I'm just a mom who worries - that's my job.
Posted on 10/02/2007 3:17:58 PM PDT by Global2010
Hey for years the families have been flocking to the distant suberbs from San Fran.
However in the last year I have learned a huge personal lesson not to try and 2nd guess God.
No. What they "were" was in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Don't know about the hedonist gay part. ;o)
Iceland is on the Mid-Atlantic ridge. moderate earthquakes are fairly routine there.
We’re seeing the “attention effect” - people who never used to look at worldwide earthquake sites are doing so now, and the internet makes such information more available.
We don’t need Spirits to know Seattle is due. Might be right now or a thousand years from now, but it’s coming.
I relize that it is micro quaking non stop.
However being south of it in the tsunami zone my interest is when the quakes go red on the USGS map.
Meaning 6.0 +
Not really. They don't get them every day, but somewhere along the midAtlantic ridge shakes that much now and then. It's hardly ever huge like they have in the Ring of Fire.
Quite a few people around here seem to really sincerely believe natural disasters are, or are about to, punish the wicked.
It has been active, but it seems to be so periodically. Not unusual.
I'm just a mom who worries - that's my job.
Don't ya hate when that happens? Kinda like how dangerous it is to pray for patience. You may suddenly find yourself in mega situations that calls for a lot of patience...
Oregon coast is every 300 to 500 yrs and right now we are at the 300yrs marker so give or take 200yrs.
Yes, that would unnerve me if I was where you are.
Okay. Thank you both.
When I lived in Alaska we were always having quakes.....large and small. I’m afraid we became a bit complacent about them. Not a good thing to do."
After you lived in Alaska, I imagine that just about any place on earth would seem quiet to you. Perhaps you might even find the San Andreas fault zone to be a steady calm place to live. ;-)
This 5.0 quake was actually closer to Greenland than Iceland:
825 km (510 miles) ESE of Qaqortoq (Julianehab), Greenland
945 km (580 miles) SSE of Tasiilaq (Angmagssalik), Greenland
960 km (590 miles) SW of REYKJAVIK, Iceland
1260 km (780 miles) ESE of NUUK (GODTHAB), Greenland
The Reykjanes Ridge is an active seismic zone, yet because there are many more active seismic zones all over the world, people might tend to overlook this area.
Also, this year this zone has been more quiet than in the past, so it would be only natural if someone viewed this as an unusual event for the area.
Magnitude 5.0 REYKJANES RIDGE
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 at 16:34:46 UTC
Historic Seismicity
Magnitude 5.0 - REYKJANES RIDGE
Some years ago I was in Alaska right when they had a 6.5 or so earthquake, epicentered just across a bay, within eyeshot.
I didn’t even notice. I was on a bus at the time, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I was kind of disappointed, having never been in an earthquake before.
not only was she butt-ugly, she had snake eyes even then.
And apart from liver spots and white hair, he hasn't changed a bit.
at least going by the past two days.
Yesterday was on the left side of the ‘circle’, and today is at the top.
Tomorrow?
I sure hope my eskimoian mistress is ok
When my wife and I lived in Palmer, we had earthquakes reguarly - sometimes a 4.0 or a 5.0 every few months. I’m used to them, but my wife was raised in South Africa, which is one of the world’s quietest seismic zone. One night, when we were first married and sleeping in a little cabin overlooking the Chugach Range, the cabin started shaking and rumbling all around us. My wife woke up and yelled, “What is it?”
I said, half-asleep, “It’s about a 4.5,” and then I rolled over and went back to sleep.
And that was the first time I was called to task for a comment made in total innocence.
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