1. Chronology of  Recent Earthquakes
   
   
2. Arkansas & New York
   
   
3. Global Disasters: 1952 - 2009
   
   
4. China Quake - 12 May 2008
   
   Wabash Quake
   New Madrid Fault
   18 April 2008
   
   Central Italy 6.3 Quake
   6 April 2009
   
   
5. Haiti - 7.0
   
   Chile - 8.8
   
   
6. Taiwan - 6.4
   
   Japan - 7.3
   

1. Quakes Generating Tsunamis:  1868 - 2007 + Sumatra & Samoa - 2009
   
   
2. Quake Hemisphere Maps
   
   
3. Uptick of Quakes: 12 Sept 2009 + Graph
   
   
4. Scientists say  The Sun, The Moon & the San Andreas Fault
   
   
5. California Puente Hills - 4.4
   
   
6. The Juan de Fuca Plate / Gorda Ridges + Nisqually Quake
   
   
7. Other Earthquake Links
   
   
8. RECENT LISTS OR POSTS
   
   
9. Cholame, California Quake Swarms: July 2009
   

 8 and higher                       1   
7 - 7.9                                   15
6 - 6.9                                 134
5 - 5.9                               1319

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• These "night-shining clouds" were photographed illuminating the sky over Budapest, Hungary, on June 15. They are among the first such noctilucent clouds pictured this year.

• The clouds form in the upper layer of the Earth's atmosphere in summer.  Scientists don't know much about how the clouds form, or why they have been appearing more often at lower latitudes and glowing brighter.
  

• "It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why, or what it means," AIM principal investigator James Russell III said in statement.  The clouds "could represent an early warning that our Earth environment is being changed."

1. Earth's NORTH magnetic pole started a Northeasterly movement in 1904.
   
   
2. Then, in 2007 it was found to be headed for Siberia at 37 Miles per year.
   
   
3. The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831.
   
   
4. But;   in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year.
   
   
5. Then,  in 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.
   
   
6. A rapidly shifting magnetic pole means that magnetic-field maps need to be updated more often to allow compass users to make the crucial adjustment from magnetic north to true North.
   
   
7. Magnetic north, which is the place where compass needles actually point, is near  (but not exactly in)  the same place as the geographic North Pole.
   
   
8. Right now (2010), magnetic north is close to Canada's Ellesmere Island.
   
   
9.  Newly analyzed data suggest:   there's a region of rapidly changing magnetism on the Earth's core's surface;   possibly being created by a mysterious "plume" of magnetism arising from deeper in the core.
   

1. Longitude:  120º W 17' 47"
   
   
2. Latitude:      35º N 43' 25"
   
   
3. [29º Scorpio 42' 13"]
   

1. Chile: February 27, 2010
   A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits central Chile, about 91km north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago.
   
   
2. Haiti: January 12, 2010
   A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits the capital Port-au-Prince demolishing buildings across the city, killing more than 200,000.
   
   
3. Sumatra, Indonesia: September 30, 2009
   Magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits the city of Padang and surrounding areas, killing more than 1,100 people.
   
   
4. Samoan islands: September 29, 2009
   A magnitude 8 to 8.3 quake hit between the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, triggering a powerful series of tsunamis.  At least 186 people are killed.
   
   
5. Bhutan: September 21, 2009
   A magnitude 6.1 quake struck 180km east of Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan. At least 10 people were killed.
   
   
6. Andaman and Nicobar islands: August 10, 2009
   A magnitude 7.6 quake struck in the Indian Ocean islands. No fatalities were recorded.
   
   
7. Japan: August 9, 2009
   A magnitude 7.1 quake struck off the south coast of Honshu, Japan's main island.  No fatalities or damage was recorded.
   
   
8. New Zealand: July 15, 2009
   A 7.6 magnitude quake struck off the coast of New Zealand's south island.  No fatalities or damage was recorded as it struck 150km west of the town of Invercargill.
   
   
9. Italy: April 6, 2009
   A 6.3 magnitude quake struck the city of L'Aquila, in the mountainous Abruzzo region, east of Rome, killing at least 292 people.
   
   
10. Pakistan: October 29, 2008
    A 6.8 magnitude quake struck 60km northeast of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, killing at least 160 people.
    
    
11. China: May 12, 2008
    More than 70,000 people were killed in Sichuan province after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the region.
    
