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
Large sinkhole opens up at Jonesville-area home
A large sinkhole opened up in the backyard of Robin and Rhonda Matheny in the Jonesville area, west of Gainesville. The Mathenys will be moving from the home.
JONESVILLE — Saturday got off to a routine start for Robin and Rhonda Matheny — making breakfast, getting the paper. Until.
"I walked out to get the paper in the driveway," Robin Matheny said. "She hollered at me, ‘Come quick.' I ran across the yard and didn't even look at the back. I didn't see until I got in and looked out the back. I don't know what to think. It's a horror movie."
The horror is a giant maw of a sinkhole — about 80 feet long and 40 feet wide and growing — in the Mathenys' backyard at 11958 SW Fifth Avenue in the Jonesville area.
It was discovered about 8 a.m. Saturday, though the initial cave-in likely happened late Friday night. A 24-foot-long storage shed was on the verge of toppling into it, and the ground showed signs of giving way close to the Mathenys' swimming pool.
But the family was able to get a boat and some toys out of the way and were taking in stride what will likely be a major hassle — if not a danger.
Viewed from a safe distance from the edge, a barbecue grill and cooler could be seen inside the sinkhole. Water could not be seen, but it could be heard as more terra firma crumbled in. "It's quite impressive," said Jeff Harpe, Alachua County Fire Rescue district chief.
Rhonda Matheny said the couple were playing cards with friends Charles and Lenda Page about 11 p.m. Friday night when she heard a noise that she thought may have been thunder. No one checked outside at the time.
But Saturday morning she looked outside and saw that the ground had collapsed
"I couldn't believe it," she said.
May 13, 2012
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Earthquake Recap: Six Quakes Jostle Santa Clara County
Six earthquakes rang through Santa Clara County over the last week, with the strongest coming out of San Martin early Sunday morning. That one registered a 2.2 on the Richter scale, according to the U.S. Geological Survey website.
The two-point tremor, which struck at 4:25 a.m., had an epicenter just eight miles northeast of Gilroy.
On May 8, a 1.2 shaker hit five miles northeast of San Martin, about nine miles northeast of Gilroy.
The closest quake to hit near Campbell, Los Gatos and Cupertino was a 1.1 tremor one mile southeast of Saratoga. That one struck May 9 at 2:29 a.m.
Los Altos also saw its fair share of tremors this week, with a 1.7 one striking May 8 just three miles south of the city. The epicenter was four miles west of Cupertino. The next day, a 1.5 quake hit three miles south of Los Altos again.
A 1.6 rounded out Los Altos' earthquake hat trick on May 11 when it struck, once again, three miles south of the city and just three mils west of Cupertino.
Four quakes also shook up Gilroy's neighbor to the south, Hollister, in the last week.
The first, on May 6, registered a 2.8 on the Richter scale, while the second was a less-intimidating 1.2. That one went down at just before 4 p.m. on May 10 and was followed by a 1.4 shaker four hours later.
The last quake to rock Hollister struck at 7:29 a.m. the morning of May 11 and registered an even 2.0.
May 14, 2012
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Magnitude 6.2 earthquake downs walls, cuts power in northern Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile — A magnitude-6.2 magnitude earthquake damaged walls, shattered windows and knocked out electricity in parts of far-northern Chile and the Peruvian city of Tacna but no injuries or major damage were reported.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, which occurred at 6 a.m. local time (6 a.m. EDT; 1000 GMT), was centered 66 miles (107 kilometers) northeast of the city of Arica 98 kilometers (61 miles) underground. It was also felt in the Peruvian city of Arequipa and in the Bolivian capital of La Paz, 120 miles (200 kilometers) away.
Some neighborhoods in Tacna, a city of 200,000 66 kilometers (44 miles) from the epicenter, suffered brief power outages, city officials said. Tacna’s deputy civil defense chief, Jose Luis Vera, reported broken windows and rocks shaken loose onto highways but no injuries or serious damage.
The Chilean government emergency agency said about 250 people fled into the streets of Arica when the shaking started, but then returned to their homes. Arica’s port and airport were functioning normally and Chile’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service discounted the possibility of a tsunami.
Tarapaca region Gov. Jose Durana said walls fell in some sectors and some roads were blocked by the quake, which also cut power to more than 3,000 homes in Arica. Power also was cut for a time in the Peruvian city of Tacna.
A magnitude-7.1 quake struck central Chile on March 25 and in 2010, a magnitude-8.8 quake caused a tsunami that obliterated much of the downtown area of the coastal city of Constitucion.
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May 14, 2012
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Slight Earthquake Off Long Beach Today
This morning's quake registered at a slight 2.1 by seismologists and centered 13 miles away in the Catalina (ocean) channel.
A small earthquake 13 miles south-southwest of Long Beach rattled mostly - and barely -- San Pedro today, according to preliminary reports from automated seismographs.
The magnitude 2.1 wiggle hit at 2:30 a.m. and its epicenter was in the Catalina Channel, the body of water between the mainland and Santa Catalina Island about 25 miles offshore, City News Service reported.
It was centered about 9 miles south-southeast of Rolling Hills and 13 miles south-southwest of downtown Long Beach. No one logged on to the United States Geological Survey's (USGC) quake reporting service website to report that they felt it.
May 14, 2012
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Mudslide Blocks Rutherford County Road
Rutherford County dispatchers tell 7 On Your Side a mudslide is blocking a highway in the county. The located of the slide is at 428 Highway 226 in the Bostic community. This is near the Rutherford/Cleveland County border. No injuries have been reported
May 15, 2012
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Collapsing ditch continues to grow
There are houses in the area and a bridge. The River Forest subdivision is north of Rosenberg and Richmond. And just like the rest of Fort Bend County, it got hammered by Friday night's heavy rain. Now the neighbors are watching the collapsing Briscoe drainage ditch carefully.
In the River Forest subdivision, the homes are big and custom made. The yards are expansive and filled with trees. But the usual quiet is shattered by heavy trucks carrying dirt to a dramatically collapsing Briscoe drainage ditch.
Resident Amy Sopchak said, "That's our house over there, so I'm just hoping it stays on that side of the bridge."
It all started Friday night when heavy rains swept away something called a drop structure.
Fort Bend County Commissioner Richard Morrison explained, "It's a concrete structure with a concrete pipe that helps the water slow down when it drops off into the river."
Morrison says when the rain swept the drop structure away, all the rushing water ate away at the banks of the ditch. Now county workers are working to stabilize the ditch, first with concrete chunks and now with dirt. The whole thing is a spectacle in a normally quiet neighborhood.
"This is just crazy," said neighbor Scott Cruickshank. "I mean, it looks like this one minute, looks like that the next."
The good news is that the collapse hasn't come close to any homes, nor has it come close to the bridge, and that it appears to have stopped. But it's still a dangerous situation -- one county leaders hope people will leave alone.
"The sides are steep, someone goes in to peer over it, the ground is saturated -- it could cave off or slough down in," Morrison said.
This could take six weeks to fix and cost the county less than $100,000. It may involve temporarily detouring the water through another ditch to get it done.
May 16, 2012
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No injuries reported after widely felt magnitude-4.6 earthquake sha...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Seismologists say an earthquake that struck in southern Alaska near Anchorage was widely felt in the city and other communities.
The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says the 4.6-magnitude quake occurred at 7:02 a.m. Wednesday. It struck eight miles south of Anchorage.
The center says there are no immediate reports of significant damage, but some Anchorage residents say items toppled or fell off shelves.
Besides those in Anchorage, residents in a 120-mile swath of southcentral Alaska, from Palmer to Kenai, reported feeling the earthquake to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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May 16, 2012
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Strange Noises In The Sky Chicago May 12 2012
May 17, 2012
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4.3 quake shakes up East Texas
A 4.3-magnitude earthquake rattled eastern Texas early Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The quake, at a depth of three miles, was centered near Timpson, about 155 miles east-southeast of Dallas, according to the USGS. It struck at 3:12 a.m. (4:13 a.m. ET).
At least one building in Timpson showed damage, with a number of bricks falling to the street below, CNN affiliate KLTV in Tyler, Texas, reported.
Ollie Barrett told KLTV that bricks from her chimney came crashing through her roof.
"There was a loud rumbling noise and then there was a lot of crashing," she said. Her 52-inch, wall-mounted TV was crushed.
One woman was injured when she fell out of bed and cut her arm, CNN affiliate KSLA in nearby Shreveport, Louisiana, reported.
And the Shelby County sheriff's office had reports of broken windows from the temblor, dispatcher Karen Shield told CNN.
The quake was the second to hit the area in a week. A 3.9 quake shook Timpson May 10.
Thursday morning's earthquake was the third-strongest in East Texas history, KLTV reported, surpassed only by quakes in 1957 and 1964.
May 17, 2012
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Mystery earthquake near McCall puzzles scientists, technicians
MCCALL, Idaho -- You could call it a mystery earthquake, a sonic boom, or maybe nothing at all.
Several witnesses report waking up to what they say was a small earthquake south of McCall early Thursday morning around 4:30 a.m. However, those shaky claims have employees at Idaho's U.S. Geological Survey scratching their heads in disbelief.
Mickey Hart lives five miles south of McCall just off Hwy. 55. The 50-year-old resident said she's experienced one previous earthquake here in the summer of 2001.
The second earthquake came early Thursday morning around 4:30 a.m. Hart says that's when her beloved border collie, Mr. Mac, detected the tremor before it hit.
"It was four in the morning, and the house shook," Hart said. "It woke up my husband and scared the crap out of my dog."
However, for some folks here in Idaho, those reports just don't seem to make sense.
U.S. Geological Survey Technical Information Specialist Tim Merrick said his agency's seismographs haven't shown any recent earthquake activity in Idaho.
"If there was anything, it would almost certainly show up," Merrick said. "Our seismology network across the United States is very sensitive."
Scott VanHoff, USGS Geospatial Mapping Coordinator, agrees.
"Idaho looks amazingly quiet, and I don't see anything," VanHoff said, adding that the only earthquake he'd seen recorded was yesterday.
USGS records show that event was a magnitude 2.2 earthquake recorded around 9:30 p.m., at a location northwest of Weiser, Idaho.
However, other folks in the Valley County area maintain they positively didfeel an earthquake early Thursday morning.
Captain Brandon Swain with the McCall Fire Dept. says he heard reports of the mystery earthquake from his brother Clint Swain, who lives near Lake Fork.
"My brother was awake at about 4:30 or 5 a.m., and the earthquake woke up his wife," Swain said.
May 17, 2012
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Magnitude 6.7 quake off coast of Chile
There's been a 6.7 magnitude earthquake, just ten kilometres deep, off the coast of southern Chile.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre says no destructive widespread tsunami threat exists.
It looks like it got downgraded to 6.2 by USGS
Magnitude 6.2 - OFF THE COAST OF AISEN, CHILE
639 km (397 miles) W of Coihaique, Aisen, Chile
676 km (420 miles) WSW of Puerto Montt, Los Lagos, Chile
1478 km (918 miles) SSW of SANTIAGO, Region Metropolitana, Chile
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=E
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
May 18, 2012
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3.9 Earthquake Rattles Sonoma County
THE GEYSERS (CBS SF) – The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.9 struck Friday morning in Sonoma County.
The temblor rattled an area near The Geysers, located about 24 miles north of Santa Rosa, at 5:38 a.m. Friday and had a depth of 1.8 miles, according to the USGS.
The quake was centered two miles east of The Geysers.
May 19, 2012
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Another earthquake rattles Panola County
Many Panola County residents were jarred from their sleep at 3:12 a.m on Thursday morning when a magnitude 4.3 earthquake shook East Texas and Western Louisiana.
This earthquake follows a magnitude 3.9 earthquake exactly one week ago.
The epicenters of both quakes were near Timpson, some 25 miles south of Carthage.
Commissioner Dale LaGrone was one of many who was awakened by the shaking.
“My house is constructed entirely out of wood and it sounded like it was cracking,” LaGrone said. “The house was shaking, but nothing fell off the walls. I have renters who live in campers and RVs and they felt it pretty bad. I haven’t seen any damage in my house. I’ve talked to lots of people and they all felt their houses shaking.”
Longbranch resident Wanda Robinette was also awoken by the earthquake.
“We were all asleep in the house and all the sudden the bed started shaking and the windows started rattling,” Robinette said. “I thought it was my husband having a dream and maybe he was shaking the bed. He thought I was trying to get out of bed. My son thought someone was trying to get in the house.
After just a couple of seconds I figured it out. I’ve experienced a little tremor in California about seven or eight years ago. The only thing to fall was a can of spray starch. Just a couple of seconds I figured it out.”
Don Blakeman, a geophysicist with National Earthquake Center, a division of the USGS based in Golden , Colorado, says that while earthquakes are rare in East Texas, it isn’t uncommon for an earthquake to occur.
“Anywhere in the lower 48 states can have these type of earthquakes,” Blakeman said. “The earthquake that happened last week is a foreshock to this earthquake. If you move up on the Ricter scale from a three to a four that is about 32 times more energy put in the ground. The ground would move about 10 times more.”
Blakeman went on to say that East Texans could expect more earthquakes.
“The thing we sometimes see are swarms,” Blakeman said. “These are nothing significantly large, just small quakes that tend to die away. East Texas will not be a seismic area because the earth does not change that way. This is relatively isolated. Sometimes these are just isolated quakes.”
May 19, 2012
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5.9 earthquake shakes up northern Chile
Santiago: The US Geological Survey (USGS) says a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 has shaken up northern Chile, but there are no reports of injury or damage.
Chilean authorities discount the possibility of a tsunami.
The USGS says the quake occurred today at 4:35 am local time was centered 52 kilometers off the Chilean coast, west of the city of Taltal and 1,100 kilometers north of Santiago.
Police in Chile say the temblor caused a temporary interruption in fixed and mobile telephone service in some areas.
May 20, 2012
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Guatemala volcano spits lava and ash
May 19 (Reuters) - Guatemala's Fuego volcano belched burning lava and black ash into the sky early Saturday, leading the government to issue an airplane advisory and close sections of highway.
The volcano, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southwest of the capital, erupted about 2:45 a.m. (0745 GMT), spewing a column of ash up to 16,400 feet (5,000 meters) above the crater and launching burning red lava nearly 1,300 feet (400 meters) high.
The national emergency commission issued an advisory, warning planes not to fly within a 25-mile (40 kilometer) radius of the volcano. The La Aurora international airport in Guatemala City remained open.
The commission also closed two stretches of highway threatened by lava flows that reached the base of the mountain.
Guatemala's four active volcanoes have a history of causing shut downs. In 2010, an explosion at the Pacaya volcano about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Guatemala City coated the city in a thick layer of black ash and rock, forcing hundreds of families to evacuate and closing the international airport.
May 20, 2012
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Earthquake Rattles East Texas
Slight earth tremor detected in East Texas
Sunday, May 20, 2012 | Updated 3:12 PM CDT
A slight earthquake was registered in East Texas near the Louisiana border, four days after a sharper shock struck the area.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 2.7 magnitude quake was registered about 1:30 p.m. Sunday just over a miles south of the town of Timpson, 152 miles east-southeast of Dallas.
A dispatcher for the Shelby County Sheriff's Office in nearby Center said no damage or injuries were reported.
A moderate, 4.3-magnitude earthquake had rattled the area early Thursday. A Shelby County sheriff's dispatcher that morning reported fallen dishes and broken windows from the quake, but the only injury was an elderly woman who fell out of bed and cut her arm.
May 20, 2012
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Methane Found In Drinking Water Wells In Bradford County
LeRoy Township, PA -- Methane has been found in a pair of private drinking water wells in Bradford County.
On Saturday, Lee Franklin of Leroy Township says his daughter saw bubbles popping up out of his water well.
The well provides drinking water for the family's home on Rockwell Road.
"We were a little concerned, but then we were sitting at the picnic table, heard gurgling in the woods, went out for a walk and there was obviously some methane coming out of the ground."
Franklin says he called the State Department of Environmental Protection, who immediately sent workers out to investigate.
Chesapeake Energy workers were also called in because of the numerous natural gas wells they own in the area.
DEP Spokesman Kevin Sunday says methane was found in the wells.
But they still don't know where it's coming from.
"We take a look at any possible circumstances. In this case, we are looking at nearby Chesapeake wells. We haven't made the determination yet that any of this methane is coming from a gas well or if it's naturally occurring."
Sunday says there are no recorded health effects from having methane in your drinking water.
But as a safety precaution, the wells have been vented with a pipe to allow the methane to filter out.
Chesapeake has also provided a mobile water trailer for the franklins.
"Three times a day they are in and out of the house, checking methane levels, we got alarms in there, so I think we are safe."
One of Chesapeake's drilling pads is about half a mile away from the Franklin's home.
DEP officials say Chesapeake began screening all private wells within 2500 feet of the pad over the weekend.
So far, no other wells have tested positive.
Chesapeake officials did not want to go on camera, but said they are "working cooperatively with department of environmental protection to investigate the situation."
May 23, 2012
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A sink hole opened up in Montreal Canada during the protests.
"A gaping four-meter-square sinkhole opened up in a major Montreal street after the march. Officials say no injuries have been reported."
http://www.rt.com/news/montreal-mark-new-law-942/
May 23, 2012
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Bridge west of Trinidad collapses
A bridge along Colorado Highway 12 just west of Trinidad collapsed Wednesday evening, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
The bridge, near mile marker 47, is along a scenic byway that winds west from Trinidad up into the Sangre De Cristo mountains. It is about a mile and half west of the town of Weston, which is about 20 miles west of Trinidad.
The bridge collapsed shortly after 6 p.m., according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.
No one was injured, and state patrol dispatchers were not sure what caused the collapse. There had been concerns about the bridge's stability in the past, dispatchers said.
May 24, 2012
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Coors lanes closed for next week due to sinkhole
Courtesy Kat
A sinkhole on Albuquerque's West Side is growing and causing traffic problems.
A sewer line collapsed on Coors Boulevard and Barcelona on Monday, creating a giant sink hole in the middle of the intersection.
The sinkhole already caused one accident, when a motorcyclist drove into the hole and wrecked. He was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
Officials said lane closures on Coors are expected for the next week while crews repair the line.
May 24, 2012
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Strange sound on the highway between Jacksonville and Tallahassee
The author was driving when he heard that sound and recordered it. It was on the highway between Jacksonville and Tallahassee, Florida, on May 12, 2012
May 25, 2012
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This strange sound is from Florida. Recorded in March 2012
May 26, 2012
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3.8 earthquake strikes near Barstow
A shallow magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported Sunday morning 18 miles from Barstow , according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:05 a.m. Pacific time.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 22 miles from Lenwood, 30 miles from Goldstone Lake and 107 miles from the Los Angeles Civic Center.
In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
May 28, 2012
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Southern Colorado bridge collapses
Posted: May 24, 2012 4:47 PM
TRINIDAD, Colo. (AP) - A crack in a bridge in southern Colorado is forcing drivers to take the long route along a scenic byway that runs west from Trinidad to the Sangre De Cristo mountains.
The Colorado Department of Transportation says the crack developed Wednesday evening on Colorado Highway 12 west of Trinidad, just after a large truck crossed the bridge over the Purgatoire River. CDOT says the crack led to about two feet of concrete breaking off, leading to the closure.
There were no injuries. Traffic is being rerouted on Interstate 25 and U.S. Highway 160.
The Colorado State Patrol tells the Colorado Springs Gazette there have been concerns in the past about the stability of the bridge, which was built in 1925. The bridge was being replaced when the crack appeared.
May 28, 2012
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Fourth earthquake rocks East Texas
Posted: Sunday, May 27, 2012 4:00 am
The fourth earthquake in 16 days hit East Texas early Saturday.
No injuries or significant damage were reported from the preliminary magnitude 2.5 temblor that hit about 1:30 a.m., said Larry Burns, emergency management coordinator in Timpson.
The quake was centered about seven miles southeast of town, near FM 1645 and Texas 87, according to information from the U.S. Geological Survey.
“One of the guys I work with, he told me it shook but it wasn’t like any of the others we’ve had,” said Burns, who was not in town when the latest quake occurred. “We’re up to four of them so far.”
There perhaps have been more than that, according to accounts collected by the Timpson and Teneha News, Mayor Debra Smith said Saturday.
“I think they’ve determined we are up to seven in the last 12 months,” the mayor said, dating the first reports to July. “But some of them were smaller than the (Geological Survey) keeps up.”
Smith reported the most recent shakeup was less dramatic than a May 17 quake that recently was upgraded to magnitude 4.8, woke residents and was blamed for one injury in the northern Shelby County town of 1,166.
“I think some people felt it,” she said, adding she slept through the latest quake. “We don’t know if it was an aftershock or how they classify those.”
The first quake, on May 10, measured magnitude 3.7. The May 17 earthquake was followed three days later by a 2.7 tremor that struck at 1:28 p.m. one week ago today about a mile south of Timpson.
The May 17 quake, which was felt in Longview and Shreveport, was centered three miles east of town, while the May 10 shakeup emanated from a site four miles to Timpson’s northeast.
Since the quakes began, Smith said, teams from the U.S. Geological Survey and Stephen F. Austin State University have placed seismic monitors in two or three locations to continuously record underground activity.
May 28, 2012
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15-foot sink hole closes road over Memorial weekend in Columbus, Minn.
A 15-foot sink hole caused a road closure Saturday in Columbus, Minn. The 15-foot deep hole developed in the middle of the 16000 block of Kettle River Boulevard Howard Lake Drive and Notre Dame Street Northeast. No injuries have been reported due to the sink hole.
Anoka County officials permanently closed the road. Repair crews are expected to begin working on repairs Tuesday, following Memorial Day to repair it on Tuesday. The cause of the opening is not yet known.
To repair the Boulevard, crews will need to need excavate the road, put in a culvert, then fill in and resurface it with new asphalt.
The dispatcher did not think we had enough rain for that to be the cause.
May 28, 2012
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No reports of damage after magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes norther...
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck northern Argentina in the early hours of Monday morning, the US Geological Survey said.
The tremor hit at 2:07am local time 21 miles east-southeast of Suncho Corral in Santiago del Estero province.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Suncho Corral lies about 630 miles northwest of the capital Buenos Aires.
May 28, 2012
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Magnitude-4.0 earthquake shakes Southern California coast off Malibu
MALIBU, Calif. — A small earthquake has jolted the Southern California coast but there are no reports of damages or injuries.
The U.S. Geological Survey says in a preliminary report that the magnitude-4.0 quake struck in the Channel Islands region at 10:14 p.m. Tuesday.
The USGS says the earthquake was centered 30 miles southwest of Malibu and was felt throughout the Los Angeles area, especially in West LA, Santa Monica and the San Fernando Valley.
Sheriff’s and fire officials say there are no reports of damages or injuries from the quake, and the Los Angeles Fire Department is not in earthquake mode.
Brandon David Wilson, a school teacher who lives in the Culver City area, said on Twitter that he felt the earthquake, but it was “just a sharp jolt. No big whoop.”
May 30, 2012
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Chile mudslide leaves 3,000 stranded
Some 3,000 people living in the towns of Palena and Futaleufu, in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos, on Wendesday remained isolated because of a mudslide that buried the road leading to the area, authorities said.
The mudslide, about 120 meters (390 feet) long and 20 meters (65 feet) deep, occurred late Tuesday during a storm that affected the area, in the vicinity of Villa Santa Lucia, some 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) south of Santiago.
That is what Andres Ibaceta, the regional head of the National Emergency Management Office, or Onemi, told local media, adding that although the road link for the affected communities with the rest of Chile had been interrupted, the border pass to Argentina is open.
"You can't get to Palena from the Chilean side, although it is possible from the Argentine side," said Ibaceta, while the Highway Department said that the effort to clear the road could take between two and three days.
Ibaceta emphasized that the weather conditions had improved in recent hours, something that he said will enable work crews to accelerate the clearing of mud, rocks and other debris from the road.
The storm also resulted in power outages and the loss of telephone communications, a situation that authorities said they had resolved over the past few hours.
The front of bad weather that affected several regions of Chile over the past few days left two people dead and 3,542 with some sort of property damage, according to figures compiled by Onemi. EFE
May 31, 2012
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earthquake rocks Petit-Rocher
The 3.2-magnitude quake was centred about 30 kilometres west of Petit-Rocher. (Natural Resources Canada)
New Brunswick has been hit by another earthquake.
A 3.2-magnitude quake rattled northern New Brunswick on Monday, about 4:30 p.m., according to Natural Resources Canada.
The epicentre was about 30 kilometres west of Petit-Rocher, but it was felt by people in Restigouche county.
No damage or injuries have been reported.
It’s “very unlikely” that an earthquake of a magnitude less than five could cause any damage, according to the federal agency.
The province has had a string of quakes in recent months.
On March 30, there was a 3.4-magnitude earthquake about 46 kilometres southwest of Bathurst.
McAdam area residents also experienced a series of tremors in March.
Monitoring equipment recorded at least 20 bumps in the southwestern village over two months — what’s known as a “swarm.”
The first one, on March 10, was the largest, with a magnitude of 2.4, while the others were between 2.0 and 1.4.
May 31, 2012
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Colombian volcano spouts ash, 500 evacuated
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A light spewing of ash on Tuesday amid renewed rumblings in the Nevado del Ruiz volcano prompted Colombian authorities to evacuate 500 people from beneath its flanks and briefly suspend flights at four airports.
The volcano's seismic activity was more intense than episodes in April and early May, when it emitted columns of steam, said the government geological agency Ingeominas.
The 5,321m volcano spouted ash that fell on population centres including the western city of Manizales, whose airport remained closed on Tuesday evening.
The other affected airports, in Pereira, Armenia and Cartago, resumed normal operations during the afternoon, said Mr Carlos Silva, deputy director of Colombia's civil aviation agency.
May 31, 2012
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New Earthquake Faults Discovered West Of Lake Tahoe
Californians may be unfazed by the knowledge that their state is one of the most seismically active regions in the world, but the addition of even more potential danger can't be good for those awaiting the next "big one."
Scientists studying earthquakes in the mountains west of Lake Tahoe have found new seismic faults--and they may be hazardous. The largest of their new discoveries is a 22-mile-long strike-slip fault named Polaris for the old mining town it runs through.
The fault range could generate strong earthquakes with magnitudes from 6.3 to 6.9, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, but because the fault connects to others in the area, the magnitude could be even higher if they ruptured at the same time. Temblors along the fault could also trigger landslides along the entire Tahoe-Sierra line, which stretches from Truckee to South Lake Tahoe.
"We weren't expecting it at all," said Lewis Hunter, a senior geologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, told Our Amazing Planet.
Scientists worry that activity from the new fault could lead to the rupture of a nearby dam and subsequent flooding of the area. Since Martis Creek Dam is already known to be in an active fault zone, the water levels are kept as low as possible. However, because the Polaris sits between the dam and its spillway, if the water levels were higher than usual, a very big earthquake could potentially flood a portion of Reno.
May 31, 2012
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Strong earthquake off Panama
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake has struck in the Pacific Ocean south of Panama, but there's no risk of a massive tsunami, US seismologists say.
The quake struck at 6.45pm (10.45 AEST) at a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey says.
The epicentre hit 370km south of the Panamanian city of David
Jun 5, 2012
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Earthquake Recap: Eight Quakes Rattle Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County saw eight earthquakes over the last week averaging a 1.6 on the Richter scale, according to the U.S. Geologial Survey's website.
The largest quake to hit the county had a preliminary reading of 3.5. Its epicenter was nine miles north of Morgan Hill and hit at 10:31 a.m. Sunday. A 1.6 aftershock clocked in at 11:22 a.m., emanating from the same location.
Gilroy’s closest quake was a weaker 1.1 on Saturday. This quake’s center was 10 miles east of the Garlic City and hit at 6:16 p.m.
Not to be left out of the South County quakes, San Martin saw a 1.2 shaker strike Wednesday, hitting at 7:41 p.m. It had an epicenter five miles northeast of the city.
Three quakes hit Los Altos in a matter of two days. The first was a 1.2 on Thursday, striking at 1:14 p.m. It was followed by a stronger 1.7 at 3:17 p.m. the same day. A 1.6 on Friday at 2:16 p.m. rounded out Los Altos’ trembler trifecta. Each was three miles south of the city, about 20 minutes from Campbell.
Los Gatos had a close one with a 1.1 magnitude shaker hitting Lexington Hills Thursday. The tiny tremor struck at 9:42 a.m. three miles southeast of the small mountain community.
Hollister, just over 15 miles south of Gilroy, saw a single shaker on Friday. Coming in at a 1.4, this quake struck at 11:21 a.m. six miles northwest of the city, about 11 miles southeast of Gilroy
Jun 5, 2012
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Magnitude 6.0 - SALTA, ARGENTINA
54 km (33 miles) NNE of Tartagal, Salta, Argentina
131 km (81 miles) ESE of Tarija, Bolivia
1469 km (912 miles) NNW of BUENOS AIRES, D.F., Argentina
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=E
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
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Jun 5, 2012
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Flooding Causes Big Sinkhole In Claremore
The heavy rains and flooding Sunday night opened up a giant sinkhole in the middle of the road in Claremore.
It was located north of a home near 228th Street and South Pecan Street.
It's now blocked off by authorities.
A major chunk of the street broke apart and was swept away.
No word on how long repairs will take.
Jun 5, 2012
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5.8-magnitude earthquake hits Chile
Jun 7, 2012
A new earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck Chile this morning.
The epicenter was at a depth of 7 km below the surface about 100 km from the city of Talca and 277 km from the capital Santiago.
There have been no reports of casualties, destructions, or a tsunami alert.
Chile is situated on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire – a 40,000-km arc of intense seismic activity, and home to more than 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes.
Jun 8, 2012
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Earthquake measuring 6.0 strikes Peru
A 6.0-MAGNITUDE earthquake rattled southern Peru overnight, the US Geological Survey reported.
The USGS said it struck at 11.03am local time, about 1648km southeast of the capital, Lima.
The epicenter was at a depth of 99km.
Jun 8, 2012
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Alaska Highway closed in two places
Closures near Teslin and Destruction Bay due to flooding and washouts
In southwest Yukon, the Alaska Highway is closed between Haines Junction and Destruction Bay because of a washout at the south end of Kluane Lake. (Kelly Wroot)
Travellers on the Alaska Highway are stranded in a few Yukon communities due to road closures in two locations from washouts, flooding and mudslides.
In western Yukon, the Alaska Highway is closed between Haines Junction and Destruction Bay because of a washout at the south end of Kluane Lake.
Kelly Wroot, who lives just a few kilometres away wasn't able to get to work in Destruction Bay this morning because of the conditions.
"The road is washed out, it's quite the mess," he said.
"It looks like maybe a culvert got wiped up and it's just been kind of overwhelmed by the water. The culvert has actually been pushed up at about 45 degrees to the road sticking up in the air and the downstream side of the road is pretty washed out on the shoulders and there's a lot of debris in the road."
In southeast Yukon, the Alaska Highway is closed between Teslin and the junction with the Stewart-Cassiar Highway due to high water and flooding in the Rancheria area.
People are stranded at Rancheria, in the middle of one of the most affected areas, with washouts on one side and a mudslide on the other.
Mary Eckle was on the night shift at the Big Horn Hotel in Watson Lake, and said it was “very hectic” as stranded travellers searched for a place to stay.
“I came at 12 o'clock and we were all full and I had to turn people away because we were just absolutely full,” she said. “All the hotels in town were full.”
On the other side of the affected area in the southeast Yukon, travellers are also waiting in Teslin.
American Caroline Huggins got the last room at the local motel. She even invited four strangers to share the room last night because they had nowhere to go.
Huggins said the road closure is frustrating, but she's looking on the bright side.
“I didn't get in the slides, so I'm grateful,” she said.
She said because it's unclear when the road will re-open she has booked a spot on the Alaska ferry to take her down the coast.
A spokesperson for Canada Post says its customers in Destruction Bay, Burwash Landing and Beaver Creek will not receive mail today due to the washout near Destruction Bay.
Normal mail delivery will resume once the highway has been reopened
Jun 9, 2012
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earthquake recorded in northwestern Arkansas
Jun 9, 2012
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Landslide moves Fargo road 13 1/2 feet, breaks water main (with video)
FARGO – Officials say Fargo’s largest landslide in recent memory will cost at least $100,000 to repair after it dislocated a section of road by a car length, broke a water main and plugged a drainage ditch.
“It was something very strange for our neck of the woods,” said Ben Dow, Fargo Public Works director. “It’s about the largest one we’ve seen. But our soils are always doing funky things up here in clay country.”
City employees became aware of the problem on the morning of May 31 when the water pressure dropped in a north-side tower because of the water main break, Dow said.
Engineers found that a section of 32nd Street North measuring more than 100 feet long had shifted 13 1/2 feet to the west, causing cracks in the gravel road and large ruts at each end. The road and an adjacent drain field had slid toward Legal Drain 10, pushing up the bottom of the drainage ditch and blocking the main channel.
Chad Engels, an engineer for the Southeast Cass Water Resource District, which owns the drain, said it appeared that the ground shifted under the weight of a stockpile of aggregate sitting along 32nd Street on the site of Border States Paving Inc.’s asphalt production plant.
Such landslides are technically referred to as rotational slides and commonly known as slumping. They happen when one layer of soil rotates under pressure while the layer below it stays in place, causing what’s known as a slip plane, Engels said.
Slumping often occurs along drainage ditches when they are being excavated and the spoil is piled next to the channel, but Engels said this is the largest slide he has seen.
“Because here we have a case where the bottom of the channel has actually been pushed up something around 8 to 10 feet, the channel was actually raised in elevation,” he said. “So it’s pretty impressive what forces can do.”
Engineers immediately surveyed the drain to make sure water could still pass over the plugged section without flooding surrounding land, said Engels, a senior project manager with Moore Engineering of West Fargo.
