EARTHQUAKES 2013

[Palehorse]

And what do you think can be done about it?  NOTHING.  The only reason it wasn't noticed before this is because we didn't have all that fancy shmancy stuff to detect it.  Where were you during science class when they talked about the way the earth had changed over the years?  It is nothing new and no matter how hard they try liberals can't legislate enough laws and rules to change it or stop it.

WHOOOOOSH!

[Palehorse]

Three dozen earthquakes over the past week in central Arkansas shook shelves, rattled nerves and prompted speculation about their cause.
"Are they being being triggered or are they natural? That's something we don't know," Arkansas Geological Survey scientist Scott Ausbrook said Sunday.
The chances of so many temblors in the region in such a short time are "Powerball kind of odds," Ausbrook said. "What was unusual was to have four different areas in the state to be active in the same week."
More than two dozen quakes recorded since Wednesday have been centered north of Morrilton, Arkansas. The strongest, on Wednesday and Thursday nights, had reported magnitudes of 3.5 and 3.4.. . .

[Palehorse]

Disturbing how a lot of obscure fault lines are rumbling but very little out of the ordinary coming from the New Madrid Fault line.

Going on 201 years since it's last shaker in 1812. 

This was the last in a series of four of these that started on 12/16/1811 at 2:15 am, and averaged between 7.0 and 8.6 in magnitude:

February 7, 1812, 0945 UTC (4:45 a.m.); (M ~7.4 – 8.6) epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri. New Madrid was destroyed. At St. Louis, Missouri, many houses were severely damaged, and their chimneys were toppled. This shock was definitively attributed to the Reelfoot Fault by Johnston and Schweig. It was uplift along this reverse fault segment, in this event, that created waterfalls on the Mississippi River, disrupted the Mississippi River at Kentucky Bend, created a wave that propagated upstream and caused the formation of Reelfoot Lake.

The earthquakes were felt as far away as New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, where ground motion caused church bells to ring.

Hundreds of aftershocks followed over a period of several years. Aftershocks strong enough to be felt occurred until the year 1817. The largest earthquakes to have occurred since then were on January 4, 1843, and October 31, 1895, with magnitude estimates of 6.0 and 6.6 respectively.

[Palehorse]

A rare earthquake, registering magnitude 4.2, rattled the western part of Michigan on Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The quake struck at about 12:30 p.m. local time five miles south of Galesburg and nine miles southeast of Kalamazoo, the USGS said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/02/us/michigan-earthquake/index.html

It was felt in Chicago! 

[Palehorse]

And another in Cali - - -

For the second time in less than a month, a small earthquake jangled nerves early Sunday when it struck on the west side of Los Angeles. No damage or injuries were reported.

The quake measured 3.9 on the Richter Scale and was centered near the communities of View Park and Windsor Hills, adjoining neighborhoods in the Baldwin Hills, a mostly unincorporated area near Inglewood and Culver City, Calif., the U.S. Geological Service reported. It struck at 4:07 a.m. PT.. . .

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/03/earthquake-west-los-angeles-jolt/26825247/

[Palehorse]

And now a 7.3 in Japan again and another Tsunami warning is out! 

[Locutus]

We don't need any nuclear meltdowns this time. 

Tsunami already spotted offshore and is expected to be higher by the time it reaches coastal areas. 

[Palehorse]

We don't need any nuclear meltdowns this time.

Exactly why I posted about it. One of my biggest fears over this one. 

[Locutus]

There's an interesting video of the tsunami wave going up a river at this link.  You have to watch a 30-second commercial first though. 

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-tidal-surge-after-mag-7-4-quake-hits-japanese-coast-815005763789

[Palehorse]

There's an interesting video of the tsunami wave going up a river at this link.  You have to watch a 30-second commercial first though. 

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-tidal-surge-after-mag-7-4-quake-hits-japanese-coast-815005763789

Seems like one big enough could change it's direction of flow! 

[Locutus]

Seems like one big enough could change it's direction of flow! 

Indeed!

Fukushima was rocking and rolling ine the video as well.

[Henry Hawk]

Indeed!

Fukushima was rocking and rolling ine the video as well.

I guess they are rare and are called, Tidal Bores.

[Palehorse]

I was thinking more along the lines of what happened on 2/7/1812 near island 10 of the Mississippi River near the New Madrid fault line. A severe thrust uplift caused the river to flow in reverse for several hours.

It has happened twice that I am aware of in that exact spot, once in 1811 and then again in 1812. 

That would take some MAJOR forces to drive a river as large as the Mississippi backwards. 

Here's a page that illustrates what took place back then: http://www.showme.net/~fkeller/quake/mississippi_river_ran_backward.htm

[Palehorse]

Indeed!

Fukushima was rocking and rolling ine the video as well.

They shut down cooling to the reactor for a period of time as well. . . The planet is damned lucky another meltdown did not result from this! 

[Locutus]

They shut down cooling to the reactor for a period of time as well. . . The planet is damned lucky another meltdown did not result from this! 

I've never understood the sense of putting nuclear reactors on fault lines.