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
Reply by Nancy Lieder on Saturday
There was a massive earthquake - magnitude of 8.9 has struck under the sea off Indonesia's northern Aceh province and it has triggered an Indian ocean wide tsunami alert. Would zetas like to comment on this and it's general effect on the 7 / 10 scenarios?
http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/large-aceh-quake-triggers-...
SOZT
Several facts quickly became obvious after the magnitude 8.9 quake on April 11, 2012 off the coast of Sumatra. First, the tsunami experienced on December 26, 2004 did not repeat. In 2004 the plate holding India lifted, thus displacing a massive amount of water in all directions, and thus the tsunami and high death count. In 2012 the plates slide along each other, with at most a temporary void along the plate borders near Tasmania and Australia causing buoy 55015 to show an amazing temporary drop of 65 meters (195 feet). This did not result in a tsunami because the water merely roiled in the void and then found its level, and did not travel to the side to disburse.
The second fact emerged by the next day, on the IRIS charts. The West Coast of the US had numerous substantial quakes, a continuing adjustment following the magnitude 7.9 near Acapulco, but clearly more than this was involved. The plates WORLDWIDE were adjusting. Look at the buoy chart. Buoys on alert are doing more than outlining the Sunda Plate. They are outlining the folding Mariana Plate, and the rising eastern edge of the plate holding Australia. The quakes on the IRIS chart show quakes on either side of Africa also, as that plate adjusted. But the big surprise was the amount of adjustment in the northern Pacific, between the West Coast of the US and Mexico and on the opposite side of the Pacific, Japan and the folding Mariana Plate.
What occurred during the Sumatra quake was a shifting to the west of the plate holding India. This does indeed relate to the crack occurring just days before along the suspension bridge up in the Himalayas along the Thailand/India border. Africa had been edging to the west also, as the Atlantic spread, and this allowed the plate holding India to make this move. During this adjustment, any snags holding the folding Mariana Plate back were eased, and both the Mariana and Philippine plates gave in to the pressure from the Pacific. This allowed the southern part of the N American bow to shift further west also.
Did we not predict that the spreading Atlantic would allow a dropping and twisting Africa to fall into the increasing VOID in the Atlantic Ocean? Did we not predict that Mariana and Philippine plates would tilt and fold during the 7 of 10 scenarios? Why else are the buoys in that region on alert, so far from the slip-slide to the west of Sumatra? Did we not predict that the N American continent would tighten into a bow as the 7 of 10 plate adjustments proceeded? Here we have the entire West Coast from Vancouver to Acapulco suddenly having significant quakes. We stated the plates had been loosened, and were on the move. Our 7 of 10 predictions have become a FACT.
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Apr 17, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.5 quake strikes near Shafter
A shallow magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Monday afternoon four miles from Shafter, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 5:12 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 14.9 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was eight miles from Buttonwillow, eight miles from Wasco, 18 miles from Bakersfield and 116 miles from Los Angeles Civic Center.
In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Apr 17, 2012
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3.9 earthquake, aftershocks recorded near Sparks
Similar to an overnight quake felt several months ago, a 3.9 earthquake recorded between Sparks and Prague awakened many residents about 3:12 a.m. Monday.
The quake had an epicenter five miles southeast of Sparks.
Lincoln County Emergency Manager Joey Wakefield said there were no reports of damage.
While the U.S. Geological Survey recorded the event as a 3.9-magnitude, the Oklahoma Geological Survey recorded the same event as a 4.0-magnitude, according to the OGS website.
The OGS recorded a quake preceding it at 2:20 a.m., with that one measuring 2.3, along with a 2.2 aftershock at 3:48 a.m.
There’s been some minor activity reported in the same general area in recent weeks, most of the quakes under 2.0 in the same area, the OGS reports, but a 3.0 and a 3.1-magnitude were recorded last week on April 12.
There’s been the occasional small quakes, but nothing like the three large quakes that hit last November with epicenters in Lincoln County.
Two were reported Nov. 5 — of them measuring a record-breaking 5.6-magnitude — and the other on Nov. 7. The quakes, with epicenters in the Prague, Sparks and Meeker areas, caused damage to more than 200 homes, most in Lincoln County, and toppled some of the turrets on the historic Benedictine Hall at St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee.
Apr 17, 2012
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Mexico volcano spews glowing rock, tower of ash
Apr 21, 2012
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Scientists continue to investigate dolphin deaths off Peru
Scientists and Peruvian officials are investigating a mass die-off of
hundreds of dolphins along the South American country's coast.
A total of 877 dolphin carcasses have been counted recently along the shore in the northern regions of Piura and Lambayeque, Deputy Environment Minister Gabriel Quijandria said.
Officials have been studying possible factors in the dolphins' deaths including a virus or seismic oil exploration that has recently been carried out off northern Peru.
An analysis of the beached dolphins' internal organs hasn't found the sort of symptoms that experts have seen in other cases when dolphins have been affected by seismic tests, Mr Quijandria said in a radio interview.
He said experts are studying whether the animals could have succumbed to a virus.
"So far, it's the most probable hypothesis, and it isn't the first time it's happened. There have been cases in Peru, in Mexico, the United States," Mr Quijandria said.
He said the seismic tests produce underwater noise that can harm dolphins. But he also said that in Peru it is the first time such dolphin deaths have coincided with seismic work and that the dolphins began dying before the tests started.
Carlos Yaipen, who leads the non-governmental organisation Orca, said the beached dolphins began appearing in January.
Dolphins have had broken bones in their ears and some of their organs have been collapsed, suggesting that shock waves generated by the seismic tests could have killed them, Mr Yaipen said.
However, Patricia Majluf, the government's deputy fisheries minister, said that based on the available evidence officials have not been able to pin down any relationship to oil exploration.
Government officials have said scientists are carrying out further studies that they expect to finish in about two weeks
Apr 21, 2012
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More large quakes strike Mexico
Published: 11:02AM Thursday April 12, 2012 Source: Reuters
Two large earthquakes have struck western Mexico tonight, shaking buildings as far away as the capital and sending people rushing out of offices onto the streets, the US Geological Survey said.
There were no reports of major damage after the first of the two tremors.
The first magnitude 6.2 quake struck off Baja California at 7.06pm (NZT). It was quickly followed by a 6.9 quake at a similar location at 7.15pm. Both were 10km deep.
Find a map showing the location of the quakes here.
The USGS earlier estimated the strength of the second quake at 7.1 magnitude and said it was deeper.
The quakes follow a magnitude 6.5 quake at 10.55am in the western state of Michoacan. It was recorded at a depth of 20km.
Mexico has now been hit with four earthquakes in less than a month. A 7.4 magnitude quake struck on March 20, damaging hundreds of buildings in the southwest. That was followed by dozens of aftershocks.
Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said on his Twitter account there were no initial signs of serious damage and that key services in the capital, including its subway system and the international airport, were operating normally.
"There was a nasty crunching sound in my bathroom and everything moved," said Adela Arceo, who was looking after two young children in the central Roma neighbourhood of Mexico City.
There were no initial reports of casualties.
Emergency services in Michoacan and in the neighbouring state of Guerrero, which has been hit by a series of recent quakes, reported no major problems.
