Monday, October 29, 2012

Canadian Shaken!!

A 7.7 magnitude quake in Canada's Queen Charlotte Islands seems to have caused little damage other than some minor power outages and 40 seconds of shaking on a few of the isolated islands.  Tsunami warnings were issued for the west coast and Hawaii but no big waves arrived. A 6.3 aftershock occurred later in the day and dozens of aftershocks in the 4 range continue in the region. The Pacific plate is getting squeezed all around and this big slip was just another reminder.
The CentralVaQuakeZone is still quiet but elsewhere in the US shaking continues. Arkansas had a 4.1 quake, must be fracking again... yeah, blowing up inside the earth to get out hydrocarbons couldn't possibly cause any problems. Oklahoma remains on the list, Nevada is shaking and of course, California and Alaska. The usual suspects on the plate boundaries continues slipping and sliding.
With Sandy's arrival we can do without quakes here, but earth is still doing what it does and there's not anything we can do about it but hang on!

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