5.7 earthquake in southern Greece:
[URL]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/earthquake-hits-southern-greece[/URL]

Pictures of the volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea:
[URL]http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/aug/29/mount-tavurvur-erupts-in-papua-new-guinea-in-pictures[/URL]

Aerial photographs of lava from fissure eruption in Iceland:
[URL]http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2947[/URL]

The moment-to-moment account from Iceland is particularly interesting, for the details and analysis. Great pictures from both there, and Papua New Guinea. I'll have to try again for the web cam. It hasn't connected for me, as yet. I suppose that it might be getting lots of hits right now.

New pictures from Iceland:
[URL]http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/sep/04/-sp-bardarbunga-volcano-erupts-iceland-spectacular-photos[/URL]

[QUOTE].....passengers on one IcelandAir flight managed to get the same experience at no extra cost, when their [URL="https://twitter.com/Icelandair/status/507259814628851712"]pilot took them on an brief detour[/URL], circling the volcano twice to allow them to enjoy the incredible, once-in-a-lifetime view. [/QUOTE]

A friend of mine claimed that once, on a trans-Atlantic Lufthansa flight, the pilot came on the PA. He announced, "We are now over Greenland. I will now give the passengers on the left side of the plane the view of Greenland." He then rolled the plane so the left wing was pointing straight down. "And now, I will give the passengers on the right the view of Greenland." You can guess what was to follow.

My friend, long deceased, was given to occasional embellishments on his stories. At this point I just have to accept this one as told.

[B]Hawaii volcano lava threatens homes[/B]

[QUOTE]Hawaii's Big Island has declared a state of emergency as a lava flow from Kilauea volcano is less than a mile (1.6km) from a residential community.
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the lava could reach the Kaohe Homesteads in about five to seven days.
Kilaeuea has been continuously erupting since 1983, but lava began flowing from a new vent on 27 June, moving 800ft a day.
Lava flows from the volcano previously wiped out neighbourhoods in 1990.
[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29084490[/URL]

[YOUTUBE]ys9wp96QllI[/YOUTUBE]

[QUOTE=firejuggler;381295]California, 6.1 earthquake
[url]http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Quakes/nc72282711.html[/url]
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72282711#summary[/url][/QUOTE]
An now someone has died from that quake:
[url]http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Woman-hit-by-TV-is-first-Napa-earthquake-death-5746343.php[/url]

Another volcano info source
 

[URL]http://volcanocafe.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/bardarbunga-holuhraun-update-140910/[/URL]

SO[SUB]2[/SUB] levels reaching new highs. It has been detected by smell in Norway. Also, a most amazing photograph!

A bit of humor
 

This follows a string of comments building analogies to a sub-glacial volcanic eruption:
[QUOTE][LIST][*] [B] * [new] You did remember the cat, didn't you? ;-) ([URL="http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1328836/54469470#c85?mode=alone;showrate=1#c85"]5+ / 0-[/URL]) [/B]

Any worthwhile gedankenexperiment includes a cat.

by [URL="http://www.dailykos.com/user/uid:706146"]alx9090[/URL][LIST][*] [B] * [new] ooh I forgot, ([URL="http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1328836/54469479#c86?mode=alone;showrate=1#c86"]3+ / 0-[/URL]) [/B]

here kitty kitty come and get a nice warm bath!


by [URL="http://www.dailykos.com/user/uid:991829"]Dovie[/URL][LIST][*] [B] * [new] my cat is not happy ([URL="http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1328836/54469491#c87?mode=alone;showrate=1#c87"]7+ / 0-[/URL]) [/B]

[IMG]http://images.dailykos.com/images/105172/large/grumpy_cat.jpg?1410413522[/IMG]

by [URL="http://www.dailykos.com/user/uid:991829"]Dovie[/URL][LIST][*] [B] * [new] My cat is both happy and unhappy ([URL="http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1328836/54469513#c88?mode=alone;showrate=1#c88"]12+ / 0-[/URL]) [/B]

