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Strong earthquake hits Russia's Far East
AP - via Fox News ^ | May 24, 2013

Posted on 05/24/2013 8:24:41 AM PDT by don-o

MOSCOW – A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 4,400 miles west of the epicenter.

Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told The Associated Press the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; earthquake; russia
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1 posted on 05/24/2013 8:24:41 AM PDT by don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o

ping


2 posted on 05/24/2013 8:25:51 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

big one


3 posted on 05/24/2013 8:29:38 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: All

This is personal for me and the Mrs. We adopted from Petropavlosk Kamchatka.


4 posted on 05/24/2013 8:30:52 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

Oh no! There’s a Catholic mission I send donations to in Vladivostek. I hope they’re ok!

Prayers for everyone affected!


5 posted on 05/24/2013 8:31:13 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Why am I both pro-life & pro-gun? Because both positions defend the innocent and protect the weak.)
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To: don-o

Tremors felt in Moscow as 8.2 quake rattles Russia’s Sakhalin region

http://rt.com/news/quake-asia-tsunami-warning-729/


6 posted on 05/24/2013 8:32:01 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: don-o

This is not good. God bless and protect those affected.


7 posted on 05/24/2013 8:33:41 AM PDT by mardi59 (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
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To: don-o

Wow 8.0+ is pretty stout.


8 posted on 05/24/2013 8:33:56 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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9 posted on 05/24/2013 8:35:42 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: don-o

Me too. I’m assigned to this planet for another six months. I’m always worried about my depature being postponed due to this sort of stuff. Has to do with the overall connectivity of the gravity string between our two dimensions and how this is perturbed by non-gravitational movement in large gravitational bodies. It’s weird to me that that even matters.

But sometimes an earthquake like this just means my replacement has arrived...


10 posted on 05/24/2013 8:41:05 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: don-o

Crap. 8.3, perfectly placed to funnel a tsunami onto the north coast of Hokkaido.


11 posted on 05/24/2013 8:41:12 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: cuban leaf

I was hoping to have coffee with you before your departure...


12 posted on 05/24/2013 8:42:49 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: null and void

bttt


13 posted on 05/24/2013 8:43:42 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: cuban leaf

Are you mocking me?


14 posted on 05/24/2013 8:48:42 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: null and void

Though at 600+ km, that’s pretty deep. I wonder how it felt to those at the epicenter.


15 posted on 05/24/2013 8:49:43 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: don-o

Been a large swarm of quakes in 5-6 region hitting the Kamchayka (sp) Peninsula all week.


16 posted on 05/24/2013 8:50:54 AM PDT by pgkdan (Some taglines never go away....)
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To: don-o; All
Now determined by the USGS to be Mag 8.3
17 posted on 05/24/2013 8:51:03 AM PDT by Zakeet (If idiots could fly, Washington would be an airport)
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To: don-o
God bless those folks there.
18 posted on 05/24/2013 8:53:04 AM PDT by Drawn7979
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To: onedoug

E-ticket?


19 posted on 05/24/2013 8:53:56 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: don-o

Hopefully, not a prelude to Siberian Traps Part II


20 posted on 05/24/2013 8:56:47 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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