Lil Kim’s failure: The long awaited North Korean rocket barely gets off the ground How true..Major media and not so major media telling us about this planned rocket launch for days.. ‘when will they do it!’ ‘world on alert!’ ‘what should the UN do!?’ …And not tonight?The launch flops.. failure. It goes up.. splits up.. … Read moreMore on North Korea
The U.N. Security Council will meet Friday to discuss a response to North Korea’s attempt to launch a long-range rocket. The initial few minutes of data collected by the United States indicates the rocket fell apart within the Earth’s atmosphere, a U.S. official said.
North Korea launches a long-range rocket it says is carrying a satellite, South Korea’s Yonhap Television News said
The magnitude 6.9 and 6.2 quakes were centered about 85 miles northeast of Guerrero Negro in the Mexican state of Baja California.. And lots of shaking: Both epicenters were shallow, a little more than six miles underground
Global state of ‘unrest’
Update: USGS downgrades Gulf of California earthquake from 7.1 to 6.9; struck at a depth of 6.4 miles – USGS
5.9 MAG QUAKE HITS OFF OREGON COAST… 7.0 MAG MEXICO… Watchhing this closely..
Indonesia Disaster Agency says major quakes produced only small tsunami waves because of horizontal plate movement.. But the main disaster of the big quakes still happened
Weather Channel reports: Roger Musson (Brit. Geo. Survey) via AP: Quake was strike-slip. Earth moves horizontally…doesn’t displace large volumes of water
More: US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues new Indian Ocean warning following latest aftershocks .. USGS: A second quake, magnitude 8.2, strikes off west coast of Sumatra.. Local Indonesian authorities issue a fresh tsunami warning following an aftershock with magnitude 8.2..