As per Nancy and zetas, we are in progress of the sequence of 7 / 10.
The Zeta sequence for 7 / 10 is as follows:
(1) a tipping Indo-Australia Plate with (2) Indonesia sinking,
(3) a folding Pacific allowing (4) S America to roll,
(5) a tearing of the south Atlantic Rift allowing (6) Africa to roll and (7) the floor of the Mediterranean to drop,
(8) great quakes in Japan followed by (9) the New Madrid adjustment,
(10) which is followed almost instantly by the tearing of the north Atlantic Rift with consequent European tsunami.
However, none of the steps have been 100% completed.
The indo-australian plate has been rising and tilting indicated by for example, the brisbane flood in January 2011 and Earthquake of 7.1 in Christchurch on 4th of September 2010 plus another quake of 6.3 on 22nd of February 2011 .
Indonesia has been sinking with lots of earthquakes, sinkholes, earth cracking, volcano eruptions, landsliding and off course flooding all around the coast line of Indonesia.
A folding pacific has created a lot of pressure tectonically in the pacific ocean and consequently a big earthquake magnitude of 9.0 happened on March the 11th 2011 in the ocean near the northern Japan with a 10 meter Tsunami and finally nuclear disasters. Please note that this is not the great quakes mentioned in the 7 / 10 sequence. Not yet!
Severe earth wobble has caused wild weather around the world. Drought, rain, bush fires, hailstorms, sandstorms, thunderstorms, cyclones, tornadoes, etc, have hit various part of the world. In US alone, we have seen close to 300 tornadoes in April 2011 alone and around 400 died in total.
South America is now showing signs of rolling west as per Nancy's blog in "7 of 10 Status as of April 28, 2011".
These are all precursors for the bigger events such as new madrid adjustment and off course the european tsunami in the 7 / 10 sequence. It took almost four months to get to step 4. It is time to prepare and please take it seriously!
The intention of this blog is to take a closer look at the new madrid adjustment in details and see if we can connect all the dots together. I thought that this could be beneficial especially for all new members who have only joined this ning recently but also a good reminder to all existing members.
Information has been compiled from Zetatalk, blogs from various members plus all other new madrid related information and articles on the world wide web .
Written June 19, 2010
We have described the plate movements to be anticipated during the hour of the pole shift as a scripted drama, and stated that the plate movement ahead of the pole shift can be anticipated to fall along those lines. Thus, our statements that the New Madrid zone will adjust at the hour of the pole shift was well as before that hour are consistent. The Atlantic is tearing now, thus the Iceland volcanoes, and will tear further well before the pole shift to cause the European tsunami, as we have described. But this in no way compares to the major tearing of the Atlantic that occurs during the hour of the pole shift. The Seaway is pulling apart now, thus the humongous sinkhole just NE of Montreal, but this is no way compares to the pulling apart that will occur during the hour of the pole shift. When we speak of a New Madrid adjustment as potentially part of a 7 of 10 or an 8 of 10 stage, we are not speaking of the pole shift adjustments. Those are regularly referred to as the hour of the pole shift, to differentiate any Earth changes that come before. Prior to the pole shift, the New Madrid will adjust. Canada remains firmly attached at her border with the Eurasian Plate, and thus the Seaway will participate in this pre-shift New Madrid adjustment. But the primary reaction will be along the Mississippi, with bridges failing and land just to the west of the Mississippi dropping slightly. Certainly this adjustment, which may be a series of large quakes, will shatter cities throughout the region and affect cities all the way to the Great Lakes and down into Mexico.
The New Madrid adjustment
Where the N American continent is under great stress, it has not slipped because it is held in place on both sides. The Pacific side holds due to subduction friction along the San Andreas, and the Atlantic side holds due to the Atlantic Rift's reluctance to rip open. What changes this dynamic? When S America rolls, almost in step with the folding Pacific, it tears the Atlantic Rift on the southern side. This allows Africa freedom to move and it rolls too, dropping the Mediterranean floor above Algeria. What is holding the N American continent together has thus eased, so that when the Japan adjustments are made, there is less holding the N American continent in place than before, and the New Madrid gives way
The New Madrid adjustment will affect so much area, in a domino manner, that it will not be a single large quake, but a series, separated by weeks and months. The primary adjustment will be within days, after shocks for weeks, but months later still, adjustments. The New Madrid is associated with fault lines that run up toward the Great Lakes, Chicago will adjust and rupture, Ohio will be pulled in places, and as we have explained, the land to the West of the Mississippi will sink in places. There is a known fault line that runs from the center of the Gulf up along the East Coast, thus the effect in 1811-12 in the Carolinas and DC on up to Boston. Then, as we have explained, there will be a bow from San Diego out to Arizona, which will rupture the great dam on the Colorado. When this bow, which forces Mexico too far to the West for the comfort of the West Coast, adjustes, it will be a slip-slide adjustment of the San Andreas and related fault lines up the coast.
In September, FEMA's associate administrator for Response and Recovery, William Carwile, told a Senate panel that FEMA has five regional groups planning for possible earthquake responses, but a major quake along the New Madrid fault line could displace 7.2 million people and knock out 15 bridges. The response would require 42,000 first responders from local firefighters to the Pentagon."
"Although Memphis is likely to be the focus of major damage in the region, St. Louis, Mo., Little Rock, Ark., and many small and medium sized cities would also sustain damage, " the U.S.. Geological Survey found.
South Carolina is home to an active fault line, which could also produce a catastrophic earthquake.
A quake in Charleston in 1886 was a magnitude 7.6. That city in 2008 had a population in excess of 348,000. Much of that state's coastal area is at risk."
This year marks the bi-centennial of the New Madrid Quake. Mr. Nations is not the only one concerned many communities are making preparations and there aregeologists warning of the dangers. A new report out recently also stresses Americans are not prepared. FEMA is also asking that groups take part in the Great Earthquake ShakeOut Drill. A Map that shows the locations of the nuclear plants along the New Madrid Fault zone can be viewed here.
The Zeta mention that the Phoenix, AZ area will not be safe due in part to the breaching of dams along the Colorado River. I found 5 dams but there may be more.
The Zetas stressed in February that the Phoenix Lights redux UFOs were a warning about future changes in the southwest, a bowing in the
land from Mexico to northern California which would ultimately cause the Hoover Dam to break.
ZetaTalk Explanation 2/10/2007: And why the anniversary blitz of Phoenix lights? Is not the flat
dry desert of Arizona expected to remain relatively undisturbed, during the coming pole shift?
When the New Madrid Fault adjusts, Mexico will be too far to the West for the current comfort
of the West Coast, which will bow in the Southern California and Arizona region. The fault line
that runs along Mexico's west coast runs just under the Arizona border, then on up along the
west coast of California. Before the west coast of the US starts adjusting to the new position of
Mexico, with slip-slide adjustments, there will be a bending of the Arizona desert area that will
fracture the dry soil, create a breach in the great Colorado River dam, and allow magma to rise
in the calderas in the US - Mammoth Lake in California and Yellowstone. If the Hoover Dam
breaks, whither the city of Phoenix, which lies on flat land and near farm land irrigated by the
waters of the Colorado?
Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River about 45 miles (72 km)) downstream from Hoover Dam. It stretches across the border between Arizona and Nevada. Originally called Bullhead Dam, Davis dam was renamed after Arthur Powell Davis, who was the director of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1914 to 1932. The United States Bureau of Reclamation owns and operates the dam, which was completed in 1951.
The Flaming Gorge Dam is a concrete thin-arch dam in the Flaming Gorge of the Green River, a major tributary of theColorado River, in the U.S. state of Utah. One of the largest dams in the American West. Situated in Flaming Gorge, a canyon of the Green River named by John Wesley Powell, the dam was built and is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Groundbreaking for the structure began in 1958 and was completed in 1964.
The Glen Canyon Dam is the second largest dam on the Colorado River [1] at Page, Arizona, USA. Construction of the dam began in 1956 by the industrial conglomerate, Merritt-Chapman & Scott. Although the dam was not dedicated until 1966, it was able to begin blocking the flow of the river in 1963.
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over a hundred lives.
Parker Dam spans the Colorado River between Arizona and California, 155 miles downstream from HooverDam
. Built between 1934 and 1938 by the Bureau of Reclamation.
The Morelos Dam (the last dam on the Colorado River) will not be able to hold back the upcoming deluge of the Colorado River as the dams above breach.
