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
Mudslide Severs Traffic On Hwy 16 East in BC
Prince George, BC - A mudslide has completely closed Highway 16, just west of the junction with Highway 5 at Tete Jaune Cache.
Ministry of Transportation and Highway officials say the slide came down and covered both lanes of traffic, approximately 7-km west of the junction.
There is no detour available to motorists hoping to get from Prince George east to Jasper or southeast to Valemount. MOTI is estimating crews may be able to re-open a portion of the highway by 3pm, but, at this point in time, that estimate has a low confidence rating.
Jun 18, 2012
bill
earthquake along Mississippi River between MO, TN
TIPTONVILLE, TN (KAIT) - A small earthquake rattled areas along the Mississippi River Sunday morning. According to the United States Geological Survey, there was 3.30 magnitude earthquake centered around the Mississippi River about two miles west of Tiptonville, Tennessee.
The quake happened around 8:40am Central Daylight Time. The quake was large enough to be felt locally. There have been no reports of damage.
The earthquake is one of hundreds of small tremors that shake the New Madrid Seismic Zone from Illinois to Arkansas along the Mississippi River. It is one of the most active earthquake zones in the United States. The area felt two of the most powerful earthquakes in our nation's history when a series of 8.0+ magnitude quakes hit in 1811 and 1812.
Jun 18, 2012
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Nearly 30 people isolated by mudslide in Chile
Nearly 30 people were cut off early Sunday by a mudslide caused by the torrential rains in central and southern Chile, police said.
The mudslide occurred in Farellones, located a few kilometers (miles) from Santiago, the Carabineros militarized police force said.
Snow and heavy rain caused the emergency situation at kilometer 4 in Farellones on the road to a ski resort, police said, adding that all the residents who were cut off are in good condition.
Avalanches, meanwhile, destroyed an unoccupied vehicle in San Jose de Maipo, a city outside Santiago in the lower part of the Andes.
Heavy snow has kept the Los Libertadores border crossing, which links the Chilean city of Los Andes to the Argentine city of Mendoza, closed, police said.
Jun 18, 2012
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Magnitude 5.4 - MENDOZA, ARGENTINA
161 km (100 miles) S of San Juan, San Juan, Argentina
179 km (111 miles) N of San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina
930 km (577 miles) W of BUENOS AIRES, D.F., Argentina
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Jun 19, 2012
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6.0 earthquake hits Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
(AP) – A strong earthquake that struck a remote and sparsely populated region of Alaska was felt on the island of Shemya where the U.S. military operates an air station.
The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 and occurred shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday in the Aleutian Islands that extend into the Bering Sea in far southwestern Alaska.
Shemya is 108 miles west-northwest of where the earthquake was centered. It is home to Eareckson Air Station, which serves mainly as an early warning radar installation.
A state Web page says most of the military personnel are off the island, but there are dozens of civilian contractors maintaining the facility.
The Earthquake Information Center says there were no immediate reports of damage.
Jun 20, 2012
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Alert level raised for remote Alaska volcano
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The alert level for a remote Alaska volcano has been raised after an apparent ash-producing explosion Tuesday afternoon.
There is no real-time seismic monitoring network on Cleveland Volcano, meaning scientists must rely on limited data, such as pilot reports, webcam images and low-frequency sounds. A pilot report suggests the ash cloud rose to an altitude of 35,000 feet, or 6.6 miles. The sounds detected suggest it was a brief eruption.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory says additional eruptions are still possible with little warning, and ash clouds 20,000 feet above sea level are possible.
The 5,675-foot volcano is on an uninhabited island about 940 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Seismologist Stephanie Prejean says the explosion, at this point, appears to be within the range of those reported from the volcano during the past year.
Jun 20, 2012
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New Madrid Adjustment: Giant Sinkhole underneath St Catherine Street, Montreal
As city workers and others prepare to fix a sinkhole at St Catherine Street and McGill College, pedestrians voice their concerns, in Montreal Wednesday June 20, 2012.
Jun 21, 2012
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MINNESOTA: Flooding "Rips Up" Duluth, Drowns Zoo Animals
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Jun 21, 2012
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Stretch Zone Movement Causes 3 large Oil spills in Canada, two this month!
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Jun 21, 2012
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REME prepare for Canada 18.06.12
Jun 21, 2012
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Mass Fish Kill in canal near Lake Manitoba, Canada (June 17, 2012)
Jun 21, 2012
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Two more giant sinkholes on the same day . . .in Tennessee and Florida
A 20-ft wide sinkhole, that is still growing, opened in Pikeville, Tennessee
A 20 ft wide sinkhole opened up in a field near Highway 127, and it is still growing. The photos, taken by Jessica Brown, show the current sinkhole including a visible water line. The sinkhole measures 20 feet across, 20 feet deep to the waterline, and 26 feet of water with very strong currents.http://timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jun/20/large-sinkhole-opens-pik...
Sinkhole swallows houses in Hudson, Florida
On Wednesday afternoon, June 20, Susan Minutillo, 79, was doing an errand for a friend. When she returned to her home about a half-hour later, she experienced something she never expected. It seems that around 3:00 p.m., a sinkhole under the back half of her home began to collapse. Forty-five minutes later, half the house was gone, and County officials plastered a condemned sign on her garage door.
Jun 21, 2012
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Strange Sounds Saga Continues: Mystery “Roar” In Eastern PA Town
It would surprise me if there were someone out there who hasn’t heard of the ongoing “strange sounds” incidents happening all over the globe.
Actually, there has been a noticeable lull in activity, until now that is. We have a new report from the Upper Gwynedd Township suburb of Philadelphia.
Heidi Lucas, who lives near the Merck & Co. West Point plant in West Point Village has been so bothered by a strange “roaring sound” that she and her husband took it up with the Upper Gwynedd Township Board of Commissioners.
More specifically, the sound is a “roar mixed with a mechanical vibration”. This mystery sound has been going on for two years and has had Lucas so distraught at times that she would spend evenings driving around in an attempt to locate the source.
Logic would say the Merck plant is responsible, however, Merck has been in total cooperation regarding this dilemma.
here’s the source article from a local news site, The Reporter:
Jun 21, 2012
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Biological Hazard in USA on Sunday, 17 June, 2012 at 05:11 (05:11 A...
Recently a sampling crew found blue-green algae blooming in Sodus Bay. “I don't think anybody wanted to go in the water anyway because it was like pea soup,” boater Bruce Arrabito said. Boaters like Arrabito remember summers like 2010. That’s when slimy algae covered the bay, some of it was toxic to people and animals. It's a sight boater, Joyce Ebmeyer worries she'll see again. “This is just the beginning stages, Ebmeyer said. “It was blue everywhere; it will probably get the same way.” Ebmeyer claims the algae from 2010 made her friend sick. “My friend had a reaction to it when she was here two years ago and she was wheezing and could hardly breath and a friend of hers had an asthma attack,” Ebmeyer said. Some marinas have strategically placed bubblers near the docks where blue algae form. Algae need hot, dry conditions, and calm water. The idea is to use these bubblers to prevent algae from forming. But that can't rid the water of what's already there. To do that, Ed Leroux of the group, Save Our Sodus says they're looking at using Hydrogen Peroxide. “It's worked exceptionally well in the Netherlands,” Leroux said. “It stops the algae bloom dead in its tracks.” That may be able to flush out this nuisance for good. Leroux says his organization has received several grants to take on projects to control and rid of the algae. It’s not known if the blooms in the bay are toxic. The results from samples taken Friday will be available sometime Monday.
Jun 22, 2012
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Earthquake: 4.2 quake strikes near Incline Village-Crystal Bay, Nev.
A shallow magnitude 4.2 earthquake was reported Friday evening six miles from Incline Village-Crystal Bay, Nev., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:51 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 6.8 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was six miles from Tahoe Vista, six miles from Kings Beach, 16 miles from Reno and 96 miles from Sacramento.
In the last 10 days, there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.
Jun 23, 2012
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Magnitude 3.1 - UTAH
15 km (9 miles) ESE of Saint George, Utah
20 km (12 miles) SW of Hurricane, Utah
62 km (38 miles) ENE of Mesquite, Nevada
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Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Jun 23, 2012
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Sinkhole Closes Grosh Field
Jun 24, 2012
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Sink Hole in Monterey on Josselyn Canyon Road
Jun 24, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.0 tremor rolls near Gilroy
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday evening six miles from Gilroy, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:12 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time at a depth of 5.0 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was seven miles from Aromas, seven miles from San Juan Bautista, 10 miles from Hollister and 34 miles from San Jose City Hall.
In the last 10 days, there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.
Jun 24, 2012
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Minor earthquake followed by series of aftershocks in Reno-Carson C...
RENO, Nev. — Authorities say that parts of northern Nevada have been shaken by a small earthquake.
A preliminary report from the U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-4.2 quake struck at 8:51 p.m. Friday at a depth of about seven miles. The temblor was centered about 16 miles southwest of Reno, and was felt by residents in a wide area around Reno and Carson City.
There were no reports of damage.
The quake was followed by a series of aftershocks later Friday night and early Saturday morning, including one that was magnitude 2.6.
Jun 24, 2012
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Johnson County shaken by another mild earthquake
Johnson County was shaken by a 3.5 magnitude earthquake on Sunday afternoon, shortly before 1 p.m.
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake about two miles northeast of Keene and about seven miles northeast of Cleburne. It was first detected at around 12:47 p.m.
The quake came just a day after another minor one in Cleburne. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 2.1 magnitude quake at around 1 a.m. on Saturday near Keene, about 25 miles south of Fort Worth and seven miles northeast of Cleburne.
The second quake, which took place on Sunday, was stronger. Still, it was unlikely to do harm, said Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey.
“It’s not large enough to create any damage, but it certainly could rattle dishes and rattle windows,” he said.
Blakeman said some people in Cleburne called the U.S. Geological Survey to report a “thump” or some quake vibrations.
Rhonda Price, who works for dispatch in the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, said she could feel the quake’s impact. Dispatch received about 50 calls about the quake, but there have been no reports of damage or injuries, she said
Jun 26, 2012
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Magnitude 3.4 Earthquake Shakes San Jose Area
June 25, 2012 8:02 AM
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 rattled an area south of San Jose early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake occurred at 1:13 a.m. about 9 miles north of Morgan Hill and about 15 miles southeast of downtown San Jose, according to the USGS.
The temblor had a depth of about 4 miles.
Jun 26, 2012
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Small earthquake rattles Seeley Lake to Ovando
A small earthquake rocked houses from Seeley Lake to Ovando just after 10 p.m. Sunday, according to U.S. Geological Survey data.
The 3.2 magnitude quake was centered between Black and Alloy mountains in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, about 21 miles northeast of Seeley Lake. Its epicenter was nine miles beneath the earth’s surface.
Brad Weltzien said his family felt the bump at their house just south of Seeley Lake.
“It was real quick – like one huge blast of wind, but it was still as can be last night,” Weltzien said. You could hear lots of cracks from the house, but it didn’t move anything. We didn’t feel it shake so much as hear the house make noise.”
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Jay Kolbe was camped within a mile of the epicenter on Sunday in the Danaher Meadows area, close to the headwaters of the South Fork Flathead River. He was back in Seeley Lake Sunday evening and didn’t feel the quake. But he said the area looked prime for earthquake activity.
Jun 26, 2012
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Sharpes Ferry Bridge collapses in Marion Co.(video)
MARION COUNTY, Fla. —
The 85-year-old Sharpes Ferry Bridge in Marion Countycollapsed overnight.
Officials said they have not figured out why part of the bridge washed away, considering it just opened in March after an $8 million renovation. Crews re-enforced it with a new concrete bridge and walkway.
WFTV was there when the engineers and builders of the Sharpes Ferry Bridge studied the 200-foot section that crumbled into a pile of rubble.
In just a 12-hour period, some parts of Ocala were pummeled by 7 inches of rain.
The wind was gusting at more than 40 miles per hour.
People who spoke with WFTV said the bad weather is no excuse for the collapse.
"Do you think it was worth $8 million?" WFTV reporter Tim Barber asked.
"I wouldn't give you $5 million. I wouldn't give you $1 million," said Ocala resident Jesse Price.
State and county officials said they are taking more precautions until they figure out how part of the bridge washed away.
"This thing is a joke, and whoever designed it is a joke," said Price.
Sandbags are available at Tuscawilla Park.
WFTV found out the company that designed the bridge is C3TS of Miami.
The company that built it is Orian Marine Group out of Tampa.
Jun 26, 2012
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Sinkhole opens up in Ocala; Truck teeters on edge
OCALA, Fla. —
Some of the worst damage caused by Tropical Storm Debby that WFTV found on Monday was in the city of Ocala.
A United Van Lines truck was teetering on the edge of the hole near Southwest 52nd Terrace and Southwest 42nd Street.
Reporter Berndt Petersen received information on a large sinkhole that opened up near a condominium complex and caused an evacuation to part of the building.
Police said they moved some of the residents out and they brought the bulldozers in.
Crews hauled in huge earth movers to fill the giant sinkhole that opened in Ocala's Fore Ranch subdivision.
"My friend sent a text and said they had seen it, and people were starting to evacuate," said Brittany Laxton, Fore Ranch resident.
Residents in the condos nearest to the 100-foot-long hole were ordered to leave.
Debby's heavy rains also washed out 250 feet of retention wall from the new $8 million Sharpes Ferry Bridge on County Road 314.
"The old bridge worked. You have to slow down. It saves lives. This thing is a joke," said Marion County resident Jesse Price.
In Ocala, workers distributed hundreds of sandbags at Tuscawilla Park.
Sharon Cook said her pool is a mess.
"It's full of water and it's leaking out, and it's leaking out toward the house," said Cook.
There was flooding in the Heritage Hills neighborhood, and 18th Avenue was under nearly two-feet of water.
Shirley Fielitz said she hopes the pumps will get rid of it.
"I hope so, because I don't drive. But I have people pick me up, and I have two doctor's appointments next week," said Fielitz.
Fore Ranch residents said they remember the last time a big hole opened there, just over a year ago.
"I've been told by our landlord it was possible, and they were trying to make sure it wasn't happening, and it did. And it's a little scary to think that," said Laxton.
Some smaller holes have also opened out there, and several Ocala streets had to be closed Monday because of flooding.
Jun 26, 2012
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Mudslide destroys dam supplying drinking water to B.C. town
KASLO, B.C.—A mudslide has wiped out a dam that funnels water to the southeastern B.C. village of Kaslo, on Kootenay Lake, about 70 kilometres north of Nelson.
Officials estimate the slide on Josephine Creek happened at around noon on Sunday, destroying the concrete and steel dam that holds the intake to Kaslo’s main reservoir.
No water is draining into the reservoir and Kaslo has switched to an emergency water supply and imposed strict water conservation measures because it may be some time — if ever — before the dam can be rebuilt.
The City of Trail also endured flooding and heavy rain over the weekend, with washouts, sewer backups and mudslides reported as the Columbia River rises to levels not seen for more than a decade.
The Regional District of Central Kootenay has ordered 30 homes evacuated north of Castlegar in the Pass Creek area, the same neighbourhood where an elderly man died after being swept into Goose Creek on Saturday.
The man’s body was recovered Sunday but his name has not been released.
Jun 26, 2012
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Sicamous Creek B.C Mudslide
Jun 27, 2012
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earthquakes rattle North Texans
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 6:24 PM
JOSHUA, Texas — "This is what got jarred loose right here," Camille Dearing said, pointing at the back of her home in Joshua.
She admits it's not much damage — a separated downspout, maybe a hairline mortar crack and loosened vent.
But Sunday's earthquake in Johnson County was strong enough to knock Dearing out of a deep sleep.
"As I jumped up, then I felt the whole house feel like it shifted sideways," she said. "That was the scary part. Sound first, then movement.
It scared her granddaughter, too. "Kaboom!" exclaimed four-year-old Audrey
The rumbling lit up 911 lines across Johnson County. It was the third mild quake in four days, including a 2.6 magnitude jolt just after 11 p.m. Monday
"Shook the windows really bad," said Lisa Hansen, who lives near Alvarado. "I almost thought they were going to break.
She said Sunday's 3.6 magnitude tremor felt like a wave that rolled beneath her house, causing furniture to shift.
Jun 27, 2012
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3 sinkholes formed in a retention pond in Ocala
Jun 27, 2012
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Florida: Sinkhole opens up at Ocala townhome complex
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Jun 27, 2012
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Roof collapses at a busy Canadian mall in Northern Ontario
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Jun 27, 2012
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Sinkhole emerges in major Costa Rican highway, chaos ensues
A giant sinkhole that opened up last night in the middle of General Cañas Highway has created a snarl of traffic for drivers trying to enter and leave the capital.
The highway, which connects the San José to Alajuela and also the country's main airport, was closed after heavy rains produced the sinkhole. The chasm – reported 3.5 meters wide and 4 meters deep – is in front of the Los Arcos community in Ciudad Cariari, west of San José, and several minutes from the Juan Santamaría Airport.
The highway closure begins at the Juan Pablo II Bridge in La Uruca, a northwest district of the capital.
Alternative routes have become congested. Long lines of cars were reported on Route 27 (San José to Santa Ana), streets near La Uruca, and on the roads that connect San José to the province of Heredia.
The Public Works and Transport Ministry (MOPT) even recommended for anyone who needs to use the road on their morning commute to work from home or "take a vacation." Transit Police are pleading with drivers to maintain patience.
President Laura Chinchilla called for transit officials to convene and figure out a contingency plan for the highway. A press conference to announce the plan is set for 3 p.m.
MOPT officials believe the General Cañas Highway will remain closed for at least a week in order to repair the sinkhole. Construction workers will install two Bailey bridges over the damaged roadway. The bridges will allow for light vehicles to pass through the route, according to the daily La Nación.
Workers need to fix the sewer system beneath General Cañas before the highway can reopen for all vehicles. Damage to the sewer system and a build up of water brought on by the rains led to the collapse.
Silvia Chaves, a spokeswoman for Aeris, the company that manages Juan Santamaría International Airport, said the officials are doing all they can do accommodate late-arriving airline passengers.
"We set up a special protocol to deal with the passengers as they arrive. They are given priority for migration procedures, taxpaying and access to the planes. The terminal is working as usual. There has been no delays so far," Chaves said.
She said flights have not been delayed due to tardy crew members, since most airline workers stay at hotels near the airport. She said some passengers have missed their flights, but its up to each airline to resolve those issues.
The National Tourism Chamber (Canatur) issued a press release asking for Transit Police to provide a special route for airport passengers. Canatur stated that a United Airlines flight to Houston that left at 11:45 a.m. was missing 40 passengers. Taca airlines said its waiting an extra 10 minutes before closing check-in for flights.
"Passengers have had to take alternate routes, however, because the roads are jammed, the movement of people to the airport is complicated," said Juan Carlos Ramos, president of Canatur in the release. "What we seek is a temporary measure to enable a fast track to accelerate the mobilization of these users."
Canatur recommends setting up a route where travelers could show their passports to transit authorities, in order to receive access to the special airport route.
AVOID the Pista General Cañas - SINK HOLE
Jun 27, 2012
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Nassau Co. bridge swallowed by storm water
BRYCEVILLE, Fla. -- Debby's relentless rain overpowered a Nassau County bridge Wednesday morning. Bryceville's Brandy Branch Creek swallowed the bridge on 301 near Otis Road and drivers are now having to put up with detours. The force of flooding was just too much for the structure, which was built in the 1940's.
"I wouldn't have even imagined that bridge would have snapped," said Bryceville resident Jeremy Johnson. "I was just in awe at the way the asphalt broke clean and the way the bridge just collapsed in."
It's a safe bet that the bridge was brought down by rushing water. But the lead engineer for the repairs, Phil Cleland, told Action News that specifics surrounding the failure won't be known until it's removed from the creek.
Police were posted both north and south of the Brandy Branch Creek Bridge directing drivers to detours. This is an area folks expected to get easier to travel around.
The Florida Department of Transportation was already planning to knock the structure down and build a new, wider bridge when 301 expands to four lanes. But Mother Nature got a jump start on the project.
"It shows you how Mother Nature does take in her forces whatever we built and it gets ripped from the ground," said Johnson.
After the bridge went down, detour signs went up and it's causing some confusion. Drivers told Action News that the detours will add up to 20 minutes to their travel time when going in and out of Bryceville.
Cleland said it will take a couple weeks to get a temporary bridge in place.
According to FDOT Spokesperson Mike Goldman, the 301 expansion project will be completed by Fall 2014. A 14 mile stretch of 301 spanning the Duval County line to south of Callahan will feature a four-lane road.
Jun 28, 2012
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City of Regina fixing giant sinkhole
This sinkhole formed suddenly on Thursday afternoon, the City of Regina says. (Jordan Jackle/CBC)
A leaky water pipe was the problem behind a massive sinkhole that formed Thursday on one of Regina's busiest streets, the city says.
The hole, about four metres around and three metres deep, opened suddenly on Victoria Avenue near the intersection with Reynolds Street in the heritage area.
City crews were working on it Friday morning, and said they hope to have it fixed by the end of the day.
However, the hole blocks an entire lane, so it was slow going for eastbound traffic during the morning rush hour.
Jun 30, 2012
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Sinkhole threatens north Florida town's courthouse
June 29, 2012
LIVE OAK, Fla. — Flood water runoff from Tropical Storm Debby has created what appears to be a giant sinkhole that threatens to badly damage the county courthouse and adjacent businesses in this north Florida town.
Officials said Thursday the hole is not yet visible from above ground, but depressions in a street that runs by the courthouse, and cracks in the business buildings and a nearby parking area are evidence of its presence.
"There appears to be a sinkhole," said Bob Farley, the town's administrator.
The courthouse, which is without power, was ordered closed, and public records and other valuables were removed in boxes loaded onto National Guard trucks in the event of a sinkhole collapse.
The Big Wheel Market Place and the Robinson building next to the courthouse both had large wall cracks and were leaning toward each other into the depressed ground.
Geologists were called in to evaluate the site and recommend a course of action.
Randy Harris, Suwannee County coordinator, said the relentless rain (16 inches in 24 hours) that Debby dumped on Live Oak moved over and underground rapidly Wednesday to cause the sinkhole.
Jun 30, 2012
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San Diego residents hear boom, feel shaking
SAN DIEGO -- Some San Diego-area residents say they heard a loud boom and felt the ground shake but there are no reports of earthquake or damages.
The U.S. Geological Survey says it received more than 500 reports from people in San Diego County who felt shaking Friday. The survey maintains an online site where people can report what they felt.
USGS geophysicist Bruce Presgrave says it was most likely a sonic boom.
San Diego police spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown says three residents called to report the noise, including one in the La Jolla area whose windows rattled about five seconds. One police sergeant said it sounded like a sonic boom.
Miramar Marine Corps Air Station says its jets would not have been traveling fast enough to cause a sonic boom.
Jun 30, 2012
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Military Police Training to Drive Armored Vehicles on Civilian Streets in St Louis
Jul 1, 2012
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Outdoor Water Use Banned, Boil Water Advisory in Effect After Bridg...
A footbridge along Swimming River Road has partially collapsed, causing damage to three mains. NJ American Water says 55,000 customers could experience water outage or low pressure.
New Jersey American Water banned outdoor water use and is asking residents of several Monmouth County municipalities to only use water for essential reasons, according to spokesman Richard G. Barnes.
A water main failure around 12:45 p.m. at the Swimming River Reservoir has caused water outages in parts of Holmdel, and could potentially affect up to 55,000 users in the region, said Barnes.
The mains collapsed at at the company’s Swimming River Water Treatment Plant in Tinton Falls, on the Middletown border.
The households that can be directly affected are in Middletown, Holmdel, Aberdeen, Highlands, Sea Bright, Rumson, Fair Haven, Little Silver, Oceanport, Shrewsbury, the northern part of Tinton Falls and parts of Long Branch.
Customers in those areas are being advised to boil water as a precaution for a full minute and let cool before drinking it, said Barnes, adding that is standard procedure whenever water pressure is lost. New Jersey American Water will provide information as to when the advisory is lifted, he said.
New Jersey American Water and the Monmouth County OEM have established three water distribution locations where customers may go to receive bottled water. The locations are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday:
Brookdale Community College's Lincroft campus closed at 2 p.m. Friday, and a message on their Facebook page says it "will remain closed until further notice."
Holmdel Police say as many as 3,000 people could be without water in southern Holmdel on Friday afternoon. One of them, Kim Casola of Holmdel, said she saw helicopters, numerous police officers and a diving team in the water at the site of the broken footbridge. "The entire mid-section of pipes are like crumpled debris in the water below," she said. Mobile command centers from Middletown Township Police and the Monmouth County Office of Emergency Management are set up alongside the reservoir.
NJ American Water is asking customers in the towns it serves to conserve water inside and outside their homes while the company works on temporary measures to alleviate the situtation. They have issued Code Red alerts to affected users and township OEMs. Non-essential use, including the use of outdoor sprinklers, is discouraged.
Shortly after 3 p.m. Oceanport's OEM issued a phone alert to residents. This message is listed on the borough web site: "6/29/12 NJ American Water is reporting a disruption in the delivery system supplying Oceanport and the surrounding area with water. Please refrain from any unnecessary water use until further notice."
Neighboring Marlboro Township is not affected, as it is serviced by Gordon's Corner Water and the Municipal Water Authority. Hazlet Township is served by Shorelands Water at this time of year.
New Jersey American Water recommends the following steps:
• Throw away uncooked food or beverages or ice cubes if made with tap water during the day of the advisory;
• Keep boiled water in the refrigerator for drinking;
• Rinse hand-washed dishes for a minute in diluted bleach (one tablespoon of household bleach per gallon of tap water) or clean your dishes in a dishwasher using the hot wash cycle and dry cycle.
• Do not swallow water while you are showering or bathing;
• Provide pets with boiled water after cooling;
• Do not use home filtering devices in place of boiling or using bottled water; most home water filters will not provide adequate protection from microorganisms;
• Use only boiled water to treat minor injuries.
Jul 2, 2012
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Water repairs affecting 200K Monmouth County residents may take unt...
MIDDLETOWN — Pipe repairs are under way but some 200,000 residents affected by a bridge collapse at a New Jersey American Water Company site may stay under a boil water advisory until the 4th of July, spokesman Richard Barnes said today.
Temperatures are expected to climb to 93 degrees today however Barnes emphasized the importance of cooperation from residents "at least for the next day or two."
