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Earthquake Vancouver Island Port Hardy 6.7
foxnews.com ^ | 9/9/2011 | foxnews

Posted on 09/09/2011 12:56:20 PM PDT by dragnet2

Earthquake

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TOPICS: Canada; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: earthquake; ringoffire; vancouver; vancouverisland; washingtonearthquake
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To: djf

>> “Until then, I’m way more worried about a 130 foot Doug fir falling on my place during a windstorm.” <<

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Good cause for worry.

Owner of property next to ours had harvested a large number of Jeffries, and left one that was about 175’ tall standing alone in a clearing, big tree, and during a wind storm last winter it snapped off about 25’ above the base, where it was about 30” or so in diameter. Sounded like a .44 being fired, and dug itself a good hole in the mud.


101 posted on 09/09/2011 6:42:34 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: Danae

Are you a geologist? Or a Seismologist?

Nope.
Just a nerd!

(I do computers on and off)


102 posted on 09/09/2011 6:43:26 PM PDT by djf (One of the few FReepers who NEVER clicked the "dead weasel" thread!! But may not last much longer...)
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To: winoneforthegipper

winnie - the subduction zone has been loading from multiple locations. No one fault/quake will load the whole plate.

I only commented in regards to your statement that you gained your ‘information’ from some webcorders. I certainly hope you look elsewhere.


103 posted on 09/09/2011 7:15:38 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: Godzilla

Not saying that at all zilla...

A forequake of this magnitude can signal that the tension/load is increasing in such a manner as to snap. Even more suspicious being a strike slip. It matters not..for if it is a prequake....who cares for the main shock can not be forecasted nor timed.

I see you are the same Zilla....lol

Have a great night bud...going fishing in the Atlantic tomorrow...lol


104 posted on 09/09/2011 7:31:34 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper; Danae; editor-surveyor; All

Door knocker?

Maybe. But not likely. Too shallow (only 14 miles).

I’ll explain a little bit more of what I know and heard about what to watch for.

I talked about the Nisqually quake above and said it was very, very different from normal type quakes. Here’s why.

We have regular slip quakes where two plates slide against each other, like the San Andreas fault activity. They can be very damaging, especially because the effect is to basically displace the foundations of buildings horizontally away from where the building is!

We have subduction type events where one plate gets jammed underneath another plate. Thousands of square miles of plates can get moved, ocean floors and coastlines can rise and fall. There can be some horizontal movement, but alot of the movement is up and down movement.

The Nisqually quake wasn’t either one of these!

Imagine you are making pancakes. You get ready to use a spatula to flip over a pancake. You push the spatula underneath the pancake.

You just caused a pancake subduction earthquake!

But imagine that instead of using a spatula, you try to use lets say a graham cracker or something. You are able to slide the graham cracker a little ways under the pancake then...
the cracker snaps in half because of the weight of the pancake.

That’s what the Nisqually quake was. The Juan De Fuca plate, the part that has already been jammed underneath Washington state, snapped and broke because of the weight above (and remember as it goes farther inland it gets pushed deeper and gets hotter and melts).

The Nisqually quake was quite deep, and there are a few faults in the area, but it wasn’t technically a slip quake or a subduction quake per se. There is a special name for these types of quakes and I thought it was “Benoit quake” but I think it’s something else.

I saw a bunch of interviews of people after it happened and almost all of them said the same thing - the ground shook, but mostly in an up and down type motion. One guy in downtown Seattle said it felt like his building just suddenly dropped straight down a foot or so.

I was driving and didn’t even feel it! And no damage to my house.

Anyways, just an FYI...


105 posted on 09/09/2011 7:32:26 PM PDT by djf (One of the few FReepers who NEVER clicked the "dead weasel" thread!! But may not last much longer...)
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To: PastorBooks

All of Canada.

Although I could probably stand parts of Alberta where most people would be against it.

Regards


106 posted on 09/09/2011 7:52:32 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: winoneforthegipper

Thanks for the explanation. I regularly check USGS earthquake sites but was unfamiliar with Webicorders.

I’ll fill the bath tub after the quaking stops. We’re on a gravety feed.


107 posted on 09/09/2011 8:41:07 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: dragnet2; All
For all of you who have not heard of the Comet Elenin and how some think it has a roll in recent earthquakes, including the one in Japan, should read this report from a professor from Cornell. There are a lot of people who think the next big quake will be near the end of this month to the 1st of November. The part I have highlighted with yellow in the article below.

They feel that quake will be in the Cascadia seduction zone and could effect the San Andreas as well being they connect to some degree. They think it will be as large as the one in Japan and could possibly trigger one or more of the volcanoes to become active. The quake today, as others have noted, was on the north end of the Cascadia zone.

All of us who live on the west coast should be prepared anyway. I am 20 miles SSE of Seattle. Where the epicenter is located will determine how much damage it will do to us. We have lots of food and water for just such an event plus an emergency kit in all our vehicles incase we are not home at the time. 

Freeguards, BVB

The Professionals Step In

We have news out of Cornell University that sustains the view that Elenin is playing a direct part in causing large earthquakes. Professor Mensur Omerbashich is saying that his “georesonator concept in which tidally induced magnification of Earth masses’ resonance causes seismicity.” This trashes NASA’s assertion that the humongous earthquake we saw in Japan and before that with the ones in Chile and New Zealand were coincidental with alignments between Elenin, the Earth and the Sun.

