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BroJones wrote:I live NE of KC, roughly 100 miles. Didn't feel the quake. Some day I expect the New Madrid, MO, fault to slip; but that's in the opposite corner of the state.

Extreme weather:

(CNN) -- Every state in the Union had a reporting station somewhere in the state below freezing Tuesday morning.

That includes Hawaii, where the temperature at Mauna Kea on the Big Island dropped to 31 degrees.

In Florida, it was in the upper 20s in the Panhandle and freeze warnings were in effect.

Tuesday was the coldest November morning since 1976, according to meteorologist Ryan Maue of WeatherBELL Analytics. The average overnight low for the Lower 48 states was 19.4 degrees, Maue said.
Second round of arctic air is coming
Winter blast continues through Midwest
Why is it so cold?

This is highly unusual for this time of year and is much more reminiscent of a pattern forecasters would expect to see in January or February, not November.

The Arctic air pouring over the relatively warm Great Lakes waters is producing extreme lake-effect snows.

Snow totals could approach 70 inches south of Buffalo -- almost 6 feet of snow. Lancaster, New York, has already received over 40 inches of snow, and it continues to snow at 4 to 5 inches per hour. Some areas in Erie County, Pennsylvania, have already seen 3 feet of snow. Thunder and lightning have been reported.

To make matters worse, this is only the first band of heavy snow. More snow is expected on Wednesday, and then the lake-effect snow bands set up again for Wednesday night into Thursday with very heavy snow likely again. This could rank high in the history of lake-effect snow events.

Over half the country -- 50.2% -- had snow on the ground Tuesday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

T OKYO – Helicopter surveys on Sunday showed more extensive damage than earlier thought from an overnight earthquake in the mountainous central Japan area that hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics.

At least 37 homes were destroyed in two villages, and 39 people were injured across the region, including seven seriously, mostly with broken bones, officials said.

The magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck shortly after 10 p.m. (8 a.m. EST) Saturday west of Nagano city at a depth of 6 miles, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The agency revised the magnitude from a preliminary 6.8 while the U.S. Geological Survey measured it at 6.2. Since the quake occurred inland, there was no possibility of a tsunami.

Ryo Nishino, a restaurant owner in Hakuba, a ski resort village west of Nagano, told Japanese broadcaster NHK that he had "never experienced a quake that shook so hard. The sideways shaking was enormous." He said he was in the restaurant's wine cellar when the quake struck, and that nothing broke there.

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority said no abnormalities were reported at three nuclear power plants in the affected areas. All of Japan's nuclear plants are offline following a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami in 2011 that sent three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant into meltdown. Fukushima is about 155 miles northeast of where Saturday's earthquake occurred.

The hardest-hit area appeared to be Hakuba, which hosted events in the 1998 games. At least 30 homes were destroyed, and 17 people injured, the Nagano prefecture government said. Another seven homes were lost in Otari, a nearby village to the north. Non-residential buildings were also destroyed, with officials still assessing the extent.

Japanese television footage showed buildings in various states of collapse, some flattened and others leaning to one side, and deep cracks in the roads. A landslide spilled onto a railroad track, forcing service to stop. About 200 people have evacuated to shelters, almost all from Hakuba and Otari.

Shigeharu Fujimori, a Nagano prefecture disaster management official, said it was fortunate there haven't been any deaths reported despite the extent of the damage.

All 21 people trapped under collapsed houses were rescued, with two of them injured, the National Police Agency told Japan's Kyodo news agency. Japanese television showed police going house to house Sunday morning, calling out to make sure that inhabitants were accounted for.

"The hardest-hit area was in the mountains and sparsely populated, where neighbors have a close relationship and help each other," Fujimori said. "So I don't think anyone has been forgotten or left isolated."

Shinkansen bullet train service in the region was restored after a short interruption. Chubu Electric Power Co. said 200 homes were still without power on Sunday.

