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BREAKING NEWS: 5.1 magnitude quake in southeast Spain kills 7, El Pais newspaper reports
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Posted on 05/11/2011 11:39:13 AM PDT by SouthernClaire

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To: Errant

Darn interesting graph, Errant. Thanks for sharing it. Hopefully, there will be a decline rather than in increase on your next one. Let us pray that be the case, anyway, and pray that God supply for and comfort those who are in need. Whether it be 1 or 1 million.

I am in Mississippi and situated just a few miles away from a community that was almost entirely destroyed in April (Smithville, MS). And about an hour from Tuscaloosa, AL that, too, lost so many precious lives by the tornadoes rated EF-5. All still so fresh and I think we all know what it feels like to have loved ones in a region stricken with a catastrophe.

Again, thanks for posting your chart. Nice work!

My Best,

SC

P.S. Like you, I am “beginning to wonder” myself considering so much damage in so short a time, but then again it may just be me being overly sensitive to disasters considering what I wrote to you above.


41 posted on 05/11/2011 1:35:10 PM PDT by SouthernClaire (HE must increase)
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To: SouthernClaire

Coincidence? I think not!

42 posted on 05/11/2011 1:47:56 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: null and void

Thanks Nully - I have been out all afternoon in La Coruña which is about 500 miles from Lorca so I never felt anyhing.

I remember two or three years ago there was a small quake near Santiago, which is only 50 miles away, I felt our building shake for a few seconds.

I did not know anything about this one until I heard it on the news.


43 posted on 05/11/2011 1:48:12 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Ha! With a *BOOM* to the left and a *BOOM* to the right, you could be correct. Where was she slamming those thunder thighs today???


44 posted on 05/11/2011 1:54:39 PM PDT by SouthernClaire (HE must increase)
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To: yorkie

We get small ones from time to time, we had one in the North West two or three years ago only about 60 miles from where I live; our building shook slightly for a few seconds.

Still safer, I guess, than the tornadoes and floods you guys are having this year.


45 posted on 05/11/2011 1:57:55 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu

Images (slow):

http://www.elmundo.es/multimedia/?media=S3q1jEKKOPj


46 posted on 05/11/2011 2:08:20 PM PDT by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
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47 posted on 05/11/2011 2:11:50 PM PDT by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
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To: cll

Sad.


48 posted on 05/11/2011 2:14:11 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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49 posted on 05/11/2011 2:15:34 PM PDT by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
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To: yorkie

“earthquakes in divers places”


50 posted on 05/11/2011 2:17:57 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Deo volente
people are fleeing the city, in fear of an earthquake predicted for this day by someone decades ago.

Yeah. I remember reading about that. People were preparing for it. Good thing they did.

51 posted on 05/11/2011 2:43:25 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Errant

The number is skewed by the aftershocks of the Japan earthquake, that are occurring in the region of the densest seismic network in the world.


52 posted on 05/11/2011 2:53:44 PM PDT by Strategerist (There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
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To: MrB
“earthquakes in divers places”

Do people really think they're being clever or insightful when this gets posted in every earthquake thread?

53 posted on 05/11/2011 2:55:04 PM PDT by Strategerist (There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
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To: SouthernClaire

Actually this is the one to worry about:

“But huge landslides and the mega-tsunami that they cause are extremely rare - the last one happened 4,000 years ago on the island of Réunion. The growing concern is that the ideal conditions for just such a landslide - and consequent mega-tsunami - now exist on the island of La Palma in the Canaries. In 1949 the southern volcano on the island erupted. During the eruption an enormous crack appeared across one side of the volcano, as the western half slipped a few metres towards the Atlantic before stopping in its tracks. Although the volcano presents no danger while it is quiescent, scientists believe the western flank will give way completely during some future eruption on the summit of the volcano. In other words, any time in the next few thousand years a huge section of southern La Palma, weighing 500 thousand million tonnes, will fall into the Atlantic ocean.

What will happen when the volcano on La Palma collapses? Scientists predict that it will generate a wave that will be almost inconceivably destructive, far bigger than anything ever witnessed in modern times. It will surge across the entire Atlantic in a matter of hours, engulfing the whole US east coast, sweeping away everything in its path up to 20km inland. Boston would be hit first, followed by New York, then all the way down the coast to Miami and the Caribbean.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami.shtml


54 posted on 05/11/2011 2:57:26 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: MrB
“earthquakes in divers places”


55 posted on 05/11/2011 3:22:03 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: SouthernClaire

Prayers up.


56 posted on 05/11/2011 3:24:45 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: SouthernClaire
Is it tomorrow over there yet?

LINK

57 posted on 05/11/2011 3:28:31 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Errant

The “Boxing Day” 2004 earthquake with it’s tsunami and massive loss of life may just have initiated something with the plates. I was skeptical but the Japanese monster has me thinking.


58 posted on 05/11/2011 3:28:35 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Errant

Is this simply better and more thorough measurement?


59 posted on 05/11/2011 4:43:55 PM PDT by garbanzo (You better hold on; This one's about to get bumpy.)
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To: cll

Thanks for the photos from El Mundo - I am glad that the quake was only 5.2 in magnitude - even so, unfortunately, at least ten people were reported to have died.

I live in the North West so I am about 500 miles from the epicenter.


60 posted on 05/11/2011 5:15:02 PM PDT by Cardhu
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