QUAKES IN Alaska TODAY!!!!!

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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...quakes_all.php

Update time = Wed Jun 14 21:32:38 UTC 2006


MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 3.4 2006/06/14 21:20:42 52.183 -170.335 1.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2006/06/14 20:29:41 63.477 -147.427 1.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2006/06/14 20:28:51 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.7 2006/06/14 20:26:35 51.731 176.962 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2006/06/14 20:21:18 51.731 176.962 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/14 20:16:34 51.936 177.106 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 19:25:21 51.625 176.810 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2006/06/14 19:20:27 63.631 -147.638 10.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.0 2006/06/14 19:12:26 51.768 178.252 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 2006/06/14 18:55:53 51.542 177.300 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/14 18:53:34 51.768 178.252 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2006/06/14 18:48:30 51.864 178.084 20.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 2006/06/14 18:34:21 51.764 178.091 20.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2006/06/14 17:47:45 39.406 -123.292 1.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/14 17:35:59 35.538 -117.772 19.2 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.3 2006/06/14 17:25:05 50.951 176.507 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 2006/06/14 17:12:17 51.836 177.114 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 2006/06/14 17:00:40 59.469 -152.855 1.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/14 17:00:27 51.864 178.084 20.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.7 2006/06/14 16:38:28 51.875 178.570 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 2006/06/14 16:21:18 51.768 178.252 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.9 2006/06/14 16:05:33 51.936 177.106 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 15:51:34 52.035 177.097 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.9 2006/06/14 15:40:32 51.660 177.936 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 15:26:57 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/14 15:15:51 51.825 176.791 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 15:08:57 51.764 178.091 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/14 14:53:43 51.868 178.246 20.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 2006/06/14 14:43:58 52.035 177.097 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.8 2006/06/14 14:24:55 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.1 2006/06/14 14:12:35 51.847 176.864 27.3 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2006/06/14 13:51:26 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2006/06/14 13:46:43 51.930 176.944 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 13:38:54 51.751 177.607 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.1 2006/06/14 13:24:46 50.162 -173.376 90.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.9 2006/06/14 13:20:02 51.631 176.970 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 2006/06/14 13:16:11 51.768 178.252 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 13:03:18 51.875 178.570 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2006/06/14 12:52:50 51.525 176.819 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 12:52:15 35.941 -120.488 11.2 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/14 12:46:42 51.936 177.106 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2006/06/14 12:37:13 51.864 178.084 20.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 2006/06/14 12:33:05 52.235 177.079 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2006/06/14 12:24:56 51.846 177.437 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.6 2006/06/14 12:20:53 51.936 177.106 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.9 2006/06/14 12:03:01 51.936 177.106 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.6 2006/06/14 11:21:40 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.9 2006/06/14 11:17:13 51.860 177.923 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/14 11:12:13 51.936 177.106 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/14 11:10:46 51.930 176.944 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/14 11:02:20 51.936 177.106 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.7 2006/06/14 10:40:12 51.930 176.944 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.3 2006/06/14 10:29:48 22.385 142.942 176.5 VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 3.2 2006/06/14 10:28:20 51.886 175.811 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2006/06/14 10:20:17 51.731 176.962 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 10:02:01 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.6 2006/06/14 09:29:31 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/14 09:20:21 51.768 178.252 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/14 09:18:51 51.672 178.419 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.9 2006/06/14 08:42:56 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.7 2006/06/14 08:30:56 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.4 2006/06/14 08:23:15 51.936 177.106 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 2006/06/14 08:18:01 51.761 176.985 29.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 08:05:40 51.930 176.944 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/14 07:58:15 51.941 177.268 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 2006/06/14 07:36:29 51.772 178.414 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 2006/06/14 07:32:26 51.492 177.068 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.3 2006/06/14 07:30:21 51.936 177.106 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.6 2006/06/14 07:28:08 51.836 177.114 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 07:25:51 59.825 -154.696 180.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.2 2006/06/14 07:24:07 2.683 94.368 29.3 OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/14 07:20:18 52.035 177.097 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.0 2006/06/14 07:15:57 51.731 176.962 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.5 2006/06/14 07:06:16 51.687 176.742 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.4 2006/06/14 07:01:05 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2006/06/14 07:00:12 51.864 178.084 20.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 2006/06/14 06:56:34 51.775 178.575 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.0 2006/06/14 06:51:32 51.830 176.953 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.4 2006/06/14 06:47:55 52.035 177.097 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.8 2006/06/14 06:38:26 51.936 177.106 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.8 2006/06/14 06:33:55 51.948 177.153 77.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.6 2006/06/14 06:32:36 51.865 177.614 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.4 2006/06/14 06:25:17 51.492 177.068 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2006/06/14 06:21:11 52.030 176.935 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2006/06/14 05:54:44 51.731 176.962 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.0 2006/06/14 05:48:21 51.772 178.414 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 2006/06/14 05:42:30 51.864 178.084 25.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2006/06/14 05:33:37 51.936 177.106 10.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.8 2006/06/14 05:26:43 51.777 177.177 15.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.6 2006/06/14 05:18:05 52.035 177.097 5.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.7 2006/06/14 05:14:32 51.930 176.944 1.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2006/06/14 05:10:02 51.775 178.575 25.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 6.1 2006/06/14 04:46:42 51.970 177.126 30.6 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 2006/06/14 04:35:05 51.822 176.908 35.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.7 2006/06/14 04:34:59 50.951 176.507 50.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 6.3 2006/06/14 04:18:46 51.893 177.121 37.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 2006/06/14 02:40:33 60.665 -151.506 70.0 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 3.9 2006/06/14 01:57:38 18.609 -68.465 197.2 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP 2.6 2006/06/14 01:11:19 53.270 -165.526 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 2006/06/14 00:59:22 46.197 -122.187 0.0 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 5.2 2006/06/14 00:14:34 5.542 94.535 57.5 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA

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MAP 2.6 2006/06/13 19:17:29 31.842 -116.333 6.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.8 2006/06/13 17:28:34 61.164 -145.124 25.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.7 2006/06/13 17:06:54 26.247 125.425 146.1 NORTHEAST OF TAIWAN
MAP 2.8 2006/06/13 16:19:07 37.460 -118.835 8.2 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/13 16:03:28 37.462 -118.836 7.3 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.5 2006/06/13 15:30:21 31.838 -116.362 6.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.8 2006/06/13 15:29:51 31.831 -116.364 6.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.6 2006/06/13 14:15:42 40.302 19.999 31.9 ALBANIA
MAP 2.9 2006/06/13 13:32:18 36.765 -121.469 7.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 2006/06/13 12:58:36 52.394 -170.459 1.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2006/06/13 11:17:50 18.017 -65.456 17.0 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 2006/06/13 10:31:10 61.318 -146.828 15.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2006/06/13 09:18:05 37.306 -114.897 0.0 NEVADA
MAP 2.7 2006/06/13 07:42:53 19.167 -67.604 21.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 2006/06/13 07:39:16 17.936 -66.915 3.5 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.3 2006/06/13 07:18:04 19.640 -156.094 44.3 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 3.4 2006/06/13 04:09:05 19.512 -65.296 83.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.1 2006/06/13 02:40:24 42.975 143.402 8.2 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION

it is still ripping!!!!!!!