The quake was followed by more than 45 aftershocks, and Meteorological Agency official Yohei Hasegawa urged residents to watch out for landslides. The area was struck by a magnitude-6.7 earthquake the day after the huge March 2011 quake.

believer wrote:Was the one north of Sedona in Oak Creek Canyon, Flagstaff, Navajo Desert?

kathyn wrote:Freedomforall, I think you need to lay off the fudge and Christmas candy for a day or two. ;)

• 4.8
  9km ESE of Kuril'sk, Russia
  2015-01-04 15:25:25 UTC-07:00133.5 km
• 4.9
  South of the Fiji Islands
  2015-01-04 14:00:54 UTC-07:00585.8 km
• 4.6
  43km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji
  2015-01-04 01:40:07 UTC-07:00565.0 km
• 4.6
  112km S of Akureyri, Iceland
  2015-01-04 00:49:42 UTC-07:007.2 km
• 5.1
  153km NE of Naze, Japan
  2015-01-03 22:51:27 UTC-07:0031.2 km
• 4.8
  18km N of El Espinal, Mexico
  2015-01-03 22:16:38 UTC-07:00113.6 km
• 5.1
  86km NE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu
  2015-01-03 13:59:58 UTC-07:0040.9 km
• 4.8
  120km E of Miyako, Japan
  2015-01-03 11:51:14 UTC-07:0029.7 km
• 4.9
  7km E of Challis, Idaho
  2015-01-03 10:44:03 UTC-07:008.2 km
• 4.9
  5km WNW of Roshtqal'a, Tajikistan
  2015-01-03 05:46:34 UTC-07:00127.0 km
• 4.8
  17km ESE of Severomuysk, Russia
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• 4.9
  24km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska
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• 5.0
  48km SSW of Molibagu, Indonesia
  2015-01-03 01:03:31 UTC-07:00122.4 km
• 4.6
  114km WNW of Hofn, Iceland
  2015-01-02 17:32:29 UTC-07:005.5 km
• 4.5
  62km SSW of Bilungala, Indonesia
  2015-01-02 16:28:55 UTC-07:00126.1 km
• 4.7
  Carlsberg Ridge
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• 5.4
  Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
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• 5.1
  181km NE of Bitung, Indonesia
  2015-01-02 13:11:08 UTC-07:0049.9 km
• 4.7
  24km NNE of Bolangitang, Indonesia
  2015-01-02 13:09:35 UTC-07:0049.4 km
• 4.5
  0km NNE of Guananico, Dominican Republic
  2015-01-02 12:11:45 UTC-07:0026.4 km
• 4.7
  165km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia
  2015-01-02 10:42:04 UTC-07:0031.4 km
• 4.5
  119km S of Akureyri, Iceland
  2015-01-02 10:39:09 UTC-07:008.5 km
• 4.7
  86km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines
  2015-01-02 07:48:54 UTC-07:00290.6 km
• 4.8
  Central East Pacific Rise
  2015-01-02 04:01:23 UTC-07:0010.0 km
• 5.2
  195km SW of Bella Bella, Canada
  2015-01-02 03:15:36 UTC-07:0010.0 km
• 4.9
  105km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia
  2015-01-02 01:41:48 UTC-07:0061.6 km
• 4.8
  Carlsberg Ridge
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• 5.0
  Carlsberg Ridge
  2015-01-02 01:21:56 UTC-07:0010.0 km
• 4.7
  32km SW of Mouzaki, Greece
  2015-01-01 23:16:29 UTC-07:0010.0 km
• 4.5
  25km ESE of Pendolo, Indonesia
  2015-01-01 15:20:03 UTC-07:0010.0 km
• 4.8
  62km SSW of Ovalle, Chile
  2015-01-01 14:08:22 UTC-07:0044.3 km
• 4.6
  5km N of Valle Agricola, Italy
  2015-01-01 12:48:04 UTC-07:00317.0 km
• 4.7
  South of the Fiji Islands
  2015-01-01 11:40:38 UTC-07:0099.7 km
• 4.9
  201km SSW of `Ohonua, Tonga
  2015-01-01 08:32:23 UTC-07:0048.5 km
• 5.4
  128km W of Ferndale, California
  2015-01-01 05:16:14 UTC-07:0024.1 km
• 4.7
  Kuril Islands
  2015-01-01 05:04:47 UTC-07:0078.6 km
• 4.7
  Central East Pacific Rise
  2015-01-01 03:07:06 UTC-07:0010.0 km
• 4.8
  105km SSE of Ust'-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia
  2015-01-01 02:42:05 UTC-07:0040.0 km
• 5.1
