BREAKING NEWS: 5.7 magnitude earthquake hits Venezuela near coast east of Caracas, USGS reports

MSNBC Headline ^ | January 15, 2010 | Just a headline for now

[Ready4Freddy]

Waiting for more info

[JPG]

Danny Glover just sacrificed a chicken.

[SaraJohnson]

Well, Jesus gave signs of the end times and told Christians to watch for those signs. As for you, you do your thing.

[concretebob]

Maybe the Halliburton Spacebased Earthquake Machine was mis-targeted the first time. You know how tricky that targeting software can be.

[bert]

Nuclear test not yet ready for prime time

[concretebob]

PING to above

[TaraP]

Update time = Fri Jan 15 19:06:21 UTC 2010

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 5.6 2010/01/15 18:00:49 10.421 -63.495 11.7 SUCRE, VENEZUELA
MAP 2.8 2010/01/15 17:43:28 18.919 -65.959 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.0 2010/01/15 17:34:49 19.406 -155.306 14.4 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 2.7 2010/01/15 17:03:44 19.802 -155.340 30.6 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 5.3 2010/01/15 15:44:48 43.617 146.661 35.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.8 2010/01/15 15:27:02 35.569 -97.277 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 4.0 2010/01/15 15:18:26 35.592 -97.258 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 2.9 2010/01/15 14:20:50 36.037 -117.846 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 2010/01/15 14:17:43 32.189 -115.367 6.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.1 2010/01/15 13:42:18 32.147 -115.374 6.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.6 2010/01/15 13:41:44 18.401 -72.816 10.0 HAITI REGION
MAP 3.4 2010/01/15 13:39:31 36.036 -117.848 1.2 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 2010/01/15 12:06:41 18.851 -65.675 80.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.9 2010/01/15 12:05:37 19.070 -65.340 16.1 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.3 2010/01/15 11:08:37 26.728 126.395 127.0 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 5.0 2010/01/15 10:38:26 -31.902 -175.740 10.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.6 2010/01/15 10:29:59 36.029 -117.840 1.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.4 2010/01/15 10:14:03 -31.945 -177.371 10.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.5 2010/01/15 09:28:19 36.024 -117.839 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 2010/01/15 09:25:13 36.034 -117.851 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 2010/01/15 09:25:01 19.123 -65.612 6.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.7 2010/01/15 08:56:07 18.470 -73.020 10.0 HAITI REGION
MAP 2.5 2010/01/15 08:44:38 36.030 -117.843 2.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

[Dan(9698)]

Remember, the Richter scale is exponential.

Yes it is. It is Logarithmic.

That means each number 10 times the previous.

6 is 10 times as strong as 5, 7 is 10 times as strong as 6 8 is 10 times as strong as 7.

[luckystarmom]

A well built city will not be severely damaged in a 7.0 earthquake.

The newer buildings built on solid soil will do well.

Look at the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Downtown Los Gatos and Santa Cruz took a hit because they have lots of buildings with brick facades built in the 1800’s. Also, the victorian era homes didn’t do well. Not all of them had problems, but there are some that did.

Now the marina area of San Francisco had problems, but the marina area was built on landfill. It’s just not a solid place to build.

My apartment had damage. My TV cabinet fell over and smashed my coffee table, but we should have had the cabinet bolted to the wall. If it would have been bolted, we would not have had any damage.

In the Loma Prieta earthquake, the more modern areas of the SF Bay area didn’t even loose electricity. The damage was spotted and not centrally located.

Well built cities will not suffer severe damage in a 7.0 earthquake. Damage yes, but not severe.

Agree that about Haiti being a horrible because of the lack of building codes.

It just shows again what a wonderful country we live in that we actually build to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters.

[luckystarmom]

A well built city will not be severely damaged in a 7.0 earthquake.

The newer buildings built on solid soil will do well.

Look at the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Downtown Los Gatos and Santa Cruz took a hit because they have lots of buildings with brick facades built in the 1800’s. Also, the victorian era homes didn’t do well. Not all of them had problems, but there are some that did.

