| | lizzy | Aug 18, 2007 4:17pm | Map
Recent Earthquakes - Last 8-30 Days
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Hurricane Dean roars toward Jamaica, Yucatan, Gulf of Mexico, Cantarell Complex of Mexican oil fields, southern Texas.
Several powerful earthquakes today in Alaska, Japan and Peru.
The earth seems to be entering yet another very active quake phase, very similar pattern I was watching before the West Coast
earthquakes in the mid and late '80's.
Coincidentally, there are also some rather interesting articles on quakes published today, one on the 2004 India quake that moved land up to 60 meters.
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook the east coast of Japan's main island of
Honshu at 4:15 a.m. local time, followed by aftershocks.
There were no reports of damage or injuries and no tsunami alerts were issued.
The first quake was centered about 64 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Tokyo off the east coastof Chiba Prefecture, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.
Temblors that followed originated in the same area.
The epicenter was 34 kilometers beneath the seabed. No tsunami warnings were issued.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake had an intensity of as much as 4, on the seven- point Japanese scale, in Chiba City and 3 in eastern Tokyo.
Aftershocks that followed shook buildings in central Tokyo. The first, with a magnitude of 4, was recorded in the same area at 5:04 a.m., followed by a magnitude 5 temblor at 8:20 a.m., and a magnitude 4.7 quake at 9:22 a.m., the Japanese agency said.
Japan, one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, is located in a zone where the Eurasian, Pacific, Philippine and North American tectonic plates meet and occasionally shift,
causing earthquakes. Quakes of magnitude 5 and more can cause considerable damage.
bloomberg.com/apps/news [bloomberg.com/apps/news]
HONOLULU.- A moderately strong earthquake occurred in Alaskan ocean waters at 10:22 a.m. today Hawai'i time, according to the United States Geographic Survey.
While destructive tsunamis generated by earthquakes in Alaska have reached Hawai'i shores in the past, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in 'Ewa Beach issued an advisory shortly after today's quake saying no widespread tsunami threat exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data.
The quake's epicenter was approximately 13.2 miles beneath the ocean's surface and nearly 100 miles south-southwest of Adak, Alaska, and about 1,300 miles west-southwest of Anchorage,
according to the center.
The USGS assigned a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 to the temblor.
MEXICO, June 7.- Evacuations in villages after the Volcano of Fire erupted for the second time in two days.
A monitoring station of the University of Colima says the eruption late Monday night hurled burning rock high in the air and shot a column of ash three miles over the crater.
The new eruption from 12,500-foot volcano follows a Sunday afternoon blast that sent a towering column of black ash into the clouds.
Officials called it the volcano´s strongest eruption in decades. The volcano staged spectacular eruptions Thursday night and Friday morning, as well as on May 23 and May 30.
desastres.org/noticias.php [desastres.org/noticias.php]
MEXICO, July 18.- Hurricane Emily battered Mexico´s Caribbean beach resorts Monday, forcing thousands of tourists into crowded shelters to escape its destruction.
After killing at least four people in its swing across the Caribbean, Emily hit Mexico´s coast as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 220 km/h.
"The center of Hurricane Emily made landfall just north of Tulum, Mexico, at 0630 (GMT)the Miami-based National Hurricane Centre said Monday.
"The northern eyewall, where the worst weather would be expected, passed directly over Cozumel."
Emily knocked out power lines, blew down trees and whipped up dangerous waves at the popular resort of Cancun and along the "Maya Riviera," normally a vacation playground of long, white
beaches and calm seas.
HYDERABAD: The Andaman and Nicobar belt moved horizontally by 3 metres to 6 metres, Chennai
by 2 cm, Bangalore by 1.5 cm and Hyderabad by 11 mm following the undersea Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in 2004.
In the normal course such a tectonic shift would have taken hundreds of years to occur but it happened in less than 10 minutes during the earthquake.
The impact caused by the 9.2 magnitude temblor could be gauged by the fact that the Indian plate was moving at the rate of 4 cm a year with respect to the Burmese plate.
Scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) who carried out GPS-based studies in the Andaman and Nicobar islands before and after the earthquake, told The Hindu on Monday that horizontal movement was noticed towards the Nicobar side.
While a 3-m movement was found in the middle of Andamans, it was 6 m between Car Nicobar and Great Nicobar.
The entire island also subsided by 1 m to 2 m vertically. Interestingly, it began to rise again but at a slow speed, and 30 per cent of the land had re-emerged.
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date=2007/08/15/&prd=th
Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 5.0 and Greater in the World - Last 7 days
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|  3DJelly | Aug 18, 2007 5:38pm | | Do we have any information that can show us it has been increasing? |
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| | | lizzy | Aug 18, 2007 7:29pm | NEWS BRREAKING WEATHER
Dean & Aran
weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html [weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html]&
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Hurricane Dean could reach devastating category 5 (+photos)
nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm [nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm]
Earthquake info..
Earthquake Topics - History-Earthquakes, Seismology
earthquakes.usgs.gov/learning/topics.php [earthquakes.usgs.gov/learning/topics.php]-
Earthquakes,%20Seismology
A Brief History of Seismology to 1910
projects.crustal.ucsb.edu/understanding/history/history1.html [projects.crustal.ucsb.edu/understanding/history/history1.html]
1982
The most powerful El Niño of the century (until 1997) strikes without warning. Strongly teleconnected to California rainfall, it generates wave after wave of punishing storms which soak the west coast, wash away beaches, create floods and mudslides, while creating mild wet conditions in the midwest and north. Worldwide, El Niño storms do fifteen billion dollars of damage, and cost 2000 people their lives.
1962
Freida, a western Pacific typhoon, crosses the entire ocean (against what should have been prevailing winds) and slams into Oregon, an event never recorded before or since. Some researchers link the typhoon's strange behavior to upper-atmosphere disturbances rooted in the El Niño-La Niña cycle.
1899
Massive famine strikes India as the monsoons fail during an El Niño year. Uncounted thousands die directly from starvation, and many more die in the epidemic of cholera and plague that follow.
Late 19th century
Peruvian fishermen begin referring to the periodic warming of the sea at Christmas as El Niño, meaning "The Child," or "The Little One." Frequently, the Child chases the fish away -- but causes the desert to bloom. The term "El Niño" appears in print for the first time in 1892 in a Peruvian scientific journal.
1835
The only hurricane ever recorded in Los Angeles strikes on August 23, and obliterates the settlement there. "Proxy" evidence in tree rings and lake sediments also suggests 1835 was an El Niño year.
1600-1650
X-ray analysis by Dr. Julia Cole, of coral cores drilled in the Galapagos Islands, shows that 300 years ago, El Niño events were half as frequent as they are today. It is not known why.
ca. 1500
Eighty people are sacrificed by the Incas. Dr. Steve Bourget from the University of East Anglia recently excavated the burial pit, and put together the evidence that a frightened populace was trying to appease an angry sea god during a strong El Niño.
1000 AD
An unusually large El Niño leaves its calling card in the growth rings of trees 6,000 miles apart; tree ring samples gathered in northern Arizona by scientists at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory show the same growth patterns as samples retrieved from Santiago, Chile.
2,200 BC
A massive drought, a possible El Niño, leaves its signature in a glacier on an Andean mountain. Dr. Lonnie Thompson recovered a core from this glacier in 1993, and pinpointed the telltale layer during analysis in his laboratory.
pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/reach/time.html [pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/reach/time.html]
Date Place Magnitude Deaths Injuries Damage
1769 Orange County 6.0
1812 San Juan Capistrano 7.5 50
1857 Fort Tejon 8.3 1
1865 San Francisco 6.5 $.5 million
1857 Fort Tejon 8.3 1
1899 San Jacinto 6.5 6
1906 San Francisco 8.25 3,000 unknown $500 million
1915 Imperial Valley 6.1 6 $1 million
1918 San Jacinto 6.8 1 10
1925 Santa Barbara 6.3 13 $6.5 million
1933 Long Beach 6.3 115 600 $50 million
1940 Imperial Valley 7.1 9 20 $6 million
1952 Kern County 7.7 12 18 $50 million
1966 Parkfield 6.0 0
1971 San Fernando 6.5 58 2,000 $511 million
1973 Point Mugu 5.9 0 15 $15 million
1979 Imperial Valley 6.5 0 91 $30 million
1980 Eureka 7.2 0 8 $1.75 million
1980 Owens Valley 6.2 0 13 $2 million
1983 Coalinga 6.4 0 47 $31 million
1986 Oceanside 5.3 1 28 $.72 million
1987 Whittier Narrows 5.3/5.9 8 200 $358 million
1989 Loma Prieta 7.1 63 3,757 $5,900 million
1991 Sierra Madre 5.8 1 30 $33.5 million
1992 Big Bear 6.6 1 402 $91.1 million
1992 Cape Mendocino 7.2 0 356 $48.3 million
1994 Northridge 6.7 57 9,000 $10,000 million
1999 Hector Mine 7.1 0 0
goldenstatemuseum.org/geoptions.htm [goldenstatemuseum.org/geoptions.htm]
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Tectonics
vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/ [vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/]
map_quakes_volcanoes_plates.html
vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/ [vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/]
map_quakes_world_990707_topo.html
Earthquake Topics - History-Earthquakes, Seismology
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| | 3DJelly | Aug 19, 2007 4:59pm | | I do not doubt that the situation is serious in much of the world. And being Canadian, I am naturally opposed to NAFTA. But what I really meant to ask is, do we have any evidence that shows that things used to be better? Say 200 years ago? Regarding either earthquakes, poverty, or starvation? |
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| | | lizzy | Aug 19, 2007 5:40pm | By the evidence..which i didnt find easy to accumulate because of scattered historical records..but it apears they have got much more frequent..as for pestilence..theres no doupt particularly when we`d expect more from this age..but the point im making also is weather (el-nino/eathquake) food shortages/poverty and pestilence/desease are interelatyed and all exselerating and simitaniouse now.