I can't bring myself to look though. :-)[/LIST] [/LIST] [/LIST] [/LIST][/QUOTE]EDIT: A hilarious juxtaposition, with this note:
[QUOTE]Now, as we all know...(One does not simply walk into [STRIKE]Mordor[/STRIKE]Iceland.)But, apparently, one can fly. Gandalf - or Sir Ian McKellon, as he apparently prefers to be called - is apparently [URL="http://www.dv.is/folk/2014/9/10/gandalf-islandi/"]in Iceland right now[/URL], assumedly via help from the Eagles of the Misty Mountains. We can only assume that he's on his way with [URL="http://www.rugusavay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Eypor-Ingi-Gunnlaugsson-3.jpg"]Legolas[/URL] to fight their way through [URL="http://cdn4.blogblogs.com/images/782/m/2284254-i-met-hafor-julius-bjornsson-aka-the-mountain-from-got.jpg"]trolls[/URL] [URL="http://tednasmith.mymiddleearth.com/files/2012/08/TN-Gandalf_and_the_Balrog_Upon_Celebdil.jpg"]to confront[/URL] the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balrog"]Balrog[/URL] within Bárðarbunga's magma chamber.[/QUOTE]

Series of stunning photos, plus one more
 

[URL="http://dreki.smugmug.com/Photo/Volcao-trip-September-2014/i-dpZSnr9/A"]:w00t:[/URL]
[URL]http://dreki.smugmug.com/Photo/Volcao-trip-September-2014/i-dpZSnr9/A[/URL]

Wow - great links! :smile:

Yes, those pictures of the volcano and the Northern Lights are absolutely beautiful.

Another set of great images from the Holuhraun fissure
 

[URL]http://mashable.com/2014/09/11/iceland-bardabunga-volcano-eruption-photos/#:eyJzIjoiZiIsImkiOiJfY2Qxbzc1MnB4bG1uc213aCJ9[/URL]

The sample photo which is attached comes with this caption:

"A close-up night view of the lava flow as heat from the lava distorts the view of the fountains in the distance on Sept. 2, 2014."

EDIT: In case y'all can't tell, I am absolutely fascinated by this event.

EDIT2: Pictures from meters away, and from 90 kilometers.

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2760522/Iceland-s-volcano-Fearless-cameraman-risks-life-capture-amazing-close-pictures-eruption-s-aftermath.html[/url]

[QUOTE=kladner;383709]
...EDIT: In case y'all can't tell, I am absolutely fascinated by this event....
[/QUOTE]

Do IcelandAir do flights from Chicago to Keflavik?

Approximately, yes. The dates shown are purely to provide an example. At $885.26 round trip per person I am not likely to make the trip while this particular eruption continues. I am certainly much more eager to see Iceland in general now that I've seen a bit of what it's like.

[B]Central Japan’s Mount Ontake erupts; hikers reported injured[/B]

[QUOTE]
Mount Ontake, a volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures, erupted at 11:53 a.m. Saturday, injuring at least eight hikers and leaving 250 others stranded near the peak, local police and rescue workers said.
[/QUOTE]

Apparently, several hikers are still on the mountain.

Press article:
[URL]http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/27/national/central-japans-mt-ontake-erupts-hikers-reported-injured/#.VCaBE-P950o[/URL]

Pictures from Japan:
[URL]http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/sep/27/escape-from-mount-ontake-in-pictures[/URL]

I'm glad that there don't seem to have been pyroclastic flows, as yet. Casualties could have been much worse.

[YOUTUBE]8cICS9MtRRw[/YOUTUBE]

[URL="http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/major-earthquake-hits-chinas-yunnan-province-killing-at-least-five-and-injuring-dozens/37390/"]Major earthquake hits China's Yunnan province killing at least five and injuring dozens[/URL]

[QUOTE]The epicentre of the 6.0 quake was about 10 kilometres deep.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000slwn#summary"]7.3 Central American west coast[/URL]
PAGER - yellow. Figure 1-10 deaths, damage in the $10-100million range
1 dead being reported [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/14/us-earthquake-el-salvador-idUSKCN0I308P20141014[/url]

[url=http://www.mercurynews.com/alameda-county/ci_26737094/events-mark-25th-anniversary-loma-prieta-earthquake]Events mark 25th anniversary of Loma Prieta Earthquake[/url] - San Jose Mercury News

Loma Prieta is Spanish for "Brown Hill," which is apt in this drought year.

[url]http://www.livescience.com/48301-dust-bowl-drought.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;385434][URL]http://www.livescience.com/48301-dust-bowl-drought.html[/URL][/QUOTE]

Those are some grim comparisons between the 30's Dustbowl and the current widespread drought.