The earth’s seismicity can arise as a natural response
of our planet to its alignments with other celestial objects.
                                                                     Professor Mensur Omerbashich

Omerbashich demonstrates empirically that “all strong (~M6+) earthquakes of 2010 occurred during the Earth’s long astronomical alignments within our solar system. He shows that the same holds true for all very strong (~M8+) earthquakes of the decade of 2000s. He asserts that the “comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) has been adding to robustness in terms of very strong seismicity since 2007. Elenin will continue intensifying the Earth’s very strong seismicity until August-October, 2011.”

It seems like every time Elenin lines up with Earth and another planet or the Sun we have an earthquake, the nearer Elenin gets the bigger the earthquakes.

Past Elenin Alignments and Earthquakes:

Past Alignments

Date

Location

Magnitude

Elenin - Earth - Sun

Feb 20 2008

Indonesia

7.4

Elenin - Earth - Sun

Feb 25 2008

Indonesia

7.2

Elenin - Earth - Neptune

May 12 2008

China

7.9

Elenin - Earth - Sun

Feb 18 2009

Kermadec Islands

7.0

Elenin - Earth -Jupiter

May 18 2009

Los Angeles, US

4.7

Elenin - Mercury- Earth

July 15 2009

New Zealand

7.8

Elenin - Mercury - Earth

Aug 09 2009

Japan

7.1

Elenin - Sun - Earth

Sept 09 2009

Sunola islands

8.1

Elenin - Earth - Venus

Feb 18 2010

China/RU/N.Korea

6.9

Elenin - Earth-Sun

Feb 25 2010

China

5.2

Elenin - Earth-Sun

Feb 26 2010

Japan

7.0

Elenin - Earth- Sun

Feb 27 2010

Chile

8.8 [Earth knocked off axis]

Elenin - Earth- Sun

Feb 27 2010

Argentina

6.3

Elenin - Earth - Mercury

Mar 04 2010

Taiwan

6.3

Elenin - Earth - Mercury

Mar 04 2010

Vanuatu

6.5

Elenin - Earth - Mercury

Mar 05 2010

Chile

6.6

Elenin - Earth - Mercury

Mar 05 2010

Indonesia

6.3

Elenin - Earth - Mercury

Mar 08 2010

Turkey

6.1

Elenin - Earth - Neptune

May 05 2010

Indonesia

6.6

Elenin - Earth - Neptune

May 06 2010

Chile

6.2

Elenin - Earth - Neptune

May 09 2010

Indonesia

7.2

Elenin - Earth - Neptune

May 14 2010

Algeria

5.2

Elenin - Earth - Jupiter

Jan 03 2011

Chile

7.0

Elenin - Earth - Sun

March 11 2011

Japan

9.0 [Earth knocked off axis]

Future Elenin Alignments:

Future Alignments

Date

Note

Elenin - Mercury - Mars - Earth

Sept 06 2011

 

Mercury - Sun - Elenin

Sept 25 2011

 

Sun - Elenin - Jupiter

Oct 11 2011

Elenin 0.246au from Earth; that’s a quarter of the distance to the sun.

Oct 17 2011

Elenin closet to earth 0.232au

Oct 20 2011

Elenin will enter Earth orbit and we will experience a gravitational pull.

Nov 02 2011

Earth enter Elenins tail/ previous path

Venus - Earth- Elenin - Mercury

Nov 11 2011

 

Sun - Mercury - Earth - Elenin

Dec 04 2011

 

Mars - Elenin - Jupiter

Dec 25 2011

 

Final Alignment: Elenin - Earth - Sun

Dec 21 2012

 

Now of course we have many earthquakes and if we showed them all, this chart would then lose much of its meaning. The 9.1 earthquake in Japan though will never lose its meaning and it happened on cue with an alignment with Elenin.


108 posted on 09/09/2011 8:55:55 PM PDT by Bobsvainbabblings
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To: Bobsvainbabblings

not to worry, Elenin got zotted by a solar flare a few days ago and is in the process of disintegration.


109 posted on 09/09/2011 8:59:50 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: dragnet2

I noticed today that there have been no aftershocks to yesterday’s quake. None. That is really odd. What does that portend, if anything?


110 posted on 09/10/2011 8:47:17 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: All

After the Japan quake scientists stated that three days prior there was a large emission of energy from the epicenter.

Are there any entities monitoring such energy emissions off our coast? Or will the scientists just bring it out after the fact?


111 posted on 09/10/2011 10:17:52 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: winoneforthegipper

We will find out there is no way to predict it.


112 posted on 09/10/2011 10:01:56 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Well I would think any known cause and effect type event would have a degree of understanding to allow for prediction but yeah Earthquakes as they stand now....no.

But as we move on....as with volcanoes there are patterns and signs that help you at least understand there meaning.


113 posted on 09/11/2011 5:35:18 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Just noticed an aftershock for this quake. 4.1 around 0430 local today. Whats interesting is post #10 above upgraded to show the recent quake.


114 posted on 09/15/2011 9:41:47 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart
the USGS does not have a motion ball posted for this quake but the webicorders mostly look like a thrust fault/subduction quake rather than last week's strike slip...albeit a small response.

Will be interesting once they release the data on the quake...!

Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

115 posted on 09/15/2011 10:39:44 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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