Gateley, have you still got your earthquake add-on? Big quakes, worldwide, today....

just had an ginormous one in the Hokkaido, Japan area. 7.2 Others in Chile, Indonesia, Iran, China and now Japan. Holy crevasse, Batwoman, I hope a half-Hadron isn't related. Maybe we won't be sucked into a black hole, but blown apart, instead. Yikes! There's a 6.9 aftershock on Hokkaido!

ON EDIT: Here's a link to a discussion on this very conjecture, out there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3482232&mesg_id=3482259

serious quakes today.

installed), so missed the on-screen jiggles.

What's happening off your coast, by the way -- those underground things?

M2.5 to M4.0 range. California has been really active this past month and a half, about the same M as off the Oregon coast for the most part, but much more frequent. A few in So Cal, and a moderate one or two in the Oak-SF Bay area. Most are clustering in N Cal, in the shield around Mt. Shastina. Something is really building. My aching joints are telling me. Oh, that's probably winter coming on. :hurts:

are yours, or are they still out in the ocean?

I've heard a couple of psychics lately saying the time could be nigh for the Pacific NW. One said the west coast, mentioning Ptld and going up into WA and down into CA, the other just talked about Seattle.

For what it's worth. :shrug:

Do they think there's a connection?

First we had months where there was an influx of marine specie normally found around the warmer waters of So Cal, Mexico and Central America, like giant squid and tiny, warm water krill inadequate for sustaining feeders like salmon. The past few months, however, has brought a flood of colder water to the area, resulting in an explosion of hearty food specie such as the larger, cold water krill. The upwelling interface where the cold mixes with the warm has created a perfect habitat for the much larger cold water krill, which support a food chain the likes of which may never have been seen before in human memory off Oregon's Coast. Besides being a great hope for recovery of the salmon fishery in the coming months, we're also seeing an almost UNBELIEVABLE tuna fishery this summer and fall. I've got a client who owns a 44 foot recreational boat, rigged for tuna. Going out all by himself, and hand pulling lines, he's been able to go out not more than 6-8 miles, usually, and for the past month and a half fill the hold with 47 tons of tuna every seven days. He comes back in, unloads and goes back out. It's been just amazing...at $2,500 a ton - well, you do the math.

The only thing is, you have to wonder where all the cold water coming from all of a sudden. Hmmm, couldn't be connected to the disappearance of the polar ice - could it?

I never could keep those straight but they affect upwelling of cold water along the coast, right?

I worry about climate change disrupting ocean cycles more than just about anything. Mess up those conveyor belts and who knows what will happen.

Looks like things started changing this past June.



Link to article today out of Portland...

http://www.katu.com/blogs/weather/25540969.html

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

You can click the links to continents or areas with lots of activity, or use the links for recent big events.

Despite taking Geology 101 back in college, it still surprises me to think about earthquakes going on around the world all the time. You can tell I've spent my whole life in low-earthquake parts of the U.S.!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2239

Whenever there's an earthquake anywhere in the world, it will give you an alert by "shaking" your display and providing the location and magnitude. It also gives a history of recent quakes (about the last ten or so) and you can click on any of them to be directed to the USGS sites and several others to get detailed information on any particular event. Once the add-on is loaded, a line appears at the lower right side of your display, giving the magnitude and location of the most recent quake. Right click on that line and you'll be able to go to "Recent Quakes" where you can click on the one for which you want to obtain more information and links. I love it.