The Morelos Diversion Dam, located on the Mexico–Arizona border, is the southernmost dam on the Colorado River. It sends nearly all of the remaining water to irrigation canals in the Mexicali Valley and to the Mexican towns of Mexicali and Tijuana. As a result, the river rarely reaches the Gulf of California, normally the river's mouth. Consequently, the vast wetlands at the mouth of the Colorado River have been reduced to just a fraction of their former size, affecting vegetation and wildlife. Before the construction of a number of dams along its reach, the Colorado flowed 129 kilometers (80 miles) through Mexico to the Gulf of California.
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Ce-Cr/Colorado-River-Basin.html
The bowing stress on N. America is the result of the daily Torque Effect caused by Planet X gripping the highly magnetized Atlantic Rift. This causes the N American continent to be pulled into a bow, the Aleutian Islands pulled toward the tip of Mexico, with the center of the bow at San Diego.
ZetaTalk: N American Rip written Feb 10, 2006
We have discussed what we call the stretch zone, where a land mass is pulled apart so that the rock flakes pull across each other, silently, creating sinkholes and rifts and manifesting as broken gas and water mains and derailing trains. These stretch zones have dramatically expressed themselves in the African Rift area and in the SE United States and in the UK during the past couple years. When Planet X arrived in the inner solar system in 2003 and began seriously tugging at the highly magnetized Atlantic Rift, it accentuated this stretch on either side of the Atlantic. What went unstated during these discussions is why a stretch zone occurs. Look at S America, on the large S American plate. As the Atlantic is pulled apart, the Pacific compressed, it is required to have the upper part migrate to the West more than the tip, which is anchored at Antarctica. It moves as a whole, in the main, crunching the small plates in the Caribbean and Central America as it does so and popping the plate holding the Galapagos Islands which lies just to the west of S America. It can move, in short. But what of the African and N American plates?
The African Rift is caused because Africa is not free to move. It is bulbous at the north end, and comes to a tip at the south end. It is anchored at the south end, at South Africa, so when the Atlantic pulls apart, the bulbous northern part of the African plate moves directly eastward, yawing open the African Rift, along with the Red Sea, which is also widening. This inability of plates to move during the ripping apart of the Atlantic and compression of the Pacific is what will create a new rift up through Pakistan and above the Himalayas into Russia during the pole shift, equivalent to the St. Lawrence Seaway in N America. The Indio-Australia plate moves in the direction of the Himalayas, diving under them. Hawaii rises up during compression of the Pacific, so can move, if only up. Japan likewise is forced up, violently so, during Pacific compression. The Antarctica plate, as we have mentioned, is pressed down in the Pacific so will pop up on the Atlantic side, creating new land there ultimately during the pole shift.
The giant plates of N America and Eurasia are locked against each other, unable to rotate against each other due to their shape. Slip-slide along the West Coast, measured as a creep by geologists, is due only to slight adjustments along that edge of the plate, primarily due to adjustments within the small plates to the west of the N American plate, which move to accommodate pressure. The N American plate does not move, pre se, but other dramas occur. We explained, months before it expressed enough to show up on IRIS charts, the Earth torque caused as the N Pole continuing to rotate to the East while the S Pole was held back by Planet X, tending to open the globe like a jar of pickles. This creates a diagonal stress on the N American continent where New England is pulled to the east while Mexico is pulled to the West, so the New Madrid is put under slip-slide stress where one half, east of the Mississippi, will move toward the NE while the other, west of the Mississippi, moves toward the SW. The virtual hook of land in the N American continent near the Kamchatka peninsula is solid rock and will not snap off to become a separate land plate, nor would this ease the deadlock along the N American and Eurasian plates even it if did. These massive plates cannot move.
The stress on the N American plate will resolve by ripping. Ripping the St. Lawrence Seaway open. Pulling the SE down into the crumbling Caribbean and into the widening Atlantic, as neither of these sinking fronts will be able to support the edge of the weighty N American plate. There is pressure along the West Coast, of course, and as the N American plate confronts the compressing Pacific, this will only result in the predictable volcanic increases and West Coast earthquakes. But the primary drama preceding the pole shift will be the ripping action that a plate unable to move must endure. The notable area of catastrophe during this is the eastern half of the continental US. From Houston to Chicago to New England, the diagonal pull will tear the underpinning of cities and create a catastrophe for the US that will make the New Orleans disaster appear trivial. A widening Seaway also does not affect just those land masses bordering the Seaway, as buckling occurs inland and afar. What does man assume caused the Black Hills to be so rumpled, with the appearance of a recent bucking and heaving? This is the center of a land plate! The tearing of the Seaway does not end at Duluth, MN, it travels underground to S Dakota!
Indeed, tearing of the St. Lawrence Seaway will occur during the New Madrid adjustment. We have warned that quakes on the West Coast, or the Seaway, or in the New Madrid region will occur before the major quake in the New Madrid region we have referred to as the adjustment on a 7 of 10 level. There will be quakes in these areas, magnitude 4-7, which should not be considered the New Madrid adjustment of which we speak. Please do not ask, at every quake, what this "means". It means the New Madrid adjustment is still pending. When the tension in the N American continent starts to force major tearing of rock strata, so that the changes we have described can take place, this will not be all at once, simultaneously. We have described a series of large quakes, with one major one stemming from the New Madrid area that will be called a magnitude 9 but in truth will be larger. It is this quake that will set in motion adjustments elsewhere.
Mexico will lurch to the west as this major quake occurs, with a settling of land to the west of the Mississippi almost instantly afterwards. The Mississippi will seem to have widened, and those to the west will see a new view as they look east, as their land will have shifted to the southwest as well as dropped. Because the lurch of Mexico to the west actually intensifies the bowing of the N American continent, the Seaway tears open. This is actually various adjustments at weak points along the Seaway rather than the tearing apart into a larger inland bay that occurs during the pole shift itself. Niagara Falls will remain, but some of the inland locks will break. When the upper Mississippi region finds the land to its west slipping down and to the southwest, those parts north which were formerly firmly attached find they can spring northward, as the pressure from the bow had been inclining them to do. This allows the edge of the rip, at Duluth, MN, to tear further inland, with consequent rumpling in S Dakota and minor shifting of ground in all parts in between.
Due to the rise in sea level to 675 feet within two years after the pole shift, the N American continent will appear to be two separate land masses in the future. The 7 of 10 will not effect this change, but will tear most bridges on the Mississippi River when the New Madrid adjusts. This will of course affect travel and distribution of goods, but in that the Mississippi employs barges, a workaround will be arranged quickly enough. But after the pole shift the eastern half of the continent will certainly be more isolated. Travel across the widened seaway by boat, across the flooded Mississippi Valley by barge, and by foot through the swampy land of what is now northern Illinois will certainly be possible. After the New Madrid adjusts, those living in the US should be considering their proximity to loved ones, in this light, the travel restrictions being considered a wake-up call re what is coming if nothing else.
In describing the 7 of 10 scenarios, we do not detail every minor quake or every point where a minor tsunami might be generated. The 7 of 10 scenarios did not even include the major quakes in Japan, which are predicted to be in the range of magnitude 9's. Nor did they include the tsunami that large quakes in Japan always involve, which we have recently stated could be considered to be as high as 150 feet for the South Island quakes. After the New Madrid adjusts the West Coast adjusts, as we have stated. We have not detailed this, as compared to the New Madrid this is minor. All the fault lines closely watched on the West Coast will adjust, the volcanoes nervously watched will erupt, and certainly the waters off the coast will be choppy if not generating some minor tsunami during the plate adjustments. The West Coast of the US is alert and guarded in this regard, as is Japan. They anticipate this type of activity, and will be alert to signs that a quake or eruption or tsunami is pending. Thus, we focus on the larger changes, and in warning those areas that will not receive such services from their governments.
There is general confusion about our predicted Earth changes. This is most often envisioned as happening all at once, suddenly, without warning. Where earthquakes and stretch zone accidents do seem to happen almost without warning, their approach is never that silent. The N American continent has been getting these warnings for some time, with increasing intensity. Quake swams in the New Madrid region and west of this spot have been occurring, and are on the increase. Sinkholes and shifting roadways are occurring from Pennsylvania through Tennessee and elsewhere. The center of the bow being formed by the N American continent, the San Diego area, has an epidemic of water main breaks, and the snapping rock inland from this point has affected a mine in Utah. None of this is officially ascribed to the New Madrid adjustment that is pending, though FEMA gives evidence of their nervous preparations for the disaster they know is pending.
Will the New Madrid just suddenly rip with our predicted magnitude 9 quake? Hardly. There will be a progression of quakes in the magnitude 4-5 range all along the New Madrid fault line, which runs up to the Great Lakes and thence along the seaway. The bow will become more stressed, cracking rock inland from San Diego all the way to the Mississippi, and forcing adjustments north and south of this point too, from the Aleutian Islands to the tip of Mexico. Sinkholes and crevasses will proliferate throughout the US in her stretch zones, in a swath that ranges from the New England states south to the tip of Florida and all points west. This is a large bow. Then quakes will increase to the point of being considered magnitude 6-7 along the long New Madrid fault line and its attendant splinters. The New Madrid adjustment will thus NOT sneak up on you, but will be well announced.
Source: ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for March 12, 2011
Potential Nuclear disaster risk in the new madrid zone
Bob Nations, Jr., the Director of Shelby County Office of Preparedness, says that since the lack of preparation exposed by Hurricane Katrina, he is "preparing for the catastrophic event" in his six-county jurisdiction.
Nations admitted that after a major quake, Tennessee's infrastructure and response capabilities "would get overwhelmed fairly quickly."
There are 15 nuclear power plants in the New Madrid fault zone -- three reactors in Alabama -- that are of the same or similar design as the site in Japan experiencing problems.
The USGS report predicts that a major quake would create horrific scenes like something out of a science fiction movie, potentially cutting the Eastern part of the country off from the West in terms of vehicular traffic and road commerce.
"The older highways and railroad bridges that cross the Mississippi River, as well as older overpasses, would likely be damaged or collapse in the event of a major New Madrid earthquake," according to USGS.
In September, FEMA's associate administrator for Response and Recovery, William Carwile, told a Senate panel that FEMA has five regional groups planning for possible earthquake responses, but a major quake along the New Madrid fault line could displace 7.2 million people and knock out 15 bridges. The response would require 42,000 first responders from local firefighters to the Pentagon.
Another study by the Mid-America Earthquake Center last year estimates that nearly 750,000 buildings would be damaged, 3,000 bridges would potentially collapse, 400,000 breaks and leaks to local pipelines and $300 billion in direct damage and $600 billion in indirect losses would occur. Source
Other potential nuclear risk: Three Mile Island
The Three Mile Island accident was a core meltdown in Unit 2 (a pressurized water reactor manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg,United States in 1979.
Viewed from the west, Three Mile Island currently uses only one nuclear generating station, TMI-1, which is on the left. TMI-2, to the right, has not been used since the accident. Note that this is a pre-accident photo taken when TMI-2 was in operation.
Unit 1 had its license temporarily suspended following the incident at Unit 2. Although the citizens of the three counties surrounding the site voted by a margin of 3:1 to permanently retire Unit 1, it was permitted to resume operations in 1985. General Public Utilities Corporation, the plant's owner, formed General Public Utilities Nuclear Corporation (GPUN) as a new subsidiary to own and operate the company's nuclear facilities, including Three Mile Island. The plant had previously been operated by Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed), one of GPU's regional utility operating companies. In 1996, General Public Utilities shortened its name to GPU Inc. Three Mile Island Unit 1 was sold to AmerGenEnergy Corporation, a joint venture between Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO), and British Energy, in 1998. In 2000, PECO merged with Unicom Corporation to form Exelon Corporation, which acquired British Energy's share of AmerGen in 2003. Today, AmerGen LLC is a fully owned subsidiary of Exelon Generation and owns TMI Unit 1, Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, and Clinton Power Station. These three units, in addition to Exelon's other nuclear units, are operated by Exelon Nuclear Inc., an Exelon subsidiary.
General Public Utilities was legally obliged to continue to maintain and monitor the site, and therefore retained ownership of Unit 2 when Unit 1 was sold to AmerGen in 1998. GPU Inc. was acquired by FirstEnergy Corporation in 2001, and subsequently dissolved. FirstEnergy then contracted out the maintenance and administration of Unit 2 to AmerGen. Unit 2 has been administered by Exelon Nuclear since 2003, when Exelon Nuclear's parent company, Exelon, bought out the remaining shares of AmerGen, inheriting FirstEnergy's maintenance contract. Unit 2 continues to be licensed and regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a condition known as Post Defueling Monitored Storage (PDMS).[83]
Today, the TMI-2 reactor is permanently shut down with the reactor coolant system drained, the radioactive water decontaminated and evaporated, radioactive waste shipped off-site, reactor fuel and core debris shipped off-site to a Department of Energy facility, and the remainder of the site being monitored. The owner says it will keep the facility in long-term, monitored storage until the operating license for the TMI-1 plant expires at which time both plants will be decommissioned.[10] In 2009, the NRC granted a license extension which means the TMI-1 reactor may operate until April 19, 2034.[84][85]
NEW MADRID FAULT, WHEN WILL IT SNAP?
New Madrid Fault
What is the New Madrid fault line, and why is it so much on the tips of tongues these days?
The New Madrid fault line essentially follows the Mississippi River from Illinois to Arkansas.
Seems like a local affair, but this is deceptive.
Where quakes along the West Coast of the US cause a jolt in the underlying rock, the area surrounding the New Madrid is essentially mud, soil, wet from the mighty Mississippi and Missouri and Tennessee and Ohio rivers which join near the New Madrid fault line, and liquifaction thus affects a huge area.
The last great quakes on the New Madrid fault line occurred in the Winter of 1811-1812.
Just how far ranging was the effect, compared to a quake of similar Richter on the West Coast?
A map on the USGS website shows the relative extent of influence, which is far more dramatic than might be imagined.
In 1994 the 6.7 Richter Northridge quake was felt throughout southern California, barely reaching over the border into Nevada and Arizona and Mexico.
The comparable 1895 Charleston, MO quake covered the eastern half of the US, primarily affected, of course, were the states central to the New Madrid fault line - Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.
But the effect covered at least half of the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa, and crossed the border into the states of New York and Florida.
But the seriousness of the situation is not described by the effects of quakes in 1811 and 1895, as going into the pole shift, during the quakes preceding the pole shift, there is another aspect to the fault line adjustments.
There is an Earth torque, cause by the twisting of the globe that Planet X causes when it tugs on the S Pole of Earth and the highly magnetized Atlantic Rift, daily.
Complicating the torque is the fact that the N American continent is held rigid at the top, where the plate boundary crosses through the Arctic from the Kamchaka Peninsula just above Japan in almost a straight line to Iceland in the Altantic, East of Greenland.
The N American plate, thus, CANNOT roll round to adjust to the stress of having the Atlantic widen and the Pacific shorten during the tugging Planet X does upon the Earth.
Mexico wants to move westward faster than Alaska, but cannot without pulling the N American continent in a diagonal, a stress the Zetas call the N American Rip.
This ZetaTalk was written during a time when S Dakota, at the Black Hills, was showing an odd stress wobble once daily, a clear sign this was a wobble induced by the tugging of Planet X.
2003-2004
The first evidence of this torque on the N American continent occurred in August of 2003, when a massive power outage struck New York City, causing a complete blackout with a million commuters walking home to suburbia silently across the bridges.
The cause? A substation at Niagara, on the stretching seaway.
This was followed by trail derailments and bursting gas and water mains and sinkholes and yawing crevasses that were suddenly and dramatically in the news.
Sinking, or lack of support in stretch zone, results in sinkholes.
The incidence of sinkholes, in the US alone, during the 6 months period from April to October 2004, was certainly astonishing.
These hit Florida hard, not surprising as it is at a point, literally, where the pull down is the most extreme.
Detroit and Milwaukee, at the end of the St. Lawrence Seaway yawing.
up the East Cost through Virginia and into Pennsylvania, a point where sinking and rising land create a break, a snapping of the Earth, as land south of Pennsylvania is pulled down while land North tends to bounce up as the Seaway yaws.
And into land at the edge of the stretch zone, such as Missouri and central Canada.
If trains were derailing due to twisting track, and sinkholes appearing suddenly under highways, this was not the only horror aflicting transportation.
Road heaved, bridges dropped, and land slid on top of traffic.
Particularly in July, 2004, oddly, in 3 different US states.
This shows a relationship to a diagonal pull across the US, happening at that time.
This twisting of the North American continent involves New England pulled to the East along with the rotation of the Earth, Mexico and the southwest pulled to the West, as the South Pole was being tugged in that direction.
This opened crevasses in the southwest.
This was not due to compression, subduction of plates, but due to the stretch, the land in these areas being pulled apart.
These sudden crevasses were not associated with any particular earthquake, but they WERE associated with road pops from Kansas to Illinois to Pennsyvania!
Again, in July 2004.
Sinking land in the stretch zone very much affects gas and water mains running under streets, and a rash of reports emerged as Planet X tightened its grip on the Earth.
During the 6 months reporting period from April to October 2004, pipes were snapping all across the stretch zone like never before.
2005
By June, 2005 scientists were openly admitting they were concerned about the New Madrid fault.
A few months later, in September of 2005, a mysterious smell like rotting cabbage or the cat's litter box wafted across the US.
Central Texas: Strange Odor Prompts School Evacuation
Sep 22, 2005
Washington Post: Mysterious Stench Nauseates Northeast
Sep 30, 2005
The cause, per the Zetas, was methane gas released when rock fingers were pulled apart, releasing gasses from rotting material trapped between rock layers.
In early 2006 there was additional evidence that the N American continent was being put under stress, pulled in a diagonal.
Within a 4 week period, mining accidents from Canada to Mexico occurred, in a line parallel to one that could be drawn from Maine to Mexico, the stress line that the Zetas have described.
The first was in the Sago mines in West Virginia, then another in Ontario, Canada, followed by a rare disaster in Mexico.
Methane gas was suspected.
Although a constant source of worry, why the sudden rash of explosions across the continent, and along a diagonal line parallel to what the Zetas have described?
Coincidence?
If so, coincidentally, Maine was reporting odd methane bubbles off their coast.
University of Maine geologists reported in December, in the Portland Press Herald, 12-26-05, that dozens of methane fields off the coast of Maine were releasing large amounts of gas, disrupting the ocean floor and creating massive bubbles.
2006
By July, 2006, Cleveland, Ohio was reports quake swarms.
Accompanying this was another blackout caused by problems in what is called the Lake Erie Loop.
The stretching Seaway, at it again!
Then on Sep 10, 2006, a rare quake in the Gulf of Mexico, on a fault line the USGS was unaware existed.
The Zetas related this to the stress on the N American continent, and the pending New Madrid diagonal rip.
This was followed by more adjustments in New England, which is scheduled to rise some 450 feet above sea level during the coming pole shift.
The tiny New England states are grouped at the end of what will become increasingly a peninsula of land, due to the widening of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the melting poles. The land is rocky, and will rise some 450 feet by our estimate above the current level due to the land being freed from its current connections during this continental rip.
Quake swarms continued in Maine, and a dramatic drop in the water level in wells at the USGS site.
Per the Zetas, all these are clues that the New Madrid does not have long to go before it gives way, allowing the diagonal slip along the Mississippi that the Zetas have predicted.
The Zetas have stated the devastation will make the New Orleans disaster appear trivial.
New Orleans, after all, was another disaster waiting to happen, not a surprise.
It was only a matter of time.
For the New Madrid disaster, affecting cities from Houston to St. Louis to Kansas City to Memphis to Cincinnati to Chicago and parts in between, the number of people left suddenly homeless will be immense, compared to New Orleans.
These cities are not quake proofed, as is the norm on the West Coast.
Lets look at the New Orleans disaster for a preview of what to expect, insofar as rescue attempts.
So if the slipping of the New Madrid will be WORSE than the disaster of New Orleans, affecting more cities and a wider area, and dropping land West of the Mississippi so flooding occurs, are these cities more prepared?
Those in the wake of the pending New Madrid quake, beware, and get prepared!
bill
Petrolia, Northern California Earthquake Felt In Vast Area, No Dama...
UPDATE
No injury or damage reported
UPDATE
Just 3 minutes than this earthquake, M 2.6 weak tremor was recorded 3 km E from Windsor
UPDATE
It is felt as far as Windsor and Santa Rosa
Felt Reports Received by Disaster Report through "Felt reports Form"
Windsor: slight but well felt..I was ready to go to bed..then felt shaking. Just came to know that epicenter was in Petrolia
UPDATE
The last strong earthquake in this region was in 1993-09-21 of M 6.0 which killed one person
UPDATE
It will have faintly felt as far as Myrtletown, Cutten, Eureka, Arcata and McKinleyville region
UPDATE
Weak shaking will have felt in Rio Dell, Ferndale, Fortuna, Hydesville, Humboldt Hill and Pine Hills region of Northern California
UPDATE
Just weak shaking will have felt in vast area of Northern California
M 4.4 moderate shallow earthquake strikes Northern California today (@ 20 km depth) with epicenter located just 5 km SW from Petrolia
Epicenter Location
5 km SW from Petrolia, CA
30 km SW from Rio Dell, C
33 km S from Ferndale, CA
58 km SSW from Eureka, CA
312 km NW from Sacramento, CA
Epicenter Over view: Petrolia (formerly, New Jerusalem and Petrolea) is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Cape Mendocino, at an elevation of 121 feet (37 m). It is located in the Mattole Valley, part of the Lost Coast region, one of the largest wilderness areas and the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the continental United States
Feb 26, 2012
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Fatal Train Derailment on the St. Lawrence Stretch Zone
Feb 27, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Niland, Calif.
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Sunday morning three miles from Niland, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 3:31 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was six miles from Obsidian Butte, eight miles from Calipatria, 30 miles from El Centro and 97 miles from San Diego.
In the past 10 days, there have been two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Feb 27, 2012
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2 American-Pacific Buoys in event mode..
Feb 28, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.4 quake strikes near Niland
A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning three miles from Niland in Imperial County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:35 a.m. PST at a depth of 0.6 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 6 miles from Obsidian Butte, 7 miles from Calipatria, 30 miles from El Centro and 97 miles from San Diego.
In the last 10 days, there have been seven earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Feb 29, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.5 quake strikes northeast of Eureka
A shallow magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Tuesday evening about 30 miles northeast of Eureka, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 18.6 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 17 miles from Willow Creek, 18 miles from Westhaven-Moonstone, 31 miles from Eureka and 217 miles from Sacramento.
In the past 10 days, there have been two earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Feb 29, 2012
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Strange Boom, Shakes El Paso TX, 2.6 Earthquake or? March 5, 2012
Mar 8, 2012
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Strange Rumbles in Hawaii and UFO
Mar 8, 2012
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Strange Sound Over Los Angeles
Mar 8, 2012
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Strange Noise Cass Lake MN
Mar 8, 2012
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Landslide closes I-75 near Tennessee line
Both southbound lanes of Interstate 75 across the Kentucky-Tennessee line are closed indefinitely because of an earth slide, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said.
The closure is at mile marker 160 in Jellico, Tenn., just across the state line. Motorists traveling south should take the 160 exit, turn left to follow U.S. 25W to LaFollette and return to southbound I-75 at exit 134 in Caryville, the transportation cabinet said.
Motorists with wide loads should take the 160 exit, turn right to Tennessee 297 west to Tennessee 63, returning to southbound I-75 at exit 141.
Signs noting the detour have been posted, but motorists should expect delays and use caution while traveling these routes, the transportation cabinet said.
Earth under the interstate is still moving after a collapse was discovered Thursday, the transportation cabinet said
Mar 10, 2012
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Alert level raised for Alaska's Iliamna volcano
Alaska's restless geology continues: on Friday, scientists raised the alert level at Iliamna volcano -- 130 miles southwest of Anchorage on the lower west side of the Kenai Peninsula -- to "advisory" after a period of continued increasing seismicity led them to believe that the volcano may be mounting for an eruption.
Scientists on Wednesday put out an alert that the volcano had seen three months of increasing temblors, which they said might be caused by increased magma formation, but it wasn't enough to raise the volcano's alert level. That changed Friday, and comes as the number and level of quakes "now exceeds normal background levels," according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
The "advisory" warning of yellow means that the volcano is experiencing unusual activity, but hasn't explicitly erupted. Kanaga volcano in the Aleutians had a minor eruption back in February that launched a small ash cloud and prompted a similar advisory.
Meanwhile, a minor eruption was detected Thursday at the regularly-active Cleveland volcano in the Aleutians, but satellite data wasn't available to determine if there was any ash emission. Scientists continue to monitor both volcanoes.
Keep an eye on Iliamna, at the Alaska Volcano Observatory
Mar 10, 2012
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Cleveland Volcano Erupts Again In Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 8 (Reuters) - A remote Alaska volcano that has been restless since last summer belched ash in a small, short explosion, scientists said on Thursday, but the cloud was not expected to impact commercial airline traffic.
Meanwhile, a second volcano that has not erupted in recorded Alaska history is experiencing a swarm of earthquakes for which scientists have yet to determine a cause.
The explosion was at Cleveland Volcano, located on an uninhabited Aleutian island 940 miles southwest of Anchorage.
While the exact size of the ash cloud it produced is unknown, it was believed to be small, as was a cloud the resulted from a similar explosion at the volcano in December, said Steve McNutt, a University of Alaska Fairbanks seismologist who works at the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
That cloud rose to less than 20,000 feet, lower than the levels used by large commercial jets, McNutt said.
The observatory maintains no on-site monitors at remote Cleveland, so it relies on mostly satellite imagery for news about the volcano's activities. But poor weather conditions are currently blocking satellite images of Cleveland, McNutt said.
Despite their distance from population centers, Cleveland and other volcanoes in Alaska's Aleutian chain pose potential risks to commercial air traffic because they lie below a well-used route between North America and Asia.
Meanwhile, another Alaska volcano that has not erupted in hundreds of years is now the site of frequent small earthquakes, a phenomenon that has so far puzzled scientists.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory has issued a notice about increased seismic activity at Mount Iliamna, located in Lake Clark National Park, on the west side of Cook Inlet and 130 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The site, which usually has a couple of small earthquakes a week, now is experiencing "a couple dozen" a day, McNutt said. That activity has been ongoing for about three months, he said.
So far, scientists have not seen signs of gas emissions, ground deformation or unusual heat at the Iliamna, McNutt said. Other than the swarm of earthquakes, he said, "We have not seen any of the tell-tale signals that magma is moving."
The USGS plans to conduct a research flight next week to sample the air around Iliamna for gases, McNutt said.
Iliamna, which rises to 10,016 feet, has had no known eruptions since Alaska recorded history began in the late 18th century, McNutt said. There is geologic evidence that it erupted 500 to 1,000 years ago, he said. (Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Paul Thomasch)
Mar 10, 2012
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Monster earthquake threat looms over B.C. coastal communities
First Nations village on the west coast of Vancouver Island is moving to higher ground
The giant tectonic plates converging off Vancouver Island are locked and scientists say the strain will eventually become so great the plates will jolt past each unleashing an earthquake that could be magnitude 9 or more. The yellow and red explosion symbols show where earthquakes have occurred in the past, including the megaquake of 1700.
Photograph by: . , NRCAN
VANCOUVER — Anacla, a First Nations village on the west coast of Vancouver Island, is moving up, heading for higher, safer ground.
A new "big house" has been built 50 metres up from the pounding surf of Pachena Bay. And there are plans to replace the 49 houses on the beach, which could be swallowed by the sea with just minutes' notice.
It has happened before, says Tom Happynook, a hereditary chief with the Huu-ay-Aht First Nations, recalling how the village in the bay vanished in 1700, when a quake kicked up giant waves off Canada's West Coast.
"The village was completely wiped out," says Happynook.
Scientists say the strain is building again beneath the sea floor as enormous tectonic plates push against each other about 100 kilometres offshore.
A monster earthquake rivalling the one that devastated Japan last March is all but a certainly on North America's Pacific coast, they say.
No one can say when it will occur, but when it does a huge and powerful wall of water could hit the outer coast areas within 30 to 45 minutes.
"They'll be no time to collect the family photos," says geologist John Clague, who says Canada — and Canadians — could learn much from Japan's triple disaster that occurred a year ago Sunday.
More than 16,000 people in Japan died in the aftermath of the magnitude 9 earthquake, most of them from the tsunami that rolled ashore sweeping away cars, trucks and boats. Waves surged into homes, and reduced communities to rubble.
The tsunami also crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station, leading to meltdowns, explosions and leaks that sent radioactive isotopes drifting around the globe.
One of the biggest lessons from the Japanese tragedy is that "what can wrong, will go wrong," says Clague, director of the centre for natural hazard research at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C.
"You have to anticipate the w
Mar 10, 2012
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Mudslide closes Madison County road
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) - A mudslide has caused officials in a central Kentucky county to close a road.
Heavy rain that fell Thursday caused the slide onto Tates Creek Road in Madison County. The slide spilled debris onto both lanes of the road Thursday evening, according to WKYT-TV (http://bit.ly/x2USYy ) in Lexington.
Deputy Emergency Management Director Michael Bryant said the slide was likely set up when a private road was cut up a nearby hill. State transportation engineers will assess the stability of the hillside Friday
Mar 10, 2012
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San Francisco shaken by 4.0 magnitude earthquake
San Francisco residents were shaken by a 4.0 magnitude earthquake on Monday morning, according to a recent report published by Reuters. The two small quakes took place one after another, but authorities reassured people in the area that no major damages were produced during these episodes.
The effects of the earthquake could be felt within a 60-mile radius from Santa Rosa in the north to Santa Cruz in the south. Despite this, authorities working at the California Highway Patrol, San Francisco police and El Cerrito police stated that no immediate calls were made from people reporting injuries or damages. The only problem that San Francisco residents experienced after the quake was that the Bay Area commuter trains were delayed to inspect the tracks.
After close analyses, seismologists were able to determine that the seism was caused by the Hayward Fault, an active fault that runs across the eastern San Francisco Bay. Such episodes were long time predicted by the USGS report. In fact, in 2003, seismologists stated that there were 27 percent chances for the Bay Area to be affected by a magnitude-6.7 or higher earthquake in the following 30 years.
The recent attention that the media has paid to the Hayward Fault raised a lot of concern among people living in San Francisco, more specifically they were afraid that the 2003 USGS report could turn out true. Seismologist David Schwartz, however, declared that people have nothing to worry about these two small quakes. In his opinion, the 4.0 magnitude quakes are only meant to prove that there is ongoing activity on the fault
Mar 10, 2012
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Baja Earthquake Gash While Sea Rushes In
Could it happen? There have been an extraordinary number of earthquakes occurring at the southern California border and across into Mexico at the north end of Baja California and the Gulf of California, an active continental rift region that is transitional between the San Andreas fault system to the north and a spreading ridge of the East Pacific Rise in the Gulf of California to the south.
Since 2010 there have been more than 2,000 earthquakes there, including one powerful magnitude 7.2 during April of 2010, all indicating a very active ‘something’ is going on beneath the surface. In fact, most of what is going on is not that far beneath the surface! Just 6 km (3.7 miles) below the desert is where most of the shaking is happening.
There is a volcano in the region (named ‘Cerro Prieto’), although it is located east of where the earthquake activity has been. The earthquakes do seem to be lined up with the Laguna Salada fault. Laguna Salada is a vast dry lake some 30 feet below sea level in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California. The lake and the Laguna Salada fault is linked to the San Andreas Fault. Uh-oh.
The curious thing is that these quakes, and the fault zone region are at very low altitude, nearly sea level (and below). In fact, it seems as though a significant tear in the earth in this region could conceivably cause sea water from the Gulf of California to rush inland, possibly all the way up into California, the Salton Sea. That would be an extreme event, for sure, but it’s curious to note the possibility.
Another thought is ‘what if’ there is a major earthquake in this region, which also sets off the San Andreas fault, which itself is stretched tight as a drum waiting to rip through the state of California. It could be pretty cataclysmic. Imagine the Baja peninsula beginning in San Francisco instead of in Mexico? A bit of a stretch… pun intended…
The following is a chart of earthquakes there since 2010 which shows how the vast majority of shakers have been in the magnitude 3 – 4 range. Earthquakes of this magnitude do not relieve much pressure. Instead they may be indicating a quivering region of earth which is ready to snap.
The second chart shows the depth (km) at which these earthquakes have been occurring. They have all been very shallow, meaning the ‘crack’ in the earth is near the surface compared with lots other fault zones. What this means is that when ‘it’ happens, the effects will be quite severe on the surface compared with a much deeper quake.
Mar 10, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.0 temblor strikes southeast of Salinas
A shallow, magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday evening southeast of Salinas, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 7:34 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 5.0 miles.
According to the Geological Survey, the epicenter was three miles from Pinnacles, 15 miles from Soledad, 24 miles from King City and 70 miles from San Jose.
In the last 10 days, there have been three earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Mar 12, 2012
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TDOT Building Crossover Lane On I-75 In Campbell County
In order to assist travelers in Campbell County, the Tennessee Department of Transportation is constructing a crossover lane on Interstate 75. Last Friday, both lanes of I-75 South were closed following the collapse of a section of embankment near Mile Marker 144.
When the crossover is completed, one lane of southbound I-75 traffic will be shifted to one northbound lane. There will be two lanes for northbound traffic, and one lane for southbound traffic. This temporary traffic pattern will remain in place until repairs to the slide area can be completed.
The I-75 crossover lane is expected to be in place by Friday.
There is no timetable as to when I-75 South will re-open to normal traffic patterns.
