Big Quake....Russia

[feederband]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rec ... usltbt.php

[Janice]

Yikes, that is so scary. With the 300 plus more tornados this year so far, I am really afraid with all this strange weather, what our cane season will be like. We have had 90s in the US and that is strange too for this time of year.

[feederband]

What strange is none of the networks have picked this up yet..

[Janice]

Yes, that is strange, I am still looking.

[Aslkahuna]

61N 167E that's in some pretty remote Country-in fact not too horribly far from far NW AK.

Steve

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

BIG QUAKE? Its a 7.7 quake not very big...See I think something is big when its at least a 8.5 quake.

Thats just the way I'm...

[Aslkahuna]

Obviously, you have never been in an Earthquake. A Moment Magnitude of 7.7 would, in earlier days, been rated on the old Richter Scale as being in the 8.0-8.3 raqnge. A 7.7 is considered by seismologists to be a major earthquake which would rate as big on most anyone else's scale.

Steve

[senorpepr]

BIG QUAKE? Its a 7.7 quake not very big...See I think something is big when its at least a 8.5 quake.

Thats just the way I'm...

...and a category four hurricane isn't "big" either, right?

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Obviously, you have never been in an Earthquake. A Moment Magnitude of 7.7 would, in earlier days, been rated on the old Richter Scale as being in the 8.0-8.3 raqnge. A 7.7 is considered by seismologists to be a major earthquake which would rate as big on most anyone else's scale.

Steve

I'v rided 4's and I was at the doctors office when that 6.2 happen in seattle a few years ago. The floor started shacking very hard in things started to move. So yes I'v been in earth quakes...Also they say up to a 9 could happen. I might be riding that one out...

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

BIG QUAKE? Its a 7.7 quake not very big...See I think something is big when its at least a 8.5 quake.

Thats just the way I'm...

...and a category four hurricane isn't "big" either, right?

Not so big if your in a well built building away from the ocean.

[senorpepr]

However... remember... although the quake may have been a 6.2, the chances that you actually felt 6.2 activity is less than the chance of Britney Spears actually making great music.

[senorpepr]

BIG QUAKE? Its a 7.7 quake not very big...See I think something is big when its at least a 8.5 quake.

Thats just the way I'm...

...and a category four hurricane isn't "big" either, right?

Not so big if your in a well built building away from the ocean.

That doesn't make it any less "big" for those along the coast. It's not always about yourself...

[feederband]

7.7 is a Major that should say it all...

[nholley]

BIG QUAKE? Its a 7.7 quake not very big...See I think something is big when its at least a 8.5 quake.

Thats just the way I'm...

USGS would disagree:

The USGS considers earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 7 to be major earthquakes."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

So a 1.0-3.0 is a depression
3.0 to 5.0 is a tropical storm
5.1-6.0 is a cat1
6.1 to 6.9 is a cat2
7.0 to 7.9 is a cat3 Major...
8.0 to 8.9 is a cat4
9.0 to 10.0 is a cat5

Just putting earth quakes next to hurricanes. What do you think?

[feederband]

So a 1.0-3.0 is a depression
3.0 to 5.0 is a tropical storm
5.1-6.0 is a cat1
6.1 to 6.9 is a cat2
7.0 to 7.9 is a cat3 Major...
8.0 to 8.9 is a cat4
9.0 to 10.0 is a cat5

Just putting earth quakes next to hurricanes. What do you think?

hmmm

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

(CNN) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 jolted Russia's northern Kamchatka peninsula Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The temblor struck at 12:25 p.m. Friday (7:25 p.m. Thursday ET), the USGS reported. Its epicenter was 125 miles (200 kilometers) northeast of Ilpyrskiy, Russia, and nearly 4,000 miles north-northeast of Moscow.

The quake's depth was recorded at 26.7 miles below the Earth's surface.

The USGS considers earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 7 to be major earthquakes. However, authorities said there was no danger of a tsunami on the West Coast of the United States.

"As long as it's on land, it's not going to produce a tsunami," said Doug Christensen, a geophysicist at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. "It has to be on water."

He said about 20 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater occur globally each year. Only about one of magnitude 8 or greater occurs annually.

Christensen described the location as "a little bit interesting," since most big earthquakes occur in subduction zones -- where one tectonic plate moves under another -- and this one did not.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... sia.quake/

[JonathanBelles]

wow huge quake. Could u feel that in Alaska?

[wxmann_91]

However... remember... although the quake may have been a 6.2, the chances that you actually felt 6.2 activity is less than the chance of Britney Spears actually making great music.

lol

[gtalum]

BIG QUAKE? Its a 7.7 quake not very big...See I think something is big when its at least a 8.5 quake.

7.7 is an extremely strong quake. By comparison, the 1989 San Francisco quake was "only" a 7.1.