SEE PICS OF VOLCANOES AND WHERE THE QUAKES ARE
THOSE GREEN THINGS ARE VOLCANOES

but look where the volcanoes are!


http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/index.php

compare

http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/Seis/recenteqs/index.html

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Remember, Global Warming is the problem. :(

Getting worse and worse.

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global warming does nmot cause volcanic activity
rather volcanic ash cab affect the world
and cause a mini ice age

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http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/history/1816.htm

Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death
The Year There Was No Summer

Of the cold summers in the period 1811 to 1817, the year 1816 has gone down in the annals of New England history as "The Year There Was No Summer," the "Poverty Year" and "Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death." The year began with a moderate but dry winter. Spring was tardy and continued very dry. The growing season from late spring to early fall, however, was punctuated by a series of devastating cold waves that did major damage to the crops and greatly reduced the food supply. In areas of central and northern New England, the summer had only two extended periods without frost or near freezing temperatures. A widespread snow fell in June. As a result, corn did not ripen and hay, fruits, and vegetables were greatly reduced in quantity and quality



THIS WAS WORLD WIDE CAUSED BY THE BELOW

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5237808



Culture Destroyed by 1815 Volcano Rediscovered


All Things Considered, February 28, 2006 · It's not often someone stumbles over a "lost kingdom." But that's what a volcano scientist has done on a remote island in Indonesia. The kingdom, called Tambora, disappeared in a matter of minutes in 1815, under billions of tons of rock and ash during a violent volcanic eruption.



"I knew that it was the largest and most important volcanic eruption on the Earth because it caused the year without a summer, a big global climate change, and it also led to the death of about 117,000 people just on this island and on neighboring islands," Sigurdsson said.

Mount Tambora launched 100 cubic kilometers of rock into the air -- 10 times more than Italy's Vesuvius, which buried Pompeii in 79 A.D., and 150 times more than Mount St. Helen's. So much ash and dust filled the air that crops failed and people starved on the other side of the planet.

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http://www.open2.net/journeysfrom/articlec.html

http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news46.htm

Scientist links killer quakes to Bronze Age's end
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) A string of killer earthquakes may have been responsible for the destruction of ancient cities including Troy, Mycenae and Knossos around 1200 B.C., ending the Bronze Age in one shattering blow, a scientist said Wednesday.
Amos Nur, chairman of the geophysics department at Stanford University, said the theory of an "earthquake storm" in the Eastern Mediterranean could throw light on why so many ancient cities collapsed during one single, 50-year period between 1225 and 1175 B.C.
"This was the greatest catastrophe in what would eventually become Western civilization," Nur said at a news briefing at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. "It resulted in a massive destruction of all large centers

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http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword04p.htm

How the Ancient World Came to a Shaky End
From: New Scientist, 20 December 1997, p. 6

A fift-year "earthquake storm" brought down the ancient cities of Mycenae, Troy and Knossos, a geologist announced this week. The fall of a host of civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age has often been blamed on seafaring warriors who ransacked the region around 1200 BC. But Amos Nur of Stanford University in California found that skeletons of people buried in collapsed buildings had turned up in excavations at about a dozen sites.

Suspecting earthquake damage, Nur compared the locations of 47 ancient cities that were destroyed with maps of earthquake epicentres from the past 80 years. Almost all the cities were in areas that today suffer the most intense seismic shaking, suggesting that violent quakes could have been to blame. A complicated junction of tectonic plates, with Africa diving under Europe and some microplates caught in between, has created a maze of faults that Nur believes causes periods of intense earthquake storms roughly every 400 years. "During those storms, all the faults get activated," says Nur.

In the middle of this century there was a thirty-tear earthquake storm along the North Anatolian Fault in northern Turkey, with magnitudes often reaching between 7.0 and 7.5 on the Richter Scale. Nur told the American Geophysical Union meeting that such storms were common, with examples in the 8th adn 15th centuries. The Romans recorded a cluster in the 4th century. Nur suspects that earthquake storms might be typical for complicated fault patterns elsewhere, such as the western Caribbean. If so, quake storms may have destroyed civilisations in the Americas. "We are looking now at the possibility that the Mayas collapsed because of earthquakes." Lou Bergeron

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check this real time map

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2824357.stm

But historians studying earthquake history in the Mediterranean started to identify clues that suggested that quakes were not random.

They found that quakes appeared in clusters over a set period of time.

Some scientists have suggested that the end of the Bronze Age could have been triggered by such a cluster. But others believe that a series of quakes rippled across the Mediterranean around AD 365.

It was to describe these incidents that the phrase "earthquake storms" began to emerge.

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Earthquake Storms by Iain Stewart

[ps prior to 2004]


Over the last 60 years, successive strands of this fault line have ruptured in large earthquakes, each event releasing stress on one part of the fault and passing it down the line to the next strand. The result is that, rather like a set of falling dominoes, the ruptures of the North Anatolian fault have moved steadily westwards – in 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1957 and 1967 – from the comparatively sparsely populated parts of eastern Turkey to the industrial heartland of the north-west. Then, in August and November 1999, two of the strands just east of Istanbul that had yet to break ruptured in earthquakes that left over 35,000 dead, destroyed 15,000 buildings and cost $10–25 billion in damage.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...llowstone.html

Yellowstone Volcano: Is "the Beast" Building to a Violent Tantrum?

StandardNET

August 30, 2001
When the volcano in Yellowstone National Park blew 6,400 centuries ago, it obliterated a mountain range, felled herds of prehistoric camels hundreds of miles away and left a smoking hole in the ground the size of the Los Angeles Basin.

Modern Yellowstone doesn't dwell on its cataclysmic past—or its potential for another monster eruption.

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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005...arthquake.html



NASA Details Earthquake Effects on the Earth

NASA scientists using data from the Indonesian earthquake calculated it affected Earth's rotation, decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet's shape, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters. The earthquake that created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth's rotation.




They also study changes in polar motion that is shifting the North Pole. The "mean North pole" was shifted by about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in the direction of 145º East Longitude


They also found the earthquake decreased the length of day by 2.68 microseconds


The quake also affected the Earth's shape.

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http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=Super3
The great Tambora eruption of 1815 and its aftermath

The bright sun was extinguish’d and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went – and came, and brought no day…..

An extract from "Darkness” by Lord Byron, written in June 1816 on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of the Year Without a Summer, 14 months after the great eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.

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http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ay_031027.html


The Great Storm: Solar Tempest of 1859 Revealed
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 06:00 am ET
27 October 2003



A pair of strong solar storms that hit Earth late last week were squalls compared to the torrent of electrons that rained down in the "perfect space storm" of 1859. And sooner or later, experts warn, the Sun will again conspire again send earthlings a truly destructive bout of space weather.

If it happens anytime soon, we won't know exactly what to expect until it's over, and by then some modern communication systems could be like beachfront houses after a hurricane.

In early September in 1859, telegraph wires suddenly shorted out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires. Colorful aurora, normally visible only in polar regions, were seen as far south as Rome and Hawaii.

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By CHERYL WITTENAUER

ST. LOUIS Feb 24, 2006 (AP)— Preparing for a catastrophic earthquake along the New Madrid fault is a priority, a FEMA official said Friday before a congressional field hearing on government readiness to handle natural disasters.

"New Madrid is at the top of the list," Michel Pawlowski, section chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said. "It's our primary objective."

Pawlowski told a congressional committee that FEMA has "significant concerns" for the potential of a catastrophic earthquake equal in magnitude to those that struck parts of the Mississippi River Valley in 1811-1812, and again in 1895. The estimated magnitude of those earthquakes is 7.5 or 8. The probability of a magnitude 6 or larger earthquake is 25 percent to 50 percent over the next 50 years.

Even a magnitude 7 earthquake would destroy more than 60 percent of buildings in St. Louis and Memphis, Tenn., because most buildings predate building requirements aimed at resisting the shock, officials estimate.

more....... http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1659819

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http://www.columbiatribune.com/2004/...231News033.asp

Earthquake affects Missouri wells

Published Friday, December 31, 2004
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - The earthquake that triggered deadly tsunamis in south Asia and eastern Africa caused ripples in underground water as far away as Missouri.

Shock waves from the 9.0 magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean caused fluctuations in Missouri groundwater levels tracked by a network of monitoring wells, the state Department of Natural Resources said yesterday.

Most of the state’s 73 monitoring wells reported only small changes. But water in the Aurora observation well in Lawrence County varied about 8½ inches, the department said.

The earthquake occurred about 6:58 p.m. Missouri time on Dec. 25. The well monitors take measurements only every half hour.

At 7:30 p.m., the water level at the Aurora well still was relatively stable at 98 feet below the land’s surface. By 8 p.m. it had risen to 97.57 feet, and by 8:30 p.m., it had fallen to 98.28 feet below the land’s surface.

"It doesn’t fit the regular pattern that shows up in the wells," said Jim Palmer, a Rolla-based geologist with the Natural Resources Department. "Plus, we saw the same kind of change at approximately the same time in a number of other wells, just not the degree of change as in the Aurora well."

One theory for the fluctuation, the department said, is that seismic waves alternately compressed and relaxed the bedrock. The rock near Aurora - a type of limestone called dolomite - has more tiny spaces that can hold water than many other forms of rock. The earthquake essentially squeezed the water out of the rocks for a brief time, Palmer said.

Although the underground water fluctuations posed no problems in Missouri, they provided evidence of how large earthquakes can be tracked around the world, the department said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science....madrid.quake/

Seismic activity in country's center sparks debate
After California quakes, attention turns to New Madrid zone
By KC Wildmoon
CNN



Thursday, June 23, 2005; Posted: 9:17 a.m. EDT (13:17 GMT)


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Manage Alerts | What Is This? ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Recent earthquake activity in California has prompted fresh speculation about "the big one" -- an enormous quake along California's West Coast.

A few have been large enough to shake the faith of skeptics -- a magnitude 7.2 quake on June 15, followed two days later by a magnitude 6.7, both off the coast near the California-Oregon border.

Doomsayers have warned about the Pacific Coast for years. But only a few have raised concerns about an area with the potential to be more dangerous than California -- the New Madrid seismic zone in the center of the country.

It's a 120-mile-long system of three to five faults stretching from 40 miles northwest of Memphis to southern Illinois, near Cairo.

"The system is capable of producing a quake near 4.0 magnitude every three years," said Gary Patterson, a geologist and information services director for the Center for Earthquake and Research Information in Memphis, Tennessee. "And they'll cause minimal damage."

But New Madrid already has spawned four earthquakes this year of similar size, along with nearly 100 smaller quakes. Patterson said such activity may or may not be the precursor to a much larger quake.

The recent activity is an anomaly, he said.

"It's unusual, and we don't have any reason to believe there is increased risk," Patterson said. "But any time you have this kind of activity in an area that has a 25 [percent] to 40 percent chance of a 6.0 or greater in the next 50 years, it will draw attention."

And the region is ill-prepared for a strong quake, he added.

Under pressure
Scientists know little about how the New Madrid seismic zone works, but in the early 19th century, it was the source of the most violent series of earthquakes known in North American history.

The zone, named for the town of New Madrid, Missouri, is hundreds of miles from a tectonic plate boundary, which Patterson said defies the logic of coastal earthquake science.

"Plate tectonic theory can account for large quakes on the edges of plate boundaries, but plate boundary theory assumes a rigid continental plate," he said. "Madrid is in the middle of a continental plate, not on the boundaries."

Three large quakes happened in the winter of 1811-1812, and strong rumbles hit several times until near the end of the 19th century.

These quakes were felt keenly over more than 2 million square miles -- people in Boston, Massachusetts, felt one or more of the three main quakes, the first of which struck in three shocks on the morning of December 16, 1811.

Two more large shocks struck the area -- on January 23, 1812, and the largest and most devastating of all hit February 7, 1812, destroying the town of New Madrid.

By contrast, the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, California, was felt over 60,000 square miles.

Patterson said the incredible distance the quakes reached was largely due to the cold, solid rocks "that make this continent float," a different environment from the plate boundaries on the coast.

"On the boundaries, the rock is hot, molten and broken up," he said. The solid rock carries the movement farther from the epicenter.

Earthquake researcher Otto Nuttli estimated 200 moderate to large earthquakes on the New Madrid fault between December 16, 1811, and March 15, 1812, and about 1,800 earthquakes of slightly lesser strength.

The stronger quakes lifted parts of the land high or dropped them down, and drew the Mississippi's waters in and threw them back far over the river banks. In some areas, the upheaval beneath the surface was so violent that it caused the mighty river to flow backward.

Whole islands in the river -- and entire towns -- disappeared.

The strongest quake in the area since 1895 was a magnitude 5.5 in 1968. New Madrid is "a sleeping giant we don't understand very well," Patterson said.

"But we realize the need to understand is very important," he added. "It's a challenge. If we understand this question, then we've really put in a piece of how the Earth works as a system."

Trouble for Memphis, other cities?
Patterson said he saw no reason for a "high level of concern" at the moment but added that so little is known about New Madrid that it's even more unpredictable than its coastal cousins.

