Santo Domingo- Two earthquakes were felt in the Dominican Republic in the last few hours, one with a magnitude 5.0 and the other 3.0, according to the US Geodetic Survey.
The epicenter of the 5.0 tremor -which the State Univerity UASD Seismology Institute rated at 4.8, was located in the Mona Passage and south of Saona Island, around 47 kilometers from La Romana, but felt in the entire eastern region, while the milder quake was felt in the Northwest province of Valverde.
DETAILS FROM THE US GEODETIC SURVEY:
Magnitude 5.0
Date-Time Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 06:28:20 UTC
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 02:28:20 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 18.052°N, 68.762°W
Depth 82.6 km (51.3 miles)
Region DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
Distances 47 km (30 miles) SSE (152°) from La Romana, La Romana, Dominican Republic
63 km (39 miles) S (185°) from Higüey, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic
74 km (46 miles) SE (128°) from San Pedro de Macorís, San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic
135 km (84 miles) ESE (111°) from SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic.
From: Dominican Republic, Las Terrenas
I live in Las Terrenas and my bed started doing this odd slow shaking, swaying. At the same time I heard my jewelry rattling and two dogs started barking. I was in such a deep sleep though it was a very cloudy passing thought, "Is this an earthquake?" I just pray I will be more alert next time. haha On a serious note, 3 small but noticeable earthquakes in the last month..............
From: Canada
Move inland to higher ground at least 10m above sea level and perhaps the long awaited tsunami will not wipe out everything on the coast ...
Written by: Atabey, 19 Jan 2012 6:12 AM
From: United States, NYC
http://repeatingislands.com/2010/....E2%80%99s-history-of-earthquakes/The first great earthquake mentioned in history of the Island occurred in 1564 in what was still the Spanish colony of Española. It destroyed of Concepción de la Vega and Santiago de los Caballeros.
The earthquake of November 9, 1701, destroyed countless buildings and roads. Part of the area along the north shore of the Tiburon Peninsula from Logane to Petit Goave sank into the sea.
The severe earthquakes of November 21 and 22, 1751, destroyed the recently founded town of Port-au-Prince and overthrew buildings on the plain of the Cul de Sac.
The earthquake of June 3, 1770, was one of the strongest shocks recorded on the Island of Haiti, the area of greatest destruction extending from Croix de Boquets through the plain of the Cul de Sac to Port-au-Prince and along the north coast of the Tiburon Peninsula as far as Miragoine. The sea rose a mile and a half up into the island and at Grand Goave the
Written by: Atabey, 19 Jan 2012 6:13 AM
From: United States, NYC
The sea rose a mile and a half up into the island and at Grand Goave the foot of the mountain of La Saline was partly submerged.
In 1783 the principal church at Santiago partly collapsed after another strong quake.
Written by: Atabey, 19 Jan 2012 6:16 AM
From: United States, NYC
Earthquake experts are warning that the devastating quake that struck Haiti on Jan 2010 could be the first of several in the region. They say historical records suggest that not all the energy that has built up in the faults running through the Caribbean region was released in this week's tragedy.
Their fear is that enough energy remains in the fault system to trigger another earthquake of the same scale as Tuesday's.
The last time Haiti was struck by earthquakes of this scale was in 1751 and 1770, when three large earthquakes hit within the space of 20 years. They ruptured the same fault segment as the one that slipped on Tuesday, as well as segments lying further to the east, in Haiti and the neighbouring Dominican Republic.
"Last time round there was a sequence of earthquakes," says Uri ten Brink, an expert on earthquakes in the region from the US Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. "I'm worried, as we might expect the eastern side of the fault to rupture next."
Written by: Atabey, 19 Jan 2012 6:17 AM
From: United States, NYC
McGuire released a report warning of this danger in 2008 (PDF). Along with the entire Caribbean, Central America, the Gulf coast of the US and the north coast of South America would be at risk from such a tsunami.
In particular, geological measurements indicate that stress is building in the section of submarine fault between easternmost Dominican Republic and the island of Guadeloupe. Large earthquakes of magnitude 8.5 to 9.0 could rupture the entire 1000-kilometre length of the fault, McGuire and his colleagues wrote in their report.
From the amount of energy being accumulated by subduction, McGuire and his colleagues estimate that undersea thrust earthquakes could recur every 2000 years or so.