"We're hoping that we can bring some level of normal service around July 4," he said.
Around Monmouth County, 22 towns remain under an advisory for residents to boil any water used for consumption. Also, a mandatory ban on outdoor watering remains in effect which means no filling pools, washing cars, using sprinklers and watering lawns. The bridge collapse and major pipe break Friday at the Swimming River Reservoir in Middletown and subsequent water restrictionsimpacted about 200,000 people.
"We really need our customers to cut back," said Barnes.
But repairs are underway and two 12-inch temporary pipes have been connected to a 30-inch water main to distribute water to Middletown, according to the company's Facebook page where they are posting updates and photos of the repairs.
However, workers are awaiting the arrival of a 36-inch pipe from Alabama that will take water from the Swimming River Reservoir, where the bridge collapsed, and into the treatment plant to then be distributed to customers.
But until then, residents affected by the water emergency can get water from three distribution sites: Middletown High School North, Middletown High School South and Wolf Hill Park in Oceanport. The distribution sites are open until 7 tonight. They will open again Monday morning around 7 or 8, Barnes said.
Barnes did not say what caused the bridge to collapse but said the company is currently focusing efforts on repairing the pipes in order to restore service.
Jul 2, 2012
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Green earthquake alert (4.8M,depth:0.4km) in Mexico (Alberto Oviedo...
Jul 2, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.5 quake strikes near Covelo
A shallow magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Sunday morning five miles from Covelo, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 3:05 a.m. Pacific time.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 11 miles from Laytonville, 25 miles from Rockport , 34 miles from Fort Bragg and 132 miles from Sacramento.
In the past 10 days, there have been two earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.
Jul 2, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.3 quake strikes near Warm Springs, Nev.
A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Saturday evening six miles from Warm Springs, Nev. , according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:25 p.m. Pacific time.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 25 miles from Silverbow, Nev. , 39 miles from Pritchards Station and 157 miles from Las Vegas.
In the past 10 days, there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.
Jul 2, 2012
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Earthquake Strikes Johnson County
JOHNSON COUNTY (CBS.DFW.COM) - An earthquake struck the county for the sixth time in a week.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey the quake happened just before 11:30 p.m. Friday.
The earthquake was centered two miles south of Keene. It was a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.
There have been no reports of injuries or damage.
Jul 2, 2012
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Recent Earthquakes In California: The Need For Government And The P...
A San Diego earthquake on June 29, 2012, erupted at 12:45 p.m. and was felt throughout parts of Southern California. No significant injuries or property damages have been reported; however, this event together with recent earthquake activity highlight the urgent need to prepare the area in the event of much larger earthquakes.
The California-Nevada Fault Map is centered at 33°N,117°W of on the U.S. Geological Survey. The map shows real earthquake activity in California. At least 50 recent quakes of varying magnitude hit the area as of July 1st. There were 7 earthquakes in the last day from Palm Springs to below San Diego and 1 ocean quake. Over 30 earthquakes hit the same area within the last week together with 2 ocean earthquakes. There are 4 known fault lines from Santa Anna to Palm Springs, 4 known fault lines in the adjacent Pacific Ocean, and 3 small fault lines in San Diegoitself.
FEMA advises citizens to be prepared for an earthquake. A disaster kit should be maintained to include a flashlight and extra batteries, portable radio and extra batteries, first aid kit, essential medicines, and sturdy shoes. Have enough food and water for the entire family for at least three days. Further guidance can be obtained by calling FEMA at (800) 621-3362.
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) lists at least 4 nuclear power plants in California. These plants are Diablo Canyon 1 and 2 located 12 miles WSW of San Luis Obispo, CA. The plants are operated by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The plants are 310 miles from San Diego. In addition, San Onofre 2 and 3 are located 45 miles SE of Long Beach, CA. The plants are operated by Southern California Edison Company. These plants are located just 93 miles from San Diego.
The NRC’s regulations are aimed at enhancing public safety by setting forth standards for systems necessary to operate the nuclear power plant or shut it down in case of an emergency or natural exigency like an earthquake event. The safety systems’ buried piping is subject to rigorous routine inspection and testing requirements set forth in the NRC agency regulations, as well as from standards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Jul 2, 2012
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Brownstone Building Collapse in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, New York...
BENNY J. STUMBO
A view of this morning's collapse.
The Department of Buildings ordered the demolition of a 19th-century brownstone that partially collapsed in Brooklyn this morning.
Remarkably, no one was injured at 1:30 a.m. when the left rear wall at 241 Carroll St. came down, authorities said.
Only six of the building’s 13 residents -- all on the top floor -- were home when the walls came crumbling down, fire officials said. The building will likely be brought down tomorrow or Wednesday.
“We heard this huge noise and I went down and I had my son and my daughter behind me and at first I thought that the fan fell down,” said Marion Floc'h Barral, was home on third floor with her husband, three kids and a 16-year-old family friend visiting from France.
“And then I looked ... and I was seeing the skies through the walls."
The three-story structure, built in the mid-1800s, was a victim of age and deterioration, officials said.
“[The Department of] Buildings feels that it was just an old building, built roughly mid-1800s,” said assistant fire chief James Leonard. “It collapsed due to failure of the bearing wall on the exposed side."
He added: “Wood rots. The mortar between the brick just gets old and starts to fall apart and gravity will bring the building down eventually."
Building owner Sisi Schneider and her hubby were out of town when the near-disaster struck.
“We just consider it a miracle that everyone's OK and we're looking for places for the tenants,” said Schneider.
The city also ordered everyone out of nearby buildings at 243 and 240 Carroll St., and at 115 and 117 First Place.
Those four buildings are not expected to be demolished but city engineers want to inspect those neighboring structures as a precaution, officials said.
Thirty -seven residents have been displaced by the evacuation and demolition orders, according to Lenoard.
The owners of 241 Carroll had applied, in November 2010, to renovate it from a four-family structure to a three-family building, officials said. But the owners never followed through to pick up the permit.
Schneider said they had plans to fix up the building later this summer.
"We had seen some hairline things on the side of the building, we were waiting for school to finish session before we started the work,” she said. “We never did anything, we never started the work."
Neighbor Kyle Wright, 35, said the collapse sounded like a sea of window air conditioner units crashing to earth.
"I was on the couch in the back side of the apartment and what it sounded like was an air conditioning falling out of a window but it sounded like it was happening repeatedly,” said Wright, who lives on First Place.
“I threw on my shoes and came outside when I was approached by a firefighter who needed access to our building. We went out to my back deck and that's when I realized that half of the building was basically on the ground."
Another neighbor, 43-year-old Scott Lehr, described a chaotic scene of dust and crumbled walls.
“I heard a siren, I went outside and I saw a big chunk of the roof fall down. It was pretty crazy,” said Lehr.
“So we evacuated. We didn't really have anywhere to go so we went to the Marriott in Brooklyn and that's where my family is now. It was a little scary. But we rallied. The kids were a little scared but I think everybody's fine now."
G.N. MILLER
A building collapsed in Brooklyn early Monday morning.
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Rubble from the collapsed house at 241 Carroll Street on Monday July 02nd, 2012 (DNAinfo/Theodore Parisienne)
The internal sections of the collapsed house at 241 Carroll Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, are seen in these photos on Monday July 02nd, 2012. (DNAinfo/Theodore Parisienne)
Jul 3, 2012
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Building Partially Collapses, Closing Cleveland Avenue
Credit: NBC4
Cleveland Avenue is closed on the city's North Side after a building partially collapses into the street.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Cleveland Avenue is closed between Genessee Avenue and Linden Place after a partial building collapse Monday afternoon.
Crews tell NBC4 the roof of an unoccupied, old, brick building came crashing down onto the sidewalk and into the roadway in front of the building sometime before 3:30 p.m. Monday.
No injuries have been reported at this time.
A city building inspector is on scene.
It is unclear at this time when Cleveland Avenue will reopen
Jul 3, 2012
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Huge sink hole in Utica
Jul 3, 2012
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quake hit in an area one mile southwest of Nicoma Park
NICOMA PARK, Okla. — There was an earthquake in Central Oklahoma Sunday night.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 2.7 magnitude quake hit in an area one mile southwest of Nicoma Park.
The quake hit about 10:30 p.m. Sunday night.
No reports of damage or injuries related to the earthquake.
Jul 3, 2012
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3.0 earthquake strikes in Mono County
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Sunday evening in Mono County, 22 miles from Toms Place, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:47 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 3.7 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 29 miles from Mammoth Lakes, 31 miles from Round Valley and 167 miles from Sacramento.
In the last 10 days, there have been no other earthquakes magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.
Jul 3, 2012
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2.5 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Millbrae Area
MILLBRAE (CBS SF) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.5 was recorded near Millbrae, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The earthquake struck at 8:47 p.m. and had a depth of 6.2 kilometers, the USGS said.
The epicenter was located three miles west-southwest of Millbrae.
Jul 3, 2012