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3.0 M - SOUTH DAKOTA Preliminary Earthquake Report Magnitude 3.0 M Date-Time 16 Jan 2012 13:41:10 UTC16 Jan 2012 06:41:10 near epicenter16 Jan 2012 07:41:10 standard time in your timezone Location 43.446N 103.051W Depth 5 km Distances 22 km (14 miles) ESE (104 degrees) of Buffalo Gap, SD 30 km (18 miles) SSE (154 degrees) of Fairburn, SD 33 km (20 miles) NNE (27 degrees) of Oelrichs, SD 362 km (225 miles) NNE (27 degrees) of Fort Collins, CO 443 km (275 miles) NNE (20 degrees) of Denver, CO Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 13.5 km; Vertical Parameters Nph = 9; Dmin...

...no Tsunami expected, very early

Magnitude 3.3 Date-Time Sunday, December 25, 2011 at 14:10:41 UTC Sunday, December 25, 2011 at 08:10:41 AM at epicenter Location 35.399°N, 96.528°W Depth 10.4 km (6.5 miles) (poorly constrained) Region OKLAHOMA Distances 8 km (5 miles) NW (311°) from Cromwell, OK 11 km (7 miles) SSW (202°) from Boley, OK 13 km (8 miles) SSE (163°) from Paden, OK 37 km (23 miles) E (80°) from Shawnee, OK 92 km (57 miles) E (96°) from Oklahoma City, OK 290 km (180 miles) N (5°) from Dallas, TX

It happened about 30 minutes ago.

That one felt bigger here in south OKC than yesterdays.

Magnitude 5.6 Date-Time Sunday, November 06, 2011 at 03:53:10 UTC Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 10:53:10 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 35.599°N, 96.752°W Depth 5 km (3.1 miles) Region OKLAHOMA Distances 34 km (21 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma 63 km (39 miles) SSE of Stillwater, Oklahoma 68 km (42 miles) ESE of Guthrie, Oklahoma 71 km (44 miles) ENE of OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma

3.6 M - SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI Preliminary Earthquake Report Magnitude 3.6 M Date-Time 22 Sep 2011 23:32:09 UTC22 Sep 2011 18:32:09 near epicenter22 Sep 2011 17:32:09 standard time in your timezone Location 36.835N 90.766W Depth 8 km Distances 5 km (3 miles) E (83 degrees) of Grandin, MO 11 km (7 miles) S (189 degrees) of Ellsinore, MO 24 km (15 miles) NNE (12 degrees) of Doniphan, MO 204 km (127 miles) NNW (340 degrees) of Memphis, TN 205 km (127 miles) SSW (193 degrees) of St. Louis, MO Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 8.9 km; Vertical 12.5 km Parameters Nph =...

3.0 M - ALABAMA Preliminary Earthquake Report Magnitude 3.0 M Date-Time 13 Sep 2011 22:59:23 UTC13 Sep 2011 17:59:23 near epicenter13 Sep 2011 16:59:23 standard time in your timezone Location 33.591N 86.671W Depth 5 km Distances 5 km (3 miles) S (171 degrees) of Center Point, AL 7 km (4 miles) NNE (13 degrees) of Irondale, AL 7 km (4 miles) SSW (206 degrees) of Grayson Valley, AL 15 km (9 miles) ENE (61 degrees) of Birmingham, AL 514 km (320 miles) NE (38 degrees) of New Orleans, LA Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 14.0 km; Vertical 2.1 km Parameters Nph...

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DAMN

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake that was centered in Richmond, Virginia and felt as far as New York City and New England. Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly reported at 2:30 pm that their bureau received information from a producer saying that a Captiol Hill Police officer says that the Washington Monument may actually be tilting as a result of the earthquake. Seismologist John Rundle joined Kelly on her show and confirmed that the Washington Monument could very well be tilting as a result of the earthquake and the structure should be checked out. Two nuclear reactors have reportedly been taken off...

Japanese Firms Move Production, R&D to Korea Japanese chemical group Toray held a ground-breaking ceremony for a carbon fiber plant in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province on Tuesday. It is the first such factory on Korean soil. Toray says it will invest a total of W1.3 trillion (US$1=W1,084) in the plant over the next 10 years to make Korea the worldÂ’s largest production base in the industry with an annual output of 14,000 tons, twice as much as its main plant in Japan. â—† Influx of Japanese High-tech Firms Other Japanese firms in the high-tech industry are also building plants here...

Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Days Before Earthquake Politics / Environmental Issues May 18, 2011 - 01:15 PM By: Chris Kitze Infrared emissions above the epicentre increased dramatically in the days before the devastating earthquake in Japan, say scientists Geologists have long puzzled over anecdotal reports of strange atmospheric phenomena in the days before big earthquakes. But good data to back up these stories has been hard to come by. In recent years, however, various teams have set up atmospheric monitoring stations in earthquake zones and a number of satellites are capable of sending back data about the state of...

3.9 Mw - MISSOURI Preliminary Earthquake Report Magnitude 3.9 Mw Date-Time 7 Jun 2011 08:10:34 UTC 7 Jun 2011 03:10:34 near epicenter 7 Jun 2011 02:10:34 standard time in your timezone Location 38.121N 90.933W Depth 5 km Distances 18 km (11 miles) SE (137 degrees) of Miramiguoa Park, MO 23 km (14 miles) ESE (116 degrees) of Sullivan, MO 24 km (15 miles) NNW (327 degrees) of Potosi, MO 82 km (51 miles) SW (227 degrees) of St. Louis, MO Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 10.7 km; Vertical 3.0 km Parameters Nph = 187; Dmin = 83.5 km; Rmss = 1.49...

Earthquake off of Japan

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) admitted for the first time on May 15 that most of the fuel in one of its nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant had melted only about 16 hours after the March 11 earthquake struck a wide swath of northeastern Japan and triggered a devastating tsunami.

Industrial production posts largest drop 2011/04/29 Japan's industrial production plunged by a record 15.3 percent in March as the Great East Japan Earthquake slashed output at automakers and other manufacturers. The index of industrial production fell to 82.9 for the first decline in five months, according to a preliminary report released April 28. The industry ministry downgraded its assessment of industrial production for the first time since September 2010, although it said production is expected to recover.

Another 6.0 off the coast of Fukushima. No damage here.

Another quake

A pretty big quake just hit again...

A text message from my nephew in Japan. He works for a contractor that services news organizations worldwide. MARK - ARRIVED HERE ONE WEEK AFTER QUAKE. 145 MILES FROM REACTORS. AREA IS INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE COMPOUND. WE HAVE TRUCKS FOOD WATER FUEL GENERATORS BATTERIES BEDDING HYGIENE CAMERAS DISH AND RADIOS DROPPED HERE 8 DAYS BEFORE QUAKE. 2 - 6.0+ QUAKES HERE SINCE. BUILDINGS OK. 3 NEWS TEAMS USING OUR STUFF. BUSY. NRC AND DOD HAS WAREHOUSES IN HERE. DOD JUST SET UP SECURITY. NRC GUYS HERE ARE PISSED. THEY WANTED MILES OF TRASH BURNED BEFORE IT COULD BLOW AND FLOAT INTO...

Japan's world-class transportation infrastructure couldn't withstand this month's 9.0-magnitutde quake, but their construction teams are still amazing. This stretch of highway was repaired in just six days by a Herculean road crew. This is the triumph of Japanese engineering. The March 11th quake and tsunami crushed roads, destroyed bridges, twisted trains tracks, and otherwise did to Japan what your little brother did to your ideal Sim City creation when you weren't looking. A stretch of the Great Kanto Highway in Naka, Japan looked like the huge crater above on March 11th. The shaking left a 150-meter crack along the main...

Unlike victims of earthquakes in Haiti, Indonesia or China, those suffering in Japan expect their government to work and can’t understand why a country as affluent as theirs can’t keep gasoline, the lifeblood of a modern economy, flowing and why towns across the northeast have been plunged into frigid darkness for five days. “I never expected anything like this in modern Japan. It is like fiction,” said Yutaka Iwasawa, a 25-year-old forklift operator. With the first floor of his house under water, he and his family huddle on the second floor. They go to bed as soon as the sun...