Unfortunately, high rates of natural erosion in the region have long since wiped away the geological signs of the last earthquake along this submarine fault. We know from historical records that there has not been a quake along the fault in 500 years,
Written by: Atabey, 19 Jan 2012 6:19 AM
From: United States, NYC
, but the next one could be within the century, or within the next millennium.
"We don't want to scaremonger, but much larger quakes, of magnitude 8 or more, have occurred in this region and will do so again," says McGuire. "Where they are submarine they will present a major tsunami threat, especially as this is such a small area compared with the Indian Ocean."
http://www.newscientist.com/artic....sk-of-more-large-earthquakes.htmlWritten by: riosm, 19 Jan 2012 6:37 AM
From: United States
That metro sounds better with every quake.
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Jan 2012 8:06 AM
From: Australia
Sorry, Atabey, but you are wrong.
Leo, on one of his visits to the Dominican Republic last year, held a meeting with seismologists. If we are in danger he would have done something about it by now. He hasn't, so clearly there is no problem.
Written by: RonEvane, 19 Jan 2012 8:48 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Darn right! 'Cause, as everyone knows, God's with the PLD. And if any quakes of importance were to occur, he'd be the first one to know!
Written by: walnut, 19 Jan 2012 11:41 AM
From: Bouvet Island, Cayuga lakeside
Every time they report and earthquake, my wife and I look at each other and say, "Did you feel it?"
For the record, we have not felt any of these shakes here in La Romana.
However, having lived in LA for many years and felt shocks that threw you out of bed or made the buildings sway, I feel better where I am now....110 feet above sea level on the ground floor of all well constructed home.
If something horrible happens, no amount of precautions will prevent disaster. Pity this land if it does occur.
Written by: RonEvane, 20 Jan 2012 5:03 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
{" my wife and I look at each other and say, "Did you feel it?"}
After all the shaking and rolling, that's exactly what I used to ask my wife. And oftentimes, she'd say "no". That's why we divorced.
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Jan 2012 9:23 AM
From: Australia
Ron, your wife told me you rarely spoke to her during sex, and only if your cell-phone had signal.
From: United States, Omnipresence
I too looked at my wife and said "Did you feel that?" she said "nope!"....I then went and purchased some Extenze....things are better now.
From: United States, Omnipresence
....I didn't have money to purchase a phallus-enhancement pump so I used the house vacuum. Boy, did THAT suck....
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Jan 2012 10:28 AM
From: Australia
watcher48, you emptied both bags?
Written by: RonEvane, 20 Jan 2012 2:37 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Watcher and Roy:
You're a pair of sick puppies!...Thanks for the laughs!
From: United States, Omnipresence
@ roy....yep. and my lungs collapsed.
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Jan 2012 3:47 PM
From: Australia
Wow, was it following a long drought?
From: United States, Omnipresence
yes...after a limp recovery.
Written by: HONEST, 22 Jan 2012 9:01 PM
From: Netherlands Antilles
According to some sources planets will align in 2012 and this alignment, they claim, will cause earth quakes, however, according to the experts, the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance ...so who is right and who is wrong
Written by: RoyStone, 23 Jan 2012 2:22 AM
From: Australia
HONEST,
Where is the contradiction? The force between each body is governed by the inverse square law, however the total force on any body is the vector sum of all the forces. If everything else is equal, then the total will be maximum when all the bodies are in a line.
The earth is not a point, but a sphere, so the forces on each part of the earth are not equal, hence there are stresses, and these will vary as the angle and distances to the planets, sun and moon vary. There may also be effects from changes in the weight of the ice caps as they melt. The crust is literally floating on molten magma.
Written by: RonEvane, 23 Jan 2012 2:35 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say.
Written by: RoyStone, 23 Jan 2012 2:49 AM
From: Australia
Ron, get back to your kindergarten electricity 101 homework immediately!
From: Canada
Roy ... when the continents last slide around under the weight of the water from the flood I'd be curious to know what the vector forces might have been during that time ...
Written by: RoyStone, 23 Jan 2012 6:12 PM
From: Australia
FedericoD, very good question. Maybe god hadn't invented vectors back then. According to he Bible, he hadn't invented refraction of light through a prism or raindrops until the Great Flood. That's why there were no rainbows before then. I'm not kidding.
Anyway I think we had a minor tremor here in San Cristobal at 4:51 this afternoon if I'm not mistaken.
