Posted on 02/13/2018 5:52:24 PM PST by caww
STRONG tremors have struck near Guam, Japan and Alaska within the Pacific plate as fears of Ring of Fire activity return. The US island territory of Guam was struck by four earthquakes 'in the early hours of Tuesday' as magnitude 5.7, 5.6, 5.4 and 4.9 quakes shook the region.
Alaska was hit by more but weaker tremors, measuring at magnitudes of 4.2, 4.0, 3.9, 3.6, 3.5 and 3.3 while a 4.5 magnitude quake shook Japan.
The earthquake activity returns after a magnitude six quakes struck 10km deep off the Northern Mariana Islands. No immediate tsunami warning was triggered.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Uniformitarianism.
Same here, just a hunch.
It’s quiet out there. Too quiet:)
Waiting for that subduction fault to pop. That one will be a big one.
They say that the hills are humped up several feet because of the pressure along the coast.
We will get to see how well those sky scrapers manage. They found out in Japan that theirs didnt do so well and a little bit longer and they might have come apart. If anyone watches the vids on youtube, you can actually see them quiver as well as sway. Much more major damage would have happened with a little longer duration.
Ring of Fire activity returns? Fake news. It never stops.
Thanks for the neat graphic. I follow quakes on a local earthquake forum beings that I live in Southern California.
Hadn’t seen this particular map before.
I am keeping my eye out for the area surrounding the Salton Sea....
My wife and I were in Hualien on a tour just a couple of months ago. . . .
That part of Taiwan is beautiful.
Yes, that is usually a hot spot when there is a significant quake in the SF bay area. It seems to trigger within three days of a bay area quake.
Not Fake news. This an up tick from normal worthy enough for mention on Varney this morning.
...”They say that the hills are humped up several feet because of the pressure along the coast”....
I can’t imagine living near such a thing happening....I spent hours watching Japans earthquake and tusami....so I know exactly what you speak of regarding the buildings moving, inside and out!
Glad it was helpful...
...”That part of Taiwan is beautiful”...
What were the people like? Are they concerned of further quakes?
I understand they live with them all the time. Sounds even worse than Japan. And some quakes in Taiwan have killed a lot of people.
No mention of quakes when we were there, except when we went to Sun-Moon Lake, which is their version of Lake Tahoe and a big honeymoon spot. We were told by our tour guide that during a large quake a few years ago*, one of the big hotels collapsed, but miraculously, no one in the hotel was killed. The hotel owners attributed it to the intervention of the gods, so they built a shrine out in front of the rebuilt hotel, by the lake, and the manager and employees conduct services there every morning to pray and thank the gods for protecting them in that earthquake and ask them for continued protection in the future.
People in Taiwan are quite nice and friendly, at least in the country areas where we were traveling, and pretty laid back. A lot of Taiwan outside of the Taipei area is actually pretty sparsely populated, which was a surprise to me. Every place Chinese I’ve been before has been a mass of people.
People are very different from Mainland Chinese, which they actually don’t like (not because of the political differences, but because they consider the Mainland Chinese to be rude and without manners or culture, which is true). I think the reason for that is that in Taiwan and other places like Japan and Korea they still have the concepts of the Confucian culture in terms of behavior and politeness, whereas in Mainland China all those concepts were wiped out by the Communists and it became a dog-eat-dog world where to get something you have to push everyone else out of the way.
The culture in Taiwan is also a blend of Chinese and Japanese cultures, since Taiwan was a Japanese colony up until the end of World War II. Unlike most of the rest of the Japanese colonies, the Taiwanese actually in general liked and like Japan, and look to Japan for a lot of their entertainment and education. Bunch of Taiwanese still go to Japan for college or other higher education. It’s kind of like Korean college students wanting to come to the U.S. for part of their education. So, for example, like the Japanese, Taiwanese like going to onsen (hot spring resorts), and it’s interesting, there you will see a lot of people dressed in traditional Japanese yukata and kimono, even though they are Chinese.
*http://www.taipeitimes.com.tw/News/feat/archives/2003/09/21/2003068737
Thank you..interesting.
Its active every day. Nothing new here.
The right of self-defense is absolute...
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