  68km WSW of Firuzabad, Iran
  2015-01-01 01:49:54 UTC-07:0010.0 km
• 4.7
  Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  2014-12-31 23:54:20 UTC-07:0010.0 km
• 4.6
  94km N of Isangel, Vanuatu
  2014-12-31 23:48:29 UTC-07:00224.6 km
• 4.8
  25km SE of Ofunato, Japan
  2014-12-31 22:01:12 UTC-07:0053.5 km
• 4.8
  241km SE of Lambasa, Fiji
  2014-12-31 14:17:04 UTC-07:00571.8 km
• 5.1
  12km SW of Karonga, Malawi
  2014-12-31 12:47:35 UTC-07:0014.2 km
• 4.7
  102km ENE of Shughnon, Tajikistan
  2014-12-31 12:04:51 UTC-07:00120.4 km
• 4.8
  201km NNE of Raoul Island, New Zealand
  2014-12-31 11:11:10 UTC-07:0070.9 km
• 4.5
  1km SE of Matsudo, Japan
  2014-12-31 07:49:46 UTC-07:0088.0 km
• 5.0
  131km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
  2014-12-31 07:20:25 UTC-07:0052.4 km
• 4.6
  7km SE of Hukay, Philippines
  2014-12-31 03:21:49 UTC-07:00152.4 km
• 5.2
  7km SSE of Hukay, Philippines
  2014-12-31 02:26:24 UTC-07:00121.8 km
• 4.7
  72km SE of Nemuro, Japan
  2014-12-31 01:17:08 UTC-07:0048.1 km
• 5.1
  46km WNW of Yonakuni, Japan
  2014-12-31 00:54:36 UTC-07:0094.0 km
• 4.7
  123km SSE of Putre, Chile
  2014-12-30 22:19:19 UTC-07:00111.7 km
• 4.6
  4km NNE of Yilan, Taiwan
  2014-12-30 20:06:04 UTC-07:0069.2 km
• 4.7
  36km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji
  2014-12-30 19:59:06 UTC-07:00593.8 km
• 5.2
  South of the Fiji Islands
  2014-12-30 19:47:31 UTC-07:00603.3 km
• 5.7
  43km SSW of Angoram, Papua New Guinea
  2014-12-30 18:37:33 UTC-07:00119.5 km
• 5.1
  126km ESE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands
  2014-12-30 17:21:48 UTC-07:0057.8 km
• 5.4
  33km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji
  2014-12-30 17:06:09 UTC-07:00596.9 km
• 4.9
  30km NE of General Luna, Philippines
  2014-12-30 14:53:57 UTC-07:0033.0 km
• 6.1
  37km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji
  2014-12-30 14:17:23 UTC-07:00598.2 km
• 4.6
  120km W of Hofn, Iceland
  2014-12-30 13:54:16 UTC-07:009.0 km
• 5.0
  16km ENE of General Luna, Philippines
  2014-12-30 12:09:08 UTC-07:0067.5 km
• 5.1
  West of Macquarie Island
  2014-12-30 11:42:51 UTC-07:0028.1 km
• 4.8
  South of the Fiji Islands
  2014-12-30 10:57:26 UTC-07:00475.3 km
• 4.9
  10km NE of General Luna, Philippines
  2014-12-30 08:25:40 UTC-07:0091.3 km
• 4.8
  121km W of Raoul Island, New Zealand
  2014-12-30 06:54:04 UTC-07:00321.9 km
• 5.0
  10km E of Pilar, Philippines
  2014-12-30 06:13:36 UTC-07:0052.2 km
• 4.5
  29km N of Yigo Village, Guam
  2014-12-30 05:14:53 UTC-07:00118.0 km
• 4.9
  20km ENE of General Luna, Philippines
  2014-12-30 05:11:43 UTC-07:0098.6 km
• 5.2
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• 4.6
  21km SSW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands
  2014-12-29 23:33:22 UTC-07:00206.7 km
• 5.3
  66km WSW of Firuzabad, Iran
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• 5.1
  116km S of Akureyri, Iceland
  2014-12-29 17:11:14 UTC-07:0011.1 km
• 5.0
  109km E of Ndoi Island, Fiji
  2014-12-29 16:37:58 UTC-07:00494.4 km
• 5.0
  28km SW of Shengjin, Albania
  2014-12-29 13:34:13 UTC-07:0014.4 km
• 5.6
  147km E of Visokoi Island,
  2014-12-29 10:41:47 UTC-07:0010.0 km
• 4.7
  165km NNE of Bitung, Indonesia
  2014-12-29 05:09:34 UTC-07:00159.8 km
• 6.1
  112km SSE of Cagayancillo, Philippines
  2014-12-29 02:29:41 UTC-07:0037.9 km
• 4.7
  288km SE of Lambasa, Fiji
  2014-12-28 23:27:54 UTC-07:00584.9 km
• 4.6
  52km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu
  2014-12-28 17:15:38 UTC-07:00117.7 km
• 4.5
  106km N of Siglufjordur, Iceland
  2014-12-28 16:18:50 UTC-07:0010.0 km

Idaho earthquake causes rock slides, damages property

By Laura Zuckerman7 hours ago

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake rattled a broad swath of Idaho early on Saturday, damaging property and triggering rock slides near its epicenter in Challis, a city that has endured hundreds of slight to moderate temblors over the last 10 months, authorities said.
The latest measured at a magnitude of 4.9 and was centered about four miles (6.5 km) from Challis in the state's central mountains, but was felt as far away as Boise, a 190-mile (305-km) drive to the southwest, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake caused rock slides, damaged homes and knocked out power around Custer County, local officials said.



Challis Mayor Mark Lupher said he was not in the area when the quake struck, but that authorities told him by telephone that there were no known injuries. Several people living close to the epicenter reported property damage such as cracks in the walls of their homes, he said.
The latest in a string temblors to rattle the area, the quake was more powerful than recent ones, including a 2.9 magnitude quake on Dec. 29, the USGS and Challis Messenger weekly newspaper said.


"We've been around the block a few times," Linda Lumpkin, Custer County Sheriff's Office dispatch supervisor in Challis, said of the frequent seismic activity.
Still, she said, the shaking on Saturday went on for a good nine or ten seconds, leaving people feeling a little rattled.
The dispatch center has been flooded with calls from residents reporting shaking and rock slides, said Lumpkin.
Scientists have been trying to determine whether the quakes, which began in March 2014, have been caused by a known fault thought to be dormant, or are from a previously unknown fault. The earthquakes have been centered near where Idaho's most powerful known quake, measured at 6.9, killed two children in 1983.


Idaho is at the center of a seismic belt that runs from northwestern Montana to southern Nevada and contains thousands of faults in the Earth's crust.
Scientists have said they do not believe the smaller quakes were leading to a larger event in the area.
Claudia Whitten, a glass artist who lives near downtown Challis, said her home shook on its foundation during the 4.9 magnitude event.
"This one really got me. You could feel it in your feet. My whole body was shaking," she said.
Authorities have warned motorists in the area to watch out for falling or loose rocks.
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The Canadian Press
Published Thursday, January 8, 2015 8:21AM EST

TOFINO, B.C. -- Houses shook, dishes broke and some residents of Tofino, B.C., thought an explosion or car accident occurred, but there was no tsunami or major damage reported by a 4.6 magnitude earthquake.

