Magnitude 6.9 in China

[JuniperLea]

Source: USGS

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 6.9
Date-Time Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 23:49:37 UTC
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 07:49:37 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 33.271°N, 96.629°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region SOUTHERN QINGHAI, CHINA
Distances 240 km (150 miles) NNW of Qamdo, Xizang (Tibet)
375 km (235 miles) SSE of Golmud, Qinghai, China
520 km (325 miles) SSE of Da Qaidam, Qinghai, China
1905 km (1190 miles) WSW of BEIJING, Beijing, China

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.6 km (4.1 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 73, Nph= 73, Dmin=654.4 km, Rmss=1 sec, Gp= 50°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)



Read more: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010vacp.php

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[JuniperLea]

1. Followed by a 5.3 in the same area...

This isn't "ring of fire" action... this is fairly well inland.

[abelenkpe]

2. No wonder there's

this crazy rumor going around LA that a huge quake is going to hit us between the 13-17.

Lots of quakes for sure. Best to be prepared.

[JuniperLea]

3. When I was a kid in LA...

Some nutty religious group said the world was going to end on such and such a date... a couple of my cousins and I stayed up all night, silly Fundies that we were, we wanted to be sure to hear the trumpet.

:eyes:

I think Los Angeles is the rumor capital of the world:)


DAY AFTER DAY
(Tommy Reynolds / Stuart Margolin / Jerry Riopelle)

Shango


Day after day, more people come to L.A.
Ssh! Don't you tell anybody the whole place is slipping away.
Where can we go when there's no San Francisco?
Ssh! Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho.

Do you know the swim? You better learn quick, Jim.
Those who don't know how to swim, better sing the hymn.
Tuna at the bowl. Fine fillet o' much soul.
Whoo! Whoo! What can we do with a bushel of wet gold?

Day after day, more people come to L.A.
Ssh! Don't you tell anybody the whole place is slipping away.
Where can we go when there's no San Francisco?
Ssh! Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho.

Where can we go when there's no San Diego?
Ssh! Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho.

Do you know the swim? You better learn quick, Jim.
Those who don't know how to swim, better sing the hymn.
Tuna at the bowl. Fine fillet o' much soul.
Whoo! Whoo! What can we do with a bushel of wet gold?

Day after day, more people come to L.A.
Ssh! Don't you tell anybody the whole place is slipping away.
Where can we go when there's no San Francisco?
Ssh! Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho.
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho

[JuniperLea]

4. Asia is rocking... not in a good way... another... this one on the ring

Magnitude 5.0 - ALAMAGAN REG., NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
2010 April 14 00:18:29 UTC
DetailsMapsEarthquake Details
Magnitude 5.0
Date-Time Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 00:18:29 UTC
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 10:18:29 AM at epicenter

Location 17.971°N, 145.429°E
Depth 193.6 km (120.3 miles)
Region ALAMAGAN REG., NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
Distances 40 km (25 miles) WSW (243°) from Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands
310 km (192 miles) N (354°) from SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands
2011 km (1250 miles) SSE (156°) from Hamamatsu, Honshu, Japan

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13.4 km (8.3 miles); depth +/- 26.1 km (16.2 miles)
Parameters NST= 57, Nph= 57, Dmin=488.7 km, Rmss=0.52 sec, Gp= 83°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Event ID us2010vbah

[gateley]

5. It's almost gotten like a 5 on the scale is a pffft. Oh, it's "only" a 5! Interesting.

They've become so commonplace, it seems -- unless you're in one!

[Tutonic]

6. Natural or manmade event? Too many 6.0 to 7.0 quakes are

hitting around the globe. Makes you wonder if tehre is something sinister to some of this.

[JuniperLea]

17. Maybe natural...

See my post at the bottom... CME?

[Stumbler]

7. Probably not much more than the Indian plate just doin' it's thing...

Though I hope the casualties are low.

[lunasun]

8. I dont even wanna go to earthquake .usgs anymore.....

When I check out the last 90 days or even the last 7 ,esp. circling the Pacific well eeek!
Is this one of the signs of end of days? Is it unusual ?

[VanW]

9. At least 67 killed in quake

Scores killed in China quake

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has killed at least 67 people in a mountainous rural area in western China, officials and state media say.

Many others were trapped under houses and troops were dispatched to the area on Wednesday amid fears that many residents could be without shelter in temperatures below freezing.

The quake and at least three aftershocks – some more than 6.0 in magnitude - that struck the ethnic Tibetan town of Yushu in Qinghai province, on the Tibetan plateau, caused many low, brick buildings to collapse.

Most of the region's low residential buildings had fallen, Huang Limin, a government official in Yushu, told state television.

Zhuo De, a resident of Yushu who spoke by phone from the capital of Qinghai province after contacting his family in Yushu, said "maybe dozens were injured, maybe more - it's hard to say".

http://english.aljazeera.net//news/asia-pacific/2010/04/201041432022216921.html

[Rapier09]

10. It wasn't China

It was Tibet.

There is a difference.

[JuniperLea]

15. Tell it to the USGS... eom

[Trillo]

11. China earthquake kills hundreds in Qinghai

Chinese TV has been showing the damage to buildings

At least 300 people have died and others are trapped under rubble after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck China's Qinghai province, officials say.

The powerful tremor hit remote Yushu county, 500km south-west of provincial capital Xining, at 0749 (2349 GMT).

Chinese TV showed wrecked buildings and people scrabbling through debris, as the government began a rescue misssion.

Yushu is hundreds of miles from an airport, and it is thought rescue crews may take time to reach the quake zone.

"Soldiers have been dispatched to save the people buried in the collapsed houses," local official Huang Limin was quoted as saying by China's state news agency Xinhua

more @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8619046.stm

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Death toll in China earthquake climbs to 400

Chinese state television says that the death toll from a strong earthquake in a western province has climbed to 400.

CTTV quoted emergency official Pubucairen as saying Wednesday that the number of injured has risen to more than 10,000 as rescue workers struggle to dig trapped people out in Qinghai province. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake measured a magnitude of 6.9.

Rescue efforts have been hindered by telecommunications problems, with phone lines down.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gdspdDB0WaMv_An4A-NvHB_DwmCwD9F2NQ5G0

[bananas]

13. 400 dead, according to radio news. nt

[dipsydoodle]

14. BBC News link tosubject

Some 400 people have died and thousands are feared injured after a magnitude-6.9 quake hit western China's Qinghai province, officials say.

The powerful tremor struck remote Yushu county, 800km (500 miles) south-west of the provincial capital Xining, at 0749 (2349 GMT), at a shallow depth of 10km.

Most of the buildings in the worst-hit town of Jiegu were wrecked, and landslides have cut off roads.

Police said hundreds of survivors had already been pulled from the rubble.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8619135.stm

[JuniperLea]

16. Not sure if this is related... we just got a "geomagnetic wallop"

http://news.discovery.com/space/boom-the-sun-unleashes-a-huge-cme.html

The sun has just exploded to life, blasting a huge coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. This is the largest such event for several years.

In case you haven't noticed, our nearest star has been a little subdued of late, and trying to find even the smallest of sunspots (an indicator of solar activity) was becoming a lost cause. But not anymore! It would appear the sun is getting its act together, exhibiting an uptick in sunspot numbers, increased magnetic activity and more explosive events (flares and CMEs) as solar activity increases toward "solar maximum," predicted to reach its peak in 2013.

Watch an animation of LASCO images as the CME progresses from the field of view of C2 to C3 (NASA/ESA/SOHO)As noted in Nicole Gugliucci's article yesterday, we are slowly beginning to understand the root cause behind these magnetic explosions and how solar phenomena such as CMEs impact our planet. For an idea about the fireworks that are sparked when solar wind particles slam into our atmosphere, have a read of Irene Klotz's article "Earth Gets Geomagnetic Wallop."

[VanW]

18. AP-Quake in western China kills 589, buries more

XINING, China – Soldiers and civilians used shovels and their bare hands to dig through collapsed buildings in search of survivors after strong earthquakes struck a mountainous Tibetan region of China on Wednesday, killing at least 589 people and injuring more than 10,000.

The series of quakes flattened buildings across remote western Yushu county and sent survivors, many bleeding from their wounds, flooding into the streets of Jiegu township. State television showed block after devastated block of toppled mud and wood homes. Local officials said 85 percent of the structures had been destroyed.

Residents and troops garrisoned in the town used shovels and their hands to pull survivors and bodies from the rubble much of the day. Several schools collapsed, with the state news agency saying at least 56 students died. Worst hit was the Yushu Vocational School, where Xinhua cited a local education official as saying 22 students died.

Footage on Qinghai Satellite TV showed bodies wrapped in blankets lying on the ground while rescuers pulled shards of concrete from a pancaked school building.

Crews set up emergency generators to restore operations at Yushu's airport, and by late afternoon the first of six flights landed carrying rescue workers and equipment. But the road to town was blocked by a landslide, hampering the rescue as temperatures dropped below freezing. Tens of thousands of the town's 70,000 people were without shelter, state media said.

http://tinyurl.com/y2omtzf

[superconnected]

19. Quake in western China kills 589, buries more

Source: Yahoo News

XINING, China – Soldiers and civilians used shovels and their bare hands to dig through collapsed buildings in search of survivors after strong earthquakes struck a mountainous Tibetan region of China on Wednesday, killing at least 589 people and injuring more than 10,000.

The series of quakes flattened buildings across remote western Yushu county and sent survivors, many bleeding from their wounds, flooding into the streets of Jiegu township. State television showed block after devastated block of toppled mud and wood homes. Local officials said 85 percent of the structures had been destroyed.

Residents and troops garrisoned in the town used shovels and their hands to pull survivors and bodies from the rubble much of the day. Several schools collapsed, with the state news agency saying at least 56 students died. Worst hit was the Yushu Vocational School, where Xinhua cited a local education official as saying 22 students died.

Footage on Qinghai Satellite TV showed bodies wrapped in blankets lying on the ground while rescuers pulled shards of concrete from a pancaked school building.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_earthquake

[VanW]

20. Dazed survivors of China quake spend chilly night in the open

(CNN) -- As dawn broke Thursday in earthquake-ravaged Gyegu, China, some people walked the streets in shock as others continued their all-night efforts to scour debris with their hands for survivors.
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit near the town in an impoverished area of Qinghai province the morning before, killing more than 580 people and injuring at least 10,000 others, according to state-run media.

"Civilians are scouring over the debris, looking for survivors, looking for whatever else they can find in rubble," CNN's John Vause reported from Gyegu, a city of 100,000 people. "It seems that most people here still seem very dazed by what happened. They seem to be walking up and down the streets, looking at the damage and the destruction."

The quake in the mountainous region had flattened homes -- many of which were made with wood and earth -- and other buildings in Gyegu and elsewhere in Yushu prefecture, a Tibetan region of Qinghai.

Many survivors spent Wednesday night in open areas in freezing or near-freezing temperatures.

Almost 1,000 people sat or lay on the ground outside a government sports building in Gyegu, some wrapping themselves with quilts they had taken from rubble, and others used their own tents, the Xinhua news agency reported.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/14/china.earthquake.survivors/

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Update: 791 known dead, 294 missing, some survivors are still being pulled out

With an estimated 15,000 houses destroyed in Yushu, thousands of homeless people and casualties have been waiting for help.
...
"The road into Jiegu town is absolutely clogged with trucks bringing in supplies. More convoys, trucks with equipment and police vehicles are coming in to town. But many, many people are now too afraid to go into their houses - they are lining the streets living in tents waiting for more supplies to come in, because they have lost everything.

We were here a short time ago when there was a huge cheer as rescuers and monks dug out a young Tibetan girl. She had been under the rubble for two days now. It is incredible she has been able to survive so long as temperatures at night drop to below freezing.

The chances of finding more people are getting slimmer and slimmer. Meanwhile, sadly, what they are finding are more bodies which are being taken away by families for burial."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8624213.stm

[TankLV]

22. And Hannity cancels appearance. Coincidence? I think NOT!

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. Death toll now over 2,000; day of mourning starts

Flags will be flown at half mast across the country on Wednesday as a mark of respect, one week after the quake hit.

The announcement came as the number of people known to have been killed in the quake reached 2,039.

Officials say weather conditions are expected to deteriorate in the next few days, further hampering rescue and relief efforts in the remote region.

Another 195 people are still missing after the 6.9-magnitude quake and 12,135 have been injured, state news agency Xinhua reported.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8631354.stm