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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| South Pacific Quake 7 Tsunami |
| 2013-02-06 |
| Has Joseph M. reported in yet with how the sky looked in Guam? An 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Santa Cruz Islands east of the Solomon Islands just after noon local time today. Officials from the Solomon Islands report at least five dead and villages destroyed. Local tsunamis waves reached as high as three feet. More than 30 aftershocks of magnitudes ranging from 4.8 to 6.6 continued to rattle the region for hours after the initial shallow thrust faulting at 12:12 p.m. local time (01:12 GMT). "Houses have been washed down, and the airport has been filled with seawater," Charles Elliott Fox-Ngali, also a registered nurse at Lata Hospital in Temotu Province, told the Wall Street Journal. Loti Yates, director of the national disaster management office, confirmed that four villages had been destroyed and logs and debris were strewn across the airport runway. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #6 Glad y'all are ok, dear JosephM. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-02-06 22:01 |
| #5 #2 good one. Lots of off/mis-shaped auroras again in the nite skies oer Central + Southern GUAM, + a few brief rumblers. Also, "shadow" people = ghosts. More like a "whistle" than rumbler(s). |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-06 20:10 |
| #4 There have been well over 30 earthquakes in that area today with the smallest at 4.1. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2013-02-06 19:34 |
| #3 There are volcanoes in the past that have gone off. Rabaul got destroyed in 1994 by falling ash from a volcano. Santa Cruz Islands are about 900 miles ESE of New Britain Island on the same fault line, IIRC. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-02-06 15:58 |
| #2 The Earth is giving birth to a baby alien planetoid. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-02-06 12:50 |
| #1 The last I looked, about 2 hours ago, there have been over 30 earthquakes in the area today. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2013-02-06 12:35 |