Longer version: quad copter GoPro view of the Iceland fissure eruption
 

[YOUTUBE]_L6Phuwqi7Y[/YOUTUBE]

There is more explanation of how this footage was captured. On one flight, they melted the front of the camera.

Also, some great shots from Nat Geo:

[url]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141013-iceland-volcano-bardarbunga-lava-science/[/url]

Gas-spewing Icelandic volcano stuns scientists
 

Sulphur-rich eruption defies preparations for an ashy blast.

[url]http://www.nature.com/news/gas-spewing-icelandic-volcano-stuns-scientists-1.16234[/url]

[QUOTE]The record-setting amount of pollution has surprised even volcanologists in the middle of a major project funded by the European Union to understand the island’s fiery activity. They had been preparing for a repeat of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which led to a billowing ash plume that grounded planes across Europe. “Everybody was expecting a big ash cloud, and now we have something totally different,” says Anja Schmidt, an atmospheric modeller at the University of Leeds, UK, who studies how volcanic gases spread.[/QUOTE]

Mabe this have been here allredy
Here is 3d in time and space how the earthquakes acts under Bárðabunga (since August- today). Maybe not all PC can handle this 3d. You can zum in and out and turn around.

[url]http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/quakes3d/[/url]

That is fascinating. Thanks!

Kick 'em Jenny
 

[URL]http://volcanocafe.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/sheepy-dalek-kick-em-jenny-and-stuff/[/URL]
Scroll down about a page to find the discussion of Kick 'em Jenny.

This is a shout out to chalsall, since he lives within tsunami range of this seamount.

[URL="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/11/08/Nevada-earthquake-swarm-sparks-warning/6541415434050/"]Nevada earthquake swarm sparks warning[/URL]
"If you are not ready for an earthquake, now is an awfully good time to get ready for an earthquake," said a local official.

[URL="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22feed%22%3A%221415574215066%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B41.352072%2C-119.926758%5D%2C%5B42.101279%2C-118.935242%5D%5D%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%7B%22help%22%3Afalse%2C%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22map%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Afalse%2C%22search%22%3A%7B%22id%22%3A%221415574215066%22%2C%22name%22%3A%22Search%20Results%22%2C%22isSearch%22%3Atrue%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22starttime%22%3A%222014-09-01T12%3A00Z%22%2C%22maxlatitude%22%3A42.101279%2C%22minlatitude%22%3A41.352072%2C%22maxlongitude%22%3A-118.935242%2C%22minlongitude%22%3A-119.926758%2C%22minmagnitude%22%3A0.1%2C%22endtime%22%3A%222014-11-10T20%3A18Z%22%2C%22orderby%22%3A%22time%22%7D%7D%7D"]Map of quakes since September[/URL]

[url]http://www.wired.com/2014/11/verdict-overturned-italian-geoscientists-convicted-manslaughter/[/url]

[URL="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000syza#summary"]6.2 Japan[/URL]
PAGER - yellow. Figure maybe 1 death, damage in the $10-100million range
[url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/11/22/strong-quake-strikes-central-japans-nagano-city/19395039/[/url]

3.8 in England
 

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31032930"]Earthquake recorded in East Midlands[/URL] with an epicentre about 75km away from Cambridge.

Unfortunately the earth didn't move for me last night. :sad:

[QUOTE=xilman;393903][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31032930"]Earthquake recorded in East Midlands[/URL] with an epicentre about 75km away from Cambridge.

Unfortunately the earth didn't move for me last night. :sad:[/QUOTE]

I didn't feel anything. It was felt in Corby (saw it on facebook).

[QUOTE=xilman;393903][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31032930"]Earthquake recorded in East Midlands[/URL] with an epicentre about 75km away from Cambridge.

Unfortunately the earth didn't move for me last night. :sad:[/QUOTE]

Any fracking or waste disposal wells in the vicinity?

Earthquake in Nepal.
 

India is wandering north again: [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32461019"]Strong earthquake rocks Nepal,
damages Kathmandu[/URL]

Initial reports suggest Richter 7.9 and it was felt 650km away in Delhi.

[QUOTE=xilman;400887]India is wandering north again: [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32461019"]Strong earthquake rocks Nepal, damages Kathmandu[/URL][/QUOTE]

Sounds like it's time to remeasure the height of Everest. That boy just refuses to stop growing...

Hopefully the local authorities and aid agencies manage to get on top of the worst wave of triage today - but probably a lot of people still buried under collapsed buildings.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;400949]Sounds like it's time to remeasure the height of Everest. That boy just refuses to stop growing...[/QUOTE]Perhaps so, but it slimmed down a bit yesterday.

Spotted this in an online discussion about the quake:
[i]
The Nepal earthquake seems appalling, but I think they may well have dodged a bullet. I was in Kathmandu a few years ago, and all my reading, and looking around, convinced me that it was a potential catastrophe in the making. The quality of construction is unbelievably low and the city is built largely on a dried up lake – these sediments can wobble like jelly in an earthquake, causing far more destruction than for buildings on rock. I’ve read serious predictions of a million or more casualties if a big one hit the vicinity – and this certainly was a big one.

I don’t know why the casualties appear (so far) to be relatively low, but it may have been a quirk of geological luck. Lets hope their luck holds out – sometimes big aftershocks can do a lot of damage to weakened structures.[/i]

In terms of science, something that occurred to me in thinking about the process of the tectonic slab carrying modern-day India plowing its way northward through thousands of miles of ocean over tens of millions of years before slow-motion ramming into south-central Asia and raising up the Himalaya as part of that ongoing collision: what is it that makes it so (apparently) easy for such moving plate segments to proceed through ocean basins? The 'obvious' answer would seem to be twofold - [1] oceanic crust is much thinner than continental and [2] oceanic crust is lower, thus allowing a moving think slab to 'ride up' on top of it and shove it underneath. Picture the way an icebreaking ship plows through ice, using the same two aspects: break through by virtue of being materially stronger, and ride up onto. But later this week - assuming I can find the time - I intend to do further reading on this subject.

BTW, for any of our readers contemplating sending money, the only relief organization I can support anymore (Red Cross? No thanks) is [url=http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/msf-sending-more-medical-and-relief-teams-assist-victims-nepal-earthquake]Médecins Sans Frontières[/url].

[QUOTE=ewmayer;401043]BTW, for any of our readers contemplating sending money, the only relief organization I can support anymore (Red Cross? No thanks) is [URL="http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/msf-sending-more-medical-and-relief-teams-assist-victims-nepal-earthquake"]Médecins Sans Frontières[/URL].[/QUOTE]

+1!

[QUOTE=ewmayer;400992]In terms of science, something that occurred to me in thinking about the process of the tectonic slab carrying modern-day India plowing its way northward through thousands of miles of ocean over tens of millions of years before slow-motion ramming into south-central Asia and raising up the Himalaya as part of that ongoing collision: what is it that makes it so (apparently) easy for such moving plate segments to proceed through ocean basins? The 'obvious' answer would seem to be twofold - [1] oceanic crust is much thinner than continental and [2] oceanic crust is lower, thus allowing a moving think slab to 'ride up' on top of it and shove it underneath. Picture the way an icebreaking ship plows through ice, using the same two aspects: break through by virtue of being materially stronger, and ride up onto. But later this week - assuming I can find the time - I intend to do further reading on this subject.[/QUOTE]

Wikipedia article on the late great [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener]Alfred Wegener[/url] addresses this specific point:
[quote]In his work, Wegener presented a large amount of very strong evidence in support of continental drift, but the mechanism remained elusive. While his ideas attracted a few early supporters such as Alexander Du Toit from South Africa and Arthur Holmes in England, the hypothesis was generally met with skepticism from largely conservative scientists, who were resistant to any change in the status quo. The one American edition of Wegener's work, published in 1925, was received so poorly that the American Association of Petroleum Geologists organized a symposium specifically in opposition to the continental drift hypothesis. Its [u]opponents could argue, as did the Leipziger geologist Franz Kossmat, that the oceanic crust was too "firm" for the continents to "simply plough through", a suggestion which ignored the plasticity of all rocks at depth and at high temperatures and pressures. The comment also ignored the vast time-scale over which continental drift has occurred[/u], effectively the total age of the earth of about 4.5 billion years.

