EARTHQUAKE !! Again !

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EARTHQUAKE !! Again !

#1 Postby schmita » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:59 pm

5.2 at USVI/BVI location. Again we felt it in Sint Maarten.
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#2 Postby HURAKAN » Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:21 pm

Be careful of aftershocks.
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One more!!!

#3 Postby HUC » Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:39 pm

Please,no more,and hope any major earthquake had to come in our area...
Here,in Guadeloupe,a lot of aftershocks,and very bad results of the one of 21 November.Yersterday,yet an other rock falls,in my vicinity:an important economic road is now closed to cars and walkers....Many houses to rebuild,touristics roads also closed for a long time..
So anyone stay safe.
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5.1

#4 Postby cycloneye » Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:56 pm

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_rxbc.html

5.1 was the magnitude and at the link above there are more details.

It was felt in Puerto Rico but with minor damage.I felt it as I was in a chair looking at TV.The epicenter was at the Anegada passage.
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#5 Postby HurricaneMaster24 » Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:05 pm

On Dec. 2nd. we had 2 .
At 3.16pm. & 11.46pm. They were 5.1 & 5.8 mag.
This morning we had a smaller 4.1

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/ ... usrnbu.htm
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#6 Postby HurricaneBill » Sun Dec 12, 2004 1:06 am

I hope you're all OK. Earthquakes, even small ones, sound frightening to experience. We get one in New England every now and then.
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#7 Postby msbee » Sun Dec 12, 2004 11:53 am

I'm wondering if there in an increase in these earthquakes in the Caribbean area lately.
It seeems so to me.
Is there something going on we should be looking at?
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#8 Postby HURAKAN » Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:04 pm

msbee wrote:I'm wondering if there in an increase in these earthquakes in the Caribbean area lately.
It seeems so to me.
Is there something going on we should be looking at?


I am not a seismologist, or a volcano expert, but I can hypothesize that the increase in earthquake activity could be becuase of two reasons. 1) The Caribbean Plate is moving faster than what it was moving before. 2) It could be because of magma movement below the surface, I don't know if one of those volcanoes in the islands are showing signs of activity.
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#9 Postby HUC » Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:54 pm

Our local experts say that the recents earthquakes are related to local fails in the carribean plate,that are very common,and thet the great tectonic schock(like the one of 1843 of 7,5 magnitude) had to come sometime in a next future!!!.
Here,the Soufrière volcano of Guadeloupe don't show any signs of increasinc activity...
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