"You could feel it, but there's no major damage. There are no reports, no emergency calls," said Agustin Lule, a spokesman for fire services in Uruapan, a town in Michoacan near the epicentre of the quake.
Reuters reporters in coastal areas of Guerrero and neighbouring Oaxaca state said there was no damage.
The Honolulu-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said it had not issued a tsunami warning, but staff oceanographer David Walsh noted the quake was close to water, big enough and potentially deep enough to cause one.
Last night, an 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia, raising fears of a huge tsunami like the one that battered the Indian Ocean rim in 2004, but authorities said there were no reports suggesting a major threat.
Aftershocks continue to hit the Indian Ocean following the quake
Apr 21, 2012
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Giant Sink Hole opened up in Delhi Oklahoma (Westrn Oklahoma)
Apr 21, 2012
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Unusual geological event – North-America – Canada
EDIS Number: UGE-20120418-34934-CAN
Date / time: 18/04/2012 06:30:07 [UTC]
“You’ll be out and about and people will say, ‘Did you feel the one last night, or did you feel the one this morning? Some people will say yes, others might say no. It really depends on what you are doing.’ “If you are quiet at home and there is not a lot of noise you are probably going to feel or hear it. But if you are banging around, or if the grandkids are banging around, you sometimes won’t know if it’s the kids — or if it was an earthquake — they are about the same magnitude, I guess.” Residents were initially rattled awake at 1:40 a.m. on March 10 by a 2.4-magnitude earthquake that was followed three minutes later by a 1.4-magnitude aftershock. People described hearing what sounded like an explosion. Pictures fell off walls. Window panes rattled. Floorboards creaked and groaned. Some houses even shook, while locals, initially, felt a surge of panic that eased, somewhat, by morning with the realization that a bomb had not gone off but a small earthquake had. Three days later: two more earthquakes. And in the five weeks since there have been 35 additional shakes, a steady tide of minor tremours that is a popular topic of conversation among villagers and a seismic anomaly that scientists can’t entirely explain.
“What is happening in McAdam is something called an earthquake swarm,” says Stephen Halchuk, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada. “It is a series of earthquakes, which is rare. But what is particularly unusual about what is happening in McAdam is that it is basically happening directly beneath the village — and at a depth of less than one kilometre. “When these earthquake swarms occur they are typically in a remote area where nobody feels them.” Mr. Halchuk can’t say how long the earthquakes will continue for, or if a big one, capable of causing serious property damage and endangering lives, could be lurking among all the little ones. “We can never say never,” he says. “I wouldn’t rule out a very large event occurring but, typically, in situations like this, the magnitude of the earthquakes is modest and doesn’t increase.” Researchers from the University of New Brunswick addressed community members at an atypical town hall meeting Monday night, answering questions and assuaging lingering fears. One working theory they have to explain the quakes is an early spring thaw. A rapid change in groundwater levels could, perhaps, be causing the underlying rocks to slip and stress, unleashing the multiple shocks.
Moody, Connecticut, is another tiny town with an earthquake problem, one dating back hundreds of years and which, today, is the basis of the local high school’s team name: The Noises. The noises in McAdam, meanwhile, have been described by the locals as a loud “bang,” a “boom,” “like dynamite being blown up,” and “a loud thud, like somebody falling out of bed.” Natural Resources and UNB have installed three seismographs in the village to monitor the situation and to flesh out their working hypotheses. One of the machines is in David Blair’s basement. “They are not paying me for it,” he says, laughing. “It’s just volunteer. The government doesn’t have any money except to pay its MPs and MLAs.”
Apr 21, 2012
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Dropped Quakes (NEW ZetaTalk)
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These were duly reported quakes because the seismographs recorded the signature of a quake. The N American continent is being pulled into a bow, as mining accidents across the midsection from Utah to West Virginia, sinkholes across the midsection from Tennessee to Pennsylvania, Seaway booms and hums from Ontario to Wisconsin and Michigan, and earthquakes from Acapulco to Seattle have shown. This process has accelerated, and as the booms in Wisconsin have shown, the ripping apart of the Seaway is a major focus. More than the land in the line of rip along the Seaway is involved.
So why would the northern swath of Canada suddenly have these dropped quakes? Note the swath of lakes just under the line drawn by the dropped quakes. From Lake Superior to Lake Winnipeg to the Great Slave lake to the Great Bear Lake these lakes are there because this land has been PULLED APART during prior Pole Shifts. The bowing of the N American continent is a regular feature of prior Pole Shifts. Before the Seaway spreads, this region of lakes is stretched, and drops in elevation. The region where the dropped quakes were recorded is stretched FIRST, and tearing rock recorded as earthquakes.
Why would the USGS and their cohorts so quickly drop these quakes? Such quakes have been dropped regularly over the past decade, especially since Planet X entered the inner solar system. If out in the ocean, or in a poorly populated area, just dropped. If hiding them cannot succeed dumbing them down to a lower magnitude or combining them into a single quake is done. This was a risky move, as there were SEVERAL quakes, already announced officially, but such risks will increasingly be taken as the quake frequency and severity increase. If challenged, it was just a mechanical problem with the equipment.
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Apr 21, 2012
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Magnitude 5.4 - CENTRAL PERU
162 km (100 miles) WNW of Juliaca, Peru
177 km (109 miles) N of Arequipa, Peru
679 km (421 miles) ESE of LIMA, Peru
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Apr 22, 2012
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M2.9 - Harrah, Oklahoma
A 2.9 magnitude earthquake shook central Oklahoma Saturday morning.
The quake occurred at 7:45 a.m., eighteen miles northwest of Shawnee, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Apr 22, 2012
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Magnitude 4.4 - VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION
207 km (128 miles) SW of Bella Bella, British Columbia, Canada
512 km (318 miles) WNW of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
536 km (333 miles) WNW of VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Apr 22, 2012
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Meteor shower does NOT create sonic boom in Sierra Nevada (NEW Zeta...
This morning at approximately 8am PST, there were many calls to emergency personnel and various law enforcement agencies throughout Northern California and the Sierra Nevada mountains in parts of Nevada including Reno and Lake Tahoe.
The initial reports were from residents hearing what sounded like a sonic-type of boom or explosion followed by shaking of the earth. Some witnesses said it definitely did not feel like an earthquake. According to the embedded video, some also observed what they believed to be a meteor or some type of bright light streak across the sky just prior to the sound and shaking.
It is now confirmed that authorities believe it was indeed a meteor that had struck somewhere in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Meteorologists say that this event coincided with the peak of the known Lyrid meteor shower according to a California news report. Another local report is from the Nevada perspective which includes updates and can be found here.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Hundreds of reports of sonic boom and shaking attributed to meteor ... http://www.examiner.com/article/hundreds-of-reports-of-sonic-boom-a...
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The Examiner also stated: "This event will undoubtedly raise more speculation as to the possible theories that have been circulating over the last few years regarding a possible approach ofComet Elenin or Planet X/Niburu coming into a close orbit to earth by the end of the year. If that scenario were to be true, it would certainly carry a large debris field of meteors with it. While it is factual that this approach only happens every 3600 years."
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Where it is tempting to assign large booms that rattle windows to a meteor shower, this is coincidental. Did such showers accompany the booms elsewhere around the world, in Wisconsin
http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue287.htm
or Costa Rico
http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue277.htm
or Belova?
