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THE 5.2 EARTHQUAKE IN ARIZONA THAT WAS FELT IN TUCSON ON JUNE 28 2014 AT 10PM

1) Strength and Duration. Maritza and I were sitting on the couch watching anime (Zetman), and she said that she thought she felt a quake. I had my had on her thigh, and I could feel the water and flesh of her thigh vibrating. I said that I felt it, too. The animals were looking up very puzzled by the quake. The quake lasted over thirty seconds.

2) North-South Alignment with other quakes. There had just been seven hours before an Earthquake in Sonora [M4.4 - 16km SE of Alamos, Mexico 2014-06-28 21:09:43 UTC, depth=18.3km (11.4mi)] and one just minutes before in Utah [M3.2 - 13km S of Mount Pleasant, Utah 2014-06-29 04:52:46 UTC, depth=5.3km (3.3mi)], and if you drew a straight line between them, that was very close to where the epicenter of this quake hit in Duncan, Arizona.

3) Nuclear Danger. We have a nuclear reactor called the Palo Verde nuclear plant that is only about 250 miles from the epicenter in Duncan, Arizona.

There is also a Nuclear Waste plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico, some 300 miles to the east of the epicenter, which has been having serious problems with radiation leaks.

4) Depth. The depth of the quake was very shallow, and these are the most dangerous: it was only two miles below the surface of the Earth. The only other time that I felt an earthquake in Tucson was four years ago on Sunday, April 4, 2010, when in the afternoon there was a 7.2 earthquake in Baja Mexico, which was felt strongly in Tucson, and even caused water to be tossed outside of swimming pools here in town and also in California. Here also the depth of the quake was only 6.2 miles, which means it was poorly constrained and very dangerous. Here's an ABC news story on that Baja Quake.

+ (8 minutes later) 3.5 41km WNW of Lordsburg, New Mexico 2014-06-28 22:08:44 UTC-07:00 5.0 km

+ (3 1/2 hours later) 3.4 49km NW of Lordsburg, New Mexico 2014-06-29 01:25:19 UTC-07:00 5.0 km

+ (9 1/2 hours later) 3.6 46km WNW of Lordsburg, New Mexico 2014-06-29 07:33:59 UTC-07:00 5.0 km

Earthquake data from USGS prior to and after the quake...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

� 6.8 170km SSE of Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna 2014-06-29 08:52:23 UTC-07:00 10.0 km

� 2.7 135km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-06-29 05:01:10 UTC-07:00 28.0 km

� 3.0 14km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-06-29 03:18:48 UTC-07:00 35.0 km

� 4.8 21km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2014-06-29 01:54:45 UTC-07:00 90.4 km

� 3.0 46km ESE of Middleton Island, Alaska 2014-06-28 22:17:28 UTC-07:00 26.1 km

� 5.2 50km NW of Lordsburg, New Mexico 2014-06-28 21:59:33 UTC-07:00 5.0 km

data from WWW.GLOBALINCIDENTMAP.COM

Type: EarthQuake
11 hours ago
Magnitude: 5.3
DateTime: 2014-06-28 23:59:33
Region: Arizona
Depth: 2
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/29/us-usa-new-mexico-earthquake-idUSKBN0F40KM20140629

(Reuters) - A 5.2-magnitude earthquake near the border of Arizona and New Mexico rattled a significant swath of the U.S. Southwest late Saturday but caused no major damage or injuries, the United States Geological Survey said.

The earthquake was centered about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of the city of Lordsburg, New Mexico, and could be felt some 150 miles (240 km) west in the city of Tucson, Arizona, and 300 miles east (480 km) in Roswell, New Mexico, the USGS and local media reported.

The quake hit at 9.59 p.m. local time at a depth of about 3 miles (5 km) and was followed by two small aftershocks, the USGS said.

It knocked pictures from walls and caused light fixtures to swing, local media reported. It also prompted scores of people across the region to call 911.

In the southeastern Arizona town of Thatcher, residents saw roads and structures swaying.

"It just kept shaking and shaking, and I grabbed the arm of the girl next to me," Jennifer Taylor, a dispatcher for the Graham County Sheriff's Office, told KPHO-TV. "We went out to the patio and looked up and our radio tower was shaking."

In El Paso, Texas, about 150 miles (240 km) east of the epicenter along Interstate 10, local officials tweeted that staff inside the El Paso International Airport control tower said they felt the quake.

Also I checked out this page about the low probability of an earthquake threat there:

http://www.homefacts.com/earthquakes/New-Mexico/Hidalgo-County/Lordsburg.html, which said that in the next 50 years, Lordsburg had only an 11.29% chance of having a 5.2 quake.

Lordsburg, NM Earthquake Probability

Very Low Risk Area

The USGS database shows that there is a 15.86% chance of a major earthquake within 50km of Lordsburg, NM within the next 50 years. The largest earthquake within 30 miles of Lordsburg, NM was a 3.2 Magnitude in 1981.

