In one day you have the largest earthquake in California in 25 years, the Iceland volcano ready to blow, a 7.0 earthquake hits Peru, a 6.4 earthquake hits Chile, and a 5.4 earthquake hits Iran. It seems Mother Earth is angry. Pressure seems to be building below the surface of the earth, matching the pressure building among the people’s populating this planet. Something is going to blow.
120 injured, state of emergency as California hit by largest quake in 25 years
Local officials had to set up a triage tent at the Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa to handle the influx of the people injured in the earthquake, AP reports. According to hospital’s CEO Walt Mickens, most of the injured had cuts, bumps and bruises. Three people were also admitted with broken bones, and two for heart attacks.
The 6.0 quake struck at 3:20 am (10:20 GMT), the US Geological Survey said. Its epicenter was 6 kilometers from American Canyon and 9 kilometers from the city of Napa, at a depth of 10.8 kilometers from the surface.
Residents of the cities of San Francisco, some 40 miles away, and Davis, just over 70 miles away, quickly took to Twitter reporting feeling the quake.
Two quakes shake Icelandic volcano’s area, govt restricts airspace
Two small earthquakes shook ground around Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano Sunday. Earlier, the country’s government closed the airspace around the area triggering fears of air chaos.
READ MORE: Iceland evacuates area near volcano amid eruption fears
Two earthquakes measuring at 5.3 and 5.1 in magnitude — the biggest yet — shook the volcano beneath Iceland’s vast Vatnajokull glacier early Sunday.
Following the quakes and a reported eruption, the Icelandic Met Office issued aviation red alerts over the Bardarbunga eruption on Sunday morning. However, later in the day the agency lowered the risk from the highest possible to orange, which means “heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption.”
7.0 quake strikes southern Peru
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck southern Peru on Sunday 38 miles (61 km) east-northeast of the town of Puquio, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury. The quake struck at 23:21 GMT at the depth of 36.6 miles (58.9 km). The nearest city to the epicenter is Tambo, located just 26 miles (42 km) away. USGS revised the magnitude of the quake upwards from 6.9. An earthquake was triggered by a subduction of Nazca plate, located off the west coast of South America, RT Spanish cited experts as saying. No tsunami warning has been released by the authorities. Some network and electricity outages are being reported.
6.4 tremor hits central Chile
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the region around Chile’s Valparaiso port at 7:32 PM Eastern time, the US Geological Survey reported. The epicenter of the quake was about 18 kilometers from Hacienda La Calera community and some 117 kilometers from the capital Santiago at a depth of 30 kilometers. Initially the tremor was estimated at 6.6 on the Richter Scale, with three aftershocks subsequently registered in the area. No casualties or damage have been registered, although electricity and phone communication was interrupted in some areas.
Western Iran hit by 5.4 magnitude earthquake
The western Iranian province of Kermanshah was rocked by a 5.4 Richter Scale tremor at 00:36 local time (GMT +4:30 hours), reported Iran’s official IRNA news agency, citing the seismography center affiliated with the Tehran University Geophysics Institute. No casualties or damage have been reported so far. The earthquake struck 15 kilometers underground.
Amazing that quakes of this magnitude, 6.0 or higher, and leave no injuries.
The Pacific Rim is so fault-riddled, that we have to be surprised there aren’t more frequent and more severe quakes. Seismologists are of the belief that, for the past few hundred years, CA has been in a relatively quiescent period, and that it suffered far more frequent and severe quakes in the medieval era. But it didn’t have 40 million people, and extremely dense cities stuffed with concrete slab buildings built in “earthquake liquefaction zones, either.
The planet doesn’t have to be “angry” to cause devastation in an area riddled with hundreds of active faults that are bound to slip now and then. It’s a young, dynamic planet after all.
Something is going to blow.
I thought this would be a post about bb, or Nonanonymous.
World Wide Seismic activity, links to Tectonic plates and other info.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
Stucky ,don’t put yourself in a position to feel guilty the rest of your life .What if NA died today?*What if i died of natural causes like AWD?What if that little creep IS got eat by a polar bear ?What if ECONMAN got run over by a freight train. You ever watch that TV program a …thousand ways to die ….You would not believe how easy it is to die.
Methinks God is really pissed right now. Something about mankind fucking up everything he touches (or something like that). Anyways, I found this article a few minutes ago at the silverdoctors.com website:
http://www.silverdoctors.com/large-holes-forming-near-the-new-madrid-fault-and-a-giant-crack-in-the-earth-in-north-mexico/
Yes bb, if you died we would all be sad for about 5 seconds. I can see the post now — ELECT THE NEW VILLAGE IDIOT.
Here on bizarro world humans take from what gives them life and do not give back to it…WCPGW?
Leobeer , thank you .I knew you would care .I’m pretty much ready. Only things left in this life for me is my mom and little bb.My mom would get my life insurance policy but not sure what would to little bb.
Only things left in this life for me is my mom and little bb. -bb
No kids?
Yes, the massive upswing in volcanic activity along with sinkholes and giant cracks is taking my attention away from the boring economic collapse too.
As it’s global it would seem to be unrelated to fracking, but then can we be sure of anything any more?
General consensus suggests a cooling of the Earth’s core due to magnetic field weakening with consequent contraction of the mantle and crust.
Then again maybe it’s HAARP. Who knows.
Iran is hit by earthquakes all the time, it is the main reason that ruins of ancient cities become more ruinious.
idialantic, a major quake along the New Madrid fault has been predicted for decades. The last one was in 1812, and geologists estimate, from the written records of that era, that it was about an 8.0 mm, which is truly monstrous, and that powerful aftershocks continued for months. The naturalist John James Audubon was traveling through the central-states (then considered the far west) area at the time, and wrote that the ground just rolled and continued to roll. If the St. Louis metroplex had been as it is now, with its thousands of non-reinforced brick buildings, it would have been destroyed. But since St Louis was a small town at that time (founded by the French in 1764), and there was very little dense settlement throughout the entire territory, little damage was done.
We now know how to build to considerably mitigate the damage of fairly powerful quakes, but we don’t do it, and moreover continue to build types of buildings that would quickly become tombs in the event of a major quake- like malls, warehouses, and other commercial structures built of pre-fab concrete slabs- because no one wants to make the major investment required to mitigate an event most people see as highly unlikely. There are too many more pressing near-term needs and too little money available, and I guess the same could be said of all emergency preps for most people. They’d really like to do it, but accumulating non-perishable foods and supplies, and storing an ample supply of potable water, feels to them like a waste of time, money, and storage space when they’re already stretched to meet daily needs.
+10 comment, Chicago999444.
I’m not on Earth bb, you retard.
I’m writing from the Great Beyond.
We just got Google Fiber!
Btw, these quakes fit the expanding earth theory. When dinosaurs roamed the esrth, the earth had to be about about, if I remember correctly, 1/3 the size it was now to allow/support blood flow thru their giant bodies (with such a small heart comparatively).