Earthquakes Canada, the federal agency that monitors the natural phenomenon across the country, said the quake hit just after 6 p.m. Wednesday local time about 13 kilometres east of the tourism community of Tofino, B.C.

Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne said the quake was the strongest she has felt in the community and it lasted about one or two seconds.

"It's a really good reminder that we need to be prepared," she said.

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8 earthquakes in 24 hours rattle southern Oregon; strongest at 4.5 magnitude



Jerry Casey | The Oregonian/OregonLiveThe Oregonian
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on January 22, 2015 at 7:08 AM, updated January 22, 2015 at 8:26 AM






A series of eight earthquakes shook Oregon's southern border Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The temblors ranged in magnitude from 2.5 to 4.5 and were centered in rural Nevada, between 41 and 48 miles east-southeast of the small town of Lakeview, Oregon.
The strongest of the quakes, at 4.5 magnitude, struck at 1:09 a.m. Thursday. According to the USGS's site for earthquake-reporting, only about four people reported feeling the strongest of the earthquakes.
Since July 12, an earthquake swarm has been shaking lightly populated northwest Nevada and southern Oregon. As of early December, more than 1,700 quakes had been reported in the area.
MORE: Is 'eerie quiet' at Cascadia earthquake fault related to Nevada's swarm of tremors"
Here is a list of earthquakes recorded over the past 24 hours along Oregon's southern border:
Wednesday:
6:05 p.m.: 3.8 magnitude
8:23 p.m.: 3.0 magnitude
Thursday:
1:09 a.m.: 4.5 magnitude
1:35 a.m.: 2.6 magnitude
1:49 a.m.: 3.4 magnitude
2:18 a.m.: 3.1 magnitude
2:39 a.m.: 3.0 magnitude
4:39 a.m.: 2.5 magnitude
-- Jerry Casey
[email protected]

There have been: (M1.5 or greater)

83 earthquakes today
569 earthquakes in the past 7 days
2,839 earthquakes in the past month
38,182 earthquakes in the past year

The biggest earthquake:

today: 6.7 in Villazón, Potosi, Bolivia
this week: 6.7 in Villazón, Potosi, Bolivia
this month: 6.8 in Vila, Efate, Vanuatu
this year: 8.2 in Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile

ocarinahuff wrote:I managed to download archived data from the usgs earthquake website. I'm still looking at the data from as many angles as I can, but looking at various sums from year to year from 1950 to 2014, I can definitely say that there has been an increase in frequency of earthquakes. We all knew that intuitively, of course, but now I have the data to back up my conclusions.

A sum of quakes of magnitudes greater than 2.5 from 1973 to 2014 revealed a general rise from 4356 per year to 25,007 per year. That's big.

There was an anomaly in the data where there were no quakes of magnitudes less than 4.5 recorded before 1973. That smelled off to me, so I found this article on the history of seismographs:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/~ce597m/ ... enahem.pdf

Seems the 1970's is when we began deploying worldwide earthquake monitoring systems.

gkearney wrote:

ocarinahuff wrote:I managed to download archived data from the usgs earthquake website. I'm still looking at the data from as many angles as I can, but looking at various sums from year to year from 1950 to 2014, I can definitely say that there has been an increase in frequency of earthquakes. We all knew that intuitively, of course, but now I have the data to back up my conclusions.

A sum of quakes of magnitudes greater than 2.5 from 1973 to 2014 revealed a general rise from 4356 per year to 25,007 per year. That's big.

There was an anomaly in the data where there were no quakes of magnitudes less than 4.5 recorded before 1973. That smelled off to me, so I found this article on the history of seismographs:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/~ce597m/ ... enahem.pdf

Seems the 1970's is when we began deploying worldwide earthquake monitoring systems.

I suspect it is better reporting.