Earthquake thread

[blackroseMD1]

I remeber a couple of years ago one hit while I was at work and I thought that a train was passing by outside (and there are train tracks literally across the street from my office)

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...

 

[severedsolo]

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

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

6.7 Strikes Alaskan Islands

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.
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Alaskan Islands : 6.7

 

[Dinesh]

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.
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Alaskan Islands : 6.7

That is a big earthquake. :shock:

 

[Airbot]

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.
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Alaskan Islands : 6.7

Magnitude 7.3 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

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.
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Alaskan Islands : 6.7

Magnitude 7.3 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

That's a rather big one.

 

[blackroseMD1]

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.
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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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[Bare Foot Kid]

7.5 Quake - Tsunami in Vanuatu

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.

More Info

 

[Airbot]

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

 

[electrotune1200]

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

Oh man this is horrible.

 

[Kari]

Watching it on CNN at the moment, praying for people there.

Kari

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I just saw about the quake and was going to post.


There has never been a bigger quake recorded has there?

 

[z3r010]

Yeah quite a few bigger - Lists of earthquakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[A Guy]

That is a mammoth quake! Hard to imagine one that big. I experienced the Loma Prieta quake, which was approx. 6.9. This one would be 100 times stronger. that is amazing. A Guy

 

[spinifex]

I just saw about the quake and was going to post.


There has never been a bigger quake recorded has there?

From what i seen on the news, it is the biggest (in Japan) since 140 years ago.

 

[electrotune1200]

Apparently, the walls and roof have been blown off the nuclear power plant. :shock:

Explosion rocks quake-hit Japanese nuke plant - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com

 

[kado897]

Just watched the explosion on Sky News. Horrible.

 

[A Guy]

This gets worse all the time



A Guy

 

[Ciara]

Saw this on the news ... very bad :shock:

 

[electrotune1200]

I have heard a few interesting reports.

Supposedly the chances of a meltown are decreasing substantially. Could just be spin to keep from a widespread panic though. So who knows?

I have also heard a report that there are people that are being treated at a local hospital for radiation poisoning. Apparently there were groups of people waiting to be evacuated within the 6 kilometer danger zone as the building eploded.

Another earthquake registered at 6.0 on the scale.