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To: Just mythoughts
From the USGS, on the earthquake hazard in Hawaii...

EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS

63 posted on 10/15/2006 11:05:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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Thank you, interesting site.


84 posted on 10/15/2006 11:13:07 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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(AP) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck Hawaii early Sunday morning, waking up residents and knocking out power.

The U.S. Geological Survey also reported several aftershocks, including one measuring a magnitude of 5.8. No damage reports were immediately available.

The quake occurred at 7:07 a.m. local time, 10 miles north-northwest of Kailua Kona, a town on the west coast of the Big Island, said Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center, part of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Blakeman said researchers were still trying to ascertain how many aftershocks struck and how large.

Blakeman said there was no risk of a Pacific-wide tsunami, but a possibility of significant wave activity in Hawaii.


103 posted on 10/15/2006 11:22:05 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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