Magnitude 7.2 - MAULE, CHILE

USGS ^ | 2012 March 25 22:37:06 UTC | nully

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Magnitude 7.2 - MAULE, CHILE 2012 March 25 22:37:06 UTC

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Magnitude 7.2 Date-Time

Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 22:37:06 UTC Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 06:37:06 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 35.198°S, 71.783°W Depth 30 km (18.6 miles) Region MAULE, CHILE Distances 27 km (16 miles) NNW of Talca, Maule, Chile 55 km (34 miles) WSW of Curico, Maule, Chile 99 km (61 miles) NNE of Cauquenes, Maule, Chile 219 km (136 miles) SSW of SANTIAGO, Region Metropolitana, Chile Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 19.8 km (12.3 miles); depth +/- 6.7 km (4.2 miles) Parameters NST=336, Nph=342, Dmin=24.5 km, Rmss=0.84 sec, Gp= 94°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7 Source

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Event ID usc0008pwq

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Inland, probably no tsunami.

[pollywog]

Prayers for the good people of Chile.

[kevslisababy]

Well, if I followed the arguments from the wizards at the EPA, they must be fracking.

[madison10]

Running through my head: “I fell in to a burning ring of fire...”

The ring has been heating up this past month.

[Vince Ferrer]

Is the Ring of Fire getting more active? In the last year earthquakes in Japan, Mexico, Chile, and volcanoes in Japan, Russia, Alaska, and Mexico.

Watch out California.

[the invisib1e hand]

sure are “earthquakes in divers places” of late.

[chemicalman]

The year is 2012.

[Rushmore Rocks]

I’ve been reading some chat from other forums that the seismologists are getting concerned about the Cascadia subduction plates.....Pacific northwest. That and the New Madrid fault are the ones that really worry me........and then, there’s the Yellowstone caldera.

[Strategerist]

There’s been a perfectly normal number of large (M 7.0+) earthquakes so far this year.

Funny how nobody was posting in February when there wasn’t much EQ activity “Hey, there’s no large earthquakes.”

[the invisib1e hand]

yeah sure, whatever you say. all i know is every day there are usually a number of headlines on my news aggregator about an earthquake somewhere I never heard of.

I don't qualify by magnitude, however.

[NoLibZone]

Are the Obama kds in Chile?

[pollywog]

exactly my thoughts. Living in Los Angeles makes me very aware of the ring of fire.

[Cold Heart]

“Funny how nobody was posting in February when there wasn’t much EQ activity...

It was quiet, too quiet:)

[UCANSEE2]

I agree.

A quake makes the news, and we react as if this doesn’t happen very often.

There are literally hundreds of earthquakes a day, round the world.

EQ activity has not increased, on average, for a very, very long time.

The internet has made it so that we can get news from around the world, and we are more ‘aware’ of Earthquakes that used to be known only locally.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

The fact that these earthquakes (and they are increasing) are happening at the same time and in conjunction with every other sign Christ gave for His return gives them extreme importance.

You are correct.

[txhurl]

4.6 earlier today in Costa Rica.

[the invisib1e hand]

The internet has made it so that we can get news from around the world, and we are more ‘aware’ of Earthquakes that used to be known only locally.

This may be a safe assumption, however it by no means precludes the possibility of increased earthquake activity.

[dirtboy]

The fact that these earthquakes (and they are increasing)

Do you have evidence for that?

[GiovannaNicoletta]

http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/quake-chart_files/quake-chart.html

http://www.science20.com/florilegium/blog/why_so_many_earthquakes_decade-65178

http://www.december212012.info/the-increase-in-earthquakes-leading-up-to-2012/