Secret Jardin
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Just thought I would put it out there.
Haiti earhquake
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Woomeister
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Anarchy is about to break out on a large scale as people are not getting fed or watered. In total the Un estimates that 189 000 people received water and/or food in the last 2 days. That is only 1 in 15 people!!! The UN are going to be turning to peace keeping duties pretty soon while the US marines take on the logistical battle. 200 000 dead and counting. Very sad indeed.
MexicanWarlord420
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Good thing no real damage was done.
bobtokes
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are you for real ?
mexiblunt
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Of all the name calling and fighting/bullshit I've seen on this site this lack of thought takes the cake. I am going to go donate some more for this turd.
Big P
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What if all this shifting will cause the bad one in California to hit? i think there was one off of calis coast before the haiti
5.8 MAG QUAKE CAYMAN ISLANDS...
MAP...
Quake hits off Cayman Islands
January 19, 2010 -- Updated 1618 GMT (0018 HKT)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
RELATED TOPICS
(CNN) -- A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday off the Cayman Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The 6.2-mile deep quake hit at 9:23 a.m. ET, 40 miles from George Town, Cayman Islands, the USGS reported. George Town, the capital, is on the western shore of Grand Cayman Island.
There were no immediate reports of injuries in the three-island chain in the Caribbean.
The U.K. territory of the Cayman Islands is about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was devastated last week by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
Tuesday's quake struck about 32 miles (52 kilometers) east-southeast of Bodden Town in the center of the southern coast of Grand Cayman Island.
It caused shaking at the Pedro St. James National Historic Site, about a 10-minute drive from Bodden Town, said Sonya Hydes, the gift shop manager.
"There was quite a bit of shaking," she said.
Hydes said she called her husband after the shaking stopped to see if their house was affected. He told her that he felt the quake but that it did not damage their house.
There are reports that the quake toppled power lines in Bodden Town, said Kafara Augustine, a news producer for Cayman 27.
Augustine said she felt the shaking from within her office in central George Town. She and her colleagues quickly evacuated the building, seeking safety in the streets, she said. The two-story building did not suffer any damage and from what she could see, everything else seemed unharmed during the quake, she said.
The quake startled Davy Ebanks, general manager of the North Sound Club, a golf course on the Seven Mile Beach strip of western Grand Cayman Island. He said he was reading about the earthquake in Haiti on the Internet when he suddenly felt shaking.
"I just bolted," he said. "It was rocking and rolling pretty good."
The trembling knocked some picture frames off balance and sent some mannequins tumbling in the pro shop, but otherwise did little damage at the club, he said.
About 215 miles (346 kilometers) from the temblor in Cienfuegos, Cuba -- a city on the southern coast of the communist island -- residents said they felt nothing.
The Caymans are about 167 (268 kilometers) miles east of Jamaica and about 140 miles (240 kilometers) south of Cuba, according to the CIA World Fact Book.
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5.8 MAG QUAKE CAYMAN ISLANDS...
MAP...
Quake hits off Cayman Islands
January 19, 2010 -- Updated 1618 GMT (0018 HKT)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- No immediate reports of injuries after earthquake off Cayman Islands
- "There was quite a bit of shaking," says shop manager in George Town, Cayman Islands
- U.K. territory in Caribbean about 600 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
RELATED TOPICS
(CNN) -- A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday off the Cayman Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The 6.2-mile deep quake hit at 9:23 a.m. ET, 40 miles from George Town, Cayman Islands, the USGS reported. George Town, the capital, is on the western shore of Grand Cayman Island.
There were no immediate reports of injuries in the three-island chain in the Caribbean.
The U.K. territory of the Cayman Islands is about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was devastated last week by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
Tuesday's quake struck about 32 miles (52 kilometers) east-southeast of Bodden Town in the center of the southern coast of Grand Cayman Island.
It caused shaking at the Pedro St. James National Historic Site, about a 10-minute drive from Bodden Town, said Sonya Hydes, the gift shop manager.
"There was quite a bit of shaking," she said.
Hydes said she called her husband after the shaking stopped to see if their house was affected. He told her that he felt the quake but that it did not damage their house.