In 1943 George Gaylord Simpson wrote a vehement attack on the theory (as well as the rival theory of sunken land bridges) and put forward his own permanentist views.[11] Alexander du Toit wrote a rejoinder in the following year,[12] but G.G.Simpson's influence was so powerful that even in countries previously sympathetic towards continental drift, like Australia, Wegener's hypothesis fell out of favour.[/quote]

Chicxulub Asteroid Impact And Deccan Eruptions In India Linked
 

[QUOTE]In a new paper, researchers address the "uncomfortably close" occurrence of the Chicxulub impact in the Yucatán and the most voluminous phase of the Deccan Traps flood basalt eruptions in India. Specifically, the researchers argue that the impact likely triggered most of the immense eruptions of lava in India -- that it was not a coincidence but was a cause-and-effect relationship.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.science20.com/news_articles/chicxulub_asteroid_impact_and_deccan_eruptions_in_india_linked-155315[/url]

[QUOTE=kladner;402129][url]http://www.science20.com/news_articles/chicxulub_asteroid_impact_and_deccan_eruptions_in_india_linked-155315[/url][/QUOTE]

Now all we need to know is whether the proposed linkage involves [url=http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=322602&postcount=19]antipodean arithmetic[/url].

[QUOTE=ewmayer;402148]Now all we need to know is whether the proposed linkage involves [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=322602&postcount=19"]antipodean arithmetic[/URL].[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/content/early/2015/04/30/B31167.1"]The abstract of the published paper[/URL] contains the following, which might be suggestive:[INDENT][QUOTE]Seismic modeling of the ground motion due to the Chicxulub impact suggests that the impact could have generated seismic energy densities of order 0.1–1.0 J/m3 throughout the upper ~200 km of Earth’s mantle, [U]sufficient to trigger volcanic eruptions worldwide[/U] based upon comparison with historical examples.[/QUOTE][/INDENT]This does not address antipodean issues directly, but does provide food for thought on the subject.

EDIT: Here is [URL="http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/04/30/did-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-trigger-largest-lava-flows-on-earth/"]another publication[/URL] based on the same material. The researchers' hypothesis seems to be that the impact shook the whole planet at category 9 levels, setting off all sorts of activity.

EDIT2: And from Princeton, some variations on the theme:
[url]http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/14/62G75/[/url]

Take 2
 

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32701385"]Nepal earthquake, magnitude 7.3, strikes near Everest[/URL]

yep, thats a second one in a short while.
allow me to add an article on the 'inflatable surgery room" brought by MSF ( medecins sans frontieres)
[url]http://www.wired.com/2015/05/inside-inflatable-hospital-thats-saving-lives-nepal/?mbid=social_twitter[/url]

[QUOTE=firejuggler;402199]yep, thats a second one in a short while.
allow me to add an article on the 'inflatable surgery room" brought by MSF ( medecins sans frontieres)
[URL]http://www.wired.com/2015/05/inside-inflatable-hospital-thats-saving-lives-nepal/?mbid=social_twitter[/URL][/QUOTE]

The hospital concept is truly amazing.

How The [first] Nepal Earthquake Looked On Radar
 

[QUOTE]On April 25th, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, claiming over 5,000 lives and affecting millions more. Relief efforts are under way and satellite imagery is helping to visualize the damage but radar images from the ESA Sentinel-1A satellite showed why Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, experienced so much damage

The maximum land deformation, shown in before and after pictures, is 8 miles away. The two acquisition dates lead to rainbow-colored interference patterns in the combined image, known as an ‘interferogram’, enabling scientists to quantify the ground movement.
[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.science20.com/news_articles/how_the_nepal_earthquake_looked_on_radar-155198[/url]

earthquake today in tokio, 5.6 (revised as 5.3)
[url]http://earthquaketrack.com/jp-40-tokyo/recent[/url]

[QUOTE=xilman;402177][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32701385"]Nepal earthquake, magnitude 7.3, strikes near Everest[/URL][/QUOTE]

Interesting exercise in actuarial maths (if one can fairly dub it such) - compare the number (latest estimates) of how many have died in Nepal due to the recent quakage to the number of quasi-slave laborers who have died in Qatar die to that nation's feverish 'raising a soccer mecca out of the desert' efforts in preparation for the 2022 world cup. (Feel free to use plausible time-based extrapolations in both cases.)

[QUOTE=ewmayer;403163]Interesting exercise in actuarial maths (if one can fairly dub it such) - compare the number (latest estimates) of how many have died in Nepal due to the recent quakage to the number of quasi-slave laborers who have died in Qatar die to that nation's feverish 'raising a soccer mecca out of the desert' efforts in preparation for the 2022 world cup. (Feel free to use plausible time-based extrapolations in both cases.)[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/27/a-body-count-in-qatar-illustrates-the-consequences-of-fifa-corruption/[/url]

Gah - 'due', not 'die'. (Or was it 'due' or 'die'?)

