Earthquake thread

blackroseMD1 said:

There was a guy on the news that lives in Borrego Springs. He said it sounded like a sonic boom, and then the shaking started. Weird...

When we had an earthquake here a few years ago (VERY rare to have one that you can actually feel in this country) I was too far away to feel the shaking, but I could hear a noise that sounded like a sonic boom. I guess Earthquakes are noisy things

The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.7-magnitude quake struck at 9:56 p.m. Saturday and was centered in the Bering Sea about 110 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor or 930 miles west of Anchorage. The quake hit about 21 miles beneath the seabed.

Alaskan Islands : 6.7

Bare Foot Kid said:

The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.7-magnitude quake struck at 9:56 p.m. Saturday and was centered in the Bering Sea about 110 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor or 930 miles west of Anchorage. The quake hit about 21 miles beneath the seabed.

Alaskan Islands : 6.7

That is a big earthquake.

Bare Foot Kid said:

The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.7-magnitude quake struck at 9:56 p.m. Saturday and was centered in the Bering Sea about 110 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor or 930 miles west of Anchorage. The quake hit about 21 miles beneath the seabed.

Alaskan Islands : 6.7

Magnitude 7.3 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Airbot said:

Bare Foot Kid said:

The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.7-magnitude quake struck at 9:56 p.m. Saturday and was centered in the Bering Sea about 110 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor or 930 miles west of Anchorage. The quake hit about 21 miles beneath the seabed.

Alaskan Islands : 6.7

Magnitude 7.3 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

That's a rather big one.

Airbot said:

Bare Foot Kid said:

The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.7-magnitude quake struck at 9:56 p.m. Saturday and was centered in the Bering Sea about 110 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor or 930 miles west of Anchorage. The quake hit about 21 miles beneath the seabed.

Alaskan Islands : 6.7

Magnitude 7.3 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Wow...glad the ones down here aren't that big .

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SYDNEY -- Panicked residents of Vanuatu raced for higher ground after a powerful earthquake rattled the South Pacific island nation and generated a small tsunami on Tuesday.

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8.8-8.9 earthquake in Japan.

6.0, 7.0- aftershocks. Tsunamis hitting. Watching the footage of the waves come in and cars fleeing/getting hit.

This is after the 7.0- the other day.

Major tsunami damage in N Japan after 8.9 quake - Yahoo! News