USGS page: M 6.0 - Prince Edward Islands region
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USGS page: M 6.0 - Prince Edward Islands region
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 0 people
10 km depth
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It hit on Thursday morning and was also felt in Bahrain and other areas around the Persian Gulf.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck at 6.34am GMT, some 60 miles east of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, the only operating nuclear power station in the Islamic Republic.
The USGS put the earthquake's magnitude at 5.5, while Iranian state