The area isn't prepared for an earthquake of magnitude 6 or higher, specialists said. Damage from such quakes would be significant over a multistate area, Patterson said, with the likelihood of significant infrastructure disruption and damage to population centers and municipalities that would have huge economic impact.

Memphis, and to a slightly lesser degree, St. Louis, Missouri, could be seriously hurt by a strong quake, "especially when you have old infrastructure and a lot of buildings that predate 1940, when unreinforced masonry was a typical style," Patterson said.

"Our building inventory is very vulnerable and has not been shaken significantly," he said. "It's potentially a large disaster even from a magnitude 6."

Ted Ilsley, manager of the plan review section of Shelby County, Tennessee's building code enforcement division, said the building code is adequate for an earthquake the size of the 1811-1812 ones. This code has been in effect since 1989 in the county where Memphis is located.

The county is preparing to adopt an amended version of the International Building Code, a requirement to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The city of Memphis also likely will adopt something similar to Shelby County. Calls to the city's code enforcement division were not returned.

Although strong earthquakes strike the West Coast more frequently, New Madrid is "an active seismic zone," Patterson said, and population centers in the area should be concerned -- not with the frequency -- but with the consequences if one does strike.

"It does not take the big one to do a lot of damage," he said. "The most damaging quake in the United States, in 1994 [the Northridge quake in Southern California], causing $30 billion, some say $40 billion in damage, was a 6.7 in a place that's prepared generally for earthquakes."

There's no doubt that the New Madrid seismic zone has the potential to spawn catastrophic earthquakes. The question, as with most fault areas, is when it will occur.

Whenever it occurs, the quake likely will be felt far from its epicenter. The one in 1968, centered in southeastern Illinois near the confluence of the Tennessee and Ohio rivers, caused moderate damage, but it was felt across 23 states -- as far as the Carolinas -- and into Canada.

CNN researcher Anne Pifko contributed to this report.

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1811 - 1812 New Madrid Earthquakes
The New Madrid quakes were actually three great quakes, each of which probably measured over 8.0 on the Richter Scale. They occured from December 16, 1811 to February 7, 1812. They were largest earthquakes in the history of the contiguous United States. Estimated at over Magnitude 8.0 on the Richter Scale, they were felt over most of the Eastern United States, as much as 1,000 miles from the epicenter, just west of the Mississippi. This is an unusual place for earthquakes, since it occured in the middle of the North American Plate. Most earthquakes are on the edges of tectonic plates, as they push or slide by other plates. The New Madrid zone, however, seems to represent a weak point in the North American Plate. The Mississippi River flows down a great trough filled with sediment washed down from 2/3 of the continent. Nobody seems to understand exactly how that causes quakes. Seismic activity continues in the New Madrid Fault Zone and scientists believe that another large earthquake will someday strike that area again. While this area was sparsely populated in 1812, today there are millions of people throughout the Midwest who are at risk from a large earthquake. Many people rate this at the top of a hazards list in the United States.

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Ring of fire goes through new cycle
Leigh Dayton, Science writer
May 29, 2006
AFTER a powerful earthquake flattened homes and buildings on the central Indonesian island of Java on Saturday, residents could be forgiven for wondering if there's a worrisome geological link between the magnitude 6.2 quake that hit near the ancient city of Yogyakarta, the rumbling of nearby volcano Mount Merapi and the devastating 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami.
If so, they'd be correct, says Priyadi Kartono, of Indonesia's National Co-ordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping.




The recent earthquake and activity on Mount Merapi raises concerns that a so-called "super-volcano" on nearby Sumatra might erupt.

If it did, the catastrophic blast would toss hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometres of rock and ash into the atmosphere, dwarfing the eruptions of Krakatoa, Mount St Helens, Pinatubo and any conventional volcanic explosions over the past tens of thousands of years.

"These super-volcanoes are potentially the greatest hazard on earth, the only greater threat being an asteroid impact from space," Monash University vulcanologist Ray Cas told The Australian last year.

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We believe that an earthquake storm lasting 50 years, from about 1225 to 1175 B.C., substantially contributed to the collapse of Late Bronze Age civilization in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. Nearly 50 Late Bronze Age sites in this region show evidence of catastrophic destruction, according to Robert Drews of Vanderbilt University. These devastated Late Bronze Age sites correspond very closely to sites struck by damaging earthquakes do***ented over the last century. These sites, it seems, have been earthquake-prone throughout history—and probably long before that.3





The precise cause of the death of the Bronze Age civilizations in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean toward the end of the 13th century B.C. has long been a mystery. Scholars have proposed various diagnoses, including widespread drought, social unrest, external invasion and economic disaster. In 1948 Claude Schaeffer, the French excavator of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra) on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, first suggested that an earthquake might have been responsible for the destruction not only of Ugarit but also of other Late Bronze Age sites. This idea was initially rejected, in part because the destructions at the end of the Late Bronze Age were spread over a 50-year time span and could not have been the result of a single catastrophe.4 However, knowing today what Schaeffer could not have known in 1948, we suggest that one cause of this 50-year-long cataclysm was a series of earthquakes—an earthquake storm.






University of Cincinnati archaeologist Carl Blegen and other excavators at Troy have noted evidence of earthquakes in various occupational strata: Troy III (c. 2250–2050 B.C.), Troy IV (c. 2050–1950 B.C.), Troy V (c. 1950–1750 B.C.) and probably the great Late Bronze Age city of Troy VI (c. 1750–1250 B.C.).a

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Volcano Smokes Out Peruvian Farmers


After 40 years of dormancy, the Ubinas volcano in southern Peru has been spewing out toxic smoke and ash over the last few weeks. Polluted air and water, along with the possibility of lava flows, have prompted many residents to evacuate the region.

Most activity stopped by April 16, 2006, but most experts believe the reprieve is only temporary. A dome of molten lava is visibly building up inside the volcano, signaling that a high risk of explosive force may soon follow.

So what has made the Ubinas volcano awaken after four decades of sleep? Well, a clue may be that at the same time Ubinas has become active again, other volcanoes in Galeras, Columbia, and Lascar, Chile, among others in the region, have also flared up in recent weeks.

Scientists believe that the Earth's crust is essentially broken into several plates that float on the planet's surface. These plates slide into, over and under each other, which causes rock to melt. Sometimes the molten rock, or lava, builds up and comes out of vents in the plates, like volcanic craters.

Those recently active South American volcanoes, for example, are affected by the shifting of certain plates.

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March 2006 Yellowstone Seismicity and Deformation Summary

Seismicity
Earthquake activity in the Yellowstone region is at relatively low background levels. During the month of March 2006, 113 earthquakes were located in the Yellowstone region. The largest of these shocks was a magnitude 2.5 on March 5, at 6:47 AM MST, located about 2 miles east southeast of West Yellowstone, Montana. No earthquakes in this period were reportedly felt.

