I thought that the NM has gone off in the last ~30 yr.
Mark
Fracking!
Oldplayer
The Gubmint checks sent out to those devasted areas must have run into the half dimes.
I live on the outer edge of the NMF line and where the experts believe our little place will be the closest that will not have extensive infrastructure damage. The Disaster Preparedness plan for this area to take in refugees from Memphis and the Northern Mississippi area to be cared for here. I am not too happy about this.
Seismologists are starting to get some lead time, even days, at least for truly huge earthquakes.
“This is called the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling mechanism. The thinking is that in the days before an earthquake, the great stresses in a fault as it is about to give cause the releases large amounts of radon.
“The radioactivity from this gas ionises the air on a large scale and this has a number of knock on effects. Since water molecules are attracted to ions in the air, ionisation triggers the large scale condensation of water.
“But the process of condensation also releases heat and it is this that causes infrared emissions.”
So the question becomes: “If you can notify people in an area to expect a great earthquake in a day or two, do you order an evacuation that will cost millions of dollars, leaving just emergency services behind on safer ground?”
Actually, George W. Bush created some enormous FEMA contingency plans for just this sort of event, after Katrina. These include relocation camps for thousands of people, which the more paranoid suspected of being internment camps, and the government was not smart enough to explain their real purpose.”
7.1 off New Guinea is that a tremor
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
its the big yellow one
look at all the others around
6.5 6......