    
12. Pakistan: October 8, 2005
    At least 73,000 people were killed by a 7.6 magnitude quake that struck about 95km northeast of Islamabad. The quake also rocked Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 1,244 people there.
    
    
13. Banda Aceh, Indonesia: December 26, 2004 ←←←(Note: The Start of it all?)
    A massive 9.1 magnitude quake strikes off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a series of deadly tsunamis that sweep across the Indian Ocean.  Around 230,000 people are killed, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand among the worst-hit countries.
    
    
14. Iran: December 26, 2003
    A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the historic city of Bam, 1,000km southeast of Tehran. More than 30,000 were killed.
    
    
15. Algeria: May 21, 2003
    A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Algiers and nearby towns to the east, killing 2,251 and injuring 10,243.
    
    
16. India: January 26, 2001
    An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 struck the western state of Gujarat killing at least 19,700 people and causing damage in neighbouring Pakistan. The quake affected 15.9 million people in 7,904 villages.
    
    
17. Turkey: August 17, 1999
    More than 17,800 people killed by a magnitude 7.4 quake.
    
    
18. Afghanistan: May 30, 1998
    A magnitude 6.9 quake kills up to 4,000 people in northern Takhar province.
    
    
19. Afghanistan: February 4, 1998
    At least 4,500 people were killed in Takhar province in a quake of magnitude 6.1.
    
    
20. Japan: January 17, 1995
    A magnitude 7.2 quake, the country's worst in half a century, rocked Kobe, killing 6,430 people.
    
    
21. India: September 30, 1993
    A series of quakes killed almost 10,000 people in western and southern India. The first quake was of magnitude 6.4.
    

• GENEVA, Jan. 28 (Xinhua)--There has been a "dramatic" rise in natural disasters during the past decade, the director of the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) said on Thursday.

• "The number of events have gone up very, very dramatically," CRED Director Debarati Guha-Sapir said in Geneva.

• During the 2000 to 2009 period, there were 385 disasters, an increase of 233 percent since 1980 to 1989, and of 67 percent since 1990 to 1999, according to CRED data.

• Though earthquakes made up 60 percent of natural disasters from 2000 to 2009, climate-related events, such as droughts, storms and floods, have made up the majority of disasters overall, increasing tenfold since data was first collected in 1950.

• "Have climate-related disasters increased? The answer is yes," Sapir said, adding, "But it is not clear that climate change itself is an important factor."Sapir said that CRED lacked sufficient research to determine the role of global warming in the increase in climate-related natural disasters.

• CRED, an international nonprofit, was created in 1971. It is part of the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, and has been a collaborating center with the World Health Organization since 1980

• According to the figures released today by CRED in Geneva, 3,852 disasters killed more than 780,000 people over the past ten years, affected more than two billion others and cost a minimum of 960 billion US$.

• In terms of human losses, Asia is the continent that has been struck again and again by disasters during the last decade, accounting for 85% of all fatalities.

• After earthquakes, storms (22%) and extreme temperatures (11%) were the most deadly disasters between 2000 and 2009.

• The most deadly disasters of the 2000 decade were the Indian Ocean Tsunami, which hit several countries in Asia (2004) leaving 226,408 dead; Cyclone Nargis, which killed 138,366 people in Myanmar (2008); and the Sichuan earthquake in China (2008), causing the deaths of 87,476 people. 73,338 people were also killed in the earthquake in Pakistan (2005) and 72,210 in heat waves in Europe (2003).

• “The number of catastrophic events has more than doubled since the 1980-1989 decade. In contrast, the numbers of affected people have increased at a slower rate. This may be due to better community preparedness and prevention,” said Professor Guha-Sapir, Director of CRED.

• Of the two billion affected people, 44% were affected by floods and 30% by droughts, while earthquakes accounted for 4%.

• The annual average death toll for the 2000 decade was 78,000, which is considerably higher than the 43,000 of the previous decade (1990s). But in the 1980s, the annual average of persons killed was almost as high with 75,000 owing to two major droughts and famines in Ethiopia and Sudan. The average number of natural hazard events per annum in 2000-2009 was 385 compared to the annual average of 258 for the decade 1990-1999 and 165 for the decade 1980-1989.

• "Assemble and maintain a disaster supplies kit with food, water, medications, fuel and personal items adequate for up to 2 weeks - the more the better." —Are You Ready: A Guide to Citizen Preparedness, 2002, FEMA page 91

• "Additionally, you may want to consider having supplies for sheltering for up to two weeks." —Are You Ready: A Guide to Citizen Preparedness, 2004, FEMA page 32

• "During periods of increased threat increase your disaster supplies to be adequate for up to two weeks. —Are You Ready: A Guide to Citizen Preparedness, 2004, FEMA page 166

• "Learn how to build a Temporary fallout shelter to protect yourself from radioactive fallout even if you do not live near a potential nuclear target."—Are You Ready: A Guide to Citizen Preparedness, 2002, FEMA, page 93.

• [Tsunami Generated - 46 feet high:
  
  
• Wave hit  in Samoa only 10 minutes after quake and in American Samoa only  20 minutes after quake.
  

1. DATE: 28 Sept 2009
   
   
2. TIME: GMT~ 17:48:19
             Local Time at Epicenter: 06:48:19
   
   
3. LONG: 172º W 18' 07"
   LAT:     15º S  33' 23"
   
   
4. Depth: 22 Miles beneath Ocean
   

1. DATE:  30 SEPT 2009
   
   
2. TIME: GMT~ 10:16:10
   LOCAL TIME: 17:16:10
   
   
3. LONG: 00º S 47' 49"
     LAT:  99º E 55' 30"

1. Sept:  Sumatra - 7.8
              Sumatra - 8.4
   
   
2. April:  Solomon
              Islands - 8.1
   

1. The Haiti Quake occurred during the Last Quarter Lunation on 12 Jan 2010
   
   
2. The Chile Quake occurred during the 1ST Quarter Moon on 27 Feb 2010
   
   
3. They occurred  45 days apart

• Magnitude:  7.3
  

• DATE & TIME:  Friday, February 26, 2010 at 20:31:26 UTC

• EPICENTER: Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 05:31:26 AM
  

• Location    26º N 03' /  128º E 30' 36"

• Depth    10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program

• Region    RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN

• Distances:   

• 85 km (53 miles) E (99°) from Naha, Okinawa, Japan

• 471 km (292 miles) ENE (66°) from Ishigaki-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan

• 1281 km (796 miles) S (173°) from SEOUL, South Korea

This 4.4 California Quake may have Greater Implications for Future Quakes:

(See Below for the Article)

1. Date:       18 May 2009
   
   
2. Long:      118º W 20' 13"
3. Lat:           33º  N 56' 24"
   
   
4. Time:      GMT ~ 3:39:36"

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• DATE: 05-28-2009
  
  
• TIME:  Local - 3:24:45 AM - GMT ~ 08:24:45
  
  
• LONG: 86º W 09' 54"
  
  
• LAT:   16º  N 46' 59"
  

1. Just Reported 09-12-2009
   Off Coast of Venezuela (63 miles West of Caracas) - 6.4
   
   
2. Just Reported 09-17-2009
   Easter Island Region - 5.9
   
   
3. Just Reported 09-18-2009
   Mindoro,  Phillipines - 6.0
   Revilla Gigedo Islands Region - 5.6
   South of Bali, Indonesia - 5.9
   
   
4. Just Reported 09-19-2009
   Baja California, Mexico - 5.1
   
   
5. Just Reported 09-21-2009
   Bhutan - 6.3
   
   
6. Just Reported 09-24-2009
   Off the Coast of Jalisco, Mexico - 6.4
   
   
7. Just Reported 09-29-2009
   American Samoa Region - 8.3
   [Tsunami Hits American Samoa]
   
   
8. Just Reported 09-30-2009
   Southern Sumatra - 7.6
   
   
9. Just Reported 09-30-2009
   La Paz, Bolivia - 5.9
   
   
10. Just Reported 10-01-2009
    Southern Sumatra - 6.8
    Samoa - 5.5
    Central California - 5.1
    (18 miles Southeast of Lone Pine, Calif)
    117º W 51' 40" / 36º N 22' 48"
    Quake Swarm:  180 miles northeast of Los Angeles
    
    
11. Just Reported 10-03-2009
    Central California - 5.2, 4.9,4.7, 4.7, 4.5
    Taiwan - 6.1
    
    
12. Just Reported 10-04-2009
    Indonesia - 5.5
    Mindanao, Philippines - 6.6
    
    
13. Just Reported 10-07-2009
    Celebes Sea - 6.7
    Vanuatu - 7.8
    Santa Cruz Islands - 7.7
    Vanuatu - 7.3
    
    
14. Just Reported 10-08-2009
    Santa Cruz Islands - 6.6, 6.5
    Vanuatu - 6.8
    
    

1. Just Reported 01-30-2010
   Atacama Chile - 5.6
   
   
2. Just Reported 02-04-2010
   Off Shore off Northern California - 6.0
   40º N 25' 52" / 124º W 55' 44"
   GMT ~ 20:20:21
   
   
3. Just Reported 02-05-2010
   Southeast Indian Ridge - 6.1
   
   
4. Just Reported 02-06-2010
   Kuril Islands - 6.1
   
   
5. Just Reported 02-07-2010
   Southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan - 6.4
   
   
6. Just Reported 02-09-2010
   Oaxaca, Mexico - 5.7 (96º W 31' 26")
   
   
7. Just Reported 02-12-2010
   Mendoza, Argentina - 5.8
   
   
8. Just Reported 02-13-2010
   Off Coast of Oregon - 4.9
   Tonga - 6.3
   
   
9. Just Reported 02-16-2010
   Indonesia - 6.3
   
   
10. Just Reported 02-18-2010
    
    CHINA-RUSSIA-NORTH KOREA BORDER
    Geographic coordinates: 42.561N, 130.835E
    Magnitude: 6.7 Mw
    Depth: 562 km
    Universal Time (UTC): 18 Feb 2010 01:13:17
    
    
11. Just Reported 02-26-2010
    Ryuku Islands - Japan - 7.3
    
    
12. Just Reported 02-27-2010
    Chile - 8.8, 6.0, 6.2, 6.9
    
    
13. Just Reported 03-04-2010
    Taiwan - 6.4
    
    
14. Just Reported 03-04-2010
    Offshore Chile - 6.1
    

Sun and moon 'set off deep tremors on San Andreas fault'

Last updated at 1:01 AM on 24th December 2009

• For thousands of years astrologers have claimed that disasters are foretold in the movement of the planets.

Now a new study suggests they might be right.

• Scientists have discovered that the faint gravitational tug of the sun and moon can set off tremors deep underground in one of the world's most dangerous earthquake zones.
  

• Although the pull of planetary objects is too weak to set off a full blown quake, the findings suggest that they could set in motion a chain of events, leading to devastation on the surface.

• The findings come from a study of the San Andreas Fault - the infamous crack in the ground which triggered the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the deadly fires that followed.

• The fault marks the boundary of the Pacific and North America tectonic plates and runs 800 miles from the southern California desert to northern California.
  

• American earthquake experts compared records of 2,000 small tremors in the Parkfield region 170 miles north west of Los Angeles with the movement of the sun and moon over eight years.
  

The same gravitational tugs that create the tides, also trigger small tremors that originate around 15 miles below the ground, the team report tomorrow in the science  journal Nature.

• Dr Roland Burgmann, a professor  of earth and planetary science at University of California, Berkeley, said: 'Tremors seem to be extremely sensitive to minute stress changes.

• 'Seismic waves from the other side of the planet triggered tremors off the coast of Washington state after the Sumatra earthquake last year, while the Denali earthquake in 2002 triggered tremors on a number of faults in California.
  

• 'Now we also see that tides - the daily lunar and solar tides - very strongly modulate tremors.'
  

• The sort of tremors monitored by the scientists are normally linked to volcanic activity - not earthquakes. They usually warn of a forthcoming volcanic eruption.
  

• The researchers believe the rock 15 miles below the surface is lubricated with highly pressurised water that allows it to slip around with little effort.
  

• That explains how the faint tug of the sun and moon can cause the rocks to slip.
  

• A spokesman for the researchers said: 'Though tides raise in the Earth by the sun and moon are not known to trigger earthquakes directly, they can trigger swarms of deep tremors which could increase the likelihood of quakes on the fault above the tremor zone.'
  

• Earthquakes are caused by the movements of the earth's tectonic plates, and often occur where two plates are rubbing against each other.
  

• Research hope the new study will inch them closer to the Holy Grail of geology - a way of predicting major quakes before they happen.
  

• Scientists are currently only able to work out probabilities of an earthquake by calculating how much stress is building on a fault.

• Date: 28 Feb 2001 (Wednesday)
  
• Time:   18:54:32.78 Z (GMT)
              10:54:32.78 AM PST (Local)
  

• Depth (km) 52.40

• Location:  47º N 09' 09" /  122º W 43' 11"
•     17.6 km  NE of Olympia, WA
•     23.7 km WSW of Tacoma, WA
•     57.5 km SSW of Seattle, WA