The water district has hired a contractor to clear the drain after Border States finishes moving the aggregate away from the road to prevent more slumping, Engels said. He expects the drain to be open by this weekend.
Braun Intertec, a geotechnical engineering firm in West Fargo, has been hired by the district to determine what caused the landslide and develop recommendations for repairing it.
Engels said he expects the area to be repaired in four to six weeks, but it’s unclear who will foot the bill.
“There’s an ongoing discussion between the water district and Border States,” he said.
Dan Thompson, part-owner of Border States, said the asphalt plant has operated in its current location since 1994 or 1995, and the aggregate pile comes and goes with the seasons. Nothing was done differently this year that would have triggered the landslide, he said.
Engels speculated that, in addition to the stockpile, fluctuations in soil wetness may have played a role in the landslide.
“They’re very unpredictable,” he said.
Dow said it’s similar to what happened with Mount Fargo, a ski hill created in the 1980s from earth excavated for the Bluemont Lakes development. The hill eventually began sinking into the soft, wet clay below and pushed up the ground around it. It was trimmed down in the early 1990s, and the clay was used to build dikes.
Thompson said no one was on the aggregate pile at the time of the landslide, which buckled a section of Border States’ fence.
“When we came out here, you could actually hear the fence popping,” said Dean Riemer of Cass County Electric Co-op, which had an electrical line broken by the landslide.
Officials said the affected water main had been capped off for future development and wasn’t serving anyone. Crews recapped it at the point of breakage and will likely have to replace the entire section that shifted, they said.
The damaged road has been barricaded, temporarily cutting off access to one building at the end of it.
Thompson said Border States plans to park equipment on the area where the aggregate was stockpiled.
“The soils around here … they aren’t real supportive,” he said.
Jun 9, 2012
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UPDATE: Earthquake Swarm Reported at Chile’s Tatara-San Pedro
Tatara-San Pedro seen in February 2006. Image by Michael Dungan (Univ. Geneva)
UPDATE June 8, 2012 at 2:30 PM EDT: This hasn’t entirely been settled, but the latest report in24Horas.cl has the SERNAGEOMIN ruling out any volcanic origin to the spate of earthquakes near San Pedro-Tatara (San Pedro-Pellado). This report, however, implicates Laguna del Maule as the potential location of volcanic unrest.
Quick report tonight brought to my attention by Eruptions reader GuillermoChile. Apparently, the SERNAGEOMIN has been monitoring an earthquake swarm at Chile’s Tatara-San Pedro (also known asSan Pedro-Pellado), possibly numbering in the hundreds of small earthquakes over the last few days. The reports are a little scant and the information coming from different parts of the Chilean government are contradictory: the regional governor of the area was quoted as saying that “it is of volcanic earthquakes, so we are on alert” while the regional director from ONEMI said “at first thought that we were facing a volcanic earthquakes, but known reports of the analysis has led to the conclusion that we were facing tectonic type earthquakes“. The article in La Tercera also mentions that the volcano hasn’t erupted in “decades” while the Global Volcanism Program’s entry for San Pedro says that the last eruption is “unknown”, likely in the Holocene (last 10,000 years). So, there seems to be lots of confusion (not to mention La Tercera calling the volcano “Catinao”). If this is renewed activity at the volcano, it is potentially the first in recorded history.
Tatara-San Pedro has been a focus of a lot of petrologic study, so any new activity would get the geologic community’s attention quickly. I’ll keep this updated with any new information as it arrives, but hard to tell what exactly is going on at the Chilean volcano.
Jun 9, 2012
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Morgan • The Utah Transportation Commission received more bad news Friday about attempts to rebuild SR-14 east of Cedar City, which was closed by a massive landslide last October. Other parts of Cedar Canyon are also slipping, and fixes to the new problems will cost millions more than expected.
In response, the commission decided at a meeting in Morgan on Friday to delay some emergency repairs on other lower priority roads, taking $2.5 million that had been targeted for them to pay for the additional work now needed on SR-14.
That highway is a major route between Cedar City and Cedar Breaks National Monument and other points east such as Kanab or Bryce Canyon National Park.
The bad news comes just a month after the commission had already added another $1.5 million to address newly appearing sliding in yet another part of Cedar Canyon.
Before the latest addition, the state had already committed to spending $15.5 million to stabilize the area and replace the highway destroyed by the slide. John Njord, executive director of the Utah Department of Transportation, said some complicated juggling between different federal and state funds overseen by the agency is needed to finance the additional work.
For example, UDOT is shifting some federal emergency repair funds that were going to help repair other landslides on the Old Snow Basin Road in Weber County and Brown’s Canyon Park Road in Daggett County to the SR-14 project, and using some other local reserve funds for those two projects instead.
The agency also is transferring some money from planned slide-repair projects in Wasatch and Duchesne counties temporarily. UDOT is applying for more federal emergency funding in hopes of completing those projects later.
Jun 9, 2012
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Panama shaken by 6.6 quake
A 6.6 magnitude struck off the Pacific coast of Panama today, the United States Geological Survey said.
The epicenter was 370 kilometres south of David, Panama, at a depth of 10.5 kilometres.
There was no tsunami threat, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
The quake was reported to have occurred at 12.45pm New Zealand time.
Jun 10, 2012
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Fuego volcano erupts, Guatemalan authorities report
The Fuego volcano, located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of this capital, on Sunday spewed a column of ash up to a kilometer (about 3,300 feet) high, a government agency reported.
The National Vulcanology Institute said in a communique that the volcano, which rises 3,763 meters (12,230 feet) above sea level, on Sunday erupted effusively, according to seismic recordings and the images received from a camera at the observatory at Panimache.
The volcano's activity presently consists of emissions of red hot lava being hurled from the crater to a height of some 500 meters (1,625 feet), the agency said.
The institute went on to say that three rivers of lava were emerging from the crater and moving down the sides of the mountain.
In addition, two emissions of ash rising from 800 to 1,000 meters (about 2,600 feet to 3,300 feet) were blowing southeast.
The vulcanology institute warned that although the eruption presently consists of an effusion of lava, the possibility exists that in the coming hours the volcano's activity will increase to a pyroclastic flow of the kind experienced on May 19 and May 25.
A pyroclastic flow is a fast-moving current of superheated gas, which can reach temperatures of about 1,000 C (1,830 F), and rock, which reaches speeds moving away from a volcano of up to 700 km/h (450 mph). The flow normally hugs the ground and travels downhill, or spreads laterally under gravity, and is quite devastating to virtually anything in its path.
The agency recommended to the Conred disaster organization to maintain an orange preventive alert near the mountain until the volcanic activity lessens.
Civilian air traffic is being warned to take precautions because the ash cloud extends up to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the volcano.
The Fuego volcano, whose name in the Kakchikel Indian language is "Chi Cag" (where the fire is), is one of the most impressive fire mountains in Central America and has been in a constant state of activity.
So far, civil protection authorities do not think that the eruption represents a danger for nearby towns, but it is recommending that residents in the region be on alert to take whatever measures Conred may announce.
Jun 11, 2012
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O.C. earthquake rattles Disney's Cars Land premiere
A 4.1 earthquake in Yorba Linda that shook parts of Southern California on Wednesday evening added a little extra excitement to the star-studded red carpet opening of the new Cars Land at the Disneyland Resort.
Thousands of people -- celebrities, media and other invitation-only guests -- were gathered at Disney's California Adventure for an event celebrating the final piece of Disney's $1.1-billion expansion of the Anaheim park.
"Earthquake just happened in so cal, felt at #carsland preview" tweeted @FindingMickey. "#disneyland #JustGotScarier."
Several people tweeted with the hashtag #JustGotScarier, a play on the #JustGotHappier phrase Disney has been using to promote Cars Land, which opens to the public on Friday.
"Earthquake!" @Mouseinfo tweeted. "I guess mother nature wanted to get into #carsland too."
The quake was centered in the Yorba Linda area and occurred at 8:17 p.m. The quake was felt over a wide area of Los Angeles and Orange counties. There were no immediate reports of damage.
A 2.4 magnitude aftershock was reported a few minutes after the main quake.
Jun 14, 2012
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10 aftershocks followed 4.0 earthquake in O.C., officials say
The 4.0-magnitute earthquake that rumbled beneath Orange County on Wednesday night resulted in about 10 aftershocks, the most recent occurring Thursday morning, officials said.
The latest temblor, which was too small to feel, happened about 7:30 a.m., about 11 hours after the 4.0-magnitude quake hit, said Bob Dollar, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Most of the aftershocks occurred within about an hour of the 4.0 quake, the largest being two 2.4-magnitude temblors that were about two miles north and north-northwest of Yorba Linda.
The first quake was felt over a wide area of Los Angeles and Orange counties, Dollar said, with more than 8,000 people reporting to the USGS's "Did you feel it?" page.
"We haven't had a 4 in the urban area for a while," Dollar said. "And a 4 is strong enough that it's going to be widely felt."
The earthquake also added a little extra excitement to the star-studded red-carpet opening of the newCars Land at the Disneyland Resort, where thousands of celebrities, media and other invite-only guests gathered at California Adventure for an event celebrating the final piece of a $1.1-billion expansion of the Anaheim park.
"Earthquake!" @Mouseinfo tweeted. "I guess mother nature wanted to get into #carsland too."
No damage was immediately reported after the earthquake or the aftershocks that followed, Orange County officials said.
Jun 15, 2012
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Massive landslide closes highway in Costa Rica
Ruta 32, the route that connects San José with Guapiles and Limón, is once again closed due to a landslide occurring at kilometre 30 in the area of the Zurquí, some 10 km east of the tunnel.
The road is expected to remain closed for most of the day today Thursday, as work crews clean up the debris strewn across the road.
The Consejo Nacional de Vialidad (CONAVI) says it is in the process of removing some 6.400 cubic metres of mud and other materials that coves some 8 metres (25 feet) of roadway.
The CONAVI says that the road will be re-open today if the weather conditions allow the work to continue and no new landslides occur.
Jun 15, 2012
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Overnight earthquake near Cleburne is latest in series of small qua...
Residents of Cleburne have been puzzled by a series of small earthquakes in recent years. (DMN file photo)
A 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck near Cleburne overnight, the latest in a series of several minor quakes around the Johnson County town.
No damage or injuries were reported in the temblor, which hit about 2 a.m. and lasted all of 15 to 20 seconds.
Immediately after the quake, the Johnson County sheriff’s office received more than 100 911 calls, said Lt. Tim Jones, a spokesman for the department.
Shortly afterward, an emergency team checked the area for damage and ensured that the jolt was not an explosion.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake was centered 11 miles north-northeast of Cleburne. It was felt as far away as Plano and Denton, according to the USGS.
Jennifer Wright Foster, who lives between Egan and Keene (not far from the epicenter), said the quake was a rude awakening.
“It rocked our house hard but we are ok,” she wrote on WFAA-TV’s Facebook page. “Our daughter had just gotten in bed with us. I’m so glad she wasnt walking around the house at the time.”
Mark Hayes of Mansfield, 24 miles away from Cleburne, said he was awakened — “felt like someone hit the wall on the house – and believes the quake was responsible.
Jun 17, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.1 quake strikes near The Geysers
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon two miles from The Geysers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 1:07 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was four miles from Cobb, seven miles from Anderson Springs, 27 miles from Santa Rosa and 74 miles from Sacramento.
In the last 10 days there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.
Jun 17, 2012