[url=www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/29/us-quake-alaska-idUSKBN0OE0KW20150529]7.0 magnitude quake strikes offshore Alaska: USGS[/url] | Reuters

That made me realize that I clean forgot about the 50th anniversary of the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Earthquake]1964 Alaskan Good Friday Quake[/url] - now rated as a 9.3 - last year. (I've seen the commemorative marker in Kodiak harbor).

[URL="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002ki3#general_summary"]7.8 off the coast of Japan[/URL]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;403235][URL="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002ki3#general_summary"]7.8 off the coast of Japan[/URL][/QUOTE]

Approximately as reasonably expected.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;401043]BTW, for any of our readers contemplating sending money, the only relief organization I can support anymore (Red Cross? No thanks) is [url=http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/msf-sending-more-medical-and-relief-teams-assist-victims-nepal-earthquake]Médecins Sans Frontières[/url].[/QUOTE]

More on the Red Cross theme, in the context of the 2010 Haiti quake:

[url=www.alternet.org/investigations/how-red-cross-raised-half-billion-dollars-haiti-and-built-6-homes]How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti ­and Built 6 Homes[/url] | Alternet

[QUOTE=ewmayer;403649]More on the Red Cross theme, in the context of the 2010 Haiti quake:

[URL="http://www.alternet.org/investigations/how-red-cross-raised-half-billion-dollars-haiti-and-built-6-homes"]How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti ­and Built 6 Homes[/URL] | Alternet[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the detailed account. It reminds me the of United Way situation some years back. Lots of money going into executive salaries and benefits, or to "Development Costs", such as lavish parties.

Don't get me wrong. I would never give to any outfit with "cross" in its name, unless it was "The Cross Old Geezers' Club." :paul: :smile:

[QUOTE=kladner;403658]Don't get me wrong. I would never give to any outfit with "cross" in its name, unless it was "The Cross Old Geezers' Club." :paul: :smile:[/QUOTE]It is not religious. The origin of the name and emblem can be found on the IFRC's website:
[QUOTE]The Red Cross was born in 1863 when five Geneva men, including Dunant, set up the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, later to become the International Committee of the Red Cross. Its emblem was a red cross on a white background: the inverse of the Swiss flag. The following year, 12 governments adopted the first Geneva Convention; a milestone in the history of humanity, offering care for the wounded, and defining medical services as "neutral" on the battlefield. - See more at: [url]https://www.ifrc.org/en/who-we-are/history/#sthash.ISK2Jmxc.dpuf[/url][/QUOTE]Maybe [url]http://www.redcrescent.org.my/[/url] would be more to your liking.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;403659]It is not religious. The origin of the name and emblem can be found on the IFRC's website:
Maybe [URL]http://www.redcrescent.org.my/[/URL] would be more to your liking.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the info, but I second Ernst's endorsement of Médecins Sans Frontières. This story makes it seem that Red Cross has degenerated into a money factory for itself and its subcontractors. Inflated and non-verifiable claims of helping people, while disdaining local expertise, and accomplishing next to nothing, does not sound promising.

7.0 eathquake near indonesia ( papua new guinea)
[url]http://earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2015-07-27-21-41-21-utc-7-0-48[/url]
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us200030kn#general_summary[/url]

(unrelated) The New Yorker's new writer [URL="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one"]gladly contributes to FUD[/URL]

[QUOTE=Batalov;406759](unrelated) The New Yorker's new writer [URL="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one"]gladly contributes to FUD[/URL][/QUOTE]

Quite a good article, I found. People in the Pacific NW should [b]fear[/b] the prospect of the next big rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone occurring while the population centers there remain grossly unprepared, the only [b]uncertainty[/b] is precisely when this will occur, but there is no [b]doubt[/b] that taking prudent measures to prepare Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and their environs for a 9+ quake should be a high priority for the state and municipal authorities there.

[URL="http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-84224055/"]Earthquake strikes San Francisco Bay Area[/URL]

Just warming up ...

[QUOTE=xilman;408210][URL="http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-84224055/"]Earthquake strikes San Francisco Bay Area[/URL]

Just warming up ...[/QUOTE]

I am getting an "error while processing your request" from the link above.