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/18fe2012.htm
Frantic to dismiss the increasing evidence of plate and ground movement, the establishment blames fracking (which has never caused earthquakes) or sonic booms or underground mining explosions or meteor showers – whatever might be handy at the time. Booms accompanied by rattling windows are common, because both the ground and air participate.
If the California-Nevada booms were not caused by those tiny meteors zipping into – the Lyrid showers – then what happened? During the bowing of the N American continent, we have frequently pointed out that incidents of ground movement happen in a lateral line,
http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue251.htm
along a line drawn from West Coast to East Coast. This is because a bow being bent to the breaking point WILL break in the center. Analyze a map of the California-Nevada booms, with an eye on this lateral line and the rock strata that was snapping.
With the exception of populous Sacramento, which participated due to being central to the snapping rock drama, the booms where heard and felt in areas that were NOT salt lake beds. We have mentioned that salt lake beds will and have in the past resisted snapping. In Nevada the booms and rattling occurred to the north and west of Lake Lahontan and other sites known to be salt lake beds. In California the inland valley is basically a salt lake bed, formed during prior pole shifts when flooded by the Pacific and slow to drain. The authorities will of course lie about all of this.
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Apr 23, 2012
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3.9 Earthquake Shakes Dana Point and Laguna Niguel
Did you feel a strange sensation Monday morning? It wasn't your imagination. A magnitude-3.9 earthquake struck about one mile west of San Juan Capistrano, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake happened at 10:37 a.m. about two miles north-northeast of Dana Point and three miles south- southeast of Laguna Niguel.
Locally, Pauline Colvin, Council Liaison/Communications Officer at City Hallsaid, "Yes, the quake was felt at City Hall and everything appears to be fine at this time."
Crown Valley Elementary School Principal Tony Bogle said, "The Crown Valley community experienced a small earthquake at approximately 10:40 AM this morning. The quake was centered in the San Juan Capistrano area and measured 3.9. The students evacuated the buildings and the site was checked for damage. All is well and the students were released back to the classrooms."
George White Elementary students and staff are doing fine after this morning’s earthquake, according to another message sent to parents.
Laguna Niguel Elementary School Principal Ellen Fine added that the students are also back in the classrooms and there was no damage.
Resident Tracy Buck said, "Yes, I felt it. The house creaked, and our dog Roscoe howled. Fast reporting, Deb, as usual! Thanks."
We felt it but it was very short. Nothing swayed, no pictures, etc. moved."
Another reader who goes by BBQ said, "We felt it but it was very short. Nothing swayed, no pictures, etc. moved."
Added Roy Maitland, "Crown Valley Business Park building rolled and light fixtures swayed back and forth."
The quake was reportedly felt as far away as Glendale, Riverside and Temecula.
Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Marc Stone said there were no reports of damage, but firefighters were going through their usual protocol following an earthquake to ensure the temblor caused no other problems. Orange County sheriff's officials also said there were no immediate calls for service related to the earthquake.
Officials at Southern California Edison said the quake Orange County had no impact on the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station, which has been shut down since January for repair work.
Here is what the USGS has listed on its website:
I was standing in my kitchen, and thought it was thunder. Were you home? Did you feel it?
Apr 24, 2012
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Loud Boom Heard in Georgia
WJBF News Channel 6 has learned the source of a loud boom heard and felt in the Appling, Georgia area Monday night.
Columbia County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director Pam Tucker tells us…after research by a Savannah River Site (SRS) Seismologist on Tuesday, he has been able to confirm that a 2.1 magnitude earthquake occurred at 9:26 p.m. Monday night.
The earthquake was generally located near the intersection of the Appling-Harlem Highway and Columbia Road.
Because all of the seismologist’s stations are located to the Southeast, azimuthal coverage is not the best…which simply means that the location is not completely accurate. However, it is probably accurate within 1-2 miles.
The small tremor was not listed on the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) map due to its small size. This would explain the loud boom and shaking that many residents felt.”
Apr 25, 2012
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Large Sinkhole appears on Washington Fields Road
Apr 26, 2012
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Cherryville mudslide generates concerns
Cherryville's (British Columbia) elected representative wants to know why a hillside gave way near a home on Sugar Lake Road.
A torrent of earth and trees came down from Cherry Ridge Tuesday at about 7:30 a.m., 12 kilometres north of the community. Debris stopped just before reaching a home.
"It's definitely a concern for the people living there. It's pretty scary," said Eugene Foisy, the longtime Regional District of North Okanagan director for the area.
The Ministry of Forests and Tolko Industries — which has a cutblock in the vicinity — have been surveying the situation.
It hasn't been determined if logging played any role in the slide, but Foisy hopes a cause is determined so further incidents can be prevented.
"The ground is pretty unstable. There definitely has to be something done to stabilize the ground," he said
Apr 27, 2012
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Mudslide Closes SR 410 in Nile Valley
SR 410 Mudslide
A large mudslide sends a thousand tons of dirt and rock onto State Route 410 in the Nile Valley, closing the highway. Now the search is on for any motorists stranded by the mudslide.
Doug Williams sees the mud and rock covering State Route 410 near his business in the Nile Valley, and is in awe of the power of mother nature.
"This is just more of what, Mother Nature at work. She's hard to figure out and she never fails to amaze me," says Williams.
The Department of Transportation says it was notified around 9:30 this morning, by people who reported seeing the road blocked by the slide. The slide was not a surprise, the D.O.T. says a slide occurred at this same location last year.
"We have been watching this slide for the last few days with the heavy rain and stuff, but it came down today," says maintenance supervisor Chuck Laidler.
Yakima County Search and Rescue says the people who reported the slide are staying at a cabin nearby, and are not stranded.
"They're fine they don't have any particular needs, they're staying at a cabin, they can get out if they need to," says Wayne Frudd of Search and Rescue.
But today crews will comb the area with ATV's to see if there are people stranded by the slide.
"There could be people up there, there may not be, but we'd like to know for sure, see if they have any needs," says Frudd.
Authorities say it could be several days before the road is cleared to allow a car through the mud slide area. The D.O.T. could soon at least have one lane open, to give people access through the area.
"We should be able to get past this in a couple of days, next week and have the road open with flag people," says Laidler.
The D.O.T. says today's slide is not as bad as last year's mudslide in the same location. The mudslide area is 19 miles west of a landslide that wipe out State Route 410 three years
Apr 28, 2012
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Evacuation alert issued in B.C. Interior
Floods, sinkholes, avalanches and mudslides leave residents scrambling
B.C. homes swamped1:45
An evacuation alert has been issued for an area in B.C.'s Interior due to an immediate danger of a flash flood, local authorities say.
The order applies to residents in the area of Chute Lake, about 20 kilometres south of Kelowna.
The order — issued by the Regional Disrict of Okangan Similkameen — did not specify how many people lived in the area affected.
The threat was the latest in a torrent of weather-related natural disasters that have hit B.C.'s interior, forcing people from their homes, closing highways and stranding travellers.
A slow-moving frontal system brought significant rain to interior parts of the province causing substantial flooding, as well as unusual avalanche activity, sinkholes and mudslides.
In West Kelowna, B.C., residents along Hitchner Road have had their houses flooded for the second time in two days.
On Wednesday, water from McDougall creek spilled its banks, and flooded three homes, including Ondreia Robie's house. Crews were able to divert the water back into the creek and build up the banks overnight.
Then Thursday afternoon the creek burst through the dike a second time.
Robie said she and her partner, Doug Grant, had just finished pumping out two metres of water from their finished basement, when water started pouring in again.
"It's beyond frustrating. It's devastating. You think once, ok, and you come back and it's filling up again — another eight feet," said Robie Thursday night.
"You know, Doug has been here for almost 30 years. It's horrifying. He doesn't even know which way to look. I mean sleepless nights are going to be endless."
Trucks are now hauling large rocks and dirt to build a wall to divert the flood waters away from her home, and backhoes are building up the sides of the creek, said West Kelowna fire chief Kerry Klonteig.
"And the work now is to just basically keep the banks stabilized. Again to try and protect some of the infrastructure in the residential homes," said Klonteig.
Unusual spring avalanches strand travellers
The Canadian Avalanche Centre is warning people to be wary of large avalanches in parts of the Purcells and Kootenary-Boundary regions not known for slides.
"In some cases, these slides have been rated size four or larger and are creating new (or at least new to us) avalanche paths by cleaning out many hectares of mature timber," warned Karl Klassen, public avalanche warning service manager.
"There are several cases where people have been trapped when they drive up a dry road in the morning then come back in the afternoon to find tens of metres and thousands of tonnes of snow covering the road," wrote Klassen on Thursday.
"In one place the slide ran across the valley bottom where it hit the road on the other side after climbing uphill. This one was completely covered with trees, making the snow almost invisible underneath."
Flooding and sinkholes close highways
Traffic is flowing again between Burns Lake and Houston, after a sinkhole two kilometres east of Topley, B.C., forced the closure of Highway 16 in both directions.
MAJOR FLOODINGA map of Canada's biggest floods in the last decade
A mudslide just east of Salmon Arm, B.C., late Thursday, forced the closure of Highway 1 in both directions overnight, and pulled a tree down over power in the area, knocking out electricity to 368 homes. The highway has since been reopened and power restored.
In the Kootenays, highways have been reopened after summer melt and rain caused mudslides between Nelson and Salmo on Highway 6 and Highway 31, north of Trout Lake. Highway 3 was washed away east of Castlegar at the Bombi summit, but reopened Friday morning.
Apr 28, 2012
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Small earthquake shivers off northwestern tip of Vancouver Island
VANCOUVER— The Canadian Press
Published Friday, Apr. 27, 2012 11:11AM EDT
A region off the northwestern tip of Vancouver Island has been rattled by a minor earthquake.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude 4.4 quake occurred this morning at 5:52 a.m.
It was centred in the Pacific Ocean, 161 kilometres west of Port Hardy, B.C.
The region, along a major fault line and 10 kilometres below the surface, is prone to quakes.
A tremor measuring 5.7 was recorded in the same area earlier this year.
Experts say it's unlikely the latest earthquake was strong enough to cause damage or be felt on Vancouver Island.
Apr 28, 2012
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Magnitude 4.1 earthquake rocks the Inland Empire
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck the Inland Empire at 8:07 a.m. today, with an epicenter near the San Andreas Fault near Devore.
Slight damage was reported by homeowners in Rancho Cucamonga, just west
of the epicenter. One viewer told KCAL-TV in Los Angeles that he was jolted out
of bed.
A 2.0 aftershock hit about a half mile away about two minutes after the
biggest shake, at 8:09, according to preliminary reports from automated USGS sensors. A 1.8 shock followed at 8:14.
The epicenter of the largest quake was two miles northwest of Devore, in the Tejon Pass of San Bernardino County. That location is approximately where the San Andreas Fault crosses the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountain ranges.
USGS seismologist Lucy Jones said the quake was near, but not on, the big San Andreas Fault.
``It's very clearly not the San Andreas Fault,'' Jones told KCAL. ``It was on the juncture of very many major faults.''
“It was a solid boom and everything shook,'' viewer Tarcie Thompson told KCAL. ``But it was very sudden, not a rolling action. It didn't roll or anything like any other earthquake, it was very sudden and very hard.''
A police dispatcher in Victorville said 10-20 residents called in to ask if there was an earthquake, but none reported damage.
The quake was felt as a small tremor, and muffled thunder-like sound, at the City News Service offices in West Los Angeles.
The California Highway Patrol reported no unusual incidents on Interstate 15 or Interstate 215, which merge in the Cajon Pass near the epicenter.
Los Angeles County fire dispatchers reported nearly all of its on-duty battalion chiefs did not feel the quake, and no damage.
The quake was 49 miles east-northeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center, and 23 miles north-northwest of downtown Riverside.
Apr 29, 2012
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large sinkholes developed in canada
Sections of two Winnipeg streets are closed as city crews work to repair sinkholes.
First, the city shut down a portion of Ingersoll Street between Sargent and Ellice Avenues for a large sinkhole on Wednesday.
City crews were called to the area around 5:00 p.m. about a hole developing. The hole is around four feet deep. The section will remain closed until crews repair it.
There have been no reports of injuries.
Then on Thursday, Corydon Avenue between Guelph and Wilton Streets was closed because of a large sinkhole there.
Apr 29, 2012
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Cause unconfirmed in 'terrifying' Cherryville mudslide
It’s still not known why part of a Cherryville hillside collapsed, threatening a home.
A torrent of earth, rocks and trees came down from Cherry Ridge Tuesday at about 7:30 a.m. on Sugar Lake Road.
“We’re actively looking at it and getting a professional assessment,” said Murray Wilson, woodlands manager with Tolko Industries, which harvested trees above the slide area last winter.
Wilson is reluctant to say yet if logging weakened the soil and caused the slide, which was about 800 metres long and 10 metres wide.
“The geotechnical engineer will put those pieces together,” he said.
The flow of debris shifted about 200 feet before it would have collided with Joel Hriczu’s home.
“There was a freight train coming down through the trees,” said Hriczu.
“We ran out in our bare feet terrified.”
Hriczu and his wife are back in their home but they admit they aren’t sleeping well at night. Tolko doesn’t believe there is a risk of further slides.
“Our first concern is for the residents that live there. We want to give them some comfort,” said Wilson.
Hriczu’s water system was destroyed and there’s about 100 truck loads of debris covering his property. Access to the rear of his land has been cut off.
“There’s a massive waterfall next to the property that didn’t exist before,” he said.
“I have asked Tolko and the Ministry of Forests what they’re going to do. I need the mud scraped off my road and property and my life back.”
Wilson says Tolko is considering ways to assist the family.
“We want to do what’s right for Joel. Whether it’s us or not (cause), we want to be involved,” he said.
Eugene Foisy, Regional District of North Okanagan director for the area, hopes the cause of the slide can be determined.
“It’s definitely a concern for the people living there. It’s pretty scary,” he said.
“The ground is pretty unstable. There definitely has to be something done to stabilize the ground.”
The prospect of a slide impacting residents had local emergency officials on alert.
Six volunteers with North Okanagan Emergency Management were on stand-by after reports of the Cherry Ridge incident.
“A lot of people’s minds were going back to two years ago with the Oliver slide (homes were destroyed),” said Helen Sinclair, with NOEM.
“Had homes in Cherryville been evacuated, we would have set up an emergency operations centre.”
Given wet weather this week, NOEM is prepared to assist throughout the region if there are slides or flooding.
“It’s a situation where you sit and monitor,” said Sinclair.
The Ministry of Forests could not be reached for comment.
Apr 30, 2012
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Old Siskiyou Highway to close because of landslide
A fast-moving landslide near milepost 6 of the Old Siskiyou Highway will close the road stretch to all vehicles Tuesday, May 1, Oregon Department of Transportation officials said.
"The slide is moving too fast due to spring runoff," ODOT District Manager Jerry Marmon said in a news release. "As these conditions could jeopardize safety. We need to close the highway until the slide dries out enough to let us go in and repair it."
Marmon added the area has been slide-prone historically, especially over the last several years, and that heavy rainfall necessitated repairs almost every day.
During repairs, ODOT geologists will take measurements of the water table and slope movement at the site. The results will determine how extensive highway repairs will need to be.
Motorists can take Interstate 5 to exit 6 or the Greensprings Highway to Old Siskiyou Highway to navigate around the slide. The alternate routes will add about five minutes of commute time for drivers.
Signs will also be posted today to remind motorists about the closure.
Apr 30, 2012
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Mudslide spills onto Marine View Drive in Tacoma
by KING 5 News
TACOMA -- Part of Marine View Drive in Tacoma is closed Monday due to a mudslide.
The closure is in the southbound direction, located at the 4700 block of Marine View Drive.
Detours are in place for drivers.
The City of Tacoma estimated the slide would be cleared by noon
May 1, 2012
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Crews working to clear mudslide on SR 410
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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Cleanup work on State Route 410 started Monday after a mudslide closed the road last week.
The dirt shut down a 12-mile stretch starting just north of the Whistling Jacks lodge.
The Department of Transportation says it could take anywhere from a couple of days to a week to clear.
Bumping River Road remains open. Businesses in the area are also still operating.
"I've been working up here for about seven years and going around it doesn't make any difference to me," said Jose Cervants who works in the area.
Crews first want to clear a lane to get equipment through to open Chinook Pass. They want to have the pass open by Memorial Day.
May 1, 2012
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3 Earthquakes Strike Western Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A series of earthquakes hit three regions of Mexico on Tuesday, swaying buildings in Mexico City but bringing no reports of damage.
The strongest quake hit off the state of Chiapas at 5:43 p.m. with an initial magnitude of 6.3, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
An earlier 5.7 quake was centered 85 miles from Michoacan state's capital, Morelia. A 5.0 quake struck 114 miles off the coast of Cabo San Lucas in the state of Baja California Sur.
Civil protection authorities in all three states reported no serious damage or injuries.
Many businesses were closed for a holiday in Mexico City, which has been shaken by a series of strong earthquakes and aftershocks in other parts of the country in recent weeks, and offices and streets were largely empty.
May 2, 2012
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Canadians make a racket about mysterious 'hum' coming from US side ...
WINDSOR, Ontario -- Last month, Bob Dechert, a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister, was dispatched to Detroit with an important diplomatic mission: to stop a highly-annoying noise.
The so-called Windsor hum, described as a low-frequency rumbling sound, has rattled windows and knocked objects off shelves in this border community just across the Detroit River from the Motor City. Locals have said it sounds like a large diesel truck idling, a loud boom box or the bass vocals of Barry White.
Residents in Windsor, Ontario, have blamed the hum for causing illness, whipping dogs into frenzies, keeping cats housebound and sending goldfish to the surface in backyard ponds. Many have resorted to switching on their furnace fan all season to drown out the noise.
Even weirder, Americans cannot seem to hear it. Canadians find that suspicious -- especially since their research suggests the hum is coming from the Yankees' side -- and accuse US officials of staying silent over the noise.
"The government of Canada takes this issue seriously," Dechert said after his recent fact-finding trip, which included a visit to a heavily-industrialized area on the American side of the river that some Canadian scientists believe is to blame for the hum.
After three months of seismic studies conducted by Canada's natural resources department, scientists said the noise was likely coming from Zug Island, a nearly 600-acre (243-hectare) man-made island on the Michigan side of the Detroit River. The coal-blackened industrial zone is dominated by steel mills, including facilities operated by US Steel and others whose blast furnaces belch out steam and flames.
The area is off-limits to the general public and surrounded by wire fences, with the only access via a guarded gate. A spokeswoman for US Steel did not respond to requests for comment.
The sound has plagued Windsor residents on and off for two years.
Hundreds of sleep-deprived locals have demanded action from politicians in Windsor and Ottawa.
Locals blamed earthquakes, local salt mines, an underground river and wind turbines in the past. But Canada's seismic study last summer narrowed the likely source down to approximately 250 acres (60 hectares) in the vicinity of Zug Island.
American officials say they are not so sure.
"It may not be actually emanating from Michigan," according to Hansen Clarke, the US Representative for the East Detroit congressional district, which includes Zug.
Michael D. Bowdler, the mayor of River Rouge, Mich., the municipality with authority over Zug, said his cash-strapped government does not have funds to investigate further.
"The only place I am hearing noise from is Canada -- from politicians complaining," Bowdler said.
May 2, 2012
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Mudslide rips down Boundary County mountainside
MYRTLE CREEK, Idaho-- The wet weather continued to hammer away at parts of Northern Idaho Tuesday.
We received amazing pictures from Myrtle Creek in Boundary County near Bonners Ferry showing a huge mudslide down the side of a mountain.
Picture show a massive brown gash down the side of this mountain.
Rushing water slashed through the hillside and created a mudslide.
More amateur pictures show all sorts of debris, like logs.
We're told the debris came from two drainages to the north of the Myrtle Creek and one from the south. They’re lying all over a rural road.
The photos were taken in two places on 633 Road near the creek.
We’re told debris plugged pipes and covered the road.
Crews will need to place a culvert and road fill to fix the damage.
We're told another concern is that the creek is a water source for the city of Bonners Ferry.
In the photos you can see all the debris making its way into the water
May 2, 2012
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Bridge Collapse In Craig County , about 16 miles west of Welch.
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Flood waters have forced the closure of State Highway 10 in Craig County after the bridge over Big Creek is said to have collapsed.
It's happening in far western Craig County, about 16 miles west of Welch.
As much as 10 inches of rain have fallen across the area and across parts of southeastern Kansas over the past two days, forcing rivers and streams out of their banks. In addition, a tornado touched down north of Welch early Tuesday morning, damaging two homes.
The Red Cross says it is assisting six families who suffered flood and/or tornado damage.
State Highway 10 is also closed about five miles east of Lenapah in Nowata County for high water from the Verdigris River, which was expected to crest about six feet above flood stage Tuesday evening.
Many county roads have also been flooded and water rescues have been conducted for residents trapped in their homes.
May 2, 2012
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California Earthquake Today 2012 Felt from Eureka to Oregon
LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Northern California earthquake today 2012 was felt in sections of Oregon. The California earthquake today May 2, 2012 struck close to Eureka, Fortuna and Mt. Shasta, and could be felt in southern sectionsof Oregon. No reports of injuries have yet to be documented by local news.
A moderate and shallow earthquake struck Northern California moments ago. USGS reports to news that a 3.2 magnitude earthquake with no depth struck at 4:43 AM PST today. The quake was off the coast of California. But USGS indicates to news that the quake struck roughly at ocean level.
The quake was only thirty-seven miles west of Petrolia. It struck forty miles west of Ferndale, USGS tells news, and forty-six miles west of Fortuna. The quake could be felt in Eureka, roughly fifty miles west. The earthquake was approximately two hundred miles northwest of Sacramento.
Mapping puts the quake south of Crescent City, Grants Pass and Medford. It was also west of Mt Shasta, Redding and Burney. No reports of damage have yet to be detailed by local news.
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This is the second quake to strike Eureka in just seven days. On April 27, a 3.3 magnitude quake struck the same region. USGS detailed to news that the April quake was thirty-six miles west of Petrolia.
The April quake also was centered forty miles southwest of Ferndale and forty-six miles from Fortuna. It was only fifty-one miles from Eureka and two-hundred twenty-five miles north of Sacramento. That quake also struck in the predawn morning hours, and with no depth.
May 2, 2012
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Earthquake swarm strikes off West Coast again
8 small quakes have hit in recent weeks
A swarm of earthquakes struck off Vancouver Island in recent weeks. (U.S. Geological Survey)
Experts say a "swarm" of small earthquakes off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island are part of the normal seismic activity in the area, and they could continue for several more days.
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake that struck just after midnight on Tuesday morning was the eighth small quake with a magnitude between 3.8 and 4.7 to strike the region since April 22.
Pacific Geoscience Centre Seismologist Gary Rogers said the activity is focused along a 20-kilometre stretch along an area called the Raveer Delwood Fault, located about 200 kilometres offshore.
"In the very thin crust that we have out there off our west coast of Vancouver Island, it often fractures in a series of small earthquakes, usually about this size being the maximum."
Rogers said more small earthquakes are expected in the area over the next week.
"They often go on for days. There's been a lot of smaller ones, so eventually they'll wind down, but typically, what we've seen in the past is that most of these swarms last a few days to a week or so."
A similar but more powerful swarm that struck the same area in August 2008 included a magnitude 5.2 quake.
Experts have been warning a major earthquake hits B.C. every 500 years, and the last one was in 1700. But they said the swarm of small earthquake activity does not indicate a larger earthquake is more likely in the short term.
The last significant quake to rattle the West Coast was a magnitude 6.5 tremor centered that struck about 50 kilometres off the west coast of the island in September of 2011, swaying high-rises as far away as Vancouver, Kelowna and Seattle.
May 2, 2012
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One injured due to giant sinkhole in Calumet County
Giant sinkhole on Cemetary Road near Forest Junction on May 3, 2012. (courtesy of FOX 11).
CALUMET COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - The strong storms and heavy rain led to one person getting hurt while driving in Calumet County Thursday morning.
A creek turned into a gushing river, wiping out the asphalt on Cemetary Road near Forest Junction and ripping away the culvert. The hole left behind is nearly 18 feet wide.
Authorities say the driver of a pickup truck didn't realize the road was gone and tried to go across. That happened just after 5 a.m. Thursday before the sun fully came up.
The front wheels of the truck were torn off. The driver was taken to the hospital.
May 3, 2012
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Mudslides and Flood Damage Close Myrtle Creek Road
BONNERS FERRY — The Myrtle Creek Road, also known as Forest Road 633, is the latest forest road this season to be closed due to mudslides and flood damage.
Forest Service employees working in the area west of Bonners Ferry earlier this week discovered a significant mudslide and road washout, which has divided the road and scattered logs, boulders and mud throughout several sections of the road. An emergency road closure order has been issued for the entire length of the road.
Forest Service engineers have begun assessing the damage and are working to identify funding and contractors to begin repairs. However, at this early stage no timeline for repair and reopening the road is available.
“The road damage in Myrtle Creek is extensive, but at this point our primary concern is to ensure public safety through a temporary road closure,” said Bonners Ferry District Ranger Linda McFaddan. “Once funding is secured we’ll work to reopen the road as quickly as possible.”
Throughout this spring several roads across the Idaho Panhandle National Forests have experienced flooding and mudslides. As the spring weather warms and people venture further into the forests they are likely to discover additional road sections requiring repair and possibly temporary closure. Forest Service engineers and work crews will be prioritizing work based on the magnitude of the damage and the impact to the public and will work to restore access as quickly as possible.
Due to soft roads and potential flooding forest visitors are urged to use caution and to turn around before becoming stuck or causing damage to the road surface. For more information on current road conditions please contact your local Idaho Panhandle National Forests office.
May 4, 2012
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Swarm of earthquake activity off Vancouver Island this week
You might not have felt the earth move, but over the past several days there has been a swarm of earthquake activity off Vancouver Island.
And next week, free one-hour courses will be offered locally to help people prepare for a full-scale emergency.
Since Tuesday of last week, the fracture zone out in the Pacific off the north-west coast of the Island has been particularly active, according to federal government seismologists in Sidney.
Garry Rogers, who is with the Geological Survey of Canada, said while there were always lots of minor 'quakes, once every year or two there was a swarm of activity over a short period on part of the ocean floor where the crust was young and thin.
The latest swarm started on Tuesday of last week and since then there the sensitive recording machines at Sidney had picked up dozens of tremors, seven of them above 4.0 on the Richter scale. The latest was a 4.7 'quake centred on a point about 200 kms west of Port Hardy on Tuesday afternoon.
Earthquakes registering above 5 on the scale are regarded as more significant and potentially more likely to be felt, especially if they are near the surface of the ocean floor.
However, Rogers said they had had no reports that any earthquake in the swarm was strong or close enough to have been felt in any community on the Island.
But the burst of activity has heightened awareness of people's need to prepare for a real emergency, and two short courses are being organized in the Comox Valley next week to explain what people need to do.
Emergency program officer Mike Fournier said anyone interested was encouraged to drop by Comox Fire Hall on Wednesday (May 9) from 7 to 8 p.m. or Courtenay Fire Hall on Thursday (May 10) also 7 to 8 p.m. for the free one-hour briefings.
And on Saturday, May 12, the Comox Valley Emergency Program will host a one-day, hands-on demonstration of many of the services provided by its members at the Driftwood Mall.
Fournier also encouraged people to check out the local emergency program website for advice and tips: www.comoxvalleyemergencyprogram.com
Earthquake activity can be followed on the internet at www.earthquakescanada. nrcan.gc.ca , where viewers can zoom in at a constantly updated map of earthquake activity off the B.C. coast.
May 4, 2012
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Magnitude 4.5 quake strikes rural Northern Calif.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. —
There are no reports of damage or injuries after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake rattled a rural area of Northern California.
The United States Geological Survey says the quake hit at 2:23 a.m. Saturday about 24 miles north of Santa Rosa, or about 76 miles north of San Francisco.
The USGS had initially reported the quake as having a 4.3 magnitude, but issued a revision after it was reviewed by seismologists.
Some residents reported feeling light shaking, but a sheriff's dispatcher says there were no calls of damage or injuries.
