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08-24-2014, 10:20 PM #11
CAPTIONBay Area EarthquakeEvan Wagstaff / Los Angeles Times
A Napa, Calif., building housing a tasting room suffered significant damage in the earthquake.
CAPTIONBay Area EarthquakeEvan Wagstaff / Los Angeles Times
Bottles are strewn on the floor of the Bloom Hair Salon in Napa, Calif., after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake centered nearby.
CAPTIONBay Area EarthquakeEvan Wagstaff / Los Angeles Times
Broken bottles lie on the floor of an oil and vinegar store in Napa, Calif., after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake centered nearby.NO AMNESTY
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08-24-2014, 10:24 PM #12
CAPTIONBay Area earthquakePeter DaSilva / EPA
A CHP officer directs traffic away from a buckled section of California 12 after Sunday's quake, which was centered near Napa.
CAPTIONBay Area earthquakeLee Romney / Los Angeles Times
Caltrans crews assess damage to a California 37 overpass in Vallejo after Sunday morning's 6.0 quake.NO AMNESTY
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08-24-2014, 10:36 PM #13
That was not fun last night!
My daughter has a new born and she's pretty freaked out. But we're all fine. That earthquake hit hard and felt like it was never going to quit !
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08-24-2014, 11:47 PM #14
Threat Looms of Greater Quake to Come
Seismologists warn that Northern California's biggest earthquake in 25 years may mean that a bigger one will hit soon.
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08-25-2014, 12:25 PM #15
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Why The Earthquake Near San Francisco Is Just The Start Of The Shaking In California
By Michael Snyder, on August 24th, 2014
If you thought that the earthquake that struck northern California on Sunday was something, just wait until you see what is coming in the years ahead. As you will read about below, we live at a time when earthquake activity is dramatically increasing. This is especially true of the "Ring of Fire" which runs roughly along the outer perimeter of the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 81 percent of all big earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, and the entire west coast of the United States falls within the danger zone. Over the past few years, we have seen huge earthquake after huge earthquake strike various areas along the Ring of Fire, but up until now the California coastline has mostly been spared. However, there are indications that this may be about to change in a big way.
Early on Sunday, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the heart of wine country. It was the largest earthquake to hit northern California in 25 years. More than 120 people were injured, scores of buildings were damaged and Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency.
It is being projected that the economic loss from this earthquake will exceed a billion dollars. Since the initial quake, there have been more than 60 aftershocks, and residents are very much hoping that the worst is over. The following is how the damage caused by the earthquake was described by CNN...
"Everything and everyone in Napa was affected by the quake. My house, along with everybody else's, is a disaster. It looks like somebody broke in and ravaged the place, room by room." said CNN iReporter Malissa Koven, who was awakened by the shaking at about 3:20 a.m.That sounds pretty bad, right?
"Anything and everything that could fall, did," she said.
The damage in Napa is "fairly significant," said Glenn Pomeroy, the CEO of the California Earthquake Authority, who surveyed the area Sunday afternoon.
"The downtown area is hardest hit, probably because of the age of construction down there," Pomeroy said. In the residential areas, he is "seeing a lot of chimneys that've come crashing down."
But remember, this was only a 6.1 magnitude earthquake. As Wikipedia explains, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake would be many times more powerful...
The Richter magnitude scale (also Richter scale) assigns a magnitude number to quantify the energy released by an earthquake. The Richter scale is a base-10 logarithmic scale, which defines magnitude as the logarithm of the ratio of the amplitude of the seismic waves to an arbitrary, minor amplitude.And the earthquake that happened on Sunday would not even be worth comparing to an 8.0 or a 9.0 quake. In fact, one study concluded that a 9.0 magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia fault could potentially produce a giant tsunami that would "wash away coastal towns"…
As measured with a seismometer, an earthquake that registers 5.0 on the Richter scale has a shaking amplitude 10 times greater than that of an earthquake that registered 4.0, and thus corresponds to a release of energy 31.6 times greater than that released by the lesser earthquake.
If a 9.0 earthquake were to strike along California’s sparsely populated North Coast, it would have a catastrophic ripple effect.And when we think about "the Big One" hitting California, most of the time we think about southern California. The most famous fault line in southern California is the San Andreas fault, but the truth is that many experts are far more concerned about the Puente Hills fault line. According to one seismologist, that is the fault that would be most likely to "eat L.A." and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in economic damage...
A giant tsunami created by the quake would wash away coastal towns, destroy U.S. 101 and cause $70 billion in damage over a large swath of the Pacific coast. More than 100 bridges would be lost, power lines toppled and coastal towns isolated. Residents would have as few as 15 minutes notice to flee to higher ground, and as many as 10,000 would perish.