Until the crossover lane is complete, two detour routes remain in place:
For travel and TDOT construction information, please visit the TDOT SmartWay web site at www.tn.gov/tdot/tdotsmartway, or call 511 from any landline or cellular phone. You can also receive traffic alerts via TDOT’s multiple Twitter feeds, including statewide traffic tweets. Smart phone users can use the TDOT SmartWay Mobile website athttp://m.tdot.tn.gov/SmartWay/ to access TDOT’s SmartWay cameras and information on construction-related lane closures and incidents on interstates and state routes.
Mar 13, 2012
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Giant sinkhole disrupts traffic on Idylwyld in Saskatoon
A giant sinkhole on Idylwyld Drive is creating major traffic problems for Saskatoon motorists.
The sinkhole appeared during the morning commute on Monday.
According to city workers, the sinkhole could get bigger and the worse-case scenario is the sinkhole could grow to the southbound lanes.
The size of the sinkhole is deceiving with city workers saying it is almost 20 feet in diameter underneath the opening on the street.
A water valve has been shut off to stop the underground flow of water.
Idylwyld Drive is currently closed between 39th Street and Circle Drive and will remain closed until repairs are completed.
There is no word on how long it will take city crews to repair the sinkhole
Mar 13, 2012
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Cleveland Volcano Explodes For Third Time
Cleveland Volcano has exploded for the third time in just over a week. The latest eruption of the Aleutian volcano Tuesday afternoon was relatively small, according to a release from the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
Scientists at the Observatory weren’t able detect an ash cloud associated with this event or either of the other two. There’s no real-time monitoring equipment on Cleveland.
None of the recent eruptions have interrupted air travel in the region.
Cleveland’s last major eruption in 2001 sent ash clouds as high as 39,000 feet. The volcano is on uninhabited Island, about 160 miles west of Unalaska.
Mar 15, 2012
Kyle Rieth
I found this interesting article about a Minneapolis bridge that is 4 years old and having problems. Possibly related to the earth changes. Below is the link:
http://midwest.construction.com/midwest_construction_news/2012/0309...
Mar 15, 2012
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Collingwood homes in danger after mudslide
A mudslide in Collingwood, Ont. means up to a dozen homeowners have been told to evacuate on Thursday, March 15, 2012
COLLINGWOOD, Ont. — Up to a dozen homeowners in Craigleith have been told they should leave their homes after a mudslide in the Collingwood area.
Ontario Provincial Police Const. Martin Hachey says the mudslide began Wednesday night, then seemed to stop.
But, he says, it was on the move again by Thursday night.
He says the evacuation may become mandatory if heavy rain hits the area.
A few homes on Arrow Head Crescent were already evacuated Wednesday when the hillside gave way near the Alpine Private Ski club.
Provincial police have also closed two roadways
Mar 16, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.0 quake strikes near Cobb
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday afternoon two miles from Cobb, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:21 p.m.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was three miles from The Geysers, six miles from Anderson Springs, 27 miles from Santa Rosa and 72 miles from Sacramento.
In the last 10 days, there have been two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby
Mar 18, 2012
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White House Preps Legal Landscape for Managing National Emergencies...
This new Executive Order complements,supports and goes beyond Executive Order 13575("rural council" E.O.). Together, these two Executive Orders clearly set the stage for the White House to manage the upcoming national emergencies in the United States. Notice that it was released on a Friday, March 16, 2012, to avoid media scrutiny. Here below are a few selected content tidbits with my highlights to wet your appetite. [Source:http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-ord...] - Regards, Verdad
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The White House
EXECUTIVE ORDER - NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS
PART I - PURPOSE, POLICY, AND IMPLEMENTATION
Sec. 102. Policy. The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency.
Sec. 103:
(b) assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel;
(d) (1) analyze potential effects of national emergencies on actual production capability, taking into account the entire production system, including shortages of resources . . .
PART III - EXPANSION OF PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AND SUPPLY
Sec. 302. Loans. To reduce current or projected shortfalls of resources, critical technology items, or materials essential for the national defense, the head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense is delegated the authority of the President under section 302 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2092, to make loans thereunder.
(b) Materials acquired under section 303 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093, that exceed the needs of the programs under the Act may be transferred to the National Defense Stockpile, if, in the judgment of the Secretary of Defense as the National Defense Stockpile Manager, such transfers are in the public interest.
. . . ad nauseum, Ning viewers, please read the rest for yourself . . .
Mar 18, 2012
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250 Record Highs Set Wednesday, More to Come Today
Hundreds of record high temperatures were set across the U.S. on Wednesday, as the heat continues through the weekend. Temperatures are running 20-30 degrees above average in the north central states.
http://www.wunderground.com/climate/extremes.asp?lat=40.38003&l...
Mar 18, 2012
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Light earthquake hits parts of Western Washington Sunday morning
A small earthquake hit parts of Western Washington early Sunday, affecting residents in Olympia, Elma, Hoquiam, Chehalis and Raymond.
According to the United States Geological Survey earthquake monitoring office, the quake measured 3.3 on the Richter scale.
It occurred at 11:48 a.m. about 22 miles southeast of Aberdeen and 23.8 miles west of Centralia, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. It was as deep as 26 miles.
Mar 19, 2012
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Mysterious Blasts in Clintonville
CLINTONVILLE--There's a mystery in Clintonville. Verda Schultz wants to solve it.
"It sounded like somebody was dropping bombs," Schultz said. "The house vibrated, the windows rattled, and it even shook the bed."
It came from down below.
"That big bang," Dennis Padia said, who heard it too. "Everybody was scared last night, even my neighbors. They came running out the house. They packed up and left."
Around 9:30 Sunday night neighbors heard the strange sound, the ground then shook. Hours later, 911 was hit with dozens of calls.
"It's continuing to be a mystery, but our question will be as the temperatures drop if anything changes again," Clintonville City Administrator Lisa Kuss said.
The city is working with an engineering firm to monitor it. At this point, they only know what it can't be.
"What we know from geologists down at UW-Madison this is not consistent with earthquake activity that happens one-mile below the earth's surface or more," Kuss said.
They're also ruling out gas explosions.
"I hope everybody can figure this out real soon before a lot of people end up packing their houses up for sale," Schultz said.
The city will continue to monitor it, but say there's a huge chance the mystery may never get solved
Mar 20, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.8 quake strikes near Hawthorne, Nev
A shallow magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported Monday evening eight miles from Hawthorne, Nev., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 7:17 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 7.5 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 12 miles from Qualeys Camp, Nev., 18 miles from Wichman, Nev. and 150 miles from Sacramento.
In the past 10 days, there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Mar 20, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Seeley
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Monday morning eight miles from Seeley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:19 a.m. PDT at a depth of 1.2 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 13 miles from El Centro, 13 miles from Heber and 75 miles from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
In the past 10 days, there have been four earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Mar 20, 2012
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Buoys 21401 (Kuril Islands), 43413 and 46419 in event mode - M7.9 G...
Mar 21, 2012
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Comment by Howard 11 hours ago
Unexplained Booms Continue for a Second Night in Clintonville
The unexplained booms, rattling, and shaking was felt for a second night in a row in Clintonville. Loud booms shook the city early Tuesday morning, and were reportedly more widespread. Residents say they're still wondering and worrying.
The unexplained noises, like underground explosions, and the tremors began early Monday morning around 1:45 and tapered off nearly 12 hours later.
Although much weaker than what was felt earlier in the day, the trembling began again around 8:30 and 10:00 in the same northeast corner of the city where more than 150 reports of shaking came in earlier. Police say more reports then came in early Tuesday morning, at about 12:20, 1:20, 2:20 and 5:10-- and were no longer limited to the northeast part of town.
Dispatchers say some were quite loud, and were even heard at the police station, southwest of the center of town.
Public service crews and police have been monitoring the area, checking on residents who've been congregating in the streets to talk about what they're experiencing.
People say they're afraid the shaking will get worse.
"I'm not liking this. I'm going to want to leave. Basically, I don't want to stay here because you just don't know. It's scary, very scary," Cindy Miller said.
So far the city has ruled out gas lines, water mains, and an earthquake as possible reasons for the shaking. It's been in contact with geologists and the military.
The city does believe it's something geological.
"I would say it certainly leads us to believe it is some sort of a geological thing. If the earth's temperature changes, does that mean something different? It certainly could be," City Administrator Lisa Kuss opined.
The city continues to monitor the area.
People who live in the area are advised if they feel anything, or notice any changes to the landscape on their property, to call the police non-emergency number to report it.
Mar 21, 2012
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Comment by Howard 9 hours ago
Unexplained Tremors Continue on Vancouver Island, BC
A barn on the 4000-block of Otter Point Road collapsed after a series of unexplained tremors rumbled through the region on Thursday, March 15.