The area where the earthquake hit is near the Geysers geothermal development, a complex of 22 geothermal power plants in the Mayacamas Mountains. The area experiences frequent seismic activity.
May 6, 2012
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Kentucky 8 closed by landslide
A landslide closed Kentucky 8 over the weekend and kept it closed through Monday as crews worked to move debris and stabilize the hillside between the William Harsha Bridge and Maysville.
FLEMINGSBURG | Motorists who use Kentucky 8 in Maysville as their main travel route need to find a detour for the next several days.
Due to a landslide west of Maysville and east of the William Harsha Bridge that occurred Saturday night, officials with the Kentucky Department of Highways have closed the roadway through at least Wednesday.
The closure is necessary so highway crews and contractors can work to clean up the dirt and debris and to also cut down trees that are leaning on the hillside.
The hillside above the roadway slipped and covered all travel lanes near mile marker 10, according to a statement from Allen Blair, spokesperson for the District 9 Office in Flemingsburg. The recent slide is in the vicinity of a slide that occurred last year.
"Our main objective is to get the road reopened and the hillside stabilized," Blair said. He also stressed clean up could be delayed if the forecast of rain overnight Monday is accurate.
Motorists are advised to use Kentucky 3056, Germantown Road; Clyde T. Barbour to Kentucky 9; and other routes as a detour.
Motorists are asked to heed all warning signs, "Drive Smart" in work zones and remain aware of workers and construction equipment when traveling.
May 8, 2012
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Road work to close 5-mile stretch of SR 7 starting Monday
A five-mile stretch of state Route 7 in east Pierce County will be closed starting Monday so crews can stabilize the hillside.
Last month, a mudslide closed a section of the road near La Grande for several hours.
Starting Monday, crews will begin removing loose rock and material from along the highway. The road will be closed between Alder Lake and La Grande from 4 a.m. Monday to 6 p.m. Friday.
Limited access will be allowed during the work. A signed detour will be in place for the 1,600 motorists who use the five-mile stretch every day.
Transportation crews cleared more than 300 cubic yards of debris from SR 7 after the April landslide.
May 8, 2012
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Strange noise in rogersville TN
May 8, 2012
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Weird Booms in the sky heard in Upstate NY 12 am 5-5-2012
May 8, 2012
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Debris from volcano closes Mexico airport
Satellite vew from Popocatepetl volcano. AFP PHOTO
Ashes from Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano forced officials to close the airport in nearby Puebla for some 14 hours, to allow for cleanup after it spewed out heaps of ash and rock.
May 9, 2012
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earthquake recorded in central Arkansas
ROSE BUD, Ark. (AP) - A small earthquake has been reported in central Arkansas.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a 2.5-magnitude tremor was recorded around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday about 3 miles southeast of Rose Bud in White County.
A sheriff's office dispatcher said she hadn't received any reports of injuries or damage with the quake.
The geological survey's website also noted a smaller, 1.8-magnitude temblor was recorded about 6 miles south of Clinton in Van Buren County on Tuesday.
Geologists say earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 to 3.0 are generally the smallest that are felt by humans.
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May 10, 2012
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GEOLOGICAL UPHEAVAL: Soil Nails Used to Stabilize Massive Landslide in Campbell County?!
TDOT has shut down all but one northbound lane of Interstate 75 between mile markers 141 and 144 in Campbell County, Tennessee. The earliest any southbound lanes will reopen is Thursday.
The shut down comes because the embankment that collapsed beneath I-75 South on March 8 has now grown to threaten the median and northbound lanes. TDOT brought in the big gun to defend I-75 North by hiring an emergency repair contractor from Grand Junction, Colorado. "Myself and my crew got a call yesterday [Monday] and we arrived late last night," said Nate Beard, vice president and engineer with Soil Nail Launcher, Inc. Beard's crews will battle a beast of a mountainside with an oversized air gun originally built by the British military. "It is a big compressed air launcher that would launch nerve gas canisters up to seven miles," said Beard. "It has been modified to launch soil nails, which is a 20 foot long, 1.5 inch diameter steel tube. We build that compressed air up to 3000 PSI, pull the trigger, and then it accelerates into the ground at 250 miles per hour."
In Campbell County, soil nail launcher crews are taking aim at a moving target. "The big challenge here is it is an actively moving landslide. I walked across this road at midnight and at 2:00 in the morning all of that material had fallen down to the bottom of the slope," said Beard. "Our top priority is protecting the northbound lanes. We'll launch around 300 soil nails. We'll put them in a really tight spacing. It works with the soil particles to confine them and create a beam effect, which then supports the interstate. It takes a lot of those loading and driving forces off the landslide." Beard said crews should finish nailing the northbound lanes by Wednesday morning. Then they will hammer away at the southbound lanes with even larger soil nails. "The south lanes can use nails that are 50 to 60 feet long and two inches in diameter," said Beard. "You drive along these roads and they are perfect and they are flat, but they are on the edge of a cliff. A lot of people take that for granted, but the fact is there are frequently things like launched soil nails beneath the roads to keep them secure and stable."
May 10, 2012
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Water main break creates giant sinkhole in Sandy
Sandy, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Neighbors in a Sandy neighborhood were without water Wednesday evening after a massive water main break. The break happened around 7:30 at the corner of Linden Road and Lexington Drive. The water wasn't turned off for nearly an hour allowing thousands of gallons of water to rush down the street and into at least one home and a couple of yards.
Vickie Newton's home got the worst of it. "It could have been worse," said Newton. "It came through the foundation into the front bedroom and the carpet is wet in there. There's also water in the garage and I understand part of our fence went down."
Vickie's son was the first to see the break. Adam Newton said, "I watched the ground just start bubbling and crumbling, and pieces of asphalt popping up everywhere."
Ernie Martinez lives next door to the Newtons. He came home after he got a call from his 7 year old daughter. Emma Martinez told ABC4, "I told him 'Daddy, there's a big flood here, come home immediately.'"
When he got home to the still rushing water Martinez said, "I'm more in shock than anything." He was also worried about the family's pool and whether it would be ready for Emma when the summer heat kicks in. For Martinez and his neighbors there's also the question of whose going to pay for it. "That's the biggest question," said Martinez. "The firefighters say there's quite a bit of damage.
A Sandy City risk management team was on the scene Wednesday evening talking with affected neighbors promising they would be taken care of. Crews worked to remove the debris so they can get down and repair the broken pipe.
May 10, 2012
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3.7 earthquake hits East Texas
Residents in Shelby County and Nacogdoches County got a shaking surprise Thursday morning when a 3.7 earthquake hit southwest of Timpson.
The U.S. Geological Society reports the earthquake hit around 10:15 a.m. at a depth of 3.1 miles below the Earth's surface.
According to Jason Hansford, senior meteorologist at the National Weather Center in Shreveport, no damage has been reported in the area.
Hansford said he did not know how an earthquake could have hit the area, as there are no significant fault lines.
"It could be fracking issues," he said. "It's just a theory, but we don't have any significant fault lines."
Hansford said numerous reports have come from residents in the counties of Nacogdoches, Panola and Shelby County. The USGS is fielding reports of residents feeling the temblor in Garrison, Timpson, Center, Nacogdoches and Tenaha.
Garrison resident said the earthquake caused damage to bricks at his house on Fern Street.
