Based upon the location this quake brings a whole new meaning to salt shaker.
Posted on 02/21/2008 6:32:50 AM PST by NY.SS-Bar9
Magnitude 6.3 Date-Time
* Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 14:16:05 UTC * Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 06:16:05 AM at epicenter
Location 41.076°N, 114.771°W Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program Region NEVADA Distances
* 17 km (11 miles) ESE (103°) from Wells, NV * 32 km (20 miles) NNW (343°) from Spruce, NV * 39 km (24 miles) S (183°) from Wilkins, NV * 70 km (43 miles) WNW (303°) from West Wendover, NV * 244 km (152 miles) W (279°) from Salt Lake City, UT
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 3.6 km (2.2 miles); depth fixed by location program Parameters NST=143, Nph=143, Dmin=53.9 km, Rmss=1.45 sec, Gp= 22°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=7 Source
* U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Event ID us2008nsa9
They really ought to post more signs around that carnivorous rock...
IOW The Glo-Bull Warming is so thick, you have to clear it away with a shovel? ;-)
No linkage whatsoever. Just because the Great Alaska Earthquake happend on a full moon, and the recent 7.3 also did is mere coincidence. That also goes for the Indonesia Christmas tsunami a couple years ago.
That quake was about as far as you can get from Vegas, and still be near a public road ;o)
Based upon the location this quake brings a whole new meaning to salt shaker.
Bet it shook up the girls at the local brothels. (But then again, the beds are always shakin' anyway!)
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You are completely, and utterly in denial.
Did you really just post a link to a chart from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute as proof that the End Times — which you don’t believe in anyway, regardless of what any chart might say — aren’t upon us?
You must have had a late night. Your heart’s really not in it today.
The 2 brothel web sites are unchanged and working. Couldn’t be too bad (but then again I don’t know where their servers are).
.....Bob
Would you be talking about the Great Salt Lake?
Nope, go to the map in the link and zoom way in in sat mode. Keep the epicenter marker in the center. Just below the official epicenter, there is a large array of light splotches in a rectangle. There are a few 4x4 roads going in to the area.
The lake and salt flats and so forth are far away at that scale.
Also, look at the map I linked, it’s alredy zoomed in. Somebody did something there in a grid.
Women, minorities & Tom Bodett hardest hit!
I know the exact spot the USGS is calling this. It is east of an area called “Clover Valley” and I’m most concerned for the folks there, especially my favorite micro-brew, Ruby Mtn. Brewing.
The area of the epicenter is out in the sagebrush - there’s nothing at that point called out by the USGS but a rail siding and a ghost town. The area has some lower hills, in the railroad sections. There’s a few people who have built houses out there, but you can count them on one hand.
The Clover Valley area, tho — they could have gotten quite a bit broken and likely had some cattle break down some fences.
There was a rumble in Eureka, which is a ways southwest, but nothing serious.
We have small quakes in NV all the time — like 3-somethings. When I say “all the time” I really mean it. A tremble here, a wiggle there - somewhere in the state, every week or every other week. There’s faults all over the place - that’s why we have so much geothermal water making surface excursions all over the state. Our neighbors to our west had 93F water out of their irrigation well - and there’s a fault right at the bast of the mountain not 300 yards to their west. Over at our place, two miles away, the water is normally cold.
4’s are more infrequent, but not surprising at all.
A 6+? Well, that is something and not terribly common.
Per wiki: Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, aka Baghdad Bob, is now living in the United Arab Emirates with his family.
Looks like the back street of unoccupied buildings in the old downtown area. That would be north of I-80, between the two exits.
Those old brick buildings from 100 years ago don’t survive quakes well.
Pssst: Be quiet, woman!
people, pay no attention to this woman. She’s obviously suffering from fevers and vapors. There’s nothing to see in Nevada but sagebrush and jackrabbits. Just keep passin’ through. The roads lead east and west, please pick a direction and keep going.
My presumption is they’re either mining of some sort, or an OHV area, and maybe also patchwork differences in satellite pictures. Sometimes the called-for image is a spliced-together collage of pics taken at different times and days.
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