Posted on 01/09/2018 7:02:50 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas
Just reported
There is Roatan Island of the Honduras coast. Many cruise ships go there — so tsunami risk I guess.
USGS is saying 10km which isn’t very deep. It’s not a megathrust but it will cause a smallish tsunami.
Well, I hope not. Tsunami are truly frightening. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
Well maybe I would wish it on the senate.
Somebody in Savannah Bight, Islas de la Bahía,
Honduras (275 km away) felt it pretty good (as a Mag 7)
Make America North Mexico (Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador)
Guess our border wall should be higher.
Tsunami doncha know
Could roll up from the Panama Canal, might come up through Mexico, and may slam the southern U S
I’ll send you some cryprocurrency... you take WookieCoins?
Not if it’s anyway related to wookie-lunch programs
Sure, to other places in Honduras.
We need to end this whole other country has a disaster and they all get a disneyland trip here bs.
Nah, they are already here.
Nobody is left down there. It is pretty much an abandoned country.
LOL!
/facepalm
“There is Roatan Island of the Honduras coast. Many cruise ships go there”
Been there. Beautiful place.
L
Now I’m hiding in Honduras
I’m a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The ____ has hit the fan
Blue Hole collapse ?
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 that struck near remote islands belonging to Honduras on Tuesday was felt across northern Central America but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.
The quake rattled windows in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa roughly 323 miles (519 km) to the east and was felt at least as far north as the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, but no damage was immediately reported.
Rodrigo Anaya Rodriguez was in a hammock inside his house near the popular tourist site of Bacalar Lake near Mexico’s Caribbean coast when he felt three tremors.
“It felt like a bulldozer was driving past,” he said. “It didn’t last long but was very violent.”
He ran to his balcony and saw electricity posts and cables swaying.
In Honduras, firefighters said some residents in southern neighborhoods fled their homes after feeling the shaking.
The country operates a small naval base on Great Swan Island, about 27 miles (44 km) west of the quake’s epicenter, but it was not immediately clear how the tremors affected the station.
“We have reports that it was felt in the majority of the country, but we don’t have reports of damage,” said Lizandro Rosales, director of Honduras’ contingencies commission.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.8, was centered 125 miles (202 km)northeast of Barra Patuca in Honduras and 191 miles (307 km)southwest of George Town in the Cayman Islands.
The quake was very shallow, at only 6.2 miles (10 km), which would have amplified its effect.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initially warned that tsunami waves up to 1 meter (3 feet) above tide level could hit parts of Honduras, Belize and Puerto Rico along with the U.S. and British Virgin Islands.
About two hours after the quake, the center said the threat had passed, withdrawing all tsunami advisories connected with the quake.
The tremors were felt in Belize’s capital, Belize City, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
Belize’s minister in charge of emergency management, Edmond Castro, spoke on local radio to urge people living in low lying coastal areas and islands to stay alert for potentially dangerous waves.
Additional reporting by Sandra Maler in Washington; Daina Beth Solomon, Adriana Barrera and Frank Jack Daniel in Mexico City; Jose Sanchez in Belize City; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Simon Cameron-Moore
Thanks for the outstanding follow-up report
re: Roatan
Love the Carnival pier, hate the Coxen Hole pier.
Holland American ships get to the Carnival pier — ownership is common.
What line do you like the best ?
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