Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / November 2004

The beach ball for the mag 6.7 SOLOMON ISLANDS event that occurred 11/11/04
is ~ 180 degrees opposite of the beach ball for the mag 7.4 Indonesia event.
As previously noted I have not seen an explanation for this type beach ball.
See: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/FM/neic_qsbr_q.html

Hey folks--I'm just sick tonight, so forgive me.
The era of any kind of good sense is over in the USA.
NO Cheer,
PennyB

Hi George,
I received your?? e-mail advising which CD you wanted which included
some guy named "Robben", however, your street address was missing.  I
sent a return e-mail to you, but I have not received a reply yet.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usqsci/
Close, but no cigar.

A mag 4.0 EQ occurred 11/07/04 SW of Tuscaloosa,Al. See:
http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/ .
This EQ appears to be another EQ of a group of EQ's running along a trend
from a point on the Central Ky-Va border SW to SW Al.

As of this writing there have been a series of 5 EQ's at Mt Rainer 11/07/04
ranging in mag from 1.2 to 3.2. See:
http://spike.geophys.washington.edu/recenteqs/Maps/122-47.html
For helicorder recordings of these events see:

Southern California has had at least two major dam failures.
One was from the San Francisquito Dam in the 1920s...as I recall.  I'm too lazy
to look up the date at the moment.  However, did some field work years ago at
this damn site.  Failed quickly and drowned several hundred ...

The USGS is complaining they do not have sufficient funds to properly
monitor potentially dangerous volcanoes in the Continental US, Alaska, & The
US affiliated Mariana Islands in the South Pacific. For details/story see:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A15C22D99

A volcano has begun erupting under the Vatnajokull glacier in eastern
Iceland. The eruption plume is expected to drift some ~ 500 miles to the
East
affecting area air traffic routes.

Solid earth tides have both E-W & N-S components caused by changes in the
moons position relative to it's orbital position. For details & explanation
see: http://156.110.192.25/tide.html
There has been much debate whether the moon could affect when EQ's occurred

Seawater motion may cause quakes
NEW STUDY: When faults on ocean bottom are set to slip, tides may push them.
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/5735006p-5668630c.html
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     Salt ravages Australia's environment
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     CANBERRA - Australia's natural environment has seen little improvement in the past five years as salinity ravages key waterways and agricultural zones ...

Ran across this today:
 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&e=1&u=/space/20041103/sc_spac
e/digitaltemblorscomputermodelsuccessfullyforecastsearthquakes

     Nuclear Approach to Water Shortage
     Simon Grose describes plans to desalinate water using nuclear energy.
     While the possibility of access to nuclear weapons by Iraq and North
Korea heightens the chance of warfare in the short term, longer-term

We've recently moved from abroad to the South Island's West Coast in
the town of Greymouth.  Did anyone see the article in yesterday's New
Zealand Herald headlined Big South Island Quake 'Overdue"?
Find it here:  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay ...