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Re: Nice little earthquake
[Re: CGB]
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03/20/2015 08:30 AM
03/20/2015 08:30 AM
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RickG
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I saw a string of 11 tremors on my USGS alerts last night. I just checked USGS and see a 4.6 magnitude just popped off. Big one! Good luck.
Cheers, RickG
Last edited by RickG; 03/20/2015 08:31 AM.
S/V Echoes, 2003 Beneteau 423 Grenada
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Re: Nice little earthquake
[Re: Manpot]
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03/20/2015 08:55 AM
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http://ntwc.arh.noaa.gov/Nobody panic. There is no Tsunami warning. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Joy.gif" alt="" /> NOAA Clearly states at the link above: * There is NO tsunami danger from this earthquake. Issued at: 3/20/2015, 7:21:42 AM
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Re: Nice little earthquake
[Re: busyengineer]
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03/20/2015 10:15 AM
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busyengineer said: Well that explains everything! Anchored in Christmas Cove and got woken up in the wee hours - boat is being tossed around like a cork. Bam! Bam! Holy ... thought I was being attached by a whale or something! Sounds like a ferry wake. In a earthquake your boat will feel like something jolted it.
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Re: Nice little earthquake
[Re: Will_L]
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03/20/2015 09:16 PM
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GlennA
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I would worry more about Will who is dead center of the New Madrid than I would Manpot. OTOH Thurston will have premium seats at South Sound available for the next BVI tsunami. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Nice little earthquake
[Re: sail445]
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03/21/2015 08:50 AM
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GlennA
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My money is on a major break in the bottom of the Anegada Trough sending a big wave in from the east. If you consider the Virgin Island/Puerto Rico microplate as fixed, the Atlantic Ocean is moving west on the other side of the north drop by about half an inch a year and St. Martin is moving east at about one inch a year. Lots of little quakes like this one mean that the north fault is moving along nicely but there has been almost no significant activity to the east in almost 150 years.
Normaly you would not be aware of an earthquake on a boat. At anchor you might hear a low rumble transmitted up the anchor chain. However, there is an effect called a seismic seiche or slosh that can occur in certain conditions in an inclosed body of water. I don't think Christmas Cove would qualify but the Bight might.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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