From: Canada
Roy ... perhaps you are familiar with the Earth Canopy theory which suggests the early earth atmosphere was much more saturated with water than now and essentially kept the earth warm and moist on it's axis until the event causing the earth to tilt on it's current axis ...
Written by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 2:24 PM
From: Australia
FedericoD,
I'm not really up on all the creationist pseudo-science, and don't know much astrology ether, and confess I am very ignorant of Aboriginal Dreamtime theory of creation, and homeopathy.
However I have read a lot of the Christian Bible, since it is a best seller (admittedly it got a head start, being the only book in print for a while). The more I read, the more I understand how this meme of blind faith works, and become more convinced of the insidious evil that Christianity is. I think if more Christians actually read it (rather than let their priest selectively "interpret" it for them), they would become Atheists too.
From: Canada
Roy ... John 3:16 is a personal love story ...
Written by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 7:24 PM
From: Australia
John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. "
Very interesting, this one.
Who, exactly did he give his son to? If it was a sacrifice, then who was he making the sacrifice to, himself? If he wanted us to have eternal life, then why not just give it? Regardless, how can such a barbaric act, crucifixion of an innocent man-god, bring about such a bizarre mechanism? So anyone who hasn't heard of Yaweh is doomed, even if they live a perfect selfless life? Someone who believes in him, regardless of how evil he is, will spend eternity in paradise? Was not Jesus part of God anyway? If he knew he would only be dead for 3 days (and God knows everything) then hardly a sacrifice? Turned out to be another dismal failure, just like the Great Flood. Not a good track-record for an all-powerful, all-knowing, loving creator or everything.
Absolutely crazy, divisive, stupid and evil.
Written by: riosm, 24 Jan 2012 8:49 PM
From: United States
Yep ! It looks like the earth is in for a solar blast.
Written by: RonEvane, 24 Jan 2012 9:56 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
""The early earth atmosphere was much more saturated with water than now and essentially kept the earth warm and moist on it's axis until the event causing the earth to tilt on it's current axis ...""
------------------------------------------
"Until the 'EVENT' causing the earth to tilt on it's current axis"....
...And what event was that??
Written by: RoyStone, 24 Jan 2012 10:21 PM
From: Australia
I think the point is, God can do magic.
He invented the rules of nature so he can break them whenever He wants, like burning his image on your toast at breakfast, or making a coffee-stain that looks like the Virgin and Child, or making statues cry, that sort of thing.
My problem is, why all the fuss and bother for Noah to make an arc, gather 20,000 species of spiders and the rest, then to flood the entire planet, just to kill everyone except Noah and co? It would have been easier for Him to just snap His fingers, say "abra-ca-dabra" and it's done in a flash.
Written by: riosm, 24 Jan 2012 10:37 PM
From: United States
Roy
I'm still waiting for man to come up with a man made solution.....how about you.
Written by: RonEvane, 25 Jan 2012 12:05 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
''I think the point is, God can do magic.''
Of course God can do magic!... He, (could be a "She"), got billions of us to believe all His/Her tale of divine creation and intervention....I'd say that's pretty darn magical!
Written by: riosm, 25 Jan 2012 11:37 AM
From: United States
One should never mock GOD.
Written by: RoyStone, 25 Jan 2012 11:56 AM
From: Australia
riosm,
The only solutions we have ever had for anything have come from real men, not imaginary ones in the sky, or their representatives on earth, the churches, synagogs and mosques. As for waiting, I do what I can. Waiting and praying is for do-nothing deluded idiots.
So I should not mock God? What's He, the almighty, all-powerful, jealous, vain, vengeful all-knowing Yaweh gonna do about it? Tell him to bring it on, I'm ready. Belief in God is not the solution for anything, it's the root-cause of most of our problems.
Written by: riosm, 25 Jan 2012 1:18 PM
From: United States
To each his own. Deny God now......some day God will deny you.
I will admit you do a great job bashing believers to push your non-believing agenda with such zeal too.
I have seen you manifest over the year, you've gone from non-believing to mocking, bashing and in some cases the insult of believers.
I guess the next and final step will be the persecution of believers in his name sake ?
Proof ! Now that sounds Biblical of things to come towards the last days.