Ground Deformation from GPS Recording
During January through March of 2006, continuous GPS data show that most of the Yellowstone caldera continued moving upward at the same relatively rates as the past year. The maximum measured ground uplift over the past 18 months is ~10 cm at both the Yellowstone Lake and White Lake GPS stations. An example can be found at: http://www.mines.utah.edu/~ggcmpsem/...Info/lkwy.html.

In contrast, ground-deformation data for the Norris Junction (NRWY) station indicates subsidence over the same period of time. Recently, a transient event started after the beginning of 2006, when the station subsided at a relatively fast rate of 2.5 cm/month, and was followed by an abrupt uplift at the end of February 2006. The change correlated in time with a M=3.1 earthquake on Feb. 26, ~6.5 miles SE of Canyon Junction. Currently, the region near NRWY appears to have returned to subsidence.

The ground deformation time series of NRWY can be seen at: http://www.mines.utah.edu/~ggcmpsem/...oscat_nrwy.gif

The general uplift of the Yellowstone caldera and the more localized subsidence at Norris are scientifically interesting and will continue to be monitored closely by YVO staff. An article on another recent uplift episode at Yellowstone and discussion of long-term ground deformation at Yellowstone and elsewhere can be found at: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/2006/uplift.html

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EARTHQUAKE STORMS

http://www.open2.net/journeysfrom/articlec.html

One of the crowning monumental achievements of the ancient Mediterranean world is Emperor Justinian’s church of Haghia Sofia in what was once Constantinople and is now Istanbul. This magnificent domed structure was severely damaged by earthquakes in AD 557, 989 and 1346. Today, Haghia Sophia is in the firing line again.
The great church, and the enormous modern city that surrounds it, lies along one of the Mediterranean’s most dangerous earthquake faults. Turkey’s North Anatolian fault is Europe’s answer to the San Andreas Fault in California. This 900-kilometre crack in the ground cuts across northern Turkey from east to west, allowing the interior of Anatolia to move westwards with respect to Europe.

Over the last 60 years, successive strands of this fault line have ruptured in large earthquakes, each event releasing stress on one part of the fault and passing it down the line to the next strand. The result is that, rather like a set of falling dominoes, the ruptures of the North Anatolian fault have moved steadily westwards – in 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1957 and 1967 – from the comparatively sparsely populated parts of eastern Turkey to the industrial heartland of the north-west. Then, in August and November 1999, two of the strands just east of Istanbul that had yet to break ruptured in earthquakes that left over 35,000 dead, destroyed 15,000 buildings and cost $10–25 billion in damage.

Earthquake geologists are convinced that the quakes have now added stress to the last remaining significant unruptured strand, the section of fault that lies in the Marmara Sea, directly offshore of Istanbul. If the pattern of the past continues, then Istanbul, a conurbation of some ten million people, is due for a direct seismic hit in the coming years or decades.

If ‘earthquake storms’ can occur over decades, might they also explain apparent sudden bursts of devastation that affected the ancient world in a similar short period of time? Most controversial is the theory that an earthquake storm may have been responsible for the abrupt physical and political collapse of Aegean Bronze Age world around 1200 BC. Some geologists and archaeologists point out that most of the ancient cities that fell at that time lie along the plate-boundary of the eastern Mediterranean and show signs of destruction typical of earthquakes. It supports a view that a storm of earthquakes successively ‘unzipped’ the plate boundary, so weakening the cities along the way that they were left vulnerable militarily, inviting attacks from opportunistic neighbours.




http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/outreach/...e%20Storms.htm

Earthquake Storms (Discovery) – 60 min

The only thing more terrifying than a major earthquake is a whole string of them – only a few miles apart, each as powerful as the next. These aren't mere aftershocks; they're earthquake storms. And they can bring an entire nation to its knees.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) A string of killer earthquakes may have been responsible for the destruction of ancient cities including Troy, Mycenae and Knossos around 1200 B.C., ending the Bronze Age in one shattering blow, a scientist said Wednesday.
Amos Nur, chairman of the geophysics department at Stanford University, said the theory of an "earthquake storm" in the Eastern Mediterranean could throw light on why so many ancient cities collapsed during one single, 50-year period between 1225 and 1175 B.C.
"This was the greatest catastrophe in what would eventually become Western civilization," Nur said at a news briefing at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. "It resulted in a massive destruction of all large centers."
Nur's theory, which he said may account for the biblical prophecy of the Apocalypse, holds that the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East sit on tectonic plates that periodically experience so-called storms of earthquakes measuring 6.5 or greater on the open-ended Richter scale.
By examining more recent series of quakes in the region, including one that struck Turkey's North Anatolian fault between 1939 and 1967, Nur developed the idea that a domino effect could have set off one devastating earthquake after another in the region during the Bronze Age.

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Dr. Susan Hough recounts the voyage of scientific discovery of remotely
triggered earthquakes -- earthquakes that follow large earthquakes but
happen at much greater distances than aftershocks. She explains how the
initial view of them has expanded since these temblors were first
discovered in 1992, thanks to studies of historical earthquake accounts
that indicate that they occur commonly.

http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa....t&F=l&S=&P=161



http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_...in_spring.html

A severe earthquake storm occurred in Yosemite Valley two or three hundred years ago. Unmistakable history of this storm is written in huge avalanche slopes a thousand-fold greater than those of the present storm, but corresponding with them in minutest particulars of structure.

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How the Ancient World Came to a Shaky End
From: New Scientist, 20 December 1997, p. 6

A fift-year "earthquake storm" brought down the ancient cities of Mycenae, Troy and Knossos, a geologist announced this week. The fall of a host of civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age has often been blamed on seafaring warriors who ransacked the region around 1200 BC. But Amos Nur of Stanford University in California found that skeletons of people buried in collapsed buildings had turned up in excavations at about a dozen sites.

Suspecting earthquake damage, Nur compared the locations of 47 ancient cities that were destroyed with maps of earthquake epicentres from the past 80 years. Almost all the cities were in areas that today suffer the most intense seismic shaking, suggesting that violent quakes could have been to blame. A complicated junction of tectonic plates, with Africa diving under Europe and some microplates caught in between, has created a maze of faults that Nur believes causes periods of intense earthquake storms roughly every 400 years. "During those storms, all the faults get activated," says Nur.

In the middle of this century there was a thirty-tear earthquake storm along the North Anatolian Fault in northern Turkey, with magnitudes often reaching between 7.0 and 7.5 on the Richter Scale. Nur told the American Geophysical Union meeting that such storms were common, with examples in the 8th and 15th centuries. The Romans recorded a cluster in the 4th century. Nur suspects that earthquake storms might be typical for complicated fault patterns elsewhere, such as the western Caribbean. If so, quake storms may have destroyed civilisations in the Americas. "We are looking now at the possibility that the Mayas collapsed because of earthquakes." Lou Bergeron

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Italy on Tuesday agreed to explore the possibility of establishing a disaster early warning system for the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom).

