“It just started to rumble and rumble harder and harder for probably 20 seconds,” said Dexter. “The doors to the firehouse [next door] were shaking violently.”
“It was bigger than [anything] I’ve felt in a long time out here,” she added.
In Ferndale, a city between Eureka and Petrolia, several storefront windows were shattered along Main Street. Food and soda bottles fell on the floor of an aisle at a grocery store.
Some people on Twitter said they felt the earthquake in San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area, more than 200 miles south of Petrolia.
— Read on www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scary-62-earthquake-strikes-area-near-eureka-in-northern-california/ar-AAS0fGO
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‘Scary’ 6.2 earthquake strikes area near Eureka in Northern California
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THE LAND OF OZ HAS STRANGE SHAKING GOING ON
The governmenwt has suspended all construction for 2 weeks.. that will cause some issues now that more than a few places have been dealt damage from really puzzling earthquakes that just should seem to be occurring where they are…
An unusually strong earthquake struck in an unusual portion of Australia (9:15 am September 21, local time), puzzling experts with its intensity and location.
Registering a magnitude 6.0, the earthquake outside of Melbourne is the largest onshore earthquake in Victoria in recorded history.
There have been numerous aftershocks, including a a 4.7 that occurred about 15 minutes after the main shock. Melbourne is the second largest city in Australia, with a population of roughly 5 million people.
Betty’s Burgers & Concrete Co has experienced structural damage due to Melbourne’s earthquake pic.twitter.com/bMImZcds8e
— MOJO News (@mojonewsau) September 22, 2021https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1440330530642292748 According to press reports, scientists are working to understand why today’s earthquake was as strong as it was and why it struck where it did.
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Aftershocks continue to rattle Haiti
According to USGS, today’s earthquake occurred as the result of oblique reverse motion along the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone which is roughly 75 miles west of the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. “The earthquake occurred at shallow depths on either a reverse fault striking west and dipping to the north with a component of left-lateral slip, or a fault striking southeast and dipping to the southwest with a component of right-lateral slip,” the USGS said in a report. “At the location of the earthquake, the local plate boundary is dominated by left-lateral strike slip motion and compression. The plate boundary in this location accommodates eastward, left-lateral motion of the Caribbean plate relative to the North America plate. Within this context, the earthquake likely occurred on the east-west striking, north dipping fault plane with a component of left-lateral slip.”
Meanwhile the death toll is growing into the hundreds as more buildings, already unstable, become worse as aftershocks continue..
From Reuters dispatches:
The nearest big town was Les Cayes, where many buildings collapsed or suffered major damage, according to authorities, who said they were searching for survivors.
“I saw bodies being pulled out of the rubble, injured and perhaps dead people,” said Les Cayes resident Jean Marie Simon, 38, who was at the market when the earthquake struck and ran home to see if his family was safe. “I heard cries of pain everywhere I passed through.”
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Massive quake in Haiti—thousands are feared dead
This is a developing story..
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Haiti on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The epicenter of the quake was 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) northeast of Saint-Louis du Sud, according to the survey.
People in the capital of Port-au-Prince felt the tremor and many rushed into the streets in fear.
Naomi Verneus, a 34-year-old resident of Port-au-Prince, said she was jolted awake by the earthquake and that her bed was shaking.
“I woke up and didn’t have time to put my shoes on. We lived the 2010 earthquake and all I could do was run. I later remembered my two kids and my mother were still inside. My neighbor went in and told them to get out. We ran to the street,” Verneus said.
Following Saturday’s quake, the US Geological Survey (USGS) estimated there was a 35 per cent chance of fatalities ranging between 1,000 and 10,000, and a 35 per cent chance of economic losses in the tens of millions.
Video clips and photos shared online in the aftermath show severe damage to buildings in the city of Jeremie, about 125 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince, with rubble falling into the streets and crushing cars.
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Strong 5.0 Earthquake Rocks Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
According to USGS, the earthquake struck at 9:01 pm ET tonight at a depth of 10 km; the earthquake was centered in a seismically active portion of the Mid Atlantic ridge near 28.208°N 43.882°W.
The central Mid Atlantic Ridge separates the South American Plate from the African Plate. In this part of the world, the two plates are moving apart, triggering earthquakes as they split above the ridge.