Barrie Hanslip, owner of the 35-acre property where the barn was located, said the steepled barn tumbled downward after a large “boom” and rumble at 11:30 a.m. The large tremor was preceded by two smaller shakes around 9:00 a.m.
Hanslip wasn’t home at the time of the collapse, but her niece, Sandra Richardson, said two seconds after the large third rumble, she heard a creak and the barn collapsed.
“I thought my aunt was underneath it and was screaming for her, but I ran up to the barn and saw her car was gone,” Richardson said.
Richardson, whose residence is located adjacent to the dilapidated barn, said the earthquake-like rumbles shook the stove pipe in her home.
Hanslip said although the barn was 50 years old, it would’ve stood erect if left undisturbed.
“It’s fairly old. It was due to come down, but it certainly wouldn’t have fallen down on its own. It was well-braced,” she said.
Alison Bird, seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, said there were no earthquakes in the region during that time, adding there were calls from other residents who reported shaking.
Sooke fire chief Steve Sorensen also said the fire department received an onslaught of calls, but did not have further information.
Both Richardson and Hanslip said the tremors have been a regular occurrence in the past few weeks.
Concerned residents have been commenting on the unknown tremors on the Discover Sooke Facebook page since January 2012. According to resident reports, previous rumbles were felt around Saseenos, East Sooke, Whiffin Spit and Otter Point.
Mar 21, 2012
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Quake causes collapse in bridge, homes in Mexico
At least one footbridge collapsed and several homes were destroyed in the massive quake Tuesday in southern Mexico, authorities said, dpa reported.
A Mexico City pedestrian bridge collapsed onto an empty vehicle.
Guerrero Governor Angel Aguirre said several homes and walls collapsed in his state, particularly in the municipalities of Huajintepec and Paso del Cuaulote.
"Fortunately, the report we have so far is that there are no deaths," Aguirre told Mexican media.
He said authorities were flying over the area to assess damage.
"It was a very big scare, but luckily we have no reports of major damage," Mexican President Felipe Calderon said.
The US Geological Survey's revised estimate put the quake's strength at magnitude 7.4, with the epicentre in Oaxaca state.
Mexico's National Seismological Service put the magnitude at 7.8 and located the epicentre south of Ometepec, a city of 50,000 in the state of Guerrero, about 190 kilometres from the Pacific resort of Acapulc
Mar 21, 2012
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Building partially collapses at Main and Nichols in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- An unoccupied building in the Grant Beach neighborhood partially collapsed Wednesday morning after its roof caved in. Police shut off streets surrounding the intersection of North Main Avenue at West Nichols Street, where debris from the building fell across the roads.
Neighbors say the building was more than 100 years old and most recently was used as a storage facility of sorts. The two-story structure was scheduled to be torn down soon.
The building was known to many in the area as the old "Costume Shop." It also housed Cotter's pharmacy in the 1950s
Mar 22, 2012
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60 buildings collapse in Mexican quake
MEXICO CITY - A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit southern Mexico on Tuesday, damaging some 800 homes near the epicenter and swaying tall buildings and spreading fear and panic hundreds of miles away in the capital of Mexico City.
One of the strongest to shake Mexico since the deadly 1985 temblor that killed thousands in Mexico City, Tuesday's earthquake hit hardest in border area of southern Oaxaca and Guerrero states, where Guerrero official confirmed that some 800 homes had been damaged, with another 60 having collapsed.
Hours after the shaking at noon local time (18:06 GMT), there were still no reports of death or serious injury, even after a less powerful, magnitude-5.1 aftershock was felt in the capital and several other aftershocks near the epicenter in a mountainous rural region.
"It was very strong, very substantial," said Campos Benitez, hospital director in Ometepec, about 15 miles (25 kilometres) from the epicenter.
Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre, who is from Ometepec, was headed there to survey the damage and ordered emergency crews and civil protection to the area to help with the damage. The state did not say how many were displaced.
In Mexico City, frightened workers and residents poured into the streets of the capital. Telephone service was down in the city and throughout the area where the quake was felt and some neighbourhoods were without power, according to Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, who set up a hotline for people to report damage.
A pedestrian bridge collapsed on an empty transit bus.
About 40 passengers were stranded for a short time on the Mexico City airport air train, but later released. The airport closed for a time but officials said there was no runway damage and they resumed operations.
Samantha Rodriguez, a 37-year old environmental consultant, was evacuated from the 11th floor on the Angel Tower office building.
"I thought it was going to pass rapidly but the walls began to thunder and we decided to get out," she said.
Mexico City, built on a lakebed, was badly damaged in 1985 when an 8.0 earthquake killed at least 10,000 people. In past years, Guerrero has suffered several severe earthquakes, including a 7.9 in 1957 which killed an estimated 68 people, and a 7.4 in 1995 which left three dead.
Tuesday's quake was the strongest shaking felt in the capital since a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck also in Guerrero in December. Officials said at least three people died in Guerrero, but there were no reports of widespread damage.
A magnitude-8.0 quake near Manzanillo on Mexico's central Pacific coast killed 51 people in 1995 and a magintude-7.5 quake killed at least 20 people in the southern state of Oaxaca in 1999
Mar 22, 2012
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Video: Moment of Mexico 7.4 earthquake caught on camera
Mar 22, 2012
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Mysterious Sounds And Rumble Now Being Reported In Montello, 80 Miles South of Clintonville
What began as mysterious booming noises in Clintonville, Wisconsin in the early morning hours of March 19th is now also being reported 80 miles to the south in the town of Montello. And just to the east of Montello in Fond du Lac, a strange "milky white substance with a sulfur smell" has suddenly appeared near the Fond du Lac River. Fond du Lac is located at the southern end of Lake Winnebago, just below the "rip point" of Green Bay.
Mar 22, 2012
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Giant boulder as large as a house lands on a house in Ohio.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/bestoftv/2012/03/21/nr-b...
A large boulder breaks free from a hillside in Athens, Ohio, hitting two vehicles and crashing into a house.
Mar 22, 2012
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Kuril Islands, Oaxaca Swarm and North American Bow
http://earthquaketrack.com/recent
Then follow the Cocos Plate south until it meets with the Nazca Plate, which intersects with the Caribbean Plate at the Colombian coastline. The Nazca Plate runs south along Ecuador and Colombia, while the Caribbean Plate travels north along the Colombian and Venezuelan coastlines.
Mar 22, 2012
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Comment by Howard 6 hours ago
Large Sinkhole Growing in Pennsylvania (March 19) -
Sinkhole Closes Road in Calgary (March 21) -

Sinkhole Develops in Downtown Columbia (March 21)
Mar 22, 2012
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Mystery Booms Continue for 3rd Night in Clintonville, Wisconsin
Mar 22, 2012
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Landslide occurs in river behind Caltrans
A landslide occurred on Tuesday, March 20 on the South Fork of the Eel River sometime between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. just to the north of what used to be the summer bridge (Carl Carter Bridge) and the Caltrans maintenance yard.
The slide was around 120 feet wide and 500-600 feet long and was about halfway across the river. There are trees, rocks, and debris in the muddy mess of redwood and fir trees. The slide did not appear to be moving as of Wednesday morning, but with more rain on the way the debris could potentially be washed downriver causing problems at area bridges.
Property owner, Liz Ziganti, said she didn't find out about it until she received a phone call from her brother, John Hull, who saw it from the bridge on his way home.
Mar 22, 2012
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Sinkhole Swallowing Property at Local Condominium Complex
Several Bryan residents say they're concerned about a growing problem where they live.
A giant sinkhole is swallowing property at a Bryan condominium complex off of East 29th street.
Residents claim the Home Owner's Association isn't doing anything to fix it.
It started off small...but continues expanding...and growing...out of control.
Greenfield Square Condominium resident, Kay Smith, said, "Between rain, and then it dries out and another chunk will fall in, so it just keeps opening up more, more, more."
"...Oh my Lord," exclaimed Shirley Wingfield, another resident. "Woah girl! If anybody fell in that, you wouldn't see them again."
It's nine feet across and about eight feet deep.
Believe it or not, this is the same sink hole from earlier at the Greenfield Square Condominiums in Bryan.
You can see it backs up to this residence and their air conditioning unit is about to fall in.
Kay asked, "And what happens once it takes the a/c? Is that going to cause an explosion, with the electrical lines?"
Kay Smith is frustrated and says her home owners association isn't doing anything to correct the growing problem.
"If you've got a serious problem going on in your unit, it takes at least six months before they actually address it," Smith said.
Kay has been bringing this issue up to the HOA since January of last year.