Signing the agreement on Cooperation in Hydrometeorological Monitoring, Natural Disaster and Early Warning were Italy's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Giampaolo Bettamio and Caricom's Deputy Secretary General, Lolita Applewhaite.



Many Caribbean islands were hard hit by hurricanes during the past two years and some scientists forecast that the underwater volcano just off Grenada, Kick 'em Jenny, could possibly trigger a tsunami. The Caribbean island chain is also vulnerable to volcanoes and earthquakes.

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http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1141833660.php

The melt of the both polar ice caps and Greenland has sparked wide publicity


Some unusual details are alarming but informative. The earth’s largest reservoir of fresh water is located in Antarctica. Researchers at the University of Colorado estimate its ice sheets have shrunk at 36 cubic miles per year, between 2002 and 2005. This amount equals roughly 30 times the water Los Angeles requires annually, or enough to raise ocean water levels by 0.02 inch per year. In total the West Antarctic Ice Sheet contains water capable of raising the ocean sea level by 20 feet





CHANDLER’S WOBBLE OF EARTH AXIS
We might be smack dab in the middle of a much bigger geophysical problem on a global scale. The global warming is a symptom, one of several. The earth’s rotation is undergoing a shift reduction in its wobble (called the “Chandler Wobble”) as it spins on its axis. The normal wobble might release energy in a controlled safer manner. The sun is currently emitting a heavier flow of solar wind, waste from its furnace of helium fusion, which might be having an effect on the poles of attraction. Disaster relief organizations are poised for an even more turbulent 2006 hurricane season, tied to both warmer temperatures and destruction to the Amazon Rain Forest. Something significant is going on.




This wobble anomaly is bringing forth extreme phenomena almost everywhere we care to look. For the sake of discussion, consider the earth from its molten core to the last molecules of the upper ionosphere as a single closed system. It is under great stress. Severe disturbances in the earth’s interior and crust will naturally trigger increasing levels of stress throughout the natural environment. The stress might easily extend to our human populations. Remarkably, the earth is rotating without its usual wobble of roughly ten meters on its axis. Changes have been noticed in the last few years. See Wobble#1 and Wobble#2 for details on the Chandler Wobble and an attempt to link the correlation of the wobble to geological events.



The International Earth Rotation Service research indicates that the Spin Axis has shifted suddenly by 278 centimeters in the past six years, nearly at 3.5 times the professionally imputed IERS rate. Implications to earth’s weather systems are profound. The website run by Michael Mandeville of Earth Monitor makes a conclusion.




The last major anomaly in the MIN phase of the X WAVE was during 1936, which induced a major phase shift and sharp change in direction of the drift of the pole. Following that anomaly, the frequency of 7.0 plus quakes nearly doubled from some 18 per year to over 30 per year. The year following the anomaly saw many major increases in volcanism. We are likely headed towards a similar 20 year season of increase in tectonic activity, beginning with a major increase in volcanism during 2006-08 and the occurrence of more 7.0 plus quakes, even as many three per month for many years afterwards. This activity, combined with the effects of Global Warming on the creation of Super Storms, are likely to keep the news channels quite busy.

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SOLAR FLARES & SOLAR WIND

Solar flares emanate from the sun’s surface. Due to mass & weight differences, the solar surface contains far more electrons (negatively charged) than the solar core with protons (positively charged). An electron is 1830 times lighter than a proton. Lighter objects tend to sit at the surface, more so than denser objects at the center core. Think about the concept of a centrifuge. The effect from increased solar flare activity might be to overload the earth’s north and south pole with charges particles, and lead to an uncertain effect on their ambient temperatures. Experts believe that the Chandler Wobble causes earthquakes, volcanoes, El Nino water temperature changes, and global warming, with eight charts which demonstrate (if not prove) the correlation with empirical evidence. The wobble is evident in a 6.5 year cycle



Dr. László Körtvélyessy, born in Hungary but lives in Germany, is the world’s foremost expert in certain niches within the earth sciences, especially related to the influence of the sun on the earth with respect to electrical factors. His book ”The Electric Universe” is a full treatment of the complex inter-relationship between the sun and earth, regarded as being of historical importance. See his website for greater details, about the book, about the subject matter, loaded with spectacular graphics and intriguing diagrams of various phenomena.

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EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY

For decades, researchers have detected strange phenomena in the form of odd radio noise and eerie lights in the sky in the weeks, hours, and days preceding earthquakes. But only recently have experts started systematically monitoring those phenomena and correlating them to earthquakes.


A light or glow in the sky sometimes heralds a big earthquake. On 17 January 1995, for example, there were 23 reported sightings in Kobe, Japan, of a white, blue, or orange light extending some 200 meters in the air and spreading 1 to 8 kilometers across the ground. Hours later a 6.9-magnitude earthquake killed more than 5500 people. Sky watchers and geologists have do***ented similar lights before earthquakes elsewhere in Japan since the 1960s and in Canada in 1988.



Another sign of an impending quake is a disturbance in the ultra-low frequency (ULF) radio band (1 hertz and below) noticed in the weeks and more dramatically in the hours before an earthquake. Researchers at Stanford University, in California, do***ented such signals before the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, which devastated the San Francisco Bay Area, demolishing houses, fracturing freeways, and killing 63 people.





The earthly tectonic plates are moving. Something is going on, something big, something on many fronts, something earth shaking and powerful.

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RISK OF DROUGHT & DUST STORMS

Finally, concern has arisen from AccuWeather.com meteorological experts that the United States bread basket of prairie states is at risk of becoming a dust bowl once again. See the warning complete with photos on their website. The states expected to be at the most risk are Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and north Texas



Hurricane Center chief forecaster Joe Bastardi from AccuWeather.com summed up the weather and agricultural threat. “It is not a coincidence that the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s were marked by years of tremendous hurricane activity. For example, the record-shattering 2005 hurricane season was the first to eclipse 1933 in number of tropical cyclones, and that may only have been because we didn't have satellites in the 1930s to identify the major storms that failed to reach the U.S. coast.” Hurricanes are generated by warm waters. Warm Atlantic waters played a major role in numerous and powerful storms during 2005. Warm waters are now setting up a possible major drought in the United States.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0328183109.htm
Mega Eruption Of Yellowstone's Southern Twin
North America isn't the only continent that's experienced super-colossal volcanic eruptions in the recent geologic past. The massive explosion of the almost unknown Vilama Caldera in Argentina appears to have matched Yellowstone's last continent-blanketing blast. It may, in fact, be just one of several unappreciated supervolcanoes hidden in a veritable mega-volcano nursery called the Eduardo Avaroa Caldera Complex, located in the inhospitable Puna-Altiplano region near the tri-section of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.

