EARTHQUAKE WARNING FROM RUSSIAN INSTITUTE of PHYSICS of the EARTH...

More further reading:

Electromagnetic Signals Can Predict Earthquakes

Thanks TaraP. Adding, not pinging.




· join · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post new topic · subscribe ·

Why in the last 20 years have we seen such devastating earthquakes worldwide?

Because we have worldwide TV coverage. They have always happened, we just didn't used to know about them, or if we found out, it was much, much later.

what about all the Volcanic eruptions?
what about the Massive Sinholes happening all over the globe?

Same thing. (sinholes, that's funny)

What is causing all this?

The whole Earth is very active, geologically. As far as WHAT causes these things, there are a multitude of various contributing factors. So many, in fact, that it is impossible to predict any of them.

Sometimes, we cause them.

For instance, watch this:

Lake Peigneur sinkhole disaster

interesting. It is not long before we will know about this one.

Russia's prediction is a bit surprising .. what think ye?

All these things are outside our power to stop or change.

This is God's warning perhaps. He does warn us we are not living to please him. He can easily dispense with us, when ever he chooses.

Are we living to please him?

#1."Love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, mind, spirit, soul, and strength." His Word tells us how to live.

And

... #2. "Love thy neighbor as thyself"

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

THX THX.

I’m sure the naysayers will be along shortly to insist

that Putin gets all his briefings from

the tin-foil hat crowd.

...lining up nicely for those nuts declaring Judgement Day is next week on May 21.

And now this, from our own Destroyer-Imposter-In-Chief’s White House:

[I wonder—is what they are NOT saying more important than what they ARE saying in this article? Is this a ‘cover their tracks beforehand’ article?]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/10/understanding-earthquakes-and-their-impacts-part-i

Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts: Part I
Posted by Tammy Dickinson and David Applegate on May 10, 2011 at 10:46 AM EDT
Ed. Note: This is the first of a two-part blog focusing on the science and aftermath of earthquakes. Part I focuses on the science of a high-magnitude earthquake and whether one could happen in the United States. Tomorrow, Part II will focus on What We Can Do About It.

Part I: Could a 9.0 Happen Here?

Four deadly earthquakes in just over a year—Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and now Japan—have provided sudden reminders of the tectonic forces active beneath our feet. Perhaps more importantly, they serve as reminders that disasters resulting from those earthquakes are not the work of nature alone. Even in the face of such giant forces, societal decisions before and after an earthquake can have a major impact on the amount of damage, lives lost, and other outcomes. So while scientists and engineers share in society’s obligation to help the victims, we have an additional responsibility to learn from these events and share lessons that can be applied to vulnerable communities—not only abroad, but also here in the United States.

To make those wise decisions requires some basic geology. Most people know that the crust of the Earth is broken into about a dozen major sections, or plates, (and a number of smaller ones) that slowly move against one another. And when plates collide, the rock material in the collision zone is strained and eventually either breaks or slips along the boundary, causing an earthquake. Less widely appreciated is that the largest earthquakes occur along plate boundary zones where one plate is driven down beneath another. Most of these “subduction zones” are located around the rim of the Pacific Ocean in what is known as the Ring of Fire, so called because these regions are also particularly prone to volcanic eruptions.

As it turns out, Japan sits on or near the intersection of four of these plates, with the ensuing high risk from earthquakes and volcanoes. The magnitude-9.0 earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011, was the largest to have struck Japan since seismic recording began 130 years ago and was the fourth-largest earthquake ever recorded worldwide, releasing approximately 1,000 times the energy of the Haiti earthquake of January 2010. In that light it is remarkable that the damage and loss of life was not far greater than it was—a tribute to Japan’s sizable and science-based investments in strict building codes, public preparedness, and earthquake and tsunami early warning systems. In particular, the current estimates of lives lost just from the shaking of this giant earthquake number in the low hundreds. More on this in Part Two of this blog, which we’ll post tomorrow. But it’s important to remember that even as nations begin the humbling process of rethinking certain assumptions about earthquake potential, nuclear safety, and tsunami protection, we must also use the lessons of what went right to redouble ongoing efforts to build resilient communities.

Is this really a problem that the United States has to worry about? The short answer is yes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, 39 U.S. states have moderate-to-high earthquake hazard, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Marianas Islands. These states include the ones people think of along the West Coast, but also ones in the Mountain West, the Central United States (where we are this year commemorating the bicentennial of a series of magnitude-7 earthquakes that struck the Mississippi Valley in 1811-12), and the East, where magnitude-7 earthquakes have struck as recently as the 1880s. Over all, annualized earthquake losses in the U.S. are estimated at $5.3 billion.

That figure could be dwarfed, of course, in the event of a magnitude-9 earthquake. And while the exact location, timing, or intensity of earthquakes cannot be predicted, the U.S. West Coast has two subduction zones—the type of plate boundary that is off the coast of Honshu, Japan—capable of magnitude-9 earthquakes. One is offshore of southern Alaska and the other is offshore a length of the Pacific Northwest coast stretching from Vancouver, BC, to Northern California—a region known as “Cascadia.” Earthquakes in southern Alaska produced major tsunamis in 1946, 1957, 1964, and 1965. The Cascadia zone last ruptured in 1700 and has an average recurrence interval of 500-600 years. The subduction zone in the eastern Caribbean has generated magnitude-8 earthquakes as recently as 1946. The 30-year probability of a magnitude-7 or greater earthquake in California is 94%, a number that fortunately drops to 4% for magnitude-8 or greater. Clearly, when it comes to a giant U.S. temblor, it is not a question of “if” but of “when.”

Tomorrow: What We Can Do About It

Tammy Dickinson is a Senior Policy Analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

David Applegate is Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake & Geologic Hazards at the US Geological Survey