Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / December 2005

Susan,
It looks like my question the other day was right up your schedule.  I
am sorry to say I will miss your presentation this year.  I had a
career move that was too good to pass up and so it was either time or

Western Washington's two major earthquakes this century had minimal impact
north of Seattle. But new evidence suggests that in the previous 1,100 years
an area between Everett and Marysville experienced at least three
earthquakes of at least moderate intensity that produced ...

Look folks, ..it's doing it again - SHRINKING!!.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/index.html
Not for the first time either
http://users.indigo.net.au/don/ng/shrink.html

Just noticed these :
2005/12/02 13:13:12.8  38.12 N 142.12 E  51  M 6.5  NEAR E.CST EASTERN
HONSHU
2005/12/02 13:13:07.4  38.15 N 142.20 E  20  mb6.2  NEAR E.CST EASTERN

Our Planet Earth From Space
The Earthquake tracking overview images on the pages of this website can be
set as desktop items by right-clicking on them with IE.
On my website you can also listen to the latest quake alerts, both from USGS

About twenty minutes ago ...
24 kilometers deep