Getting ready to rip???
For
the second time this month, a large quake happened at the
southeastern corner of the Juan de Fuca plate, where the
Mendicino Rift, the southern edge of the plate meets the
rift that to the south forms the San Andreas Fault and to
the north forms the Juan de Fuca Subduction Zone.
It is the Subduction Zone (Yellow arrows) that is ripe
for the "250 year period earthquake" that in 1700 ripped,
sending a devastating tsunami across the Pacific, and
striking Japan, causing thousands of deaths... it also
caused major problems in the Pacific North West, causing
some native villages to be suddenly more than a mile inland
in some places -- or more than a mile out to sea in others.
More than 50 years later, when the first Europeans made
contact with them, they were still talking about it...
its also more than 60 years 'overdue'.
The zone is very similar to the one in Thailand that
spawned the tsunami there, and to the one in Chile that was
so strong (9.7+) that the sensors on Mt St Helens detected
it... and then again when it made its way around the globe
to pass by again.
Steve Walter, a seismologist at the USGS in Menlo Park,
said Thursday's quake was not an aftershock because it
occurred on a different fault, but "we could speculate it
might have been triggered by the one last month."
When one area of the fault slips, it causes pressure on
the other portions... eventually, one of them at either end
of the fault line will cause a cascading 'rip' along the
fault line, which will be felt as a 9+ quake that will shake
for several minutes
More maps and info:
MORE:
http://www.nwcn.com/news/2nd-large-quake-in-month-hits-off-N-Calif-coast-83613707.html
Bending the rules didn't
pan out... but it seems it might work out in the end...
Ten members of a U.S. missionary group who said
they were trying to rescue 33 child victims of Haiti's
devastating earthquake were charged with child kidnapping
and criminal association on Thursday, their lawyer said.
Edwin Coq said after a court hearing that a judge found
sufficient evidence to charge the Americans, who were
arrested Friday at Haiti's border with the Dominican
Republic. Coq attended Thursday's hearing and represents the
entire group in Haiti.
Group leader Laura Silsby has
said they were trying to take orphans and abandoned children
to an orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic. She
acknowledged they had not sought permission from Haitian
officials, but said they just meant to help victims of the
quake.
The children taken from the group, ranging in
age from 2 to 12, were being cared for at the Austrian-run
SOS Children's Village in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday.
The U.S. citizens, most of them members of an
Idaho-based church group, were whisked away from the closed
court hearing to jail in Port-au-Prince, the capital. Silsby
waved and smiled faintly to reporters but declined to answer
questions.
Coq said that under Haiti's legal system,
there won't be an open trial, but a judge will consider the
evidence and could render a verdict in about three months.
A Haitian-born pastor who said he worked as an unpaid
consultant for the group insisted the Baptists had done
nothing wrong.
The Rev. Jean Sainvil said some of the
children were orphans and might have been put up for
adoption. Children with parents were to be kept in the
Dominican Republic, and would not lose contact with their
families, Sainvil said in Atlanta.
"Everybody agreed
that they knew where the children were going. The parents
were told, and we confirmed they would be allowed to see the
children and even take them back if need be," he said.
Even Prime Minister Max Bellerive has said he recognized
the Americans may simply have been well-meaning who believed
their charitable Christian intent justified trying to remove
the children from quake-crippled Haiti.
MORE:
http://www.nwcn.com/news/10-Americans-held-in-Haiti-charged-with-kidnapping-83570852.html
Right in the midst of
'Global Warming'
What? A major nor'easter will strike the
Mid-Atlantic states producing major snow accumulations and
strong winds.
When? Storm begins
around midday Friday and lasts through the majority of
Saturday.
Where? High-populated
areas of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and
southeastern Pennsylvania will likely all experience big
snow totals. Washington, DC and Baltimore could experience
foot plus snow totals.
How much snow?
I'll let the map do the talking. This map takes us out to
48 hours. This map will update automatically with new
forecast totals as the event approaches in time and as
forecasts are tweaked.
Another round of snow and ice targets the northern
Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic as a moisture-rich storm system
tracks northward from the Gulf of Mexico.
Snow has
changed to sleet and freezing rain over western North
Carolina where some mountain locations picked up as much as
5 inches of snow. Snow and freezing rain are falling in
southern West Virginia as snow moves northward through
western Virginia.
Isolated power outages are possible
with some ice accumulating on trees and power lines.
Heavy 2-to-locally-4-inch rain stretching from northern
Florida into Tidewater Virginia will result in spotty
flooding.
But the main event with this storm will be
heavy snow in the Mid-Atlantic States. Snow will begin in
the Washington area this afternoon and spread northward
towards Philadelphia by evening.
Heavy snow will
continue into Saturday before winding down by evening.
Travel may grind to a halt for a time, especially overnight
and Saturday.
By the time the storm ends, many areas
in northern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and southern
Pennsylvania will have over a foot of snow. Some places may
end up with nearly two feet of snow from this storm.
As the low pushes off the coast, it will strengthen quickly
and produce very strong winds, especially along the
Mid-Atlantic coast. Gusts between 45 and 50 mph are possible
from southern New Jersey to the Norfolk area Friday night
and Saturday morning.
Blizzard warnings are in effect
for southeastern areas of New Jersey as well as much of
Delaware.
It is also worth mentioning that this storm
will spread snow as far west as the Ohio Valley.
Winter storm warnings are in effect westward into Indiana. A
swath of six-to-locally-12-inch snowfall could fall from
central Indiana into southwestern Pennsylvania.
MORE:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/major-noreaster-mid-atlantic-february_2010-02-04
And on a related note:
India says it can't rely on the UN's IPCC
The Indian government has established its own body to
monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot
rely” on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, the group headed by its own Nobel
prize-winning scientist Dr R.K Pachauri.
The UN's IPCC released a report that
suggested less than 30
The move is a significant snub to both the IPCC and Dr
Pachauri as he battles to defend his reputation following
the revelation that his most recent climate change report
included false claims that most of the Himalayan glaciers
would melt away by 2035. Scientists believe it could take
more than 300 years for the glaciers to disappear.
The body and its chairman have faced growing criticism ever
since as questions have been raised on the credibility of
their work and the rigour with which climate change claims
are assessed.
In India the false claims have heightened tensions
between Dr Pachauri and the government, which had earlier
questioned his glacial melting claims. In Autumn, its
environment minister Mr Jairam Ramesh said while glacial
melting in the Himalayas was a real concern, there was
evidence that some were actually advancing despite global
warming.
Dr Pachauri had dismissed challenges like
these as based on “voodoo science”, but last night Mr Ramesh
effectively marginalized the IPC chairman even further.
MORE:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7157590/India-forms-new-climate-change-body.html
Great news...
Agents
for Britain's MI5 intelligence service have discovered that
Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain's leading teaching
hospitals have returned to their own countries to fit
surgical implants filled with explosives, according to a
report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Women suicide
bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the
explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques
similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives –
usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) –
are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes.
The breast is then sewn up.
Similar surgery has been
performed on male suicide bombers. In their cases, the
explosives are inserted in the appendix area or in a
buttock. Both are parts of the body that diabetics use to
inject themselves with their prescribed drugs.
MORE:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123758
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