Most victims have endured their privations with stoicism, but anger is rising over lack of basic services. For many, the slow response is reminiscent of that to the quake in Kobe in 1995. There may be radioactive particles wafting out of the sky, but Masahiro Hamaguchi has a more pedestrian concern about the air around him: the dribble of cold, wet snow. A week after the deadly earthquake and even deadlier tsunami that have devastated Japan, newly homeless huddle hungry and cold in emergency shelters. And people are wondering where, exactly, their government is. "I need something, anything, to warm...

The elderly are being abandoned to die in Japanese hospitals and care homes devastated by the tsunami amid a worsening humanitarian and nuclear disaster. Hundreds of thousands of victims have been made homeless, with more than 400,000 struggling to survive in emergency shelters with no power and little food or water. As the official death toll hit 6,539, it emerged that soldiers found 128 pensioners deserted by medical staff at a hospital in Iwaki, six miles from the Fukushima nuclear power station and inside the exclusion zone around the plant which continues to spew radiation into the atmosphere. Most of...

Americans Within 50 Miles Of Fukushima Should Evacuate Gus Lubin Mar. 16, 2011, 1:52 PM The US government just told all citizens within 80 kilometers of Fukushima Nuke Plant to stay indoors or evacuate. These areas are on radiation watch. Note how close it is to Tokyo.For some perspective, here's how that radius looks on top of Los Angeles:

(Reuters) – Public trust in the Japanese government faces its biggest test since World War Two over the handling of the nation's nuclear crisis, raising concerns that a breakdown in confidence could fuel panic and chaos if appeals for calm go unheeded. Foreigners are leaving Tokyo, or shutting themselves indoors, and supermarket shelves are running empty despite authorities assuring citizens there is no need to panic from the crisis unfolding at a quake-stricken nuclear power plant. The government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan was already unpopular before the disasters. "This government is useless," Masako Kitajima, a Tokyo office worker in...

Energy: If we drop oil exploration after Deepwater Horizon, coal mining after Chile and nuclear power after Fukushima, what's left? A world without nuclear power would not be risk-free or cleaner. When Navy crewmen returned from disaster-relief missions in Japan to the deck of the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, it was breathlessly reported that they'd been contaminated with radioactive particles from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima. A scene from the end-of-the-world epic "On The Beach" this was not. They were treated with good old-fashioned soap and water, and their clothes were discarded. According to the Navy, the exposure received...

Japan's Nikkei dives 6.5% Japanese stocks extend their post-quake losses after Monday's 6.2% drop in the Nikkei Average, as the possibility of a nuclear disaster remains ... 10:35p BREAKING Nikkei Average futures down 11.1% during break

I've been here ( Japan ) a long time , so what I have seen does not surprise me : the people's resilience ; the community spirit ; the never give up attitude ; the discipline ; etc...I would love to hear what your impressions have been , watching from halfway around the world .

I don't want to donate through liberal "non profits" who pocket a major chunk to sustain their bureaucracy. What reliable groups/ organization can I donate to so most of the money goes straight to those in need ? Thanks.

Just reported large aftershock, 7.2 about, around sendai area again. Earthquake in its own right.

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COME NOW My Children ! Before I remove My Spirit from The Earth ! Do you see my children this is not a game you are playing for your eternity lies in my hands and I am chasing after you for My love is great but your decision must be true . Come "NOW" My children and find Me for I AM in your garden calling out to you even " NOW " and though you ignore Me and find yourself distracted through your fleshly desires I have not just come to call upon you but to shake everything that...

Canon was forced to halt production at some of its manufacturing plants after power failures caused by the Japan earthquake. In a statement, the company has also confirmed that around 12 employees suffered minor injuries at its lens factory in Utsunomiya. However, Canon says that buildings and factories have not suffered major damage, as it assesses the impact of the quake on production. A spokesperson for Canon Europe was not able to confirm which factories were forced to stop production. It is also not clear whether there were any British nationals among those working at the damaged plants. However, we...

According to the Kyodo News Agency, via BBC, the official missing persons tally is around 88,000. It's well known that a lot of people are simply stranded in the cities, including Tokyo, and in many cases the people are probaby safe. It's not clear how they're included in the number. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-missing-people-2011-3#ixzz1GKAARmB5

BREAKING NEWS: 2,000 residents near Fukushima nuclear power plant urged to evacuate

HONOLULU (AP) — A 4.5-magnitude earthquake has struck Hawaii as residents brace for a tsunami after a massive earthquake in Japan. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damages from the quake that hit the Big Island about 30 miles southeast of Hilo just before 11 p.m. Thursday. The first waves from the tsunami were expected to hit about 3 a.m. Friday.