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History--look at the huge area that would be affected!


http://kyem.dma.state.ky.us/earthquake/brochgoo.htm

In the winter of 1811-12, the central Mississippi Valley was struck by three of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S. history. Even today, this region has more earthquakes than any other part of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Government agencies, universities, and private organizations are working to increase awareness of the earthquake threat and to reduce loss of life and property in future shocks. The 400 terrified residents in the town of New Madrid (Missouri) were abruptly awakened by violent shaking and a tremendous roar. It was December 16, 1811, and a powerful earthquake had just struck. This was the first of three magnitude-8 earthquakes and thousands of aftershocks to rock the region that winter. Survivors reported that the earthquakes caused cracks to open in the earth's surface, the ground to roll in visible waves, and large areas of land to sink or rise. The crew of the New Orleans (the first steamboat on the Mississippi, which was on her maiden voyage) reported mooring to an island only to awake in the morning and find that the island had disappeared below the waters of the Mississippi River. Damage was reported as far away as Charleston, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C. These dramatic accounts clearly show that destructive earthquakes do not happen only in the western United States. In the past 20 years, scientists have learned that strong earthquakes in the central Mississippi Valley are not freak events but have occurred repeatedly in the geologic past. The area of major earthquake activity also has frequent minor shocks and is known as the New Madrid seismic zone.




Although earthquakes in the central and eastern United States are less frequent than in the western United States, they affect much larger areas. This is shown by two areas affected by earthquakes of similar magnitude-the 1895 Charleston, Missouri, earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone and the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake. Red indicates minor to major damage to buildings and their contents. Yellow indicates shaking felt, but little or no damage to objects, such as dishes.
Earthquakes in the central or eastern United States affect much larger areas than earthquakes of similar magnitude in the western United States. For example, the San Francisco, California, earthquake of 1906 (magnitude 7.8) was felt 350 miles away in the middle of Nevada, whereas the New Madrid earthquake of December 1811 (magnitude 8.0) rang church bells in Boston, Massachusetts, 1,000 miles away. Differences in geology east and west of the Rocky Mountains cause this strong contrast.

The loss of life and destruction in recent earthquakes of only moderate magnitude (for example, 33 lives and $20 billion in the 1994 magnitude 6.7 Northridge, California, earthquake and 5,500 lives and $100 billion in the 1995 magnitude-6.9 Kobe, Japan, earthquake) dramatically emphasize the need for residents of the Mississippi Valley to prepare further for an earthquake of such magnitude. Earthquakes of moderate magnitude occur much more frequently than powerful earthquakes of magnitude 8 to 9; the probability of a moderate earthquake occurring in the New Madrid seismic zone in the near future is high. Scientists estimate that the probability of a magnitude 6 to 7 earthquake occurring in this seismic zone within the next 50 years is higher than 90%. Such an earthquake could hit the Mississippi Valley at any time.

While not as large as the legendary 1811-1812 quakes, a 6 to 7 earthquake would be a major quake by most standards. Half the population of the United States, including all Kentuckians, might feel such an earthquake.

Many in the region where the quake occurs would be disastrously affected. Everyone else in the state will be indirectly affected by the resulting economic losses and disruptions of natural gas supply coming through Kentucky from the south and west.

In 1811, the central Mississippi Valley was sparsely populated. Today, the region is home to millions of people, including those in the cities of Paducah, Louisville, St. Louis, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee. Adding to the danger, neither buildings nor the infrastructure in the region was built to withstand earthquake shaking, as they have been in California and Japan.

All of Kentucky is at risk from the earthquake hazard. Emergency managers in the central and eastern parts of the state cannot overlook the potential for damaging quakes in their own backyards. Smaller seismic zones have created quake damage in Bath, Bell, Greenup and Mason Counties in recent years. The fact is, we can't ever be completely sure which areas are susceptible to seismic activity as evidenced by the 1980 Sharpsburg 5.2 event -- a total geologic surprise! This quake caused over $3 million in damages, mostly in Maysville on the Ohio River, north of the epicenter.


Scientists estimate that the probability of a magnitude 6 to 7 earthquake occurring in the New Madrid seismic zone within the next 50 years is higher than 90%

In addition to our inability to predict when an earthquake will occur, or the area that will be most affected, by earthquakes, we don't have the timely warning we might get before a tornado strikes or flash flooding occurs. An earthquake which can last only seconds or up to five minutes, strikes with no forewarning.

The clock is ticking, and one day -- any day -- the New Madrid Seismic Zone, or another unsuspected seismic zone, like a "sleeping giant" will awaken with a rumble. Although we have experienced no devastating earthquakes in Mid America in our lifetimes, strong earthquakes in this area are certain to occur in the future.


The question is not IF but, WHEN will it happen?

In contrast to the Western United States, the causes and effects of earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States are just beginning to be understood. Geologic surprises like the 1980 Sharpsburg earthquake loom like a dark shadow over us.

Because we cannot predict when, where or how large an earthquake will be, we must prepare to cut our losses through mitigation and public education. We cannot prevent a damaging earthquake, but we can prevent it from becoming a major disaster.

--Gelonda Casey and Jill Roberts

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http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/NewMadrid/

The Mississippi Valley-"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
In the winter of 1811-12, the central Mississippi Valley was struck by three of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S. history. Even today, this region has more earthquakes than any other part of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Government agencies, universities, and private organizations are working to increase awareness of the earthquake threat and to reduce loss of life and property in future shocks.
The 400 terrified residents in the town of New Madrid (Missouri) were abruptly awakened by violent shaking and a tremendous roar. It was December 16, 1811, and a powerful earthquake had just struck. This was the first of three magnitude-8 earthquakes and thousands of aftershocks to rock the region that winter.



Earthquakes in the central or eastern United States affect much larger areas than earthquakes of similar magnitude in the western United States. For example, the San Francisco, California, earthquake of 1906 (magnitude 7.8) was felt 350 miles away in the middle of Nevada, whereas the New Madrid earthquake of December 1811 (magnitude 8.0) rang church bells in Boston, Massachusetts, 1,000 miles away. Differences in geology east and west of the Rocky Mountains cause this strong contrast.




Survivors reported that the earthquakes caused cracks to open in the earth's surface, the ground to roll in visible waves, and large areas of land to sink or rise. The crew of the New Orleans (the first steamboat on the Mississippi, which was on her maiden voyage) reported mooring to an island only to awake in the morning and find that the island had disappeared below the waters of the Mississippi River. Damage was reported as far away as Charleston, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C.

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http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/usa/1811-1812.html

1811, December 16, 08:15 UTC. Northeast Arkansas
Magnitude ~8.1






The first and second earthquakes occurred in Arkansas (December 16, 1811 - two shocks - MSn 8.5 and MSn 8.0) and the third and fourth in Missouri (January 23, 1812, MSn 8.4; and February 7, 1812, MSn 8.8). Otto Nuttli, however, has postulated another strong earthquake in Arkansas on December 16 at 18:00 UTC (MSn 8.0). This would make a total of five earthquakes of magnitude MSn 8.0 or higher occurring in the period December 16, 1811 through February 7, 1812.