Nacogdoches County resident Fran Rosenberger said she was sitting at her table on County Road 816 when the earthquake hit. She said her house moved from north to south and lasted about 10 seconds. Nothing fell off of her wall, she said.
USGS reports the earthquake was centered about one mile west of Timpson.
According to Nacogdoches Police spokesman Sgt. Greg Sowell, various crews are checking the structural integrity of bridges on state, federal and county roads. Officials with Union Pacific Railroad are checking railroad tracks and bridges in the area. The National Resource Conservation is sending officials from Waco to check the dam at Lake Naconiche.
The Texas State Historical Association cites a 80-kilometer segment of the Mount Enterprise fault system which caused earthquakes in 1891 and 1981, in Rusk and Center and Jacksonville, respectively.
Another series of moderate earthquakes hit Sabine County on April 23, 1964. According to the USGS, Hemphill was near the epicenter of the 4.4 magnitude earthquake. Aftershocks were reported in Pineland, Hemphill, and Milam. Cracked wallpaper and plaster were the only damage reported. More tremors, reaching 4.2 in magnitude, were reported in May, June, and August of that year.
In 1957, several shocks were reported at 4.7 in magnitude in the Gladewater area in Northeast Texas.
May 10, 2012
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Sinking Road for Second Time
SALINE CO. -- The latest coal mining activity near Galatia has shutdown a portion of roadway. For the second time in a year, it’s also caused the pavement and a bridge to sink.
Harco Road was closed Saturday and will remain closed until further notice. It's blocked north of Johnston City Road and south of Netty Green Road.
"It's just more of a learning experience, I guess. You don't see it every day," said County Engineer Jeff Jones.
The breaks in the asphalt on Harco Road are something that Jones expected.
"The ground has dropped about four feet wherever they've come through," said Jones.
In November of last year, American Coal Company did their first 1000-foot wide cut under the road.
However, this cut impacts a more than 70 year-old bridge crossing the middle fork of the Saline River.
"Dropping a bridge four feet is potentially a lot more serious," said Jones.
Notice that the longwall project had reached the area came last weekend. One of the first signs of subsidence was cracks in the pavement leading up to the bridge. On Monday, the bridge began tilting to the west and is off balance by about 14 inches.
"We’re hopeful it will even up after the subsidence moves on," said Jones.
Even with the lean, the 200-foot span has fared better than the county had planned. It’s also done better than the last bridge damaged by sinking ground.
"The bolts were popping and flying,” said Jones. “Well, here you can hardly detect even a sound."
The longwall activity is moving parallel to the bridge, meaning less stress on the concrete and steel structure.
So far, it's still intact. However, the ground will continue dropping over the next few days.
"It's final condition, that's important," said Jones.
Once it settles, the county will be able to assess the damage to a road that sees about a 1,000 vehicles each day.
There's still a chance the bridge could fail, and the county would set up a temporary bridge to fix that issue. If it still only has minor damage, an engineer and the state would examine the bridge in the next couple weeks. Their job would be to make sure it's safe and decide whether a weight limit is needed.
May 12, 2012
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Subsidence Opens near Shamokin
A subsidence that opened Friday has closed a road near Shamokin.
DEP said Monday officials are looking at old mining records to determine if the hole that opened on Northwestern Academy Drive is due to an old mine.
A smalls section of the road is closed forcing workers at Northwestern Academy and Reinhart Food Service to take a detour until the subsidence is filled.
DEP said the hole is 35 feet deep and 25 feet wide. It is near a small bridge off Route 61 in Coal Township.
According to DEP, they have to know what caused the hole before it can be filled.
May 12, 2012
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Landslide taking out a local road
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio —
It's the only one way in and the only way out -- that's why officials say the road slip on Township Road 285A near Austin Lake in Jefferson County needs to be fixed fast.
"I think it started last spring with the flooding damage that we had. When you get the moisture involved, it's an earth movement process that is not uncommon in our area," explained County Engineer Jim Branagan.
With signs and barrels up to notify drivers, it's hard to miss with most of the road sliding down the hill. Right now, drivers are forced to drive around the slip which is not much of a problem. However, for emergency vehicles, it's not as simple.
"What they are thinking of doing is getting a fire truck down there and station it down there for the time being," said Branagan.
To fix the road faster, Branagan said he along with Knox Township officials plan on declaring the slip an emergency. That means if the cost to fix is less than $50,000, which is expected, they can start work right away without having to go through the bidding process.
Those who frequent the road agree it needs to happen soon and they are thankful a plan is in place.
"I travel it twice a week and it is a problem. People don't want to bring their cars out here. You can't bring a camper out here. If it gets any worse, I won't be coming out here," said Jamie Dorisio.
Branagan said the township will be getting some funding from FEMA for the fix. Right now, it's just unclear how much. In the meantime, the county commissioners say they have already approved the use of emergency money.
May 12, 2012
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Earthquake faults discovered beneath San Rafael Elementary School
PASADENA - Four earthquake faults have been found beneath San Rafael Elementary School, threatening modernization plans for campus buildings but posing no additional safety risk for students and staff, the Pasadena Unified School District announced Friday.
"It's as safe today as it was yesterday," PUSD spokesman Adam Wolfson said.
San Rafael's buildings aleady meet California earthquake safety requirements, but state law also prevents school modernization or rehabilitation projects within 50 feets of faults that have shown activity within the last 10,000 years.
"The safety of our staff and students is the first priority at PUSD," Superintendent Jon Gundry said in a statement. "Any decision about the future use of San Rafael should be viewed through the lens of our inability to make any improvements on an aging facility that needs upgrades."
San Rafael's modernization plans, funded through Measure TT, include a central air system, restroom replacement, kindergarten classroom relocation and the conversion of a classroom into a library, according to a project list.
The district recently began reassessing the scope of Measure TT projects because of a budget shortfall.
The future of San Rafael will be discussed at a community meeting on May 17, 6:30 p.m., in the McKinley School Auditorium, at 325 S. Oak Knoll Ave.
USGS seismologist and former San Rafael Elementary parent Dr. Lucy Jones will be part of the discussion
May 12, 2012
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Volcano near Mexico City spews out ash over a mile high
PUEBLA, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) -- The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City continues to remain highly active with a large ash cloud reaching a height of more than one mile (1.6 kilometer) on Friday evening, officials said.
The volcano, which is located around 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of Mexico City and on the outskirts of three different states, namely Puebla, Morelos and the State of Mexico, registered at least 24 spurts recently, spewing out a large ash cloud reaching 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) high.
Puebla's State Secretary Fernando Manzanillo, however, said Popocatepetl's alert level stands at phase two within the Yellow Alert level. Mexico's alert levels begin with two phases within the Green Alert level, followed by three Yellow Alert phases, which precede the final two Red Alert phases.
The large ash cloud headed toward the east-northeast direction. While authorities have warned locals to stay alert of the volcano's activity, the ash cloud currently represents no threat to the local population. Nonetheless, the country's Civil Protection has continued monitoring the volcano's activity and the safety of nearby residents.
The closest community belongs to the municipality of Ecatzingo in the State of Mexico, which is located approximately 19 kilometers (11.8 miles) from the crater. Residents there were previously warned to prepare for an evacuation in the event of a possible eruption of magma
May 13, 2012