I've seen this notice before.
Posted on 04/02/2014 8:31:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
M7.8 - 23km S of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 02:43:15 UTC
Event Time
2014-04-03 02:43:15 UTC 2014-04-02 23:43:15 UTC-03:00 at epicenter 2014-04-02 19:43:15 UTC-07:00 system time Location
20.430°S 70.113°W depth=20.0km (12.4mi)
Nearby Cities
23km (14mi) S of Iquique, Chile 184km (114mi) N of Tocopilla, Chile 217km (135mi) S of Arica, Chile 256km (159mi) NNW of Calama, Chile 481km (299mi) SSW of La Paz, Bolivia
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin’ down
I feel my heart start to tremblin’
Whenever you’re around
It’s curious to consider why some quakes are virtually silent, yet other of similar magnitude are very loud. One account of one of the New Madrid shocks indicates “The roar I thught would leave us deaf if we lived.”
The local geology of course makes big quakes in the US mid-south VERY bad. The entire account from above is here:
http://hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/accnt3.htm
Note the location: Louisville, about 200 miles away from the epicenter(s).
They just had another one...A 6.2.
Having even a 6.2, being near epicenter can make one think the world is coming to an end...Been there, My very first thought was we were being attacked...No joke.
Dear Lord...these poor folks just can NOT catch a break!
Thank you for this excellent link. I know I will study it in detail. Actually while 3 of the quakes were extremely strong, there were dozens of others during about a 6 month period that would have been noteworthy in most other cases. There was also a major quake in Venezuela in the spring of 2012 that killed perhaps 20,000 people. St. Vincent in the Caribbean also had a major volcanic eruption in 2012. Obviously the whole Caribbean Plate was influencing neighboring areas.
Here in the mid-Atlantic we had some EQ activity a year ago. Enough to do $millions of damage to the National Cathedral and Washington Monument in Washington, DC. The first major tremor there was strong shaking of the wall I was facing. Not long after I was sitting at my computer and thought I felt something. That was confirmed on news reports. Later I had a cup of water on my desk and the surface began to shimmer I then thought I felt a very slight movement while in my chair. That also was confirmed by news reports which said it was about a 2.1, the smallest.
Must be fracking causing it.
You’ve got that right.
looks okay to me, I am using CHROME
Is it because it extends to the right of the screen?
I will embedd the link next time, but the screen looks okay to me
Many more links here:
http://hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/index.htm
Yes, 3 truly major shocks, another almost as large, dozens that would otherwise be considered very serious quakes (especially given the local geology), and hundreds of smaller ones. From USGS:
“In total, Otto Nuttli reported more than 200 moderate to large aftershocks in the New Madrid region between December 16, 1811, and March 15, 1812: ten of these were greater than about 6.0; about one hundred were between M5.0 and 5.9; and eighty-nine were in the magnitude 4 range. Nuttli also noted that about eighteen hundred earthquakes of about M3.0 to 4.0 during the same period.”
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1811-1812.php
IIRC, one account spoke of continuous ground motion for a period of days.
Looks OK now but last night on my iPad it was whacky.
Crust shifting for the umpteenth time since that coastal mountain range was forced up.
I've seen this notice before.
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