[URL="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-32-quake-strikes-near-kettleman-city-calif-hhim9s-story.html"]This link[/URL] refers to a quaked much further south.

I suppose that [URL="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-42-quake-strikes-near-piedmont-calif-ptmffb-story.html"]this is the one[/URL], but I can't read it, as my "Free Trial" expired during the search.

[QUOTE=kladner;408218]I suppose that [URL="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-42-quake-strikes-near-piedmont-calif-ptmffb-story.html"]this is the one[/URL], but I can't read it, as my "Free Trial" expired during the search.[/QUOTE]That's the one.

8.3 in Chile. Tsunami predicted. Pager Yellow
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003k7a#general_summary[/url]

There where also 2 6+ quakes in the western Pacific in the last 24 hours.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;410549]8.3 in Chile. Tsunami predicted. Pager Yellow
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003k7a#general_summary[/url][/QUOTE]

wow the twitter report I saw said 7.9

[QUOTE=science_man_88;410551]wow the twitter report I saw said 7.9[/QUOTE]
USGS had 7.9 at first, but then it was upgraded. [URL="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003k38#general_summary"]This event[/URL] Also showed as 7.9. Then it was adjusted and the big one went to 8.3.

7.5 in afghanistan
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10003re5#general_summary[/url]

6.8 chile
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10003vgt#general_summary[/url]

6.8 SW of Sendai ( Japan)
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10003y71#general_summary[/url]

[QUOTE=firejuggler;416130]6.8 SW of Sendai ( Japan)
[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10003y71#general_summary[/url][/QUOTE]
To be clear that is the Sendai in Kagosima (far south), not the one in Miyagi near Fukashima.

[URL]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/usgs-man-made-earthquakes-pose-risk-to-7-million-americans/[/URL]

[QUOTE]Between 1973 and 2008, there was an average of 24 earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.0 or higher each year. The rate increased steadily in the relatively short amount of time between 2009 and 2015, averaging 318 earthquakes per year. This peaked just last year, with 1,010 earthquakes. So far this year, there have been 226 earthquakes of a magnitude of 3.0 or larger in the central U.S. as of mid-March.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;430285][URL]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/usgs-man-made-earthquakes-pose-risk-to-7-million-americans/[/URL][/QUOTE]

[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005d3n#impact_dyfi[/url]

I have to wonder if these man-made quakes are tweaking the New Madrid fault and increasing the chances that it will cut loose with a real monster quake.
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%9312_New_Madrid_earthquakes"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%9312_New_Madrid_earthquakes[/URL]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone[/url]

El Popo blows his top
 

[URL="http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/el-popo-explosion-strongest-in-3-years/"]El Popo explosion strongest in 3 years[/URL]
[QUOTE]There was an explosion described as “relatively strong” at the Popocatépetl volcano last night, sending a two-kilometer column of ash skyward and shooting incandescent fragments to a distance of up to 3.5 kilometers.

The fragments ignited bush fires on the volcano’s upper slopes, reported Volcano Discovery.

An overnight flight Saturday by officials aboard a helicopter found that [URL="http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/lava-dome-has-formed-in-el-popos-crater/"]a new lava dome[/URL] that had formed in January was gone, destroyed by a recent series of explosions. The dome contained an estimated 2 million cubic meters of lava.
[/QUOTE][URL="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/popocatepetl.html"]More on Popocatépetl volcano[/URL]

[YOUTUBE]yvJ04295-EU?t=16s[/YOUTUBE]

Japan has been hit again , with a 6.4, with *reverb* in the 4.9-5
[URL]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005hzn#general[/URL]
[LIST][*]7.0 km (4.3 mi) SW of Ueki, Japan[/LIST]another shake @ 6.0 on the richter scale, at the same place.

[QUOTE=firejuggler;431559]Japan has been hit again , with a 6.4, with *reverb* in the 4.9-5
[URL]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005hzn#general[/URL]
[LIST][*]7.0 km (4.3 mi) SW of Ueki, Japan[/LIST]another shake @ 6.0 on the richter scale, at the same place.[/QUOTE][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36045140"]Initial report on the Beeb[/URL]: injuries, some serious, but no deaths known yet. Significant property damage but building regs. kept it to a minimum.

