8.1 magnitude earthquake strikes northwest of Vanuatu

Reuters ^ | Oct 7, 2009

[rdl6989]

An 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the northwest of Santo, Vanuatu, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Wednesday.

The epicenter of the quake was located 232 miles north-northwest of Santo, Vanuatu, at a depth of 20.5 miles, the agency said.

There were no immediate reports of injuries...

[rdl6989]

Although the article says no tsunami warning was issued here's the link: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2009/pacific.2009.10.07.221655.txt

[rdl6989]

Link: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2009/pacific.2009.10.07.221655.txt

[Uncle Ike]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357099/posts

[Tennessee Nana]

Where ?????????

[The Californian]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

[rdl6989]

Thanks. Mods can we pull this since another thread is started.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

>Magnitude 7.8 - VANUATU

Earthquake Details

Magnitude	7.8
Date-Time	Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 22:03:15 UTC Thursday, October 08, 2009 at 09:03:15 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	13.052°S, 166.187°E
Depth	35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program
Region	VANUATU
Distances	260 km (160 miles) S of Lata, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Isl. 295 km (180 miles) NNW of Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu 785 km (490 miles) ESE of HONIARA, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 2100 km (1310 miles) NE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 7.6 km (4.7 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	NST=169, Nph=169, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.32 sec, Gp= 50°, M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	us2009mlcf

• This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

[rovenstinez]

Sometime soon, there will be a major Earthquake in the Middle of the Atlantic, it will send a 20 ft. wave of water across the State of Florida. This is not just a vain imagination, just a matter of time...and with all of these plates shiftin’ the folks in Miami should have the jitters. Katrina will look like a drop in the bucket after this Wave crashes across Florida.

[jersey117]

Tsunami Warning Issued After Two Major Earthquakes Hit Pacific Rim

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,562002,00.html

[BunnySlippers]

Wow, 8.1 is substantial.

[Rushmore Rocks]

more

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Mother Earth is getting a bit cranky lately...

[classified]

Uh Oh How does Orlando fare?

[mkmensinger]

Such quakes sometimes preceed a volcanic eruption, and there have historically been some big ones in Vanuatu.

[dragnet2]

Sometime soon, there will be a major Earthquake in the Middle of the Atlantic,

Not to mention the mother of all earthquakes, the New Madrid fault in Missouri.

Didn't that change the course of the Mississippi River?

[BullDog108]

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[SaxxonWoods]

Isn’t the technical term for being anywhere near an 8.1 earthquake known as....

HOLY CRAP!!?

[BenLurkin]

That's the islands that were supposed to have been sunk by global warming about fifteen years ago.

[OrangeHoof]

As if the last tsunami wasn’t destructive enough...

[robomatik]

if you like to follow quakes, i recommend the following software:

earthquake 3d it's only c. 857k, free, and has an interface akin to googlearth. it connects to the USGS in real time. enjoy.

[robomatik]

857kb. oy!

[fanfan]

That's the islands that were supposed to have been sunk by global warming about fifteen years ago.

AlGore's 'wet' dream.

[BullDog108]

Wow! Great program, thanks for the link. And I do hope that it is spyware free like they claim...

[Florida native]

Sometime soon, there will be a major Earthquake in the Middle of the Atlantic, it will send a 20 ft. wave of water across the State of Florida. This is not just a vain imagination, just a matter of time...and with all of these plates shiftin’ the folks in Miami should have the jitters. Katrina will look like a drop in the bucket after this Wave crashes across Florida.

Thank you for that ray of sunshine!

Seriously, I hope you're wrong.

[rdl6989]

Thanks!

[tubebender]

Whole lotta shaking goin on out da...

[robomatik]

no problem.

[rdl6989]

Tsunami from Vanuatu quake may have been destructive along coasts near epicenter: Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
http://www.reuters.com/

[NY.SS-Bar9]

A haiku for the ages:

The Sun’s output has decreased.
The Earth is cooling.
The Earth’s crust contracts.
Earthquakes and volcanoes oh my.

[Foolsgold]

Algore said that would be Gorebull Warming

[classified]

Is the Health Unit where Obama’s B.C. is located in Hawaii a mult-story building?

[DocRock]

bookmark

[gleeaikin]

New Madrid did some changing of the Mississippi waters, they even ran backwards in some places. But the most spectacular change was the formation of Reelfoot Lake, which I think is 20 miles long and several miles wide. This happened when a Grabben (sp.?) fault occured. That is when two faults separated by some land pull apart and the piece in the middle drops down. The St. Louis area might be due for another big one, although I think some geological research indicated that the really big ones may be 400 to 500 years apart.

Regarding earthquakes in the Atlantic, I think that scientists view the greatest danger as the possibility that a huge chunk of earth might slip off the side of a major volcano in the Canary Islands, or is it the Azores? This would displace a large volume of water causing a tsunami, which was used in a CSI Miami plot a few years ago. At any rate, I am glad my son lives over toward the Everglades and not near the beach.

SunkenCiv: Do you want to post this for the Catastrophism ping list?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for both pings, gleeaikin.

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[aimhigh]

I remember seeing a satellite photo decades ago of a fault line from Florida to Washington.

[SunkenCiv]

Hmm, if you can find it online, definitely post it. Thanks!

[bd476]

Thanks for the Ping, Tubebender.