There are reports that the quake toppled power lines in Bodden Town, said Kafara Augustine, a news producer for Cayman 27.
Augustine said she felt the shaking from within her office in central George Town. She and her colleagues quickly evacuated the building, seeking safety in the streets, she said. The two-story building did not suffer any damage and from what she could see, everything else seemed unharmed during the quake, she said.
The quake startled Davy Ebanks, general manager of the North Sound Club, a golf course on the Seven Mile Beach strip of western Grand Cayman Island. He said he was reading about the earthquake in Haiti on the Internet when he suddenly felt shaking.
"I just bolted," he said. "It was rocking and rolling pretty good."
The trembling knocked some picture frames off balance and sent some mannequins tumbling in the pro shop, but otherwise did little damage at the club, he said.
About 215 miles (346 kilometers) from the temblor in Cienfuegos, Cuba -- a city on the southern coast of the communist island -- residents said they felt nothing.
The Caymans are about 167 (268 kilometers) miles east of Jamaica and about 140 miles (240 kilometers) south of Cuba, according to the CIA World Fact Book.
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2,000 already flown into Orlando area...
FRENCH ACCUSE US OF HAITI 'OCCUPATION'...
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Defense Sec: No policing role...
Infection risk to 3 million...
Wyclef Jean Defends His Charity, Calls for Evacuation Of Port-au-Prince...
Texas team preparing for Haiti mission told to stand down...
shnkrmn
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Well, you can bet Pat Robertson would have something to say about that. . .
Johnnyorganic
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Let's not forget Danny Glover.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/15/danny-glover-haiti-earthq_n_425160.html
Big P
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Another 6.1 Mag EarthQuake hit Haiti this morning
more Buildings collapsed more feared dead
6.1: Strong aftershock hits Haiti, sends people into streets...
more Buildings collapsed more feared dead
6.1: Strong aftershock hits Haiti, sends people into streets...
CrackerJax
New Member
There are quakes happening in the entire region....
Strong earthquake felt in Guatemala; no damage
Mon Jan 18, 12:15 pm ET
GUATEMALA CITY – A strong earthquake has rocked Guatemala and parts of El Salvador, but no there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in either country.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.0.
The USGS says it hit Monday morning about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Guatemala City, where it was felt by many residents. There were reports of shaking in the Guatemalan countryside and in El Salvador as well.
Civil protection officials in the two countries says so far there are no reports of injuries or damage, but authorities are still checking.
Strong earthquake felt in Guatemala; no damage
Mon Jan 18, 12:15 pm ET
GUATEMALA CITY – A strong earthquake has rocked Guatemala and parts of El Salvador, but no there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in either country.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.0.
The USGS says it hit Monday morning about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Guatemala City, where it was felt by many residents. There were reports of shaking in the Guatemalan countryside and in El Salvador as well.
Civil protection officials in the two countries says so far there are no reports of injuries or damage, but authorities are still checking.
CrackerJax
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mexiblunt
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Just seen a thing on t.v that said the distance from Houston to port-au-prince is Shorter than the distance from Houston to New York. It not" far" away but the map clearly shows where the plate lines are, Not sure if that is connected to fault lines, just thinking if you put pressure on a plate of glass from the edges where does it break?
Looks like the carribean and the coco plates are in a sumo match.
Thanks for enlarging that CJ.
CrackerJax
New Member
Yes, the plate lines are the fault lines. There are others though.... but all plate lines are fault lines. Not all plates act the same however. The fault lines which scrap across each other in parallel usually produce the largest volume and intensity of earthquakes. Cali is such a place. The sea floor is constantly being rejuvenated like big conveyor belts feeding one into another, one plate slipping under the other. Old sea bed is pushed under in one place and new sea bed is created in other places. This is called continental drift.
SocataSmoker
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I think so, don't worry... MexicanWarlord420 has always been a little "slow" if you know what I mean.
shnkrmn
Well-Known Member
Then there are places that don't appear on that map because they aren't on plate edges, like the New Madrid fault right in the middle of the US. Earthquakes there in 1811-1812 Made the Mississippi river appear to run backward. Magnitude 8.2 I think.