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Major earthquakes hit off US, Mexico coasts

Published April 11, 2012

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This map shows the location of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck off the coast of Mexico on April 11, 2012. (USGS)

An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 was reported on Mexico's Pacific Coast on Wednesday, following on the heels of a major but lesser quake off the coasts of Oregon.

The Mexican earthquake reportedly was centered in a sparsely populated area in the mountains of western Mexico but still caused tall buildings to sway more than 200 miles away in Mexico City.

People evacuated some buildings in the capital, but the city government said helicopter flights had detected no signs of damage. Authorities in Michoacan state, where the tremor was centered, also had no immediate reports of damage.

A quake of this magnitude is considered a major earthquake, but this one hit about 41 miles below the surface and a tremor's power to cause damage is often dissipated when it is so deep.

The magnitude 5.9 earthquake off the U.S. coast struck about 160 miles west-northwest of the coastal city of Bandon, Ore., with no reports of damage.

Doug Gibbons of the U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake is not related to two massive earthquakes in Indonesia on Wednesday.

No tsunami warnings have been issued at this time for the North American quakes.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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The April 11, 2012 Event: cluster of large earthquakes rattle the globe from Indonesia to Mexico
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Second Major Tremor Hits Western Mexico
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The Ring Of Fire Is Roaring To Life And There Will Be Earthquakes Of Historic Importance On The West Coast Of The United States
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5.7 Quake Thumps Mexico Again
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 0092jw.php

Earthquakes Disappear 13,000 Meters of Beach in Mexico
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5.9 Quake Jolts Fukushima, Kanto Regions
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Fracking Tied to Unusual Rise in Earthquakes in U.S.
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Strong quake hits Chile as PM visits

By Kristy Kirkup, Parliamentary Bureau

Last Updated: April 17, 2012 1:06am
SANTIAGO, Chile - Prime Minster Stephen Harper and his wife were on the ground in Santiago when a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit near the Chilean capital on Monday.

The U.S. Geological survey says the quake struck 48 km north-northeast of the main port of Valparaiso, and 116 km northwest of Santiago at a depth of 25.9 km.

There are no reports of damage or injuries.

On March 26, a major quake hit central Chile and temporarily triggered a coastal evacuation due to fears of a tsunami.

Andrew MacDougall, Harper’s director of communications, says the prime minister and his wife were at a hotel in Santiago when the earthquake happened close to 1:00 a.m. Chile Summer Time.

“All members of the Canadian delegation, including the prime minister and his wife Laureen, are just fine,” MacDougall said.

Harper has just wrapped up a trip to Cartagena, Colombia, for the Summit of the Americas and met with Chile’s president in Santiago on Monday.

The prime minister is scheduled to fly back to Ottawa on Tuesday.
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Underground Water In Shasta County, California Mysteriously Disappears

April 16, 2012 – CALIFORNIA – Stephen Wolf thinks something strange is happening underground in eastern Shasta County and it is draining water wells and maybe even causing sinkholes and subsiding pavement. A retired marine geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Wolf said he has seen what is happening in eastern Shasta County before. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, water well levels in the area of the quake fell significantly, he said. Following the 6.9 magnitude quake in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Wolf wrote a paper for the USGS about the effects the quake had on surface and groundwater. “The correlation is there.............http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress. ... isappears/

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Quake Expert: Earth Cracking Up
A leading earthquake scientist has warned that the planet could be cracking up after a series of massive quakes in just 48 hours........................http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/Aroun ... racking_Up

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Did N. Sumatra Earthquakes Set Off a Chain-Reaction? Planet Shaken by Shocking Number of Tremors in 1 Week
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3.9 Earthquake, Aftershocks Hit Near Sparks, Okla.
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Utah to Hold State's Largest Ever Earthquake Drill Today
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Near Minute-Long 6.7 Temblor Prompts Evacuation Along Chile's Coastline, Man Dies of Heart Attack
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/1 ... 30324.html

Powerful 6.8 Quake Strikes off Papua New Guinea
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New Brunswick town plagued for weeks by ‘earthquake swarm’ — and no one knows why

Joe O'Connor Apr 17, 2012 – 8:17 PM ET | Last Updated: Apr 17, 2012 9:47 PM ET

Springtime in McAdam, a tiny village in southwestern New Brunswick not far from the Maine border, is like springtime in most other parts of Canada. Locals chatter about the NHL playoffs, the garden they are planting, the grass that needs to be cut, the fish they can’t wait to catch and the cottage they can’t wait to get to, once the warm weather really settles in.

