Oh shit! 7.1 near Fiji

[Whoa_Nelly]

From LBN:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2017100

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf...

1/2/2006, 6:37 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

SUVA, Fiji (AP) — A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit deep under the South Pacific near Fiji Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, and the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said it did not expect the quake, which happened 579 kilometers (360 miles) below the earth's surface, to trigger a damaging Pacific-wide tsunami.

The temblor hit at 2213 GMT about 100 kilometers north-northeast of the remote Fijian island of Ndoi, the USGS said.

Lasarusa Veutibau, a seismologist at Fiji's Mines and Resources Department, said the quake was too deep to have been felt anywhere in the Fiji islands...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. A big one!

Good thing it was deep........:scared:

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Read the tsunami current bulletins

No event triggered in South Pacific

A possible small sea level recession on western Norht America

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/ushkax.htm

Keep your eyes on the sea, dear Paggy. Maybe you can get some more great pics! :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. That would be difficult to accomplish, I think......

Isn't the effect from the earthquake just a one-time thing? You'd have to know just when to be on the beach!

And it's cold and wet today.......not going to happen, I'm afraid....

I will check out your link however, just in case I'm wrong about my supposition!

:hi:

[dolo amber]

3. Wow Peggy...that was utterly filthy

:D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Oh yes baby......

Was it good for you? :evilgrin:

Sheesh.......MY mind's not down in the gutter....

Well, it wasn't! :eyes:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. And a 7.3 on the other side of the South Pole

interesting:

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. This is Strang, Hugh!!1! and Series!

:scared:

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Well, it sounds like it was no major thing, thank goodness.