Posted on 05/11/2011 11:39:13 AM PDT by SouthernClaire
Anyone have anything else on this yet?
Thanks. I learn something new every day!
At least seven people have died from crushing and several injured in Lorca after two earthquakes have shaken in a range of barely two hours in the Region of Murcia, as the Government Office.
Fatalities have died after the collapse of two buildings in the village, led by the second earthquake. The buildings are situated one on the street Galicia and another in the neighborhood of La Viña, says the editor of TVE Ana Patricia Martinez, the rubble of the latter have taken the life of a child of thirteen.
The first earthquake, of magnitude 4.4 on the Richter scale has shaken the region to 17.00 and the second, magnitude 5.2, nearly two hours later. Both have been to the town of Lorca epicenter, 55 kilometers from the capital, reports the National Geographic Institute.
Occur immediately after the second quake, the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, already moving in TVE might have about five dead after the collapse of both buildings.
• Lorca’s mayor says there may be between two and five people were killed by earthquakes
A city council spokesman warned that the City has been evacuated and the tower of the Church of Santiago “was opened in half and had to be cordoned off.” It has also been evicted Lorca hospital for fear of a possible collapse.
Lorca neighbors added that the situation now is “panic” that thousands of people are on the street not knowing what to do or where to go and that the shaking has surprised everyone in the middle of the routine.
The second earthquake, the main
A spokesman for the “112” has reported that emergency telephone s ervice has collapsed by about two hundred calls from people who have felt the earthquake.
According to sources in the Seismic Network of the National Geographic Institute, which put the magnitude of the quake at 5.2 degrees, the strongest earthquakes recorded in southeastern Spanish since “at least 500 years ago” have been around “five or five-odd. “
From the National Geographic Institute have indicated that the second earthquake “probably” is the main shock, while the first, which occurred at 17:05 hours, could be described as “prescient” according to scientific terminology. However, they added that “in seismology never know.”
Also explained that the Institute’s website , which provides information on earthquakes are collapsed by excessive influx of Internet users.
On March 12 there was another earthquake of magnitude 2.8 with epicenter in Lorca, where in January 2005 an earthquake of 4.7, which was followed by 500 aftershocks, caused damage to almost a thousand homes in the hamlets of Zarcilla de Ramos and La Paca.
Zapatero mobilizes EMU
The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has ordered the mobilization of the Emergency Military Unit (UME) to the earthquake.
The Prime Minister is being promptly informed of the existing data about the consequences of the earthquake and has been in contact with the vice president, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, who was in Córdoba.
In addition, the Minister of Science and Technology, Cristina Garmendia, who was this afternoon in the town of Yecla Murcia Lorca is headed to continue on the ground the situation in this county.
Tremble also Andalusia and Albacete
Both earthquakes were felt also in Albacete, in the Andalusian provinces of Almería, Jaén, Granada, Malaga and Sevilla, sources told Efe unified emergency service 112, which have received hundreds of calls from citizens.
The first of the quakes has been noticeable in the city of Albacete and the northern municipalities of the province of Almeria and Almeria even in the capital, while the second, more intense, was also perceived by the population the provinces of Jaén, Granada, Malaga and Sevilla.
The 112 emergency service has received hundreds of calls from individuals of municipalities in these provinces, all interested in information about what happened.
Sources have indicated that there have been no material damage or personal and there is no evidence that significant incidents have occurred in these provinc
Just one of the random pieces of information I remember from the long-ago days when the Discovery Channel actually ran ‘science’ programming and the History Channel was about ‘history’...
sigh...
Maybe it wasn’t ‘Rome’, but the ‘ROMANS’ that were the ‘target’!................
No, I’ve never heard of it...............
I remember when we had only three channels on the snowy b & w tv screen - and at 10 pm they would all sign off with the National Anthem......sigh
“That would have been my luck......stock markets, sales, lotteries, earthquakes.......watch what I do and then do the opposite.”
Ya. Know what you mean. I am guilty of the same. Hopefully, this one is not indicative of something else coming.
Keep us posted on your stock market decisions, please. ;-)
” only three channels on the snowy b & w tv screen “
Oh, yes, I remember it well — how the snowiness varied according to who was sitting where in the room....
(Earliest memory - watching Howdy Doody on a tiny oval screen...)
Wow. I was in Lorca (fortress ruins) as a tourist last October. There are many loading bearing, stone wall structures in and around Lorca. This is very sad.
VERY interesting, Joe.
(That’ll make a lot of people sleep better tonight. :-) )
I just looked it up. Apropos.............
Sad, indeed. May God keep His hand upon them.
Will someone with a prayer ping list please get this moving around?
The guy in 1912 was right (just missed it by 800 miles).
Always liked that little story...
ping
The earthquake management team missed their target.
.....Or who was designated to hold and rotate the tinfoil covered rabbit-ears....
The below just in the last few days:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php
A chart I put together using data from USGS. The column for 2011 is projected based on the number of 5+ earthquakes in the first quarter of this year. I would expect a significant drop in the number projected for 2011 but I am starting to wonder about it!
Me too. I was trying to remember its name when I saw your post and smiled. Well done.
Bendandi made a general prediction for several days in May 2011. A location was not picked. The institute where his papers were saved after being thrown in a fire, states that a city was not named and a there were about 5 days involved. She thinks that the 11th was focussed on because it has been associated with so many tragedies. Mussolini actually asked him to stop making predictions as they were terrifying the citizens.
But, These were his past predictions:
Jan 13, 1915, earthquake Fruili
Jan 2, 1923, Le Marshe, was off by 2 days
Sep 22, 1931, Euro-Asiatic border, that America would feel repercussions
May 6, 1975, Mursica City
(there are others as well)
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