Magnitude 7.1 - OFFSHORE HONDURAS

USGS ^ | 05/25/2009 | USGS

[xcamel]

Magnitude 7.1
Date-Time Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 08:24:45 UTC
Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 03:24:45 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 16.783°N, 86.166°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region OFFSHORE HONDURAS
Distances 130 km (80 miles) NNE of La Ceiba, Honduras
225 km (140 miles) N of Juticalpa, Honduras
320 km (200 miles) NNE of TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
1170 km (730 miles) SSW of Miami, Florida
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.3 km (3.9 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST=119, Nph=119, Dmin=323.9 km, Rmss=0.88 sec, Gp=104°,
M-type=(unknown type), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2009heak

[gridlock]

Tsunami?

[Cindy]

ping

[xcamel]

Honduras ‘Quake Sparks Tsunami Alert

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Earthquake-Sparks-Tsunami-Alert-Off-Honduras/Article/200905415290578

[cripplecreek]

That’s a pretty good shake.

[Straight Vermonter]

[xcamel]

indeed.. I think they’re revising it up a couple tenths.

[Cindy]

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/270751,1stleadstrong-quake-rocks-honduras—alert-to-several-countries.html

“1STLEAD:Strong quake rocks Honduras - alert to several countries”

Posted : Thu, 28 May 2009 10:17:45 GMT
Posted : Thu, 28 May 2009 10:17:45 GMT
Author : DPA
Category : Environment

SNIPPET: “Hamburg/Tegucigalpa - A strong quake measuring at least 7.1 points struck offshore from the Central American country of Honduras early Thursday. US seismology officials put the strength of the quake at 7.1 points, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said it measured 7.3 points.”

SNIPPET: “The 30-second quake was caused by a collision between the Caribbean and North American plates, said seismography expert Gonzalo Carias from the Honduras National Autonomous University.

US seisomology officials said the quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres and some 320 kilometres north-east of the capital Tegucigalpa.
The quake occurred at a distance of 63 kilometres from the touristic Roatan Islands, according to reports in Spain.”

[gridlock]

It’s been a couple of hours. We should have seen by now, I think.

[Jemian]

That is impressive.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

i hope no cigars were damaged

[Islander7]

Yo! That’s in the Caribbean!! Scary!

[SueRae]

That may possibly be close enough to afect water in the Panama Canal.

[dawn53]

We have friends who live in Honduras. I had an email from them early this AM. They said they all ran out of their home because it was so intense, and they are far away from where that earthquake hit, way up in the mountains. They’re due to travel to the one of othe major cities today, with no way to check on the roads before they go, so they might have to end up just turning around and coming home.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Gesundheit!

[NoObamaFightForConservatives]

any tsunami warnings?

[Quix]

I have friends from there as well. Haven’t been able to communicate with them for a long time so I have no way to check.

God be with them. AT least the wife knows The Lord.

[NoObamaFightForConservatives]

There is (as of 1 hour ago) a tsunami alert

Tsunami alert

[NoObamaFightForConservatives]

A tsunami watch was in effect for Honduras, Belize and Guatemala, according to the Pacific tsunami warning center.

[onedoug]

Prayers for your friends, and everyone affected.

[Strategerist]

The watch was canceled. No tsunami.

This was on a strike-slip fault (side to side with limited bottom displacement) so causing one would have been unlikley.

[antivenom]

I am here scuyba diving...woke us up last night...very scary...may have new dive sites...since 2 famous sites here were formed due to earthquakes...

Mary’s Place and Calvin’s Crackkk...if there are any news worthy photos, I’ll post...but so far just things from shelves, and stuff that used to be on the walls are now on the floor...

Bats went crazy for a while...

We also noticed yesterday on an afternoon dive many large fish up in the shallows...many here wondering if some how the larger fish were somehow aware...guess we will never know...

OH well not much more for now...

AV

[antivenom]

Oh I am at Cocoview Resort, Roatan Honduras...

[NoObamaFightForConservatives]

Interesting how the animals seem to know it is coming.

[theDentist]

A whole lotta shakin’ going on.

[NoObamaFightForConservatives]

Thank God for this good news.

I can't help but think of "there will be rumors of war and earthquakes in divers places," compiled with the general bad being represented as good and good being represented as bad.

[hoosiermama]

Stay safe.

[Sam's Army]

"i hope no cigars were damaged"

I can confirm they are safe. Didn't feel a thing here in the valley.

[Ezekiel]

Democracy Bridge, which spans the country's largest river, the Ulua, collapsed in the town of El Progreso, Cordero said.

7.1 earthquake topples homes, kills Honduras teen

[Onelifetogive]

I helped build a church building right on the coast almost directly south of the quake. (Actually a little south east in Sante Fe, near Colon.)

I'm sure the building is undamaged! I built it well...

[peace with honor]

closing office, sign= GONE SURFIN

[married21]

“earthquakes in divers places”

Or, is it earthquakes in divers’ places? (see antivenom’s comments above at 22)

[xcamel]

Must be some surely purty ‘divers’ places, with all them fishun and things down there...

[Vaquero]

looks like its right at the edge of the Chicxulub crater.

[Quix]

YEA! CONGRATS.

I knew a diplomat to Taipei. Great Christian gal.

[xcamel]

wrong side of the Yucatan.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Scythian]

[unkus]

I have friends in Trujillo. Where are your friends located?

[Quix]

I’ll have to look through 20+ pages of printed address lists and get back to you. LOL.

That may be where they are.

[Quix]

Ahhhh . . .

COLONIA PAYAQUI BULEVARD . . . . TEGUCIGALPA HONDURAS

[Hot Tabasco]

I have friends in Trujillo

My bro-in-law owns 400 ft. of beach front on the bay there out east of town......

[djf]

This one’s a biggie.

[unkus]

Thanks. Hope they are OK.

[wardaddy]

Roatan?

has it changed much the past 30 years like San Pedro Belize has?

[Strategerist]

The world is actually more peaceful now than it’s ever been, and earthquake activity worldwide is at normal levels.

This is a well-known fault that has produced large earthquakes before.

[Quix]

Yeah. Me, too.

Their cell phone number quit working years ago. Sigh.

[Quix]

Thanks. What was the largest on this fault, if you have the info handy, please?

[NoObamaFightForConservatives]

I know there have always been and will always be calamities and earthquakes. I can’t say I feel the peace. America in itself is in a cultural warfare and great divide.

[unkus]

It’s a Third World country and from what I have heard, I wouldn’t want to live there. Leave it up to 0bama and we’ll be in the same shape.