Here's a final nasty insult to you....MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
Written by: RoyStone, 25 Jan 2012 2:14 PM
From: Australia
riosm,
I do not "bash believers" - I do not bash anybody - that's what believers do. I criticize stupid, blind faith, because of the massive suffering it causes. Note that Atheists do not persecute anybody either. Again, that is the domain of the faithful. Lastly, if God exists, and is willing or able to bless me, what makes you think He would require your permission? Do you have intercessional rights? I am curious, what God do actually believe in that requires your defense; Yaweh? Jesus? Allah? Baal? Horus? Mithra? Vishnu? Brahma? The Rainbow Serpent? Hercules? Superman?
Written by: RoyStone, 25 Jan 2012 2:45 PM
From: Australia
By the way, Risom,
I have answered all of your questions and you have answered none of mine. So let me guess - you are an Evangelist? Which one? Let me guess - the one that's the only "true" follower of Jesus? Hmmm ... like all the other ones claim?
Written by: riosm, 25 Jan 2012 3:37 PM
From: United States
"I criticize stupid, blind faith" You bash God therefore many take offence.
Everyone has access to God not the so called chosen few like man-made religions claim.
Believers come to God willingly through the holy spirit, no one is forced.
Jesus was god in the flesh.
Me I'm just a believer a Christian and no more.
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The first great earthquake mentioned in history of the Island occurred in 1564 in what was still the Spanish colony of Española. It destroyed of Concepción de la Vega and Santiago de los Caballeros.
The earthquake of November 9, 1701, destroyed countless buildings and roads. Part of the area along the north shore of the Tiburon Peninsula from Logane to Petit Goave sank into the sea.
The severe earthquakes of November 21 and 22, 1751, destroyed the recently founded town of Port-au-Prince and overthrew buildings on the plain of the Cul de Sac.
The earthquake of June 3, 1770, was one of the strongest shocks recorded on the Island of Haiti, the area of greatest destruction extending from Croix de Boquets through the plain of the Cul de Sac to Port-au-Prince and along the north coast of the Tiburon Peninsula as far as Miragoine. The sea rose a mile and a half up into the island and at Grand Goave the
In 1783 the principal church at Santiago partly collapsed after another strong quake.
Their fear is that enough energy remains in the fault system to trigger another earthquake of the same scale as Tuesday's.
The last time Haiti was struck by earthquakes of this scale was in 1751 and 1770, when three large earthquakes hit within the space of 20 years. They ruptured the same fault segment as the one that slipped on Tuesday, as well as segments lying further to the east, in Haiti and the neighbouring Dominican Republic.
"Last time round there was a sequence of earthquakes," says Uri ten Brink, an expert on earthquakes in the region from the US Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. "I'm worried, as we might expect the eastern side of the fault to rupture next."
In particular, geological measurements indicate that stress is building in the section of submarine fault between easternmost Dominican Republic and the island of Guadeloupe. Large earthquakes of magnitude 8.5 to 9.0 could rupture the entire 1000-kilometre length of the fault, McGuire and his colleagues wrote in their report.
From the amount of energy being accumulated by subduction, McGuire and his colleagues estimate that undersea thrust earthquakes could recur every 2000 years or so.
Unfortunately, high rates of natural erosion in the region have long since wiped away the geological signs of the last earthquake along this submarine fault. We know from historical records that there has not been a quake along the fault in 500 years,
"We don't want to scaremonger, but much larger quakes, of magnitude 8 or more, have occurred in this region and will do so again," says McGuire. "Where they are submarine they will present a major tsunami threat, especially as this is such a small area compared with the Indian Ocean."
http://www.newscientist.com/artic....sk-of-more-large-earthquakes.html
Leo, on one of his visits to the Dominican Republic last year, held a meeting with seismologists. If we are in danger he would have done something about it by now. He hasn't, so clearly there is no problem.
Darn right! 'Cause, as everyone knows, God's with the PLD. And if any quakes of importance were to occur, he'd be the first one to know!
For the record, we have not felt any of these shakes here in La Romana.
However, having lived in LA for many years and felt shocks that threw you out of bed or made the buildings sway, I feel better where I am now....110 feet above sea level on the ground floor of all well constructed home.
If something horrible happens, no amount of precautions will prevent disaster. Pity this land if it does occur.
{" my wife and I look at each other and say, "Did you feel it?"}
After all the shaking and rolling, that's exactly what I used to ask my wife. And oftentimes, she'd say "no". That's why we divorced.
Watcher and Roy:
You're a pair of sick puppies!...Thanks for the laughs!
Where is the contradiction? The force between each body is governed by the inverse square law, however the total force on any body is the vector sum of all the forces. If everything else is equal, then the total will be maximum when all the bodies are in a line.
