It burns, burns, burns, that ring of fire...
Posted on 09/11/2022 10:21:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The quake struck at a depth of 90 kilometers (roughly 56 miles) near Kainantu, a town with a population of roughly 8,500 people, the United States Geological Survey reported.
The US National Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat of tsunami waves. Earlier in the day it had said hazardous tsunami waves were possible within 1,000 kilometers (roughly 621 miles) along the coasts of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
Papua New Guinea is vulnerable to earthquakes because it lies along the "Ring of Fire" in the Pacific Ocean, where shifting tectonic plates push against each other, causing tremors...It is home to the world's most active volcanoes.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
If you all of a sudden get a whole lot of beach in front of you, head to higher ground. If available.
Not the time to go seashell hunting.
DUTCHSINSE ANALYSIS...
9/10/2022 — ALERT: M7.6 Largest earthquake on the planet in months hits West Pacific as expected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieWaMAJKRDU
It might throw them back into the stone age. Oh, wait.....
7.6 massive? 9.0 or greater is massive. Wake me up when that happens. We’ve been due here in Mexifornia for a big one. I’ll make a prediction. There will be a large earthquake in Mexifornia in the future.
It burns, burns, burns, that ring of fire...
“7.6 massive? 9.0 or greater is massive.”
Strongest earthquake recorded in California was the 1906 San Fransisco quake at 7.8. So yeah, 7.6 is pretty darn strong.
It’s a full moon.
I dreampt me some tremulous dreams last night. Musta been the full moon.
Hawaii is cool . No worries
“Largest earthquake on the planet in months hits West Pacific as expected”
I love how he has improved his schtick. He’s learned to avoid predictions and just “expect” earthquakes every so often.
Powers that be keep taking down Dutch’s site. Just happened again last week.
I don’t read them.
I was in a 7.5 in Mexico City in 1957. We were walking home from a party at 1 am. and I started go stagger. Me, “Gee, I only had one drink.” Friend from San Jose, CA, “No, it’s an earthquake.” We saw the wires overhead swaying back and forth and ran to the middle of the next street intersection to be away from the wires and the 3 story buildings. The ground was quaking around like a New York subway train and we were holding on to each other to keep from falling down. It was strangely silent except for the wires clacking against each other. The next day I walked around town taking photos. A building under construction had pancaked about 5 stories. A 20 story office building had many broken windows and cladding had broken off the surface, A friend while walking near the 40 story “little Empire State Building” said whores had been running out of the building screaming, crying, and praying on their knees. I think fewer than 200 were killed. Over the weeks I felt a number of aftershocks. This was NOT like the “massive” Mexico City quake in the 1980s that killed 10,000 people.
1906 San Francisco quake of 7.8 was probably much stronger as the city is on stone bedrock or reclaimed marsh land. Since Mexico City is in a dried lake bed it quakes, not shakes. Also I think the number increase is geometric, not linear. A lot of the SF damage was caused by fire in wooden buildings. The apartment where I lived faced the Social Security building on the Avenida Reforma. It was built in three blocs, and across the street one segment had a 3 foot wide split away from the center section. When I got home they said the living room chandelier had swung from side to side hitting the ceiling on both sides. All the 3 foot tall plant pots had fallen over dumping soil. The guy living upstairs fell out of his bed. So, certaining noticeable, but not massive at 7.5 on soft ground.
I was also in the Washington Metropolitan Area during the 2011 Mineral, VA 5.6 quake. I was sitting on the edge of my bed when the wall opposite started to quiver and I felt shaking for 15 seconds. I thought maybe it was a heavy truck, but shortly the earthquake was announced as 5.6 in Mineral. I kept a bowl of water near where I sat for over a week and several times saw the water ripple. I would turn on the TV and soon an announcement of a small 2.? aftershock would be announced. I had a cracked chimney, and a neighbor’s chimney collapsed. DC had $11 million in damage, much of it to the National Cathedral. I think around DC the level was 4.?.
I’m guessing this is not the only interesting story you have about your time in Mexico City...
Just to remember—I met one of the best men I ever knew in an insane asylum. I was on a trip with my college sociology class to a Mexico City asylum, specifically for the very young and severely disabled. I saw a 23 year old man with the mental age of 6 months curled up in a crib with a passifier. I stroked the hair of a 5 year old sitting on the floor and was rewarded with a smile and information from the man sitting nearby that the child was a deaf/mute. It turned out he was majoring in philosophy at
my college, but volunteered on the weekend at several institutions for the sick and handicapped. He was the orphan of a Calcutta brain surgeon and an Austrian society woman, and the ward of the British Vice Consul to Mexico. We started dating and I have fond memories of riding on the back of his Vespa scooter in my buffont skirt and high heels.
I have less fond memories of returning from a 150 mile trip with a friend who was installing the music system in a new hotel. On the trip back it started to rain. We had no rain gear and by nightfall riding through an 8,000 foot pass was very cold. When we got to my home, he had to pry my fingers loose so I could stagger off to the door. I probably had hypothermia, but 10 hours asleep and hot tea did the job.
But enough about me. Just hope this was the big one and they don’t get something worse.
Amazing, so glad you shared.
I had similar experiences in my travels and worldwide interactions, mostly in South America and Europe, but now in West Africa.
There is ALWAYS much to learn from others.
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