Scientists last year published this grim scenario for a massive rupture along the Cascadia fault system, which runs 700 miles off shore from Northern California to Vancouver Island.
Video simulations of a rupture on the Puente Hills fault system show how energy from a quake could erupt and be funneled toward L.A.'s densest neighborhoods, with the strongest waves rippling to the west and south across the Los Angeles Basin.So don't get too excited about what happened on Sunday. Scientists assure us that it is only a matter of time before "the Big One" hits California.
According to estimates by the USGS and Southern California Earthquake Center, a massive quake on the Puente Hills fault could kill from 3,000 to 18,000 people and cause up to $250 billion in damage. Under this worst-case scenario, people in as many as three-quarters of a million households would be left homeless.
In fact, the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit northern California on Sunday was not even the largest earthquake along the Ring of Fire this weekend. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake shook the area around Valparaiso, Chile on Saturday and a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck Peru on Sunday.
As I mentioned above, we have moved into a time when seismic activity is steadily rising. It has gotten to the point where even the mainstream media cannot ignore it anymore. For example, just check out the following excerpt from a recent CBS News report…
The average rate of big earthquakes — those larger than magnitude 7 — has been 10 per year since 1979, the study reports. That rate rose to 12.5 per year starting in 1992, and then jumped to 16.7 per year starting in 2010 — a 65 percent increase compared to the rate since 1979. This increase accelerated in the first three months of 2014 to more than double the average since 1979, the researchers report.Something is happening that scientists don't understand, and that is a little scary.
As I wrote about the other day, earthquake activity seems to particularly be increasing in the United States. While the west has been relatively quiet, the number of earthquakes in the central and eastern portions of the nation has quintupled over the past 30 years…
According to the USGS, the frequency of earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S. has quintupled, to an average of 100 a year during the 2011-2013 period, up from only 20 per year during the 30-year period to 2000.What in the world could be causing this to happen?
Most of these quakes were minor, but research published by the USGS earlier this year demonstrated that a relatively minor magnitude 5.0 quake caused by wastewater injection after conventional oil drilling triggered a much bigger, 5.7 magnitude quake in Prague, Okla.
“We know the hazard has increased for small and moderate size earthquakes. We don’t know as well how much the hazard has increased for large earthquakes. Our suspicion is it has but we are working on understanding this,” said William Ellsworth, a scientist with the USGS.
Oklahoma, which used to rarely ever have significant earthquakes, has experienced over 2,300 earthquakes so far in 2014.
That is absolutely staggering.
And of course volcanic activity has been rising all over the planet as well. In 2013, the number of eruptions around the globe set a new all-time high, and right now persistent rumbling under Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano has much of Europe on alert...
For more than a week the earth has been rumbling beneath Iceland’s looming Bardarbunga volcano. The almost continuous small earthquakes led the government to activate its National Crisis Coordination Centre this week and block off access to the largely uninhabited region around the Bardarbunga caldera.Some scientists are saying that if that volcano erupts, it "could trigger Britain’s coldest winter ever".
Major airlines are making contingency plans for a potential eruption that could throw dust into the atmosphere and disrupt flight paths between North America and Europe.
Clearly something is happening.
All over the world seismic activity is on the rise.
That means that the shaking in California (and in much of the rest of the world) may soon get a whole lot worse.
So what do you think is causing all of this? Please share what you think by posting a comment below...
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08-25-2014, 12:27 PM #16
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08-25-2014, 02:30 PM #17
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News: N. California Cl...
