Posted on 05/17/2009 12:34:21 PM PDT by TaraP
AL-EIS – Local residents have become increasingly alarmed after experiencing the biggest tremor thus far registering 4.15 on the Richter scale early Thursday following ten successive tremors, some of which were felt for the first time as far as Yanbu located 150 km from Al-Eis.
MADINAH: Rumblings from the direction of extinct volcanoes in Al-Ais, which was hit by a series of tremors over the last couple of weeks, sent villagers in the area into a state of near panic in the early hours of yesterday.
After the tremor, a voluntary evacuation operation began in which three families from Al-Qarrassah village were taken to a shelter camp, 45 km from Al-Eis. Maj. Gen. Saleh Al-Muhawwis, Director General of Civil Defense in Madina Region, said the families that wanted to be transported to the shelter camp have been taken there. He said the forced evacuation stage would not begin until there were indications of great danger. Informed sources said the molten rocks (magma) being pushed upward have reached 3 km below the surface of the earth whereas recently they were at a depth of 4 km. As a result of the new tremors, cracks have appeared in several houses in Al-Qarrassah village while bricks toppled from the top of some buildings. Civil Defense teams rushed to inspect the damages that were evident in the house belonging to the Saudi national Awadh Al-Hafidhi, who said that his house, constructed seven years ago, had never had cracks before. Local residents have started sleeping outdoors in the courtyards of their houses fearing tremors. Also, Civil Defense patrols have spread throughout the region. – SG
Bush’s fault, and that damn Karl Rove Volcano machine!
That looks like where they filmed THE INCREDIBLES
Earthquakes Rattle Madinah
A flurry of earthquakes has been rattling the city of Madinah, reports Arab News. Most of the quakes are microquakes, recorded by instruments, but not felt by people and of course doing no damage. A few, however, have been strong enough to be felt—and start creating anxiety.
The Hijaz region of Saudi Arabia, i.e., the western part of the country, is seismically active, as this Saudi ARAMCO World article from 2006 spells out. There is concern that the volcanic area of the harrat is waking. In 1256 CE/654 AH, a volcano in this area erupted sending lava flowing to within 15 miles/25 km of the city of Madinah.
1,200 tremors in Madinah over past few days
Yousuf Muhammad | Arab News
MADINAH: More than 1,200 tremors, most of which were very weak, have occurred in and around Madinah over the past several days, the National Center for Earthquakes and Volcanoes at the Saudi Geological Survey Authority said yesterday.
According to the center, the tremors had magnitudes of between 0.78 and 3.7 on the Richter scale. Some residents, especially in the village of Al-Ais, felt tremors on Thursday and Friday.
Hani bin Mahmoud Zahran, director of the center, said Bahrat Al-Shaqqah was the epicenter of the earthquakes, which began on April 18 and are still continuing.
He said the strongest tremors measured 3.7 degrees on the Richter scale.
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The 1256 eruption overlook the difference between CE and AH dating. Thus, they cite the last eruption as ‘7th C.’ CE, off by close to 700 years
USGS does not report any recent earthquakes in the region.
I know..?
I am not sure why.....
Odd. The USGS website doesn’t show anything in Saudi Arabia. The closeset I can see is a 4.6 in Iran.
Hmm, maybe God is up to something, like swallowing 50,000 Saudi leaders in a giant earthquake.
A US scientist currently visiting the Kingdom dismissed the tremors as usual underground activity that did not pose any threat to the safety of people living in the area.
“The tremors experienced in some villages in Madinah province are normal and not dangerous. It is normal underground movement along a fault line,” said Farooq Al-Baz, director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University.
I still have some greenbar that size....
Yes, but that was updated on the Saudi Gazette...
Google it you will find more on this and the on-going rumblings...
The Red Sea is a young ocean forming as a result of the movement of the Arabian Peninsula away from the East coast of Africa. An unstable part of the world, kind of like California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_Rift
The hajj starts soon...
/mark
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