Magnitude 7.0 - HAITI REGION

Magnitude 7.0 - HAITI REGION

earthquake.usgs.gov

Date-Time

* Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 21:53:09 UTC
* Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 04:53:09 PM at epicenter

Location 18.451°N, 72.445°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region HAITI REGION
Distances

* 9 km (6 miles) SSW (197°) from Carrefour, Ouest, Haiti
* 16 km (10 miles) SW (227°) from PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
* 18 km (11 miles) WSW (245°) from Pétionville, Ouest, Haiti

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This is BIG!
7.0 earthquake at 10 km. depth
Hope people get savy there.
I get this from Firefox extension right now.

Google Earth link:
earthquake.usgs.gov...

In fronnt there is La Salle and Gressier cities.

Distances

* 9 km (6 miles) SSW (197°) from Carrefour, Ouest, Haiti
* 16 km (10 miles) SW (227°) from PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
* 18 km (11 miles) WSW (245°) from Pétionville, Ouest, Haiti

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 8.3 km (5.2 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST=103, Nph=103, Dmin=365.7 km, Rmss=1.14 sec, Gp= 94°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source

* U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Event ID us2010rja6


earthquake.usgs.gov
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A strong earthquake has hit the impoverished country of Haiti, where a hospital has collapsed and people are screaming for help. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3. It occurred Tuesday afternoon and was centered about 14 miles (22 kilometers) west of the Caribbean nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. An Associated Press videographer saw the collapsed hospital in Petionville.

Link

This seems to be a big event!

Tsunami Warning Issued

TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 1 NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI 2203 UTC TUE JAN 12 2010 THIS MESSAGE APPLIES TO COUNTRIES WITHIN AND BORDERING THE CARIBBEAN SEA...EXCEPT FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS. ... A LOCAL TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT ... A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR HAITI / CUBA / BAHAMAS / DOMINICAN REP FOR OTHER AREAS OF THE CARIBBEAN COVERED BY THIS MESSAGE...IT IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY AT THIS TIME.

Follow Tsunami Watch for this:

www.prh.noaa.gov...

This is one of the last places on earth that needs this.

Very sad indeed. If we can send stuff, lets do.

Wow! I went back to bed this morning and dreamt about a tsunami. I thought it was the weirdest dream I've ever had, because I felt everything rewind in time, ( leaves that fell off trees suddenly flew back on), and saw smoke in the sky like a volcano erupted, before running behind the house I was in to see a wall of water rushing towards me.

This has got to be devastaing to the people. Is this a region that is even used to earthquakes?

reply to post by thinktwiceb4posting


We shoud get Vid soon...

An Associated Press videographer saw the collapsed hospital in Petionville.

unless he lost his camera in the quake?

reply to post by tk2dsky


Yes the Caribbean is not shy of earthquakes I experience a few in my years living in PR.

But a Tsunami will not be a problem as the entire range of islands in the Caribbean are actually the tips of under water mountains.

So we never have any problems with Tsunamis.

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This is why I like this site so much..
To be able to get quick news, good catch

Two after quakes were registered until now

MAP 5.5 2010/01/12 22:12:05 18.485 -72.556 10.0 HAITI REGION
MAP 5.9 2010/01/12 22:00:42 18.271 -72.862 10.0 HAITI REGION

And the original:
MAP 7.0 2010/01/12 21:53:10 18.451 -72.445 10.0 HAITI REGION

The news from the region are not good.

Let's pray for the people who lives there!

New tsunami bulletin says the magnitude were reduced to 7.1:

ORIGIN TIME - 2153Z 12 JAN 2010 COORDINATES - 18.5 NORTH 72.5 WEST LOCATION - HAITI REGION MAGNITUDE - 7.1 NOTE: MAGNITUDE IS REDUCED FROM 7.3 TO 7.1 THERE ARE NO SEA LEVEL READINGS YET FOR THIS EVENT. READINGS FROM THE NEAREST GAUGES SHOULD BE RECEIVED WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

Read it here:
www.prh.noaa.gov...

Lets wait for the news about sea level.

Haiti has some major poverty already. And they are already calling for aid.

All of the magnitude 10.2 depth is consistent with all the quakes suspected of being caused by HAARP.

The one off Calif. coast was said to be 10. 2 depth. The rash of quakes in China before the one with the luminesent sky colors, were all 10. 2.

Already posted www.abovetopsecret.com...

Quake was felt in Gitmo. Maybe Allah is mad.

Here is a google earth screencap of the place of the earthquake:

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/373b42e9a24b.jpg[/atsimg]

Realtime photo from twitter user:

www.gather.com...

Originally posted by Alethea

All of the magnitude 10.2 depth is consistent with all the quakes suspected of being caused by HAARP.

The one off Calif. coast was said to be 10. 2 depth. The rash of quakes in China before the one with the luminesent sky colors, were all 10. 2.

Really? Are you really going there? The quake happened on a KNOWN fault bro. Lets stop with the 'HAARP is making my oven break down' stuff..

10km deep, 10 km from a big city with crappy construction=big death toll.

This is going to be bad.

Not to mention tsunami.

Haiti needs some good vibes/prayers right now, as those people just had a major disaster.

Might not be great for this particular region of the world.

The fault line locations: farm1.static.flickr.com...

[edit on 12-1-2010 by OpenYourHead]