Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / January 2005

a good low cost solution, plus the environment benefits.
other countries could adopt the same solution.
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India plants trees to act as barrier against future tsunamis

Thought I would share.
From the San Diego Herald
6:46 a.m. January 18, 2005
TOKYO – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 jolted the

The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology are collecting
interesting Sumutra datasets at a special website:
http://www.iris.iris.edu/sumatra/
(Is I.R.I.S. singular or plural?)

Interesting that the Neic catalog is starting to show quakes from
further afield. Normally they cover the globe. Most lately have been in
the Indian Ocean region http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html
For any one unfamiliar with the site, normally when there are largish

A small quake has occurred in a segment of the mighty San Andreas that
has not produced even a microquake in what seems like a couple of
YEARS:
This quake took place within the past hour and is at this moment, still

DONNER LAKE TAHOE 2005 TRUCKEE,CA PHOTOS
http://community.webshots.com/user/donnerlake2005
http://community.webshots.com/album/251857259YDhxGL

In December I'd realized that Gaithersburg (in Maryland) vibrates.  It
would go five seconds on, two seconds off, and repeat.  Sometimes ten,
fifteen, or twenty seconds on.  Frequency somewhere in the 10-100 Hz
range, I suppose, my butt isn't calibrated.  At first I thought the

http://www.whoi.edu/media/2004_jian_Lin.html
A dozen major earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have occurred in the
Caribbean near Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the island of
Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in the past 500 years,

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Steps:
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2. BECOME part of your Loving Higher Self

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMA6U71Y3E_0.html

Kobe was struck by a large quake 10 years ago today and observances are
being held there in respect for the dead.
Seems a bad time of the year for quakes.

2005/01/12 08:40 M 6.0 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE Z= 10km 0.84S 21.20W
Rvsd/01/12 08:40 M 6.8 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE Z= 10km 0.84S 21.21W
What is happening in the Atlantic?

I compiled the material I found on the web on the tectonics of the Indian
Ocean (Banda Aceh) earthquake and of the region into a web page of links.
I also have sections of links to terms for not geologists, and on historical
geological catastrophes.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/RCB.html
Dr. Ron Blakey is a professor at Northern Arizona University.  He has put
together a very informative web site that includes paleotectonic reconstructions
of the earth, and for specific regions.  They are quite well done.  I've taken

WinXP Pro, sp1
Hi group,
to educate myself (out of sheer curiosity)
I am looking for software that can graphically represent seismic