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[Hoax Received in OP's E-MAIL] Huge Earthquake Rocks Alaska
OP's E-MAIL / Scienceray Blog ^ | 12/2/2010

Posted on 12/02/2010 12:10:38 PM PST by FromLori

7.9 on the Richter scale; village destroyed.

An Earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale rocked the Aleutian Islands off of Alaska at 11:28 on Thursday morning according to the World Geologial Association. The earthquake was centered just off of the Rat Islands, a part of the Aleutian Archipeligo chain that extends into the Pacific Ocean off of the southern part of Alaska toward Asia.

The one village on the Island of Kiska, a mining settlement called Khvostov, was decimated; 219 of the approximately 750 residents were injured, although there were no fatalities reported.

The village of Khostov was built in World War II, as the entire Rat Island chain was a military base that provided access to Asia. The village was built with earthquakes in mind, and as such the structures are all built with safety measures to protect against the frequent quakes in the Aleutian chain.

Aftershocks were felt for nearly half an hour after the earthquake, which lasted nearly 90 seconds.

Coastal areas from mainland Alaska to California and across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii and Japan are currently on alert for wave activit from the Alaskan Earthquake.


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To: Christian Engineer Mass
Do Japanese train their kitties to viking?

No they usually go for Ninja Kitties.

61 posted on 12/02/2010 12:38:59 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: houeto

Looks like a false alarm. Nothing on USGS.


Having casualty statistics that precise out to the world before there is much of an indication that something has happened also seems out of order.


62 posted on 12/02/2010 12:39:09 PM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
It is clearly on the Eastern (”this”) side of the International Date Line and its on the Eastern side of the 180 meridian.

Yeah, yeah - I was trying to make a 'funny'.
I spent some time in Adak, Alaska and that one was on the 'right' side of the 180 degree Longitude. Since it was near the end of the Aleutian chain, I didn't think Rat Island was over the line -- but I took my shot... It's close.

63 posted on 12/02/2010 12:39:54 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: null and void
Bush’s fault, DUH!

Dan? Dan Rather, is that you?
64 posted on 12/02/2010 12:40:42 PM PST by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: The Comedian

What’s a “Multi-quake/Infrastructure Destroyed” hits” - some kind of test of equipment or something?


65 posted on 12/02/2010 12:43:31 PM PST by Wicket (God bless and protect our troops and God bless America)
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To: Eye of Unk

According to EARTHQUAKE 3D there is a string of earthquakes from the extreme tip of the Aleutian Islands all the way up to the middle of the Yukon.


66 posted on 12/02/2010 12:44:26 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Spitzensparkin1

link has college alaska, but the graph is responding to two smaller quakes already posted on the usgs web site.


67 posted on 12/02/2010 12:45:26 PM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: FromLori

Any chance whoever this blogger got the info from was running a test of their system and didn’t mean to post it up to the world?
(Kind of like the time I vaguely remember where a news program mistakenly had an election result map up for the public to view before any results had come in. It was supposed to be a “place holder” that was not meant to be seen by the public.)


68 posted on 12/02/2010 12:45:59 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: The Comedian

Sometimes the obvious just passes right by me. Not very often, but sometimes.


69 posted on 12/02/2010 12:47:53 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Spitzensparkin1

IU/ADK, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA

yitbos

70 posted on 12/02/2010 12:48:40 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: houeto; winoneforthegipper; Steve Van Doorn; Alamo-Girl; Amityschild; AngieGal; AnimalLover; ...

There’s some evidence that various governmental bodies around the world are hiding some quake info . . .

Anyway—the bloke starting this thread at ATS is trying to ferret that out . . .

This is probably the best quake thread I know of:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread531038/pg256

Does anyone on the END TIMES LIST RECALL . . .

I have either a faint memory trace or a fantasy that a big Alaska quake was supposed to be a precursor for a bunch of other calamity . . . Am I confabulating things or was there such a prophetic vistion/dream etc?


71 posted on 12/02/2010 12:49:50 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: FromLori

It was a 2.9. Not exactly rocking the world there.


72 posted on 12/02/2010 12:53:11 PM PST by madison10
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To: null and void

So far not one Freeper has reported anything, and I am sure there are Freepers in Alaska, and they would know first.

OR, the end of the world is near, the crust is breaking up, and the ruling elite decided to have a blackout on all reports and seismic stations so there wouldn’t be a panic.


73 posted on 12/02/2010 12:53:41 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: FromLori

I say BS.

The Rat Islands have been uninhabited ever since the nuke test on Amchitka back in the 1970’s.

I just checked the Alaska Earthquake Information System and there is noting going on there.


74 posted on 12/02/2010 12:54:16 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% white, 50% black, 100% red)
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June 14, 2005 Rat Islands Earthquake:

On June 14, 2005, a series of moderate to strong earthquakes occurred in the Rat Islands region of the Aleutian Islands (red stars on the above map). The sequence started with a M5.2 event at 08:03 UTC and the largest event of M6.8 followed 9 hours later (at 17:10 UTC). The largest earthquake was situated 49 kilometers (31 miles) south-southeast of Amchitka. The epicenter (largest star) was located at 51.31N and 179.41E at 51.7 km depth. This earthquake is the largest to occur in this region since the magnitude 7.7 event on November 17, 2003 (white star on the map). The AEIC located several foreshocks and aftershocks of the M6.8 event with the largest aftershock of M5.6 four and a half hours after the main shock. This page will be updated as more aftershocks are located.

The M 6.8 earthquake occurred on the convergent boundary between the subducting Pacific and overriding North American crustal plates. This region, where the two plates are being forced directly into one another, is one of the world’s most active seismic zones. Over one hundred earthquakes of magnitude seven or larger have occurred along this boundary in the past hundred years. A separate map illustrates the recent earthquakes as circles, superimposed on stippled areas illustrating the rupture zones of major earthquakes. Generally speaking, the magnitude of an earthquake is roughly proportional to the area involved in its faulting. Each major rupture is labelled with the earthquake’s year and a black dot indicating the epicenter for the associated earthquake. With the exception of the Unalaska and Shumagin seismic gaps, all portions of this plate boundary have ruptured within the past hundred years.

The 1965 Mw 8.7 Rat Islands earthquake ruptured a ~600 km-long portion of the plate boundary to the west of the Amchitka Island (see map). In November 17, 2003 M7.7 earthquake, the easternmost part of the 1965 zone failed again. The current sequence of earthquakes is located east of the 2003 rupture zone, at the easternmost end of the 1965 rupture zone. The 1957 M8.6 earthquake ruptured segment of the meguthrust east of the 1965 zone. A M7.9 event in 1996 and a M8.0 event in 1986 re-ruptured the western segment of the 1957 fault zone.

http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/quakes/rat_islands_2005.html

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February 4, 1965 Rat Islands Earthquake:
http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/quakes/rat_islands_1965.html


75 posted on 12/02/2010 12:54:26 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Quix

Q - this is a bogus quake. I’ve looked at a lot of seismographs around the region - nothing resembling a 7.9 quake - zero, nada, zip. I see some associated with a 6 range one near australia. I’ve looked at most of the available ones in alaska and the alutian islands - nothing of the magnitude of 7.9. This is a bogus quake.


76 posted on 12/02/2010 12:54:38 PM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: The Comedian; null and void

Is it me or did the TITLE change?

I don’t remember it saying “Blogger Hoax Received in E-MAIL”


77 posted on 12/02/2010 12:55:25 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Godzilla

INTERESTING.

THANKS.


78 posted on 12/02/2010 12:56:31 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix
Remember this one?

The 1964 Alaska earthquake, known also as the Great Alaskan Earthquake, began at 5:36 P.M. AST on Friday, March 27, 1964. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing buildings, and tsunamis directly caused about 131 deaths. This Alaskan megathrust earthquake is known commonly as The Good Friday Earthquake because it happened on Good Friday of that year.

Lasting nearly five minutes, it was the most powerful recorded earthquake in U.S. and North American history, and the second most powerful ever measured by seismograph. It had a magnitude of 9.2, at the time making it the second largest earthquake in the recorded history of the world.
79 posted on 12/02/2010 12:57:01 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: The Comedian; null and void; All

I just went back and checked.

On the FORUM, the title is “Huge Earthquake Rocks Alaska”

Once you click on the thread, it says, “[Unconfirmed & Blogger Hoax Received in E-MAIL] Huge Earthquake Rocks Alaska”


80 posted on 12/02/2010 1:00:01 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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