Probability of earthquakes within the next 50 years

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/25897084/52-magnitude-earthquake-felt-across-southern-arizona

The U.S. Geological Service reported a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that was felt across Southern Arizona.

It originated about 30 miles northwest of Lordsburg, N. M. Officials say that it was felt strongest in Greenlee and Cochise counties in Arizona.

The USGS will be receiving reports from sensors around the world during the next several hours and could revise the magnitude as more accurate numbers come in.

The communities of Safford and Willcox likely felt some of the strongest shaking - The small community of Duncan, AZ is the town closest to the center.

"Earthquake Report - National Weather Service, Tucson, AZ - 10:20 PM MST - Saturday June 28th 2014

An Earthquake was felt weakly to moderately by many people across Southeastern Arizona Including Tucson...Douglas...Willcox...and Sierra Vista. No Damage or injuries have been reported. The earthquake was initially rated at magnitude 5.2 by the US Geological Survey and Occurred at 10 PM MST. The location was noted as 50 KM Northwest of Lordsburg, NM...Which is near Duncan in Southern Greenlee County, AZ. Lat 32.607 Lon 109.151

Information released in this statement is preliminary. Updates...Including Richter scale magnitude...will be provided as more information becomes available from the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden Colorado."

Tucson News Now has been flooded with calls from people all over Tucson and neighboring cities and towns with reports of feeling tremors. Reports have been coming in from Greenlee, Graham, Cochise, Santa Cruz, Gila, and Pima county tonight.

An aftershock has already been generated, but it was significantly smaller than the first earthquake - The aftershock measured 3.5 at 10:08 PM.

The earthquake that hit Southern Arizona on Saturday night at 9:59 PM is rare, no�its extremely rare.

The 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered in Southern Greenlee County gave people a jolt from Safford to Douglas, Sierra Vista to Tucson. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it was strong enough that many people stopped what they were doing to pay attention. Although no injuries or damage was reported, we wanted to take a look at how rare these events really are.

Unlike California, Arizona experiences very little seismic activity. Not including the most recent quake, the USGS records show only eight earthquakes measuring 4.0 or larger since 1973. Interestingly enough, if you look at earthquakes measuring 5.0 or higher, that number drops to just three quakes, with the largest measuring at 5.3 near Flagstaff in 1993.

A study published by the USGS in 1970 shows only 12 moderate earthquakes inside the borders since Arizona became a state in 1912.

According to the USGS, "no earthquake in recorded history has caused deaths or injuries in Arizona."

Arizona

Earthquake History

The earliest documents which describe Arizona earthquakes were those recorded at Fort Yuma, located in the 1800's on the California side of the Colorado River. Shocks which probably centered in the Imperial Valley of California, or in Mexico, have been noted there since late 1852.

No earthquake in recorded history has caused deaths or injuries in Arizona. In the past century or more, 14 tremors of intensity V to VII have centered within its borders, of which 12 were reported after Arizona entered the Union in February 1912. All of these shocks, however, were moderate in intensity, with one intensity VII, one VI-VII, four VI, and eight V.

Probably the most famous earthquake in this region occurred in 1887 near Bavispe, Mexico, about 190 miles southeast of Tucson. The temblor caused great destruction near its epicenter. From Guaymas to Nogales, Mexico, Benson and Tucson, Arizona, and at towns as far distant as Albuquerque, New Mexico, water in tanks spilled over, buildings cracked, chimneys were toppled, and railroad cars were set in motion. An observer at Tombstone, near the Mexican border, reported sounds ``like prolonged artillery fire.''

The first damaging earthquake known to have centered within Arizona's borders occurred on January 25, 1906, the year of the great San Francisco earthquake, and of a damaging series of shocks at Socorro, New Mexico. The shock was violent at Flagstaff, about 115 miles north of Phoenix.

The cumulative terror produced by a series of 52 earthquakes, from September 10 to 23, 1910, caused a construction crew in the Coconino Forest near Flagstaff to break camp and leave the area. Boulders rolled down on their camp from nearby mountains, and the earth maintained a constant quiver. The shocks grew in intensity until September 23, when a very strong shock raged throughout northern Arizona. It was so severe north of the San Francisco Mountains that Indians fled from the region.

A tremor on August 18, 1912, caused a 50-mile-long crack in the earth north of the San Francisco Range. Houses were damaged at Williams, and the shock was strong in Coconino County, north of Flagstaff. Rockslides roared down the mountainsides, and the earth seemed to roll ``like waves on the Colorado River.''

A shock that cracked walls and plaster at Wellton, located a few miles east of Yuma in southwestern Arizona, occurred January 2, 1935. Although few residents of the small town were frightened by the tremor, everyone felt the ground quiver, and homes shake.

Eight days later, a slightly stronger earthquake awakened sleepers at Grand Canyon, 175 miles north of Phoenix. Many were frightened by the distinct subterranean rumble and the movement of their houses. Walls were cracked in some cases, and rockslides occurred in the mountains. Three slight foreshocks were felt by Grand Canyon residents during the first week of January, and one very minor aftershock was noted on January 15.