Otto Nuttli reported that more than 200 moderate to large earthquakes occurred on the New Madrid fault between December 16, 1811, and March 15, 1812 (5 of MS about 7.7; 10 of MS about 6.7; 35 of MS about 5.9; 65 of MS about 5.3; and 89 of Ms about 4.3). Nuttli also noted that about 1,800 earthquakes of mb about 3.0 to 4.5 occurred in that same period.






http://www.olympus.net/personal/gofa...us/madrid.html

1811 - 1812 New Madrid Earthquakes
The New Madrid quakes were actually three great quakes, each of which probably measured over 8.0 on the Richter Scale. They occured from December 16, 1811 to February 7, 1812. They were largest earthquakes in the history of the contiguous United States. Estimated at over Magnitude 8.0 on the Richter Scale, they were felt over most of the Eastern United States, as much as 1,000 miles from the epicenter, just west of the Mississippi. This is an unusual place for earthquakes, since it occured in the middle of the North American Plate. Most earthquakes are on the edges of tectonic plates, as they push or slide by other plates. The New Madrid zone, however, seems to represent a weak point in the North American Plate. The Mississippi River flows down a great trough filled with sediment washed down from 2/3 of the continent. Nobody seems to understand exactly how that causes quakes. Seismic activity continues in the New Madrid Fault Zone and scientists believe that another large earthquake will someday strike that area again. While this area was sparsely populated in 1812, today there are millions of people throughout the Midwest who are at risk from a large earthquake. Many people rate this at the top of a hazards list in the United States.

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http://hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/

Los Angeles can expect to be mightily damaged by movement on the San Andreas Fault, or the Newport-Inglewood or other neighboring faults, most probably within the next 25 years. But the Eastern and Midwestern states also face ground shaking of colossal proportions, repetitions of such known upheavals as the 1886 Charleston, S.C., quake, the 1755 Boston quake, and the Jamaica Bay quake hundreds of years ago on New York's Long Island. The granddaddy of them all was the 1811-1812 series of three great quakes on the New Madrid Fault (halfway between St. Louis and Memphis beneath the Mississippi), which shook the entire United States. The next time the New Madrid Fault produces such a quake, it is estimated 60 percent of Memphis will be devastated, leaving $50 Billion in damage and thousands of dead in its wake. Memphis, you see - like Armenia - has looked down the barrel of a loaded seismic gun for decades, but has done virtually nothing to move out of the crosshairs.

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. It appears that very large earthquakes have occurred in the New Madrid seismic zone three times (A.D. 900, A.D. 1530, and A.D. 1811-1812) during the past 1200 yr. In addition, we have evidence for at least three earlier events between 4040 B.C. and A.D. 780. Dating of additional paleoliquefaction features will help to further constrain the timing of prehistoric events and to extend the paleoearthquake chronology back to at least 6 ka. Further mapping of the areal extent and severity of liquefaction will help to define the source areas and to estimate the magnitudes of prehistoric earthquakes.


http://erp-web.er.usgs.gov/reports/a...7/cu/g3082.htm

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By CHERYL WITTENAUER

ST. LOUIS Feb 24, 2006 (AP)— Preparing for a catastrophic earthquake along the New Madrid fault is a priority, a FEMA official said Friday before a congressional field hearing on government readiness to handle natural disasters.

"New Madrid is at the top of the list," Michel Pawlowski, section chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said. "It's our primary objective."

Pawlowski told a congressional committee that FEMA has "significant concerns" for the potential of a catastrophic earthquake equal in magnitude to those that struck parts of the Mississippi River Valley in 1811-1812, and again in 1895. The estimated magnitude of those earthquakes is 7.5 or 8. The probability of a magnitude 6 or larger earthquake is 25 percent to 50 percent over the next 50 years.

Even a magnitude 7 earthquake would destroy more than 60 percent of buildings in St. Louis and Memphis, Tenn., because most buildings predate building requirements aimed at resisting the shock, officials estimate.

more....... http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1659819

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0412014909.htm

New USGS Map Highlights Central U.S. Earthquake History
A new map from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Central United States Earthquake Consortium shows that Central States, including Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana are among the most seismically active states east of the Rocky Mountains. More than 800 earthquakes are cataloged on the map that depicts the locations of earthquakes large enough to be felt, since 1699.
The large-format colored map, “Earthquakes in the Central United States - 1699-2002 identifies the infamous New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 which by today’s standards would have been disastrous magnitude 8.0 + temblors. But it also shows many smaller, but still destructive earthquakes including a magnitude 6.3 earthquake which shook eastern Arkansas in January of 1843; a magnitude 6.6 earthquake which shook residents of six states on Halloween morning in 1895 and was centered in southeastern Missouri; and a magnitude 5.4 earthquake which cracked foundations and toppled tombstones in southeastern Illinois in November of 1968.

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The Reason I Brought This Up
Since The 2004 Quake
Volcanoes World Wide Have Been Waking Up


Something Is About To Happen

Now With The Quakes In Alaska....

[Jessie]

for almost 30 yrs, I have been worried that when one started they'd all go,
out here in the cascades.

[Brandli5]

Wow, that is alot of quakes!!

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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsar...src=rss&rpc=22

Southern San Andreas fault waiting to explode: report



LONDON (Reuters) - The southern end of the San Andreas fault near Los Angeles, which has been still for more than two centuries, is under immense stress and could produce a massive earthquake at any moment, a scientist said on Wednesday.

Yuri Fialko, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, California, said that given average annual movement rates in other areas of the fault, there could be enough pent-up energy in the southern end to trigger a cataclysmic jolt of up to 10 meters (32 ft).

"The observed strain rates confirm that the southern section of the San Andreas fault may be approaching the end of the interseismic phase of the earthquake cycle," he wrote in the science journal Nature.


A sudden lateral movement of 7 to 10 meters would be among the largest ever recorded.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake that destroyed San Francisco in 1906 was produced by a sudden movement of the northern end of the fault of up to 21 ft.

Fialko said there had been no recorded movement at the southern end of the fault -- the 800-mile long geological meeting point of the Pacific and the North American tectonic plates -- since the dawn of European settlement in the area.

He said this lack of movement for 250 years correlated with the predicted gaps between major earthquakes at the southern end of the fault of between 200 and 300 years.

Elsewhere on the fault, there were average slippage rates up to a couple of centimeters a year that prevented the build-up of explosive pressure deep underground. Continued...

[John * Thunder!]

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Dang. My nerves were quaking just from reading that.

Talk about impending doom! And isn't it amazing that UnHolywood
chose that area to set up camp back in, errrr, whenever they did??

And all those porn video companies!
Whatever will become of them?? :sob:

[CoreIssue]

Like winding up a bunch of toys but not hitting the on button.:swoon: