Magnitude 7.4 - MARIANA ISLANDS REGION

[Ediacara]

Source: USGS

Magnitude 7.4
Date-Time

* Friday, September 28, 2007 at 13:38:58 UTC
* Friday, September 28, 2007 at 11:38:58 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 21.980°N, 142.685°E
Depth 261.3 km (162.4 miles)
Region MARIANA ISLANDS REGION

Read more: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007hvbq.php#details

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http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message761713-01.htm

To: U.S. West Coast, Alaska, and British Columbia coastal regions
From: NOAA/NWS/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (Experimental Web Product)
Subject: Tsunami Information Statement #1 issued 09/28/2007 at 6:54AM PDT

A strong earthquake has occurred, but a tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, or Alaska coast. NO tsunami warning or watch is in effect for these areas.

Based on the depth of the earthquake within the earth, a tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska coasts.

[Gman]

1. Preliminary

== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==

***This event supersedes event AT00761713.


Region: MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
Geographic coordinates: 21.980N, 142.684E
Magnitude: 7.4 Mb
Depth: 261 km
Universal Time (UTC): 28 Sep 2007 13:38:58
Time near the Epicenter: 28 Sep 2007 23:38:58
Local time in your area: 28 Sep 2007 13:38:58

Location with respect to nearby cities:
341 km (212 miles) SSE (156 degrees) of Iwo-jima, Volcano Islands, Japan
819 km (509 miles) NNW (337 degrees) of SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands
1496 km (929 miles) SSE (160 degrees) of Hamamatsu, Honshu, Japan

[OnyxCollie]

2. Who cares about a tsunami?

How will this affect the Petri dish of capitalism?:sarcasm:

[KamaAina]

5. "The Petri dish of capitalism"!

:rofl:

And we all know what grows in a Petri dish...

[flashl]

10. Delays' immoral words

In 1998, Republican Congressman Tom Delay called the CNMI a "perfect Petri dish of capitalism." And two years later, in addressing the Governor of the Islands, Delay famously said:

"You are a shining light for what is happening in the Republican Party, and you represent everything that is good about what we’re trying to do in America in leading the world in the free-market system."

Mission complete.

[KamaAina]

3. Hawai'i off the hook, too

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/tsunami_msgs/HEBTIBHWX.200709281553

BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS
NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. A
DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

Phew!

Then again, we have a sister agency on Saipan that spun off from us only about three years ago. :scared:

[DrDan]

4. sure seems like there has been a lot of earthquake activity these past few weeks . . . eom

[superconnected]

6. CRUMB All those billion dollar RW gambling casinos

and those poor island people who are enslaved to work for low wages in them.

Think of all the money invested in those islands, and then pooof an earthquake.

Okay, I feel sorry for the natives, but lets face it, I hope nature screws the resorts there up bigtime.

(apologies to any du members who happen to have money in an offshore account there.)

[babylonsister]

8. Guam is in the Marianas. That's where lots and lots of military are headed.

Maybe it's karma?

And trust me, Guam is composed of gazillion dollar high dollar stores to attract all the Japanese vacationers that go there.
It is backward, way-y-y backward, but not for tourists usually.

[Exultant Democracy]

7. I know it will sound terible right now, and I feel for the people. But all these big quakes recently

are giving me hope. If all of this seismic activity leads to a few big blows, it might just slow down global warming enough to give us a chance to get our shit together before game over.

[Ediacara]

9. What exactly do earthquakes have to do with global warming?

[Exultant Democracy]

11. Increased tectonic activity in the ring of fire has a good chance of setting off

a whole lot of volcanoes.

[Ediacara]

12. If you say so...

:eyes:

[mcscajun]

13. Mariana Islands Temblor Misread as Six Local Earthquakes

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- A massive earthquake thousands of miles away in the Mariana Islands was misread as a Bay Area swarm this morning by Northern California sensors.

The 7.4 quake struck 162 miles under the surface in the Marianas, and emitted the same frequency as local quakes, leading Northern California sensors to read it as six Bay Area temblors.

The mistake was due to a glitch in software, and could happen again, according to Northern California Seismic Network Seismic Chief David Oppenheimer. He said that since the computer system isn’t accustomed to hearing quakes on the other side of the earth, it can be confused into reporting erroneous quakes to transit and emergency centers.

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