No they usually go for Ninja Kitties.
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.
Looks like a false alarm. Nothing on USGS.
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.
What’s a “Multi-quake/Infrastructure Destroyed” hits” - some kind of test of equipment or something?
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.
link has college alaska, but the graph is responding to two smaller quakes already posted on the usgs web site.
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.)
Sometimes the obvious just passes right by me. Not very often, but sometimes.
yitbos
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?
It was a 2.9. Not exactly rocking the world there.
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.
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.
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
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.
Is it me or did the TITLE change?
I don’t remember it saying “Blogger Hoax Received in E-MAIL”
INTERESTING.
THANKS.
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”
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