On January 16, 1950, a strong earthquake in Apache County left several cracks in the ground as it rumbled through the small town of Ganado. The cracks, one-half inch wide and up to 12 feet long, extended in a north-south direction near the Ganado trading post.

Abridged from Earthquake Information Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 3, May-June 1970

For a list of earthquakes that have occurred since this article was written, use the Earthquake Search.

The incidents and frequency of large tremors and earthquakes in the middle of April may be cause for greater concern, but if it is, our government and the media haven't let on so far.
Although not limited to the cases to be listed below, what follows are a list of reports gathered last week as I trolled through the world news articles, and began to suspect a trend and then started a deeper search which led to these discoveries tucked away on the deep, back pages of the internet news engines:

--March 26th 12:35am (5.8 earthquake) Northern Peru (along the western border of the Nazca Plate) resulting in Mudslides April 16th in Chamanachucho and Aricapampa burying 25 homes

--throughout April, Mt. Redoubt Volcano in Alaska active, since March 22 (western border of the North American Plate)

-- April 7th 9:13am (4.7earthquake) Guatemala (on a western border of the Cocos Plate)

--April 7th 12:12pm (4.6 earthquake) Anchorage, Alaska (western border of the North American Plate)

--April 11th 4:22am (4.8 earthquake) Michoacan state, Mexico (on the northern
boundary of the Cococs Plate)

--April 14th 4:37am ( major earthquake, 3.9 aftershock) Yunnan Province, China (on the western edge of the Euroasian Plate) 16,000 people injured

--April 15th 4:23pm (5.0 earthquake) Amani-oshima Island, Japan (on the northwestern border of the Pacific Plate)

-- April 15th 3:01am (6.5 earthquake) North Sulaesi, West Papua and West Sumatra, Indonesia ( Indonesia pop. 230 million people plus animals) (along the top boundary of the Australian Plate)

-- April 15th 2:00 am (4.4 earthquakes) Central Mindanao, Philippines (along the southern border of the Phillippine Plate)

-- April 15th 8:45am (3.9 or less earthquake) Sri Lanka (just beyond the northwest
corner of the Australian Plate)

--April 16th, La Cumbre Volcano lava flow, Fernandina of the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador (on the western border of the Nazca Plate) killing rare wildlife

--April 16th 10:08pm (6.3 earthquake) Pacific Ocean 80km northwest of Iquique, Chile (on the western border of the Nazca Plate)

Considering the Central Italy 6.3 earthquake on April 6th that has left
394 people dead and 50,000 injured or homeless

and the Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan 5.5 & 5.1 earthquakes on April 16th that

Afghanistan

left over 40 people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed, it is obvious that the Earth is in the midst of a period of high seismological upheaval.

     On all sides of the "Ring of Fire," citizens and scientists should be both concerned and ramping up preparations for the contingency of having to deal with a devastating earthquake.
     Here in the United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California need to take these series of seismological incidents very seriously, and our federal government needs to be prepared to help the states now for major earthquake preparedness. Risk management experts suggest that a 7.0 earthquake in the San Francisco area "could kill 4,500, injure 50,000, leave hundreds of thousands homeless."
    The Cascadia region of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia is along the edge of the Juan de Fuca Plate,

Juan De Fuca Plate

which pushes under North America. The last large earthquake in that region was in 1700 of a 9.0 magnitude, equivalent to 30,000 6.0 earthquakes.
     Coastline cities around the Ring of Fire need to immediately step up preparedness efforts and public information efforts in order to minimize loss of life to humans and animals.

     Non-scientific warnings are also being directed to UFOHypotheses, and include:
1) E-mail circulating Singapore warning of impending earthquake around July 22nd, the same day as a solar eclipse.
2) Native-American warnings to stay away from the coastlines, especially those areas with nuclear reactors which will poison the water should they be damaged or submerged due to earthquake or tsunami. This is of special concern for Japanese residents in the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa area where the world's largest nuclear power plant has just been re-activated after being shut down two years ago following a 6.8 earthquake on July 16, 2007.
3) News articles by KING News in Seattle and The Economist which suggest earthquake preparedness is crucial.
4) Psychic who warns of a seismic disaster to occur in San Francisco this summer with a track record of high accuracy for thirty years of predictions.
5) Contactee information warning of a high probability of danger from the Juan De Fuca Plate, that would devastate Oregon and Washington states.
6) Yellowstone tremors are ganging together and more frequent.

     While there are no good solutions to such enormous dangers as these potentialities, if some of the people who live in the U.S. coastlines were to migrate and move toward the central states, two good effects could occur:
a) A potential smaller number of dead, injured and homeless due to an earthquake and/or tsunami.
b) Integration of coastline populations which are generally multi-racial and multi-cultural with the homogenous central United States population, which could bring a greater degree of integration to rural American areas, leading to improved social balance.

     My feeling is that we might as well look for the positive benefits of foresight, preparedness, and sensible action while we can act before such catastrophes.