USGS reports 6.8 magnitude earthquake off Papua New Guinea

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea on Monday, the United States Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The USGS said the quake was recorded at 7:39 p.m. EDT on Sunday evening, 81 miles east of the town of Wewak at a shallow depth of 10.4 miles. But no tsunami issue was issued for nearby areas.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/us-quake-png-idUSTRE77000820110801

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Magnitude : 6.8
Region : near the north coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
UTC Time : 2011-07-31 23:38:57
Depth : 16.80 Km

http://www.quake-maps.com/c0005706-Earthquake_Map_Magnitude_6_8-Near_the_north_coast_of_New_Guinea_Papua_New_Guinea.htm

this is the 3rd 6 or greater quake in the Pacific in the last 24 hours

[Mojorabbit]

1. Mt Etna erupted this weekend too

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mt-etna-volcano-erupts/2011/07/31/gIQAW9dGmI_video.html

[defendandprotect]

2. "...this is the 3rd 6 or greater quake in the Pacific in the last 24 hours" ...

For those who don't know, Global Warming -- Glacier Melting, specifically --

will bring more earthquakes and stronger earthquakes --

Just as it will increase droughts/floods, tornados, cyclones, hurricanes, storms -

and no one really knows what other complications there may be of all of this --


Earthquakes also generate new volcanic activity --



Imagine the suffering that could have been saved had Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors

been shut down 5-6 years ago when the government there was reacting to the age of the

reactors -- the fact that they were built to withstand only 7.0 earthquakes -- and their

Japanese scientists reporting increasing seismic activity.

It is impossible to think that we aren't all harmed by this devastation to Japan!


It takes a full year to shut down the Japanese nuclear reactors because of their design --

It takes 6 months to shut down US nuclear reactors -- and we have 106 of them across the US --

about two in every state.

I have no idea if those estimations of time include disposal of the WASTE -- and where would

we dispose of the WASTE, anyhow?


We need to be shutting down these reactors --

It may make the difference between "a whimper or a bang."