Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / November 2008

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008zlbn.php
Understand there's a tsunami warning for the area.
Probably is one, considering the location of the quake.
Brian

This has been an interesting spell. It still is. At least the rest of
this day to go it isn't due to expire until the 19th.
I was getting leg cramps for tornadoes but saw nothing confirming my
suspicions on the US weather warning site. Then this turned up in my

Region:                            NORTHERN QINGHAI, CHINA
Geographic coordinates:            37.619N,  95.846E
Magnitude:                        6.5 Mw
Depth:                            10 km

6th to 13th November @ 04:04
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/phase/phases2001.html
Tropical Depression Seventeen strengthens into Tropical Storm
Paloma.

Tall, Older, High-Rise and Wood-Frame Buildings Could Collapse:
 http://www.spinics.net/lists/usgs/msg00166.html

I'm working on a web application that reports USGS earthquake
information to people based on their geographical location.  I want to
only show earthquake information if there is some reasonable
likelihood that they felt the earthquake.

http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Maps/116-33.html
Nice swarm in the past few hours, with a few 3+er's thrown in.
Brian

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Oct 28 @ 23:14 Anticyclonic until a large tropical storm reaches super-
size.
Nov  6 @ 04:04
Nov 13 @ 06:17

Rare Aftershocks Persist in North Texas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:54 a.m. ET
DALLAS (AP) -- Northern Texas has been getting more rare earth tremors,

ON DECEMBER 16th 1811, the residents of New Madrid, Missouri, were
startled out of their beds by a huge earthquake, which was quickly
followed by a second. Those who survived the catastrophe reported that
cracks opened in the earth’s surface, that the ground rolled visibly