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mlurp · #**151** (**permalink**) 10-19-2012, 04:20 PM

I guess what helped to relieve most of possible damage/danger was this part of the news

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The U.S. Geological Survey said the 4.0 magnitude quake hit around 7:12 p.m. and its epicenter, about 3 miles west of Hollis Center, Maine, was about 3 miles deep. That location is about 20 miles west of Portland. The quake was first estimated to be 4.6 magnitude but was later downgraded.
And this, East Coast quakes are rarely strong enough to be felt over a wide area

BridgetRose · #**152** (**permalink**) 10-20-2012, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by mlurp

I guess what helped to relieve most of possible damage/danger was this part of the news

I'm glad it was deep because any earthquake that can be felt can cause damage here. I know Californians would laugh at that small quake but none of our infrastructure is built to stand up to earthquakes.

mlurp · #**153** (**permalink**) 10-23-2012, 01:51 PM

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I'm glad it was deep because any earthquake that can be felt can cause damage here. I know Californians would laugh at that small quake but none of our infrastructure is built to stand up to earthquakes.

3 miles isn't very deep and that had a whole lot to do with little damage BridgetRose. As the deeper it starts at the whole earthquake has a lot more crust it has to travel thru and the more damage is created.

Or so what I have read on the earthquakes tell me. And I am very happy for all who surived be it a structure to humans.

BridgetRose · #**154** (**permalink**) 10-24-2012, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by mlurp

3 miles isn't very deep and that had a whole lot to do with little damage BridgetRose. As the deeper it starts at the whole earthquake has a lot more crust it has to travel thru and the more damage is created.

Or so what I have read on the earthquakes tell me. And I am very happy for all who surived be it a structure to humans.

Thanks

Now lets hope Hurricane Sandy stays way out in the Atlantic. Irene did enough damage last year and I'm in no hurry to find out if my new generator works.

mlurp · #**155** (**permalink**) 10-24-2012, 04:45 PM

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Thanks

Now lets hope Hurricane Sandy stays way out in the Atlantic. Irene did enough damage last year and I'm in no hurry to find out if my new generator works.

Let's hope you don't have to use it forever....

BridgetRose · #**156** (**permalink**) 10-25-2012, 05:14 PM

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Let's hope you don't have to use it forever....

I can agree with that but it looks like we are about to get B!tch slapped by Sandy in some way. Might not get a direct hit but will most likely get wind and water. Probably spend my weekend getting stuff off the basement floor and securing the yard.

blarset · #**157** (**permalink**) 10-26-2012, 08:10 AM

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I can agree with that but it looks like we are about to get B!tch slapped by Sandy in some way. Might not get a direct hit but will most likely get wind and water. Probably spend my weekend getting stuff off the basement floor and securing the yard.

Good luck, let us know how it turns out.

mlurp · #**158** (**permalink**) 10-26-2012, 02:01 PM

Another Sandy report...... If it hits anywhere near the Long Island Sound the lower NYC will be flooded... And Damages will be costly...

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.Hurricane Sandy slogs toward U.S., kills 34 in Caribbean

By Neil Hartnell | Reuters – 41 mins ago. 26 Oct. 2012 ......

NASSAU (Reuters) - Slow-moving Hurricane Sandy, a late season Atlantic storm unlike anything seen in more than two decades, slogged toward the East Coast on Friday after killing at least 34 people on a path destruction across the Caribbean.

Forecasters said Sandy, with an expanding wind field already 550 miles wide, had begun merging with a polar air mass over the eastern United States, potentially spawning a hybrid "super storm" that could wreak havoc along the East Coast.

"Its structure is evolving as we speak because it's interacting with this weather feature at higher levels of the atmosphere," said Todd Kimberlain, a forecaster at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

"The models are suggesting that the storm could actually become better organized or intensify a little bit, not due to the normal processes than we would expect for a tropical cyclone but more related to this weather feature," Kimberlain said.

On its current projected track, government forecasters said Sandy could make landfall early next week anywhere between Virginia, Maryland or Delaware up through New York or southern New England.

In New York City, the global financial hub, officials were considering closing down mass transit before the storm hits.

Coming in the final weeks before the U.S. presidential election on November 6, the storm could throw last-minute campaign travel plans into chaos.

An aide to Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney said he had canceled a campaign event scheduled for Sunday night in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The Obama campaign said it was closely monitoring the storm.

The Democratic incumbent was traveling to New Hampshire on Saturday and on Monday was due to travel to Youngstown, Ohio, and Orlando, Florida.

A broad swath of Florida's east coast was under a tropical storm warning on Friday, and watches extended up the coast through North Carolina. Winds and rains generated by Sandy were being felt across much of Florida, with schools closed and air travel snarled in many areas.

Late Thursday, Sandy weakened to a Category 1 storm as it tore though sparsely populated low-lying southeastern islands in the Bahamas, knocking out power and blowing rooftops off some homes.

One storm-related death was reported in the Bahamas. Police said it was under investigation, but it occurred in Lyford Cay, a wealthy enclave of New Providence island that is home to the likes of actor Sean Connery, hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon and Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard.

Sandy's driving rains and heavy winds were blamed for a number of deaths elsewhere in the Caribbean, where landslides and flash floods were triggered by the cyclone.

Photos: Sandy threatening East Coast

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mlurp · #**159** (**permalink**) 10-29-2012, 01:45 PM

This happened yesterday.

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.Magnitude 7.7 quake strikes off Canadian coast

By JEREMY HAINSWORTH | Associated Press – 18 hrs ago. Posted 29 Oct. 2012

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada, but there were no reports of major damage. Residents in parts of British Columbia were evacuated, but the province appeared to escape the biggest quake in Canada since 1949 largely unscathed.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the powerful temblor hit the Queen Charlotte Islands just after 8 p.m. local time Saturday at a depth of about 3 miles (5 kilometers) and was centered 96 miles (155 kilometers) south of Masset, British Columbia. It was felt across a wide area in British Columbia, both on its Pacific islands and on the mainland.

"It looks like the damage and the risk are at a very low level," said Shirley Bond, British Columbia's minister responsible for emergency management said. "We're certainly grateful."

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center lifted its tsunami advisory for Hawaii Sunday morning just before 4 a.m. local time, three hours after downgrading from a warning and less than six hours after the waves first hit the islands.

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service canceled tsunami advisories for Canada, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California.

Tsunami Warning Center officials said wave heights were diminishing in Hawaii, though swimmers and boaters should be careful of strong or unusual currents. The biggest waves — about 5 feet (1.5 meters)high — appeared to hit Maui.

There were no immediate reports of damage, though one person died in a fatal crash near a road that was closed because of the threat near Oahu's north shore.

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said the state was lucky to avoid more severe surges.

"We're very, very grateful that we can go home tonight counting our blessings," Abercrombie said.

Dennis Sinnott of the Canadian Institute of Ocean Science said a 69-centimeter (27 inch) wave was recorded off Langara Island on the northeast tip of Haida Gwaii, formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands. The islands are home to about 5,000 people, many of them members of the Haida aboriginal group. Another 55 centimeter (21 inch) wave hit Winter Harbour on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island.

Canada's largest earthquake since 1700 was an 8.1 magnitude quake on August 22, 1949 off the coast of British Columbia, according to the Canadian government's Natural Resources website. It occurred on the Queen Charlotte Fault in what the department called Canada's equivalent of the San Andreas Fault — the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates that runs underwater along the west coast of the Haida Gwaii.

In 1970 a 7.4 magnitude quake struck south of the Haida Gwaii.

The USGS said the temblor shook the waters around British Columbia and was followed by a 5.8 magnitude aftershock after several minutes. Several other aftershocks were reported.

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mlurp · #**160** (**permalink**) 10-30-2012, 01:42 PM

Well most of the damage is done and far to many are without power. And NYC took a beating on the lower part of the city. And plenty of damage in areas across the rivers from NYC.

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.Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake

By ALLEN G. BREED and TOM HAYS | Associated Press – 2 hrs 57 mins ago.

Associated Press/ John Minchillo - Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, …more

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without power, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death toll climbed to 33, many of the victims killed by falling trees.

The full extent of the damage in New Jersey, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane force, was unclear. Police and fire officials, some with their own departments flooded, fanned out to rescue hundreds.

"We are in the midst of urban search and rescue. Our teams are moving as fast as they can," Gov. Chris Christie said. "The devastation on the Jersey Shore is some of the worst we've ever seen. The cost of the storm is incalculable at this point."

At least 7.4 million people across the East were without electricity. Airlines canceled more than 12,000 flights.

Lower Manhattan, which includes Wall Street, was among the hardest-hit areas after the storm sent a nearly 14-foot surge of seawater, a record, coursing over its seawalls and highways and into low-lying streets.

Water cascaded into the gaping, unfinished construction pit at the World Trade Center, and the New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day, the first time that has happened because of weather in more than a century.

A huge fire destroyed as many as 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood in Queens on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues. Three people were injured.

A downtown hospital, New York University's Tisch, evacuated 200 patients after its backup generator failed. About 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were carried down staircases and on battery-powered respirators.

And a construction crane that collapsed in the high winds on Monday still dangled precariously 74 floors above the streets of midtown Manhattan. And on Staten Island, a tanker ship wound up beached on the shore.

With water standing in two major commuter tunnels and seven subway tunnels under the East River, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was unclear when the nation's largest transit system would be rolling again. It shut down Sunday night ahead of the storm.
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