6.5 earthquake near peru

[bananas]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usubal.php

[RexDart]

1. No west coast tsunami threat.

This was in my inbox this morning...

FROM - WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION
BULLETIN NUMBER 1
ISSUED 10/20/2006 AT 1106 UTC

...THIS TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT IS FOR ALASKA/ BRITISH
COLUMBIA/ WASHINGTON/ OREGON AND CALIFORNIA ONLY...

NO - REPEAT NO - WATCH OR WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE STATES AND PROVINCES LISTED ABOVE.

EVALUATION
BASED ON MAGNITUDE AND HISTORIC TSUNAMI INFORMATION THE EARTHQUAKE WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO GENERATE A TSUNAMI DAMAGING TO CALIFORNIA/ OREGON/ WASHINGTON/ BRITISH COLUMBIA OR ALASKA. IN COASTAL AREAS OF INTENSE SHAKING LOCALLY GENERATED TSUNAMIS CAN BE TRIGGERED BY UNDERWATER LANDSLIDES.

PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
MAGNITUDE - 6.6
TIME - 0249 ADT OCT 20 2006
0349 PDT OCT 20 2006
1049 UTC OCT 20 2006
LOCATION - 13.3 SOUTH 76.5 WEST
- NEAR COAST OF PERU
DEPTH - 31 MILES

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE MESSAGES
FOR HAWAII AND OTHER AREAS OF THE PACIFIC.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT BY THE WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE. REFER TO THE INTERNET SITE
WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV FOR MORE INFORMATION.


For people in California, there's a web site www.incident.com that allows you to sign up for email alerts. Mine is set for quake, weather, and amber alerts. Worth a check out.

[bananas]

4. The amber alerts are overwhelming

I unsubscribed because it mostly amber alerts,
and there was no way to turn them off.

[Ian David]

6. It's all Clinton's fault for appeasing the tectonic plates for 8 years.n/t

[Demeter]

2. I Was Hoping That Paraguay, the Bush Bolthole, Would Be Hit

sort of the Wrath of God scenario...with the proviso that no authentic Paraguayans incur any losses.

[SoCalDem]

9. Paraguay is an inland country

Them Bushies ain't no dummies :)

[meganmonkey]

3. Not good

but the main reason I am posting is to say that you are absolutely right about Lieberman losing the election for Gore. Sorry for going off topic. :)

[bananas]

5. Thanks!

Glad to know someone's reading my sig line!

[medeak]

7. Northern CA quake just reported on msnbc n/t

[krispos42]

10. Peru quake might have triggered it

Unlike Kim Jong the Second's little 4.2 firecracker in a coal mine, a 6.5 actually has some oomph to it.

What really worries me is the fault line in Missouri going off. It had three(!!!) 8.0 earthquakes in a three-month period about two hundred years ago and has been quiet ever since.

<snip>

While all eyes are fixed on California as the site of the next “Big One,” damage from a quake along the New Madrid Fault--which runs for 150 miles between Marked Tree, Ark., and Cairo, Ill.--may be greater. The hot, shattered crust beneath California absorbs seismic energy quickly and focuses it at an epicenter, says Gary Patterson, a geologist at the University of Memphis. But, he says, “the relatively hard, cold slab of rock beneath the central U.S. allows that energy to travel great distances.” A quake's impact zone is at least 10 times larger on the New Madrid Fault than on the San Andreas, and its shock waves reverberate longer.

The New Madrid Fault has produced the strongest earthquakes in the contiguous states: three tremors near magnitude 8.0 that struck from December 1811 to February 1812. Odds of a quake of that scale are small: 7 to 10 percent in the next 50 years. But factor in unprepared citizens and infrastructure and even a 6.0 earthquake, which has a 25 to 40 percent chance of occurring, would be a disaster.

<end snip>

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/3852052.html?page=3

And I don't live too far from the Mississippi, less than ten miles. Last thing I want is some upheavel reversing the flow of the Mississippi and turning the Metro area into a the 10,001st Lake!

Then I'd have to move back to Connecticut and have Joe for my senator. Again.

[Infinite Hope]

8. The World is Crumbling With Quakes....data...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/
This is a map of U.S. activity in the last 7 days.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
This is a map of World activity in the last 7 days.

We've heard a lot lately about earthquakes including near Korea/Japan, North Carolina/Missouri, Peru, and the list goes on. It seems like every day there's another 1-2 earthquakes mentioned in the media. I think another week of this and I'll be a bit freaked out.

[ecstatic]

11. Do we usually have so many earthquakes?

Or is something else going on this year?

[transeo]

12. Yes

The only things that have changed are increased monitoring and reporting, and more human population and thus more people affected. The frequency of earthquakes has not increased.