Earthquakes and Volcanoes - I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet

[Kid Ryder]

I didn't know, either. But found this.


http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/new...ismic-testing/
It's from 2003 -I've no idea if standards have improved since then.

No, that'd be about the current deal for seismic testing at sea. In the past, explosives would've been used, but since the late '80s (I think, I do remember a geologist at the university I went to about then giving a public talk about seismic testing methods back then, and that was about the time the 'detonation' method changed) air guns would be the preferred source of shock waves. Perhaps there may not be a link between the two, but as Rose Conway Walsh (Belmullet SF councillor) points out, earthquakes were not included in the various Environmental Impact Statements for the Corrib project, and it does raise concerns for the safety of the offshore pipeline if there is seabed movement subsequent to this tremor, or any other that could happen subsequent to it. Meanwhile, Comrade Bunny sees no evil, hears no evil, and does not admit verbally to any evil...

[Kid Ryder]

Strangely enough, this article from the Irish Times website on May 31 mentions the seismic testing/surveying that the article yesterday (re earthquake) was so goddamn coy about: Sea survey may breach EU directive, says whale lobby
The left hand knoweth not what the right hand doeth - my ar$e!

[disability student]

Thought occured to me ... does Shell in Mayo have anything to do with it? Residents have complained re noises in the past couple of weeks??

[Kid Ryder]

Thought occured to me ... does Shell in Mayo have anything to do with it? Residents have complained re noises in the past couple of weeks??

That's from the hydrotesting of the offshore part of the pipeline (laid 2009). That work commenced cynically on the Friday of the last bank holiday weekend so that Mayo Shell County Council wouldn't have to field complaints from Glengad residents until several days into the works programme. They also carried out an environmental noise survey on the works that Friday morning (so I'm told), before the testing gear was on full power so that a false and misleading result could be obtained to gull complainants and allay the complacent (and complicit, for the most part) Oireland Inc. meejia.

[disability student]

Now there is a strange coincidence. If you go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ you will find a list of recent earthquakes compiled by the USGS. If you click on the D Depth arrow you can sort the quakes by depth, starting with the shallowest at Princeton, Canada. The eleventh quake on the list, and also the strongest of these shallow quakes, is the Mayo quake, 94 km NW of Clifden. The interesting bit is the location of the other quakes. They are mostly all in areas of gas exploration or fracking: Alaska, Canada, California, Hawaii. A Coincidence of shallow earthquakes and gas exploration and fracking? Isn't just a coincidence???

[The Moth]

Now there is a strange coincidence. If you go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ you will find a list of recent earthquakes compiled by the USGS. If you click on the D Depth arrow you can sort the quakes by depth, starting with the shallowest at Princeton, Canada. The eleventh quake on the list, and also the strongest of these shallow quakes, is the Mayo quake, 94 km NW of Clifden. The interesting bit is the location of the other quakes. They are mostly all in areas of gas exploration or fracking: Alaska, Canada, California, Hawaii. A Coincidence of shallow earthquakes and gas exploration and fracking? Isn't just a coincidence???

I suppose there is no chance that any of our environmental quangos would look in to it. Whoever is brave enough to inquire will be written off as a craziac. A little tsunami heading for Castlebar may be what it will take.

[Kid Ryder]

I suppose there is no chance that any of our environmental quangos would look in to it. Whoever is brave enough to inquire will be written off as a craziac. A little tsunami heading for Castlebar may be what it will take.

O come Armageddon come Armageddon come!

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[Ephilant]

Reports are coming in of another earthquake, this time of the coast of Rodhes. Initial reports say it had a magnitude of 5.8 -6 on the Richter scale. So far, there are no reports of loss of life, but Anatolia News (Turkey) speaks of people being hospitalized.
the reports say that the quake was felt on Rhodes, Kos, Kastillorizo and the Trukish mainland. Anatolia News places the epicentre some 80 miles East of Rhodes and quite deep at nearly 40 km.

[C. Flower]

Second one in the last month? Europe is on the move....

[C. Flower]

Details here -

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...usb000ac4h.php

[Ephilant]

The Turkish Institute for Seismology in Kandili puts the quake as a 6.1 R, making it quite a serious "shaker". 7 people are reported to have been taken to hospital with minor injuries. The institute also reported 2 after shocks of 6 and 4.9R. It also reports minor damage in the port of Izmir, the city of Antalya and the popular holdiay resort of Oludeniz.
Another quake was reported in Azerbijan, reaching 4.8R and being treated as a seperate incident.

[Dr. FIVE]

So the Irish Times says the epicentre for Wednesday’s earthquake off Mayo was closer to an area licensed to Anthony O'Reilly's Providence Resources than to the Corrib gas field.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...317501292.html

Chairman of Providence is former Fianna Fáil TD Brian Hillery, former chair at INM and also chairman of UniCredit Ireland at the time of Jonathan Sugarman's resignation. He is now governor of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority which is responsible for the supervision of all financial institutions operating in Ireland...

[DCon]

Tornado in Donegal..

One of the biggest ever tornadoes recorded in Ireland struck yesterday morning.

The 700-metre-high twister hit Slieve Sneacht near Buncrana, Co Donegal, at about 10.30am yesterday.

The tornado, seen clearly on three-minute-long amateur videos, touched ground close to the mountain but did not cause serious damage.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...#ixzz1xYmqOBtC

[Ephilant]

If there is one thing people here hate more than earthquakes, it's wild fires. Reports are coming in of a massive wild fire in the Keratea area of SouthEastern Attika with the fire brigade evacuating many houses, including a old folks home. Gale force winds are fanning the fire(s) which started just before noon. The use of fire fighting planes is not possible because of the winds which prevent the planes from loading water from the nearby sea.
People say they have been evacuated from their houses while the fires "flew" through their back gardens, destroying everything in their path.
The local fire fighters who are quite used to fighting wild fires say that this is the biggest and fastest spreading one in living memory.

[Ephilant]

Reports are coming in on local stations of a 4.2 shaker hitting the island of Evia and being felt in parts of Attica as well. The reports don't mention any loss of life or damage.