Tsunami causes major damage after earthquake strikes just-off the NE coast... Screen cap via Al Jazeera A massive 8.9 magnitude quake has hit northeast Japan, subsequently bringing a 4m tsunami to long parts of the country's coastline. NHK television reported many injuries and showed pictures of major tsunami damage in the north, with cars, trucks, houses being swept away in Onahama city. The earthquake rated a absolute maximum value of "7" on the Japanese scale. A 10m tsunami hit Sendai airport in the north-east. Military airplanes were flying over the worst-affected areas to assess the need for rescue efforts and an em,emergency cabinet...

Tokyo just got smacked hard. Still feeling tremors. Refrigerator broken, glass everywhere. I'm safe. Other Japan FReepers check in!!

Magnitude 7.9 (Preliminary magnitude — update expected within 15 minutes) Date-Time Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:28 UTC Friday, March 11, 2011 at 02:46:28 PM at epicenter Location 38.000°N, 142.900°E Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program Region NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN Distances 179 km (111 miles) E (98°) from Sendai, Honshu, Japan 205 km (127 miles) ENE (59°) from Iwaki, Honshu, Japan 216 km (134 miles) E (81°) from Fukushima, Honshu, Japan 382 km (237 miles) NE (46°) from TOKYO, Japan Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available Parameters NST= 89, Nph= 89, Dmin=402.5 km,...

When Mark Barrett moved to Guy, Arkansas, he had no idea the tiny town of less than 300 was nearly as rocking as the Southern California community he'd left behind. Six years and hundreds of seismic events later, Barrett says he's feeling it more and more. Since September, seismologists have recorded 700 temblors in the area. The largest in the current swarm, a 4.3-magnitude quake, shook the town at 2:13 a.m. Friday. The tremors appear to be rumbling through town with greater frequency. The Arkansas Geological Survey has recorded 50 quakes in and around Guy since Sunday. That includes Friday...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) procures and stores pre-packaged commercial meals to support readiness capability for immediate distribution to disaster survivors routinely. The purpose of this Request for Information is to identify sources of supply for meals in support of disaster relief efforts based on a catastrophic disaster event within the New Madrid Fault System for a survivor population of 7M to be utilized for the sustainment of life during a 10-day period of operations.

Nice shaker. Looking for seismograph reports now.

Things are still shaking in Arkansas. More than 500 measurable earthquakes have been reported in central Arkansas since September 20, ranging in magnitude from a barely noticeable 1.8 to a very noticeable 4.0 (recorded on October 11), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Geologists can't say whether they'll stop anytime soon.

Thought I would ask some freepers, since we are all over the nation and beyond. Particularly interested in hearing from those who live near the regions specified. What is happening in your neck of the woods?

Region: ARKANSAS Geographic coordinates: 35.322N, 92.332W Magnitude: 3.0 M Depth: 4 km Universal Time (UTC): 10 Oct 2010 12:48:23

The New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows. A team from Purdue and Northwestern universities analyzed the fault motion for eight years using global positioning system measurements and found that it is much less than expected given the 500- to 1,000-year repeat cycle for major earthquakes on that fault. The last large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone were magnitude 7-7.5 events in 1811 and 1812. Estimating an accurate earthquake threat for the area, which includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee,...

SANTIAGO — A strong earthquake shook coastal Chile Sunday, disrupting power and communications services without injuring anyone, authorities said, as tsunami fears led residents to seek higher ground. The US Geological Survey said the 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck at 2020 GMT 69 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Temuco, Chile, at a depth of 16 kilometers (10 miles). Chile's National Emergency Office said the quake was "medium intensity" and struck Biobio, Maule and O'Higgins, a region in south-central Chile that was devastated by a 8.8 magnitude quake and tsunami in February 2010. The agency's director Vicente Nunez told reporters that, on...

Here in Indiana, near Grissom ARB, we just felt what we think was an earthquake. Can anyone confirm?