These plates are based on the scientific theory of Plate Tectonics, which describes the large-scale motion of plates making up the Earth’s lithosphere. Scientists believe tectonic processes began on Earth between 3.3 and 3.5 billion years, building upon the concept of continental drift, a scientific
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Could an old fault line be coming back to life?
Could an old fault line be coming back to life ?
Seismologists said a third small earthquake happened Wednesday across the state line from the Panhandle area, even as questions continue about a mysterious rumble that rattled some homes across the Space Coast on Friday.
The latest earthquake took place about 1:27 a.m. in Flomaton, Alabama, which sits along the state line, just north of the town of Century and 175 miles south of Montgomery.
The incident, a magnitude 2.3 earthquake, had a depth of about 3 miles and shook the small town Tuesday night, making it the third earthquake to be detected in the area in less than a week. A 3.1 magnitude earthquake hit near the same Alabama town on Monday. No damages were reported in either case.
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SOUTHERN CALI QUAKE: 5.3 MAG
The temblor hit beneath the Pacific Ocean about 12:29 p.m., at a depth of about 10 miles beneath the surface, USGS reported. It was centered about 41 miles southwest of Ventura and 85 miles west of Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Fire Department is in “earthquake mode” following the shaking, as is standard protocol, LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas tweeted. He said units will be surveying the city.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, according to law enforcement and fire agencies across Southern California.
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Massive Caribbean quake
- 7.6 magnitude earthquake happened last night at 9.51pm at a depth of 6.2 miles
- The tremor was one of the largest to hit the Caribbean region in recorded history
- Struck in the Caribbean Sea 25 miles from Honduras island of Great Swan Island
- A tsunami advisory was put in place for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
- There were fears it could impact the coasts of Central American nations, including Jamaica, Cuba and the Cayman Islands
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The Great Mexico City Earthquake anniversary Earthquake
Thirty-two years to the day after an earthquake killed thousands of people in Mexico, a powerful quake rattled the country’s central region Tuesday..
Again.. 32 years later. To the day..Today across Mexico City, as people were prepping for earthquake drills and remembrances of what occurred then… and now today, what occurred in real time.Videos of ground shaking.. buildings literally falling down.. NPR has this:“We don’t have an estimate yet from authorities of how many buildings — but just photos and videos from people in the street show there are many buildings collapsed so far,” reporter James Fredrick told NPR. “The civil protection agency of Mexico City has confirmed that they’re beginning excavation work for people trapped inside collapsed buildings.”
Another problem loosed by the quake: Gas leaks have been reported across the city, some of which have already resulted in fires, according to Fredrick.
“God bless the people of Mexico City,” President Trump tweeted Tuesday in the aftermath. “We are with you and will be there for you.“[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhU9QbOSuyI]
But look at this video collection of what happened today: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMrET1YFGMI]
I gave this some thought today too as I watched the horror unfold: What if it was created by a common thought? ….32 years since one massive quake, and it was on everyone’s mind. Did mass thought make a new one? Can that happen? … or is mother nature, churning with deadly hurricanes and now quakes, just that cruel?
History shows it? She is just that cruel.
“It’s a law that all schools and public institutions have to do a safety drill on Sept. 19,” Greg Berger, a journalist and professor in Cuernavaca, in the state of Morelos, told NPR’s Adhiti Bandlamudi. His 10-year-old son had already taken part in a drill at school in the morning — “then it started shaking again, and my son told me that he thought it was another drill, but a high-tech drill. He thought it was kind of cool, because he thought they were making the floors move.”
Just as collective consciousness can potentially move a storm, can it also create such heartbreak as we saw today?
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Strong quake hits Mexico City
Reporting from the AP on a developing story..
magnitude 7.1 earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing some buildings, cracking the facades of others and scattering rubble on streets on the anniversary of a devastating 1985 quake.
The quake caused buildings to sway sickeningly in Mexico City and sent panicked office workers streaming into the streets, but the full extent of the damage was not yet clear. Mexican media broadcast images of several collapsed buildings in heavily populated parts of the city.
The city was actually drilling for a quake TODAY.. just as the real one struck..
