Mayan end of world thing has now been disproven, since they found yet another calendar that demonstrates it is a perpetual one. . . 

[Palehorse]

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Panama on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

[The Troll]

i was in an earthquake once, long time ago.  seriously.  it was a really small one, but i was wrestling on the floor with my boys, and we missed the whole thing.  we went outside to find neighbors standing around, and found out that there had been an earthquake that made little stuff jumble around in the houses...i was so disappointed to have missed it that we drove down south of Cincinnati to a farm that advertised a "hole in the ground caused by the earthquake"  the hole was not impressive, it looked like an old well hole.  so i bought some green beans from the farmer for some weird reason. i can only attribute to the insanity in my head, i thought i didnt want to waste the trip.  so if i bought the beans, i would cover the loss of the unimpressive hole siting.

  Oh no, not a hole sting, set up to trap people.    But fresh picked green beans, new potatoes and jowl bacon cut up in cubes and fried and all cooked together.     

[Palehorse]

Scientists have raised an aviation alert level around a remote Alaskan volcano after a small eruption produced an ash cloud several miles high.

Cleveland Volcano, on the Aleutian Islands southwest of mainland Alaska, erupted briefly Tuesday afternoon, creating an ash cloud at an estimated height of 23,000 feet above sea level, said Steve McNutt, a volcano seismologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The observatory on Tuesday raised its color-coded alert for aviators to orange, the third most serious of four levels, and warned on its website that "additional sudden explosions of blocks and ash are possible with little or no warning."

No activity was detected Wednesday, but the alert remained at orange, the observatory said.

A more serious eruption, especially one that spews ash above 30,000 feet, could affect air travel. McNutt said the vast majority of air freight between Asia and North America and between Asia and Europe flies over Alaskan airspace. Also, passenger flights take about 20,000 passengers over Alaskan airspace daily, he said.

Tuesday's cloud appeared to dissipate after about two hours, McNutt said, citing satellite images.

The volcano makes up the western half of uninhabited Chuginadak Island, part of the Aleutian Island chain in the Bering Sea. It is about 45 miles west of Nikolski and 940 miles southwest of Anchorage.

The alert level has bounced between orange and the lower step, yellow, several times in the past year. The observatory last issued an orange alert in late March, when satellite images showed a lava dome had formed in the summit crater.

The volcano's most recent significant eruption happened in February 2001, with three explosions that led to ash clouds as high as 7.5 miles above sea level, according to the observatory. The volcano's elevation is 5,676 feet.

Last year, volcanic ash from Iceland's Grimsvotn Volcano forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights across Europe.

The Grimsvotn eruption came about 13 months after Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano put ash and smoke into the sky, forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights per day during the peak of the problem.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/20/alert-level-raised-for-alaska-volcano-after-small-eruption/?hpt=hp_t2

[Palehorse]

Iran hit by earthquakes (plural) killing 250 and possibly more.

The first earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.4, hit Saturday at 4:53 p.m. local time, 37 miles northeast of Tabriz, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which measured 11 aftershocks. Just 11 minutes later, a second quake, measuring 6.3, struck 30 miles northeast of Tabriz.

A series of aftershocks followed, including one measuring 4.4 magnitude, according to the USGS.

[Palehorse]

This one was pointed out to me by a friend (TYVM!) and I believe it serves to support  my prediction that a massive seismic event is just around the corner for the US. . .

. . .The Cascadia Subduction Zone, which sits off the coast of Oregon, was the site of the largest known earthquake to have ever struck the Lower 48 American states: a magnitude 9 megathrust in early 1700 that sent a tsunami crashing into the Pacific coast, and across the ocean to Japan.

Andy Revkin, whose post immediately after the Japan quake alerted me to the Cascadia earthquake threat, ran this note from Yumei Wang, an Oregon-based earthquake analyst and expert.

The average time between magnitude 8 and larger Cascadia earthquakes is about 240 years (see page 8, Cascadia earthquake timeline, based on Chris Goldfinger's data, Oregon State University). The last megaquake, estimated as a magnitude 9, occurred in 1700 — that's 311 years ago. In geologic terms, Cascadia is "9 months pregnant" and overdue.

Even though geologists identified 41 past Cascadia megaquakes, they cannot pinpoint exactly when the next Cascadia earthquake will strike. Nonetheless, engineers can design and build to withstand earthquake shaking. Now is the time to take preparations seriously, safeguard those in harm's way, and strengthen aging critical infrastructure..  .  .

Moreover, if this particular fault line is under such pressure then wat is the situation with the New Madrid fault line that is near and dear to the midwest?? 

http://www.good.is/post/cascadia-the-west-coast-fault-line-that-is-nine-months-pregnant/

[Palehorse]

"A swarm" of several hundred earthquakes, the strongest measuring a 5.5 magnitude, were centered east of San Diego near California's border with Mexico on Sunday afternoon, seismologists said.

[Palehorse]

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck south of the Indonesian island of Java early Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The quake epicenter was 583 miles southeast of Jakarta, Indonesia.

[Palehorse]

The initial earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 struck at 11:05 p.m. CDT on Saturday and was centered about 2 miles north of the Dallas suburb of Irving, the US Geological Survey's national earthquake monitoring center in Golden, Colo., reported.

[The Troll]

The initial earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 struck at 11:05 p.m. CDT on Saturday and was centered about 2 miles north of the Dallas suburb of Irving, the US Geological Survey's national earthquake monitoring center in Golden, Colo., reported.

  Yep, it just goes to show you that the earth is full of cracks.