The world's biggest killer and the greatest cause of ill-health and suffering across the globe is listed almost at the end of the International Classification of Diseases.
It is given the code Z59.5--extreme poverty.
About 800 million people--a sizable part of the world's population--have no access to health care.
Today infectious disease remains the world's leading cause of death, killing over 50 million people in 1996 alone.
The optimism of the past is being replaced by a growing concern for the future.
The World Health Report 1996, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), warns:
"Much of the progress achieved in recent decades towards improving human health is now at risk. We stand on the brink of a global crisis in infectious diseases. No country is safe."
Most of these deaths take place in the developing world, where poverty is abundant.
HIV and AIDS. Unknown only 15 years or so ago, now afflict people on every continent. Presently, about 20 million adults are infected with HIV, and more than 4.5 million have developed AIDS. According to the Human Development Report 1996, AIDS is now the leading cause of death for adults under 45 in Europe and North America. Worldwide, some 6,000 people are infected each day--one every 15 seconds. Projections suggest that the number of AIDS cases will continue to rise steeply.
By the year 2010, life expectancy in African and Asian nations hit hardest by AIDS is expected to drop to 25 years, according to one U.S. agency.
Malaria kills about two million people every year. Malaria is endemic, or always present, in over 90 countries and threatens 40 percent of the world's population.
Mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasites have become resistant to pesticides, and the parasites themselves have become so resistant to drugs that doctors fear that some strains of malaria may soon be incurable.
Drug resistant Tuberculosis, now kills about three million people a year.
If control measures are not improved, about 90 million people are expected to develop the disease.
Dispite vaccines to prevent meningitis and drugs to cure it. An outbreak raged in sub-Saharan Africa early in 1996. You likely heard little about it; yet, it killed more than 15,000 people--mostly poor people, mostly children.
Lower respiratory infections, including pneumonia, kill four million people each year, most of them children.
Measles kills one million children yearly, and whooping cough a further 355,000.
Many of these deaths too could be prevented by inexpensive vaccines.
Some eight thousand children die each day from diarrheic dehydration.
Almost all these deaths could be prevented by good sanitation or clean drinking water or by the administration of oral rehydration solution.
Why do health experts worry about future disease epidemics? One reason is the growth of cities. One hundred years ago, only about 15 percent of the world's population lived in cities.
Forecasts estimate, however, that by the year 2010, over half the world's people will live in urban areas, notably in the megacities of less-developed countries.
Infectious agents flourish in densely populated areas, Where hundreds of thousands of people live jammed together in squalid conditions, the likelihood of disease transmission is greatly increased.
The journal Archives of Internal Medicine answers:
"We must truly understand that pockets of abject poverty, economic hopelessness, and their consequences provide the most fertile fields to sow infection and overwhelm the technology of the rest of humankind."
watchtower.org/library/g/1997/11/22/article_02.htm [watchtower.org/library/g/1997/11/22/article_02.htm] |
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| | 3DJelly | Aug 23, 2007 1:58pm | | So, in conclusion, don't panic, right? =) |
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| | | lizzy | Aug 23, 2007 8:30pm | Correct, it is all writen and we are told not to fear..it is better to drink bottled water who wants to drink others waste and fluride upsets the endocrine systems but oats will chelate it out of the system..star aniseed is a good anti-viral and garlic is a good anti-bacterial pro biotics are good but not glucose sugars other sugers are good there are nine types all together, take green algea or spinular or kelp or seaweed it will clear mucus and provide b-vits and minerals..pray for youself your loved ones and
other people..even your enemies if you can manage it.
even if you dont particularly believe it..read the bible now and then you may be suprised..a mirical could happen..be good, be moral, be clean..
to anyone that is experiencing difficult weather conditions my prayers go out to you and may God speed a quick and not too painfull recovery. |
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| | 3DJelly | Aug 23, 2007 8:34pm | | Oh, actually, might I add that it's better to just boil your tap water than to drink bottled water. In Canada, our water treatment standards are actually higher than those of bottled water companies. Or so I've heard. |
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| | | lizzy | Aug 23, 2007 8:44pm | well jelly you may have heard that but what goes through peoples bodies canot replace what comes from a fresh natural spring can it? If you live in a mountinous region its possible your water is better but most water is fluroidised recycled water yak.
There are so many nutrients in plain spring water, i cant afford anything but i always buy 0 fluride spring water i lug it from the supermarket every week..its worthit although i am aware that canada sets enviromental standards..UK is just about the worst. |
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| | 3DJelly | Aug 29, 2007 9:40pm | Here you go: greenoptions.com/2007/06/20/ [greenoptions.com/2007/06/20/]
lighter_footstep_5_reasons_not_to_drink_bottled_water
There are parts of the world, though where bottled water really is not only cleaner, but also safer. Parts of India and China, probably. I've heard of people in those places preferring to use bottled water for brushing their teeth and such! |
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