Lately, however, an interloper has elbowed its way into the community’s daily dialogue. Pushing aside the playoffs. Pushing its way to the very top of the talking points.

“Everybody is talking about the earthquakes,” says David Blair, a retired science teacher and lifetime McAdam resident from his home on Old Harvey Road, just east of downtown.

“You’ll be out and about and people will say, ‘Did you feel the one last night, or did you feel the one this morning? Some people will say yes, others might say no. It really depends on what you are doing.’

“If you are quiet at home and there is not a lot of noise you are probably going to feel or hear it. But if you are banging around, or if the grandkids are banging around, you sometimes won’t know if it’s the kids — or if it was an earthquake — they are about the same magnitude, I guess.”

Residents were initially rattled awake at 1:40 a.m. on March 10 by a 2.4-magnitude earthquake that was followed three minutes later by a 1.4-magnitude aftershock. People described hearing what sounded like an explosion. Pictures fell off walls. Window panes rattled. Floorboards creaked and groaned. Some houses even shook, while locals, initially, felt a surge of panic that eased, somewhat, by morning with the realization that a bomb had not gone off but a small earthquake had.

Three days later: two more earthquakes. And in the five weeks since there have been 35 additional shakes, a steady tide of minor tremours that is a popular topic of conversation among villagers and a seismic anomaly that scientists can’t entirely explain.

“What is happening in McAdam is something called an earthquake swarm,” says Stephen Halchuk, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada. “It is a series of earthquakes, which is rare. But what is particularly unusual about what is happening in McAdam is that it is basically happening directly beneath the village — and at a depth of less than one kilometre.

“When these earthquake swarms occur they are typically in a remote area where nobody feels them.”

Mr. Halchuk can’t say how long the earthquakes will continue for, or if a big one, capable of causing serious property damage and endangering lives, could be lurking among all the little ones.

“We can never say never,” he says. “I wouldn’t rule out a very large event occurring but, typically, in situations like this, the magnitude of the earthquakes is modest and doesn’t increase.”

Researchers from the University of New Brunswick addressed community members at an atypical town hall meeting Monday night, answering questions and assuaging lingering fears. One working theory they have to explain the quakes is an early spring thaw. A rapid change in groundwater levels could, perhaps, be causing the underlying rocks to slip and stress, unleashing the multiple shocks.

‘You sometimes won’t know if it’s the kids or if it was an earthquake’

Moody, Connecticut, is another tiny town with an earthquake problem, one dating back hundreds of years and which, today, is the basis of the local high school’s team name: The Noises. The noises in McAdam, meanwhile, have been described by the locals as a loud “bang,” a “boom,” “like dynamite being blown up,” and “a loud thud, like somebody falling out of bed.”

Natural Resources and UNB have installed three seismographs in the village to monitor the situation and to flesh out their working hypotheses. One of the machines is in David Blair’s basement.

“They are not paying me for it,” he says, laughing. “It’s just volunteer. The government doesn’t have any money except to pay its MPs and MLAs.”

Connie Klein is the village clerk. She doesn’t really like talking to the media, or the academics, because she doesn’t really know what to say. But, when she does talk, she explains how the quakes, to her, have become another noise — in her otherwise tranquil village — a sharp “bang” as though someone were upstairs in her house and dropped an encyclopedia on the floor while she was downstairs washing the dishes.

“You might jump for a second,” she says.

But then you get on with your day.

And Tuesday, in McAdam, was one for the ages. The sun was blasting hot and talk of the unusual April weather — and not whether the Earth was about to split open and swallow the place whole — was on everybody’s lips.

“It has been really nice here,” Ms. Klein says. “In fact, it’s actually too hot.”

National Post
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/17 ... -know-why/

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Did N. Sumatra Earthquakes Set Off a Chain-Reaction? Planet Shaken by Shocking Number of Tremors Since April 11, 2012
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How Would Portland Fare In An Earthquake?
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Geologists estimate there's a 10% chance of a magnitude 9 earthquake in Portland over the next 50 years -- and a 37 percent chance of a magnitude 8 or less.

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Last Week's 8.6 Indonesia Quake Added Pressure to Key Fault
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Japan's Updated Tsunami Risk Assessment Warns Country to Prepare for Much Larger Earthquakes and Waves
http://www.nature.com/news/tsunami-simu ... an-1.10460

Latest Tokyo Earthquake Projection: 9,700 Could Die
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