Nuclear reactor are nearby , but from the article above
[quote= beeb]
The two Sendai nuclear reactors on Kyushu are reported to be operating as normal.
The three Genkai nuclear reactors still in operation on the island were already closed for routine inspection.
[/quote]

[QUOTE=xilman;431564][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36045140"]Initial report on the Beeb[/URL]: injuries, some serious, but no deaths known yet. Significant property damage but building regs. kept it to a minimum.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36059487"]Episode 2[/URL]

ecuador's turn ?
 

[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005j32#general[/url] looks like it's been upgraded now to a 7.8 it was said to be 7.4 earlier I thought.

[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72670060#shakemap[/url]

Upshot is a 4.5 just before 22:00 local, followed within 3 miniutes by back-to-back 4.4s, and a 2.8 13 minutes later.

I felt the 4.5 and the 4.4s but not the 2.8. If the shaking had not stopped right away, I might have gotten scared.

6.2 - Italy 44.5 km (27.6 mi) NNW L'Aquila

Pager [COLOR="Red"][B][FONT="Arial Black"]RED[/FONT][/B][/COLOR] [url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006g7d#pager[/url]
Est deaths: 100-1000
Est damage: 1,000 - 10,000 x million USD

Luigi are you ok?

Good coverage on the Beeb: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37171953[/url]

[url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006gbf?hootPostID=c89afc32a1e610583f07cf2703012244#executive[/url] 6.8, burma

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;440563]6.2 - Italy 44.5 km (27.6 mi) NNW L'Aquila

Pager [COLOR="Red"][B][FONT="Arial Black"]RED[/FONT][/B][/COLOR] [url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006g7d#pager[/url]
Est deaths: 100-1000
Est damage: 1,000 - 10,000 x million USD

Luigi are you ok?[/QUOTE]

I am OK, thanks! :big grin:

Though I was waken up on the night (i was 3:36 AM here), my cats just opened an eye, so I turned on my sleep. We were about 80 miles from the epicentre.

[url]https://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/ferrari-will-build-one-final-laferrari-to-help-italian-earthquake-victims[/url]

This is as big as they get in my part of the world
 

[url]http://cjme.com/article/847826/earthquake-hits-southeastern-sask[/url]

[QUOTE=petrw1;441646][url]http://cjme.com/article/847826/earthquake-hits-southeastern-sask[/url][/QUOTE]Wow, that's a biggie!

They hardly ever exceed 3.0 around here.

5.5 and 6.1 in Italy close to the one in August:

[url]http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/26/europe/italy-earthquake/[/url]

[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37782320[/url]

[url]http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/earthquake-rattles-rome-43076478[/url]

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3875648/Powerful-earthquake-hits-ancient-city-Rome-central-Italy.html[/url]

[QUOTE=ATH;445824]5.5 and 6.1 in Italy close to the one in August:[/QUOTE]
Pager: [FONT="Arial Black"][COLOR="Red"]RED[/COLOR][/FONT] [url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000725y#pager[/url]
Estimated deaths 100-1000. Estimated economic losses $1,000,000,000-$10,000,000,000

[QUOTE=ATH;445824]5.5 and 6.1 in Italy close to the one in August:

[url]http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/26/europe/italy-earthquake/[/url]

[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37782320[/url]

[url]http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/earthquake-rattles-rome-43076478[/url]

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3875648/Powerful-earthquake-hits-ancient-city-Rome-central-Italy.html[/url][/QUOTE]

Fortunately no deaths

[QUOTE=ET_;445848]Fortunately no deaths[/QUOTE]
See also
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37814975[/url]

"Services on the metro in Rome have been suspended since the quake."

[URL="https://www.yahoo.com/gma/6-6-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-central-italy-071608927--abc-news-topstories.html"]6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Central Italy, the Country's Strongest Since 1980[/URL]

[QUOTE]A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck central and southern Italy Sunday at 7:40 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey.

Sunday's earthquake is believed to be the strongest to strike the country since 1980, when a 6.9-magnitude that year killed some 3,000 people. A 6.1-magnitude earthquake on Aug. 24 quake killed nearly 300 people.[/QUOTE]

[URL="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%2230day_sig%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B37.622933594900864%2C9.327392578125%5D%2C%5B43.810747313446996%2C19.874267578125%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22settings%22%2C%22list%22%2C%22map%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3Anull%7D"]USGS Map[/URL]

Are you fine ET?

[QUOTE=firejuggler;446009]Are you fine ET?[/QUOTE]

I am :smile:

Whe shook up a bit, but no real damage done in Rome.