Posted on 09/09/2011 12:56:20 PM PDT by dragnet2
Earthquake
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Nothing here in Anacortes.
I think you meant to say “hit while they are there”, it WILL happen again. IIRC, the historic rate on that fault is about every 300 to 400 years, so we are about due. (I’m near Seattle).
This is a lot north of Seattle.
Now revised downward from 6.7 to 6.4 magnitude. No aftershocks seen yet. Not sure if the lack of aftershocks is because not enough time has passed or if the quake was a foreshock. Not good if the latter.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005rsj.php
Bush’s fault.
I see you’re familiar with Port Hardy. I wonder if you remember in the late 90’s there was a freak seal over population. For about a month the seals were everywhere.. then the killer whales came into the bay and all .... broke loose. I was up there about three months after the fact. The locals said National Geographic was there.. lots of photographers.. all getting shots of the killer whales going ape.. out of the water... body parts everywhere.. the whole nine yards. The restaurant right there at the dock had a book of pictures. Really something how nature works sometimes.
dont forget the toulet paper and extra buckets to toss out the effluance!
No, I was gone by then. Glad I missed it!
How came DC gets a little quake and half the country feels it, we get a big one in Vancouver island and I didn’t feel anything in Tacoma?
It’s 500 miles away. That’s further than DC is from Boston.
I remember people on the news saying they felt it all the way from Maine and Michigan.
East Coast has hard, “cold” soils that “ring like a bell” during earthquakes. Newer ( talking relatively here since it is soil age) soils do not transmit the waves as well.
Cool. ;)
Maine? Where did you see that?
Michigan is only 325 miles from Washington DC. btw.
Cape Scott, (which is the northern end of Vancouver Island, is still another 100 miles away from Port Hardy.
It’s about 600 miles from you to the very tip of the Island, out to see where this earthquake hit.
Portland ME is only 520 miles from washington DC. Vancouver Island is really, really big.
It’s larger than all of Maryland, and that’s only because it has so many long inlets and coves that make the island narrow. It’s only about 25 miles across at it’s narrowest point but 350 from Cape Scott to Sooke.
I am a hobbyist and have been observing quakes using these for about 6yrs now and have noticed a few trends of quakes and volcanic activity.
The quake that occurred this afternoon in BC had very little ps/waves to it in relationship to it's magnitude. I have noticed that could mean that this was a pre-stress quake...or what is called a forerunner quake which signals that there is a fault nearby that quite possible is already loading or loading that would be larger.
Just a theory....but I have had my moments of accuracy and I have been watching the Juan de Fuca for a year and a half now as I do believe that it is capable of a huge one and relatively soon.
It is also noted as of this hour there have not been any aftershocks...not totally unusual given the depth of this quake but there should be something in the next few hours if this was indeed a main quake I would think.
As for your bathtub....lol porcelain or composite plastic?....lol
It was on Fox news. Shemp Smith reported it.
Whidbey Island here...didn't know there was a nearby quake until family in MN called to see how we were.....
Is Whidby Island still producing the best Ruby Port in the world?
You need to study more than just a few waveforms winnie. USGS analysis indicates that the motion of the quake was left lateral strike slip. This is not the motion expected by the subduction of the Juan de fuca plate.
exactly Zilla...
It would seem to me to be a classic forerunner of a subduction zone loading, no?
As for the webicorders..u know that’s not the “only” thing I look at....lol
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