MAJOR CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE IN SEPTEMBER 2010!!!

[kladner]

http://volcanocafe.wordpress.com/201...nny-and-stuff/
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.

[Uncwilly]

Nevada earthquake swarm sparks warning
"If you are not ready for an earthquake, now is an awfully good time to get ready for an earthquake," said a local official.

Map of quakes since September

[Xyzzy]

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/verdict...-manslaughter/

[Uncwilly]

6.2 Japan
PAGER - yellow. Figure maybe 1 death, damage in the $10-100million range
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...city/19395039/

[xilman]

Earthquake recorded in East Midlands with an epicentre about 75km away from Cambridge.

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

[pinhodecarlos]

Originally Posted by xilman

Earthquake recorded in East Midlands with an epicentre about 75km away from Cambridge.

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

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

[kladner]

Originally Posted by xilman

Earthquake recorded in East Midlands with an epicentre about 75km away from Cambridge.

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

Any fracking or waste disposal wells in the vicinity?

[xilman]

India is wandering north again: Strong earthquake rocks Nepal,
damages Kathmandu

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

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by xilman

India is wandering north again: Strong earthquake rocks Nepal, damages Kathmandu

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.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

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

Perhaps so, but it slimmed down a bit yesterday.

[ewmayer]

Spotted this in an online discussion about the quake:

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.

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.