earthquakes

Story in the Independent concerning a small earthquake (a 1.5) in Blackpool. T'would appear to have been caused by fracking. Which is apparently now banned in a few places because of its side-effects.

MONITORING AND FORECAST MEGA-EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA According to them, a >7.8 is due to hit before 2014. Yes, it's a Russian site, so I don't think Californians need be terribly worried. However, I can't really work out what they base their prediction on, apart from previous earthquake...

According to a "prophet", identifying himself as Teacher Wang, Taiwan will be struck by a magnitude 14 earthquake and 170m high tsunami on 11 May. More here. Though the whole thing may be a scam to sell people shipping containers and other "survival supplies". Still some people seem to be...

Just reported http://www.cnn.com/ :( ETA: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/07/japan.quake/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

Mods, merge this with other threads if necessary. :D So, about the nuclear power plants in Japan. I live in Washington state, and I've been hearing my father say over and over that radiation from Japan is going to reach our state and kill everyone. Our local news has not reported this...

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/akaiwa.html Loaded with profanity. Sorry about that. But great story about a rescuer during the Tsunami in Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQXDt4VdS0E so, uh, why don't we use magnetic field anomalies to predict earthquakes then? Fish kill could be de-oxygenated dead zones from fertilizer washout fed algea. Am I just looking for reasons he's cryin wolf because I live in Vancouver, and have known...

I keep seeing this claim come up: the entire island of Honshu moved 8 feet to the east due to the recent earthquake. Maybe somebody else has already debunked this, but if not here's why I don't believe it. 1) If the entire island had moved 8 feet, wouldn't the earthquake have been equally...

Just speculating here. Chili a few years ago. New Zealand. Now Japan. With all the shifting of the Pacific plate (and those other little ones), does this put the San Andreas side off kilter and/or out of whack*? One side cannot be affected without the other side being affected, right? *out...

I just felt it here in Osaka and it is in Shizuoka (near Mt. Fuji). This one is a strong six on the Japanese scale. http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20110315223302453-152228.html

Forgive me if this topic has been broached ad nauseum already. I've been trying to follow the power plant crisis in Japan. I understand a little. What I haven't gleaned yet is this: Were these power plants in low lying areas that were directly affected by the surge of sea-water? Or was it...

I posted this in aother Earthqauke prediction thread but its technically O/T. It deserves its own thread for barking madness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zMd...mbedded#at=241 A thread on Digital Spy forum alerted me to this.:)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219 How about keeping a track of the nuclear power plant proceedings here. I do have to wonder why the Japanese were not prepared for this when other countries have warned them about this and know how to build better precautionary measures...

And here comes the flood of self-proclaimed "prophets" of the Japan earthquake I know this happens after every natural disaster, but the sheer amount of people scrambling to act like they "predicted" the Japan earthquake (or the tsunami) is sickening. We all know how this works. Every day...

What would be the result of an 8.9 earthquake and a 25 foot tsunami on Los Angeles/Southern California? Moved from USA Politics; this thread seems more focused on the physical vs any political aspects re a tsunami hitting the LA/S. CA area.

http://georneys.blogspot.com/ my daughter did a blog that covers a litte bit of WHY Japan has earthquakes. Not everyone understands. The current woo she is seeing is that a lot of people think climate change is causing these earthquakes (she's working on that blog...)

I wanted to share this; a month ago a person dreams very detailed information related to the Japan quake. It's timestamped in a forum. More details and predictions on my blog related to Japan. http://youaredreaming.org/2011/03/11/person-accurately-predicts-japan-earthquake/ Here is his...

You know the crackpots are going to jump on this. The 2012 kooks will be the worst, proclaimng this as a sign of the end.

This video uploaded to youtube a few days ago predicted that there would be a much larger earthquake coming in the next day or two. 84Ehhi3UVA8 "Im a little bit concerned anout the coronal hole in the southern hemisphere, it does look much deeper and much more dangerous, so there maybe a...

How long before someone will claim that this tsunami alert in the pacific (there's a tsunami alert covering the whole pacific rim) was caused by HAARP? I'm guessing five hours.

At CNN At MSNBC An 8.8 earthquake has occurred in the Tōhoku region of Japan, triggering tsunami warnings in coastal areas of Japan and Russia.

Just had word that there has been another major earthquake. are all our NZ members ok?

Tsunami watch issued...

Linky Apparently the highest magnitude quake to ever strike in the DC area. I live near DC, and I actually felt it; I remember being half awake at the time waiting for my alarm to go off, and I felt this odd rumble that lasted for about 5-10 seconds and heard what sounded like a soft cracking...

From the WTF!? Department; Italian scientists who failed to predict L'Aquila earthquake may face manslaughter charges http://pda.physorg.com/earthquake-civilprotection-protectionagency_news196622867.html

I'm on the 12th floor of a highrise office building. A few minutes ago, the whole building shook for a good 5-6 seconds with a rumbling kind of feel to it. Anyone else experience this in southern Ontario?

Just heard a story on the radio about toads disappearing prior to an earthquake - and returning afterwards. The story is here. Original study is here. Probably not a story of earth-shattering importance (pun intended) but it tickled me; and it makes a change from stories about people colliding...

It seems like there are a large number of quakes going on. Haiti, China, Chile, Japan, and California have all had moderate to very large quakes recently. Yes, I am looking at Chile when I say very large quakes. Some of them have had very large losses of human life: The geological event in...

Latest streamed live here: http://www.hawaiitsunami.com/ Let's hope nobody gets hurt. Report of 40 metre tsunami hitting Juan Fernández Island http://newsolio.com/40-meter-tsunami-wave-hits-juan-fernandez-island,5972

This sounds bad. :( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100227/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_earthquake_4