N. California Cleaning Up After Strongest Quake in 25 Years
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ABC News @ABC 3h
South Napa earthquake damage estimate could reach $1,000,000,000: http://abcn.ws/XLzXQG pic.twitter.com/1ysWCxPDkI
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SFGate.com @SFGate 4h
2) #napaquake: Downtown #Napa will survive. Story by @JohnKingSFChron http://sfg.ly/1qbIcia #GateBreakers
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Wine News @WiNews 7h
Bottle shock: Napa Valley quake shatters prized wine collections http://bit.ly/1sooT4N #wine #news
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Chicago Sun-Times @Suntimes 4h
The strongest Bay Area quake in 25 years hit California wine country Sunday. http://sun-tim.es/1qbLDFC
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Chris Mac @MacCocktail 4h
.@Reuters: "Bottle shock: Napa Valley quake shatters prized wine collections" http://reut.rs/VO12k8
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SFGate.com @SFGate 3h
3) Winemakers evaluate #Napa earthquake damage. @jbonne reports #napaquake http://sfg.ly/1qbJhqf #GateBreakers
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Good Morning America @GMA Aug 24
UPDATE: Structural damage, fires reported in Napa, Calif., following 6.0 earthquake: http://abcn.ws/1qaP5RU pic.twitter.com/vAHwogM2yP
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WSJ News Graphics @WSJGraphics 19h
Sunday's 6.0-magnitude earthquake is the most damaging in San Francisco Bay Area since 1989 http://on.wsj.com/1qEje8r pic.twitter.com/iTXmPFphAW
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SFGate.com @SFGate 15h
"It was so scary" - Scenes from a shattered Napa today. #Napaquake: http://sfg.ly/1ptutEz pic.twitter.com/4X2r3TB9nS
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SFGate.com @SFGate Aug 24
Winemakers are surveying the damage following the #Napaquake. http://sfg.ly/1skpKmU pic.twitter.com/4ZAagS3dIc
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SFGate.com @SFGate 2h
How Downtown #Napa is doing, a day after the quake: http://sfg.ly/1t6Dshk pic.twitter.com/3CSmon4Y2f
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SB Nation @SBNation 11h
When life gives you lemons... (Photo via @vickydnguyen) http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/8/24/6062977/california-skateboarders-jump-over-earthquake-buckled-street … pic.twitter.com/kH29uHJjju
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DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT 6h
Wineries hit hard... http://drudge.tw/1qG2ZYv
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Fox News @FoxNews Aug 24
6.0-magnitude #earthquake that rocked northern Calif. is largest to hit since 1989. #napaquake http://fxn.ws/1AK6ncg pic.twitter.com/Fx4Sh04k4L
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Mashable @mashable 17h
What Napa looks like after the quake http://on.mash.to/1ALD3lA pic.twitter.com/Gd43mTFWgb
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Bernie Sun @BSVINO 4h
Losses From California Quake Could Top $1 Billion http://nyti.ms/1npIEWn . Wow..
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RT America @RT_America 2h
California shaken by aftershocks while earthquake recovery ongoing http://on.rt.com/yhzyve
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Bloomberg News @BloombergNews 3h
"It was as if someone picked up the house and started shaking it.” http://bloom.bg/1ok0tWv pic.twitter.com/9UeWaMfNrS
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RT @RT_com 2h
California earthquake losses could reach $1bn http://on.rt.com/um7zgh pic.twitter.com/vHa32D2BvK
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The Next Web @TheNextWeb 5h
This graph shows how many Jawbone Up users were awoken by the Napa earthquake http://tnw.co/1okV6WW pic.twitter.com/2L23nQPdI2
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NBC News @NBCNews 2h
Data from fitness trackers reveal extent of the disruption from the #Napa earthquake http://nbcnews.to/XMhq6F pic.twitter.com/fEx03qxMAt
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Reuters U.S. News @ReutersUS 5h
6.0 magnitude earthquake rocks California wine country, dozens hurt: http://reut.rs/1lrEtOU pic.twitter.com/1nYaUwAgp9
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08-26-2014, 02:45 PM #18
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News: Small Earthquake...
Small Earthquake, Aftershocks Shake California's Napa Region
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Reuters U.S. News @ReutersUS Aug 25
6.0 magnitude earthquake rocks California wine country, dozens hurt: http://reut.rs/1lrEtOU pic.twitter.com/1nYaUwAgp9
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Boston.com @BostonDotCom 5h
Napa County, Calif. has been rattled by a 3.9 magnitude aftershock following the recent damaging earthquake: http://www.boston.com/travel/destinations/2014/08/26/napa-earthquake-hastens-calls-for-warning-system/no6nLmdoeHnKYiJStzIs1O/story.html …
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CNNMoney @CNNMoney 23h
Sunday's #earthquake in #California left more than $1B worth of damage--among top 10 costliest http://cnnmon.ie/1vfLqWe pic.twitter.com/jUR3TQib1E
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ABC News @ABC 10h
South Napa earthquake damage estimate could reach $1,000,000,000: http://abcn.ws/XLzXQG pic.twitter.com/1ysWCxPDkI -
MarketWatch @MarketWatch 14h
Napa earthquake losses could top $1 billion: http://on.mktw.net/1t7n2VW pic.twitter.com/fh2nyut2ND
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L.A. Times: L.A. Now @LANow 5h
3.9-earthquake struck 7mi from Napa at 5:33 a.m., two days after damaging 6.0 temblor http://lat.ms/1zy1LmZ pic.twitter.com/m1K7oyXzYd
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NBC News @NBCNews 4h
Small earthquakes, aftershocks shake California's Napa region http://nbcnews.to/XPd130 pic.twitter.com/tkHljWEAz2
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