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USGS PRELIM: M 3.2 Quake 84 km NE of Higüa Altagracia, Dominican Rep
USGS - via twitter ^ | April 2, 2010 | USGS -

Posted on 04/02/2010 6:14:35 PM PDT by VRWCTexan

PRELIM: M8.0 05:38 4/02 19.1N 68.1W 84 km NE of Higüa Altagracia, Dominican Republic NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN Z=13km DR 2 33f06

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To: VRWCTexan

OMG. Not again.


21 posted on 04/02/2010 6:22:35 PM PDT by rintense (Only dead fish go with the flow, which explains why Congress stinks.)
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To: maggief; Admin Moderator

Never mind- it was a 3.0...somehow false info got out.


22 posted on 04/02/2010 6:23:22 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: VRWCTexan

Just what we need right now. (dripping sarcasm for you slower ones)


23 posted on 04/02/2010 6:25:32 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: SE Mom

Uf the toad ain’t shakin, the isles ain’t quakin.


24 posted on 04/02/2010 6:27:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: SE Mom

Media SMS alert list, actually, was how it got out. The USGS has a Twitter account that is triggered by SMS as well, and it broadcast the 8.0 alert as well. Additionally, other disaster sites picked up and spread the alert, plus one of the disaster clearing houses went so far as to not only repeat the information, but put forth detailed tsunami predictions, and THAT went out again, just got another alert.

Really, really starting to snowball right now.


25 posted on 04/02/2010 6:27:25 PM PDT by kingu (Favorite Sticker: Lost hope, and Obama took my change.)
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To: SE Mom

It was tweeted by USGS as 8.0 - someone there goofed?


26 posted on 04/02/2010 6:27:54 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
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To: rlmorel
Quite the earthquake swarm has been occurring the last two days further east near the Virgin Islands, that is why this would not surprise me. Thank God, it was an error!
27 posted on 04/02/2010 6:28:25 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: kingu

Unreal...mass manipulation is so easy these days.

Sobering thought.

I went to the usgs site to double check- and found some 3. magnitudes..but nothing that would startle a native used to the ground rumbling.


28 posted on 04/02/2010 6:29:37 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: VRWCTexan

Quick, Hussein will order $2.0 billion in relief. Send Hillary with satellite phones.


29 posted on 04/02/2010 6:30:44 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: kingu

HUGE MANATEE BUMP


30 posted on 04/02/2010 6:30:48 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If you cant tell if I'm being sarcastic...maybe I'm not.)
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To: kingu

thank god.


31 posted on 04/02/2010 6:31:05 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SE Mom

http://www.gdacs.org/reports.asp?eventType=EQ&ID=83870&system=asgard&location=DOM&alertlevel=Orange&glide_no=&TsID=1935

Orange Earthquake and Tsunami Alert in Dominican Republic

On 4/2/2010 5:38:55 AM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 8 and depth 13.9km has struck an unpopulated area in the La Altagracia Province (population: 0.1 million) in Dominican Republic. GDACS estimates the likelihood for need of international humanitarian intervention to be medium (Orange alert).

It is likely that a tsunami was generated. The maximum tsunami wave height near the coast of El Macao will be 2.77m. Please refer to the GDACS tsunami report for more details.

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact since the affected region is unpopulated and has high resilience for natural disasters.

The nearest populated places are [None]. It is a hilly region with a maximum altitude of 550 m.


32 posted on 04/02/2010 6:31:21 PM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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To: VRWCTexan

See post #25. Amazing, isn’t it?

Not an easy typo either- the 3 and the 8 aren’t nexty to each other...


33 posted on 04/02/2010 6:31:25 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

“Isn’t the speed of data amazing....particularly when it’s wrong.”

Mark Twain would have loved ssing this...he used to say that “a lie can travel around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” or words to that effect.


34 posted on 04/02/2010 6:32:33 PM PDT by jessduntno ( If someone calls me racist, I reply "you are just saying that because I'm white!")
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To: Recovering_Democrat
This report was automatically updated by a computer on: 4/3/2010 1:42:57 AM UTC (20 hours 4 minutes after the event) Downloads: Word report, PDF report Explanation of alert calculation: Show The impact model combines magnitude (M), population within 100km (P) and vulnerability/resilience ECHO average score (V) using the formula: alertscore = max(M-4.5,0) * log10(max(P / 80000,0))^ 0.5 * max(V,0.5) ^ 1.5 / 3 The weighted product of magnitude (8), population (201116) and vulnerability (0.88) results in an alertscore of 0.970380753761687 Medium tsunami impact: wave height at coast expected to exceed 1.5m. The alertscore is set to 2. Then alert is Red if alertscore>2, Orange if alertscore>1 and Green if alertscore<=1. Tsunami wave height
35 posted on 04/02/2010 6:33:29 PM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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To: SE Mom

Reported as an 8 when it should have been a 3? Probably reported by one of those displaced global warming scientists.


36 posted on 04/02/2010 6:33:48 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: SE Mom
Not an easy typo either- the 3 and the 8 aren’t nexty to each other...

Yeah, but they look alike. Somebody scribbles a bad "3" it might look like an "8". Or maybe you spill coffee on that "3" report, or whatever, and it starts getting "8"ish.

37 posted on 04/02/2010 6:33:58 PM PDT by kittycatonline.com
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To: VRWCTexan

Sarah Palin did it using HAARP./sarc


38 posted on 04/02/2010 6:34:28 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
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To: TaraP
Amazingly detailed eventing information for an earthquake that never happened. Only problem is that NGOs as well as some military follow their alerts, and it wouldn't surprise me if there's a heck of a lot of people running around the Pentagon right now, panicking over any personnel in the region.
39 posted on 04/02/2010 6:34:41 PM PDT by kingu (Favorite Sticker: Lost hope, and Obama took my change.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Wow. No kidding. Good thing, indeed.


40 posted on 04/02/2010 6:34:50 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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