The Franklin Files

7.2 Chili

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/290_-35.php

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng


lots of aftershocks

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

they seem to be migrating TOWARDS some very large volcanoes. the largest of which is a huge caldera called Caldera del Atuel. this last quake is only 89 miles from the western rim of this caldera.

[link to www.volcano.si.edu]

'A complex of snow-covered cones (left-center) partially fills the 30 x 45 km wide Caldera del Atuel, which lies just east of the Argentina-Chile border. The headwaters of the Río del Atuel drain to the SE through a wide breach in the caldera rim (top center) in this NASA International Space Station image (with north to the bottom left). The snow-covered Volcán Overo and Sosneado complexes in the eastern part of the caldera contain numerous very youthful basaltic-to-andesitic pyroclastic cones and lava flows.'


MAP 7.2 2010/03/11 14:39:47 -34.100 -71.800 10.0 LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE


To: U.S. West Coast, Alaska, and British Columbia coastal regions
From: NOAA/NWS/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
Subject: Tsunami Information Statement #1 issued 03/11/2010 at 6:51AM PST

A strong earthquake has occurred, but a tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, or Alaska coast. NO tsunami warning, watch or advisory is in effect for these areas.

Based on the earthquake magnitude and historic tsunami records, a damaging tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska coasts. At coastal locations which have experienced strong ground shaking, local tsunamis are possible due to underwater landslides.

At 6:40 AM Pacific Standard Time on March 11, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 7.2 occurred near the coast of central Chile . (Refer to the United States Geological Survey for official earthquake parameters.)

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii will issue messages for Hawaii and other areas of the Pacific outside California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.

This will be the only statement issued for this event by the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center unless conditions warrant. See the WCATWC web site for basic tsunami information, safety rules, and a tsunami travel time map and table. (NOTE: Travel time maps and tables indicate forecasted times only, not that a wave was generated.)

-- Edited by Franklin on Thursday 11th of March 2010 01:33:56 PM

Now it has been said the the Sun has suddenly started to show a heartbeat:

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_5m.html



just learned that the hundreds of years lasting thunderstorm over lake maracaibo stopped in 2010, too. it was in mid january.