The earth is not a point, but a sphere, so the forces on each part of the earth are not equal, hence there are stresses, and these will vary as the angle and distances to the planets, sun and moon vary. There may also be effects from changes in the weight of the ice caps as they melt. The crust is literally floating on molten magma.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say.
Anyway I think we had a minor tremor here in San Cristobal at 4:51 this afternoon if I'm not mistaken.
I'm not really up on all the creationist pseudo-science, and don't know much astrology ether, and confess I am very ignorant of Aboriginal Dreamtime theory of creation, and homeopathy.
However I have read a lot of the Christian Bible, since it is a best seller (admittedly it got a head start, being the only book in print for a while). The more I read, the more I understand how this meme of blind faith works, and become more convinced of the insidious evil that Christianity is. I think if more Christians actually read it (rather than let their priest selectively "interpret" it for them), they would become Atheists too.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. "
Very interesting, this one.
Who, exactly did he give his son to? If it was a sacrifice, then who was he making the sacrifice to, himself? If he wanted us to have eternal life, then why not just give it? Regardless, how can such a barbaric act, crucifixion of an innocent man-god, bring about such a bizarre mechanism? So anyone who hasn't heard of Yaweh is doomed, even if they live a perfect selfless life? Someone who believes in him, regardless of how evil he is, will spend eternity in paradise? Was not Jesus part of God anyway? If he knew he would only be dead for 3 days (and God knows everything) then hardly a sacrifice? Turned out to be another dismal failure, just like the Great Flood. Not a good track-record for an all-powerful, all-knowing, loving creator or everything.
Absolutely crazy, divisive, stupid and evil.
""The early earth atmosphere was much more saturated with water than now and essentially kept the earth warm and moist on it's axis until the event causing the earth to tilt on it's current axis ...""
------------------------------------------
"Until the 'EVENT' causing the earth to tilt on it's current axis"....
...And what event was that??
He invented the rules of nature so he can break them whenever He wants, like burning his image on your toast at breakfast, or making a coffee-stain that looks like the Virgin and Child, or making statues cry, that sort of thing.
My problem is, why all the fuss and bother for Noah to make an arc, gather 20,000 species of spiders and the rest, then to flood the entire planet, just to kill everyone except Noah and co? It would have been easier for Him to just snap His fingers, say "abra-ca-dabra" and it's done in a flash.
I'm still waiting for man to come up with a man made solution.....how about you.
''I think the point is, God can do magic.''
Of course God can do magic!... He, (could be a "She"), got billions of us to believe all His/Her tale of divine creation and intervention....I'd say that's pretty darn magical!
The only solutions we have ever had for anything have come from real men, not imaginary ones in the sky, or their representatives on earth, the churches, synagogs and mosques. As for waiting, I do what I can. Waiting and praying is for do-nothing deluded idiots.
So I should not mock God? What's He, the almighty, all-powerful, jealous, vain, vengeful all-knowing Yaweh gonna do about it? Tell him to bring it on, I'm ready. Belief in God is not the solution for anything, it's the root-cause of most of our problems.
I will admit you do a great job bashing believers to push your non-believing agenda with such zeal too.
I have seen you manifest over the year, you've gone from non-believing to mocking, bashing and in some cases the insult of believers.
I guess the next and final step will be the persecution of believers in his name sake ?
Proof ! Now that sounds Biblical of things to come towards the last days.
Here's a final nasty insult to you....MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
I do not "bash believers" - I do not bash anybody - that's what believers do. I criticize stupid, blind faith, because of the massive suffering it causes. Note that Atheists do not persecute anybody either. Again, that is the domain of the faithful. Lastly, if God exists, and is willing or able to bless me, what makes you think He would require your permission? Do you have intercessional rights? I am curious, what God do actually believe in that requires your defense; Yaweh? Jesus? Allah? Baal? Horus? Mithra? Vishnu? Brahma? The Rainbow Serpent? Hercules? Superman?
I have answered all of your questions and you have answered none of mine. So let me guess - you are an Evangelist? Which one? Let me guess - the one that's the only "true" follower of Jesus? Hmmm ... like all the other ones claim?
Everyone has access to God not the so called chosen few like man-made religions claim.
Believers come to God willingly through the holy spirit, no one is forced.
Jesus was god in the flesh.
Me I'm just a believer a Christian and no more.