She's gone to the city for temporary help, but the makeshift fence and metal plate are also starting to give way.
Smith added, "This is a common area, so the damages occurring here, they're affecting all the homeowners' property values."
In the HOA by-laws it states the board is responsible for care and upkeep of areas like this.
We haven't received a response yet.
"This one is opening up. It's going to turn into that, if they don't do something," Smith said.
These residents say there's a lot that needs fixing, but this super-sized sink hole needs to be first, before it's too late.
The residents we spoke with say they purchased own their condo's so moving is not an option for them right now.
KBTX has received word from the HOA president, who says the city of Bryan is handling the matter. In the meantime, we will continue to investigate the claims.
Mar 22, 2012
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White House Preps MORE Legal Landscape for Managing National Emerge...
SOZT
It is no coincidence that Obama’s new Executive Order revoking FEMA’s authorities (in place since 1994) was published almost at the same instant with FEMA’s new announcement of a volunteer civilian work force similar to the Peace Corps. Obama is clearly anticipating disasters within the US, but beyond this he seems to be anticipating mischief during a disaster where his authority might be challenged, legally. In 1994 Clinton gave FEMA a primarily role during disasters. In that this 1994 Executive Order was left standing as a precedent during the Bush administration, all that would be required during the Obama administration would be a disaster sufficient to have Obama blurt out the words “national emergency” for it to take effect.
Certainly, the pending New Madrid adjustment, as described by ourselves, would find US officials rattled and prone to such spontaneous statements.
By clarifying the chain of command during emergencies, Obama has ensured that he is not supplanted. Thus, an essential martial law with FEMA in charge is not legally possible. Obama’s new 2012 order also removed from authority something George Herbert Bush inserted in 1988, giving the DOD authority within the US in civilian matters during an emergency. It is no secret that there are elements within the US - former politicians such as Dick Cheney and members of the Department of Defence - that would like to see martial law declared as soon as possible within the US. The wording of Clinton’s 1994 order would allow them to effect a coup, a matter not lost on Obama.
Why did Clinton give FEMA such a dominant role, in 1994? As might be inferred from all the rumors about Bill Clinton - his love life and financial self-dealing – he had many matters in his past that could be used for blackmail. The impeachment proceedings over the Monica Lewinsky affair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky
is an example of the potential. Clinton deferred to those wanting to establish martial law, concluding at that time that the US was far from any situation that might constitute a true national emergency. That he then put those very words into Executive Orders in the fall of 1994 shows the pressure this group was imposing upon him. They have festered every since. This same group was very much at the helm in getting George W Bush elected
http://www.zetatalk.com/govmt/g120.htm
in 2000.
EOZT
Mar 23, 2012
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Two die of injuries suffered in Mexico quake
Two people caught in this week's big earthquake died today, the first deaths reported from the 7.4-magnitude temblor that damaged hundreds of homes in southern Mexico and caused panic far off in the national capital.
Mar 24, 2012
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Reply by Nancy Lieder 22 hours ago
Can the Zetas explain why events that seem to be earthquakes - tremors, booms, buildings collapsing; i.e. obvious earth movements - are never confirmed by anyone official as earthquakes? Is it merely that these events are too small to register on instruments? I had always heard that instruments were made to be extremely sensitive in an effort to predict earthquakes. Is it the definition of what an earthquake is? Or is it just denial as part of the cover-up? I don't recall reading about this in the Zeta's information about what is occurring and why. The question is prompted by recent events in the little town in Wisconsin.
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Mysterious booms baffle officials in eastern Wis.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5igpg9lCPXoXY3Mgq_...
A series of mysterious underground booms have been rattling a small eastern Wisconsin city for at least two nights, baffling residents and local officials who were left stumped after ruling out numerous theories, from earthquakes to water pressure problems. Authorities trying to track down the source found no gas in the sewers or problems with the city water pressure or wells, and nothing was found at an area landfill that might explain the rumbling.
SOZT
Stretch zone incidents - where rock pulls apart or snaps, creating booms and vibrations and hums, dropping bridges that lose their moorings or snapping gas and water mains, or creating sinkholes or crevasses - are NOT considered earthquake incidents. Quakes occur when rock borders slide along each other or push under one another, creating a jolt or a series of jolts. Stretch zone accidents only happen when major plate movement is occurring, and are usually silent so do not get the attention that jolting earthquakes get. A bridge slips off its mooring and is attributed to heavy trucks or poor construction. A sinkhole appears and is attributed to ground water erosions. A building implodes and is attributed to settling, even though the building may have been there for centuries.
With the increase in incidents in stretch zones, and the moaning and humming and booming coming from the ground, the establishment is left in a dilemma. Scientists are chastised and forbidden from mentioning the Earth wobble and presence of Planet X, so how to explain the incidents? Just as NASA falls silent when Planet X and its Moon Swirls show up on SOHO images, and just as the USGS has recently run from responsibility for earthquake data collection, silence is the only avenue open to them. Wisconsin is in the stretch zone due to the spreading St. Lawrence Seaway. Its landscape gives evidence of this stretch in the past, with numerous lakes along the route from Green Bay to Madison. Clintonville is pulling apart!
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Mar 25, 2012
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Magnitude 7.2 quake hits central Chile
A major earthquake has hit central Chile, shaking buildings in the capital of Santiago and prompting residents to run out of their houses, although there were no initial reports of injuries or serious damage.
Locals fled their homes as the tremor rattled television sets, kitchen cabinets and tables in Santiago, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
The magnitude 7.2 quake struck 103 km west north west of the town of Talca at a depth of 10 km, the US Geological Survey said.
Government emergency agency ONEMI initially ordered evacuations of some coastal areas as a precaution, but later revoked the decision. The quake was not expected to generate a tsunami off the coast, it added.
Chilean state copper giant Codelco said after the quake that operations were normal at its Andina mine and its El Teniente deposit, which is located nearer the epicenter. Together, the two mines produce about 635,000 tonnes of copper annually.
The country's top oil refinery, Bio Bio, also said operations were normal after the tremor.
The latest earthquake hit near the same central region that was struck by a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake in 2010 and sparked tsunamis that killed about 500 people.
The quake caused roughly US$8 billion in insured losses and economic losses of at least twice that.
The central area is home to some important copper mines, but the bulk of output in the world's top copper exporting nation is concentrated in the far north.
Quakes of magnitude 7.0 or above are capable of causing major damage.
In the last two years earthquakes have been a scourge of the insurance industry. In addition to Chile, 2011 quakes in Japan and New Zealand caused record-breaking losses in the tens of billions of dollars.
More recently, a major earthquake in Mexico caused limited losses, disaster modelling agencies said, given that it happened well away from major population centres.
Mar 26, 2012
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‘Widely felt’ earthquake rattles Hawaiian Islands
HILO (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 rattled a wide area of Hawaii on Saturday but caused no significant damage or injuries, officials said.
The quake was "widely felt" throughout the islands, said Dale Grant, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. The agency's website received more than 600 responses on its "Did You Feel It?" link within an hour after the tremor.
Among those responses were more than 40 Maui residents who reported feeling the quake in Kahului, Wailuku, Kihei, Makawao, Paia, Kula and Hana.
The quake hit a little before 11:00 a.m., less than a mile from the tiny community of Honomu, about 10 miles northwest of Hilo, the USGS reported.
People as far away as Honolulu, about 200 miles to the northwest, reported feeling the quake. A dispatcher at the Hawaii Police Department said authorities received a "couple of calls" about the shake but did not get any requests for officers to respond.
Earthquakes are common in the area, according to the USGS, which added that none of the recent quakes has had any noticeable impact on the continuing eruption of Kilauea Volcano.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a statement saying no tsunami was expected to be generated from the earthquake
Mar 26, 2012
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http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH...
Thousands of dead adult gizzard shad have washed ashore in Millers Bay in Oshkosh and other area waters. Ron Bruch, fisheries supervisor for the state Department of Natural Resources in Oshkosh, said the fish die-off, which is natural in winter, also was reported along the shores of Lake Winnebago and Little Lake Butte des Morts. "Normally, the die-off consists mainly of small gizzard shad, but the hatch in 2010 was so big and we had good survival of the shad to larger adult size, which resulted in the die-off of bigger shad and ended up making a rotting mess on the shoreline when they wash in," Bruch said. DNR personnel, he said, have attempted to collect some fresh dead or dying shad to have them tested for fish diseases. However, the gizzard shad that washed up on the shorelines of Lake Winnebago and Little Lake Butte des Morts had been dead too long to get a sample.
Mar 27, 2012