Now the marina area of San Francisco had problems, but the marina area was built on landfill. It’s just not a solid place to build.

My apartment had damage. My TV cabinet fell over and smashed my coffee table, but we should have had the cabinet bolted to the wall. If it would have been bolted, we would not have had any damage.

In the Loma Prieta earthquake, the more modern areas of the SF Bay area didn’t even loose electricity. The damage was spotted and not centrally located.

Well built cities will not suffer severe damage in a 7.0 earthquake. Damage yes, but not severe.

Agree that about Haiti being a horrible because of the lack of building codes.

It just shows again what a wonderful country we live in that we actually build to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It’s a logarithmic scale,...fractions need not apply...

[The Toll]

That’s the smell of busted gas lines, not sulfer you moron!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Earth quakes and volcanos are a part of end times projections.

But we know they happen on a pretty much continual basis....and have for centuries.

So Logic would say nothing is really new here.

[SaraJohnson]

Logic would say that for sure. Jesus said to watch for specific signs...and said it would come as “a thief in the night.”

I do not obsess on the “end times” by any means. But watch I do. I honestly sense California is in trouble right now -end times or no end times.

[GonzoGOP]

Look at the Loma Prieta earthquake

OK. 7.0 to 7.0 so a good comparison. 63 Dead and over 3,750 injured. Thousands were homeless. One freeway and a 50 foot section of the Okland Bay Bridge collapsed. In current dollars over 10 billion dollars of damage.

Now that was done in one of the most Earthquake obsessed and safety conscious cities in the world. A city with simply amazing fire and rescue services that made sure that if you didn't get squashed in the first seconds you probably were going to get out alive. I remember video of SF cops going into an apartment building where the second floor had pancaked onto the first to get out trapped people while there were still aftershocks hitting. San Francisco takes a lot of grief on this board, but SF acquitted itself very well in that quake. Even so the still took 10 billion in damage. Perhaps the difference is what you and i consider severe.

In the 1995 Kobe quake (7.2), they took 6,434 dead (4,600in Kobe) and caused over 100 billion dollars in damages. Like the harbor district in SF and the damage in Haiti the damage was mostly cause by building on loose soil rather than hard rock. I guess the moral of the story is build only on bedrock. If/when New Madrid goes off again St Louis, Memphis and possibly Chicago are going away. Most of the buildings in the Midwest are built on mud.

[Ready4Freddy]

Pardon me, but did you just fart?

[The Toll]

Sorry.

“Moron” aimed at our beloved Hugo, not you!

[nina0113]

Gosh, I hope he’s been saving some of his petrodollars for a rainy (shaky?) day.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The burned areas will have most of the problems...IMO.

[ichabod1]

Why couldn’t we get a 7.0 in Caracas and a 5.7 in Port au Prince?

[luckystarmom]

There were not thousands homeless. The most damaged area was the marina area, and there weren’t that many homes damaged.

So I could have stepped on a piece of glass and been considered injured.

The apartment building was a small older building in the marina area. Not many people were trapped.

SF Bay area was great during the quake. Everyone was helpful. People were so patient at lights on the way home from work. It was not chaos. I felt safe.

The oakland bay bridge collapse was horrible. That was definitely the worst part of the quake. I don’t want to minimalize that.

We drove around a lot after the earthquake. The power was only out for a short time in most places (just a few hours). We didn’t loose water. We didnt’ have widespread fires (marina district had some). There were pockets of damage, mainly the Bay Bridge and the Marina, but they were small.

It was nothing like some of the hurricanes and tornadoes that I’ve seen damage from. My grandparents had a beach house in Cyrstal Beach, Texas. The whole neighoborhood was totally wiped out. Most of Cyrstal Beach was totally destroyed. Nothing left at all. They still aren’t recovered from that, and it was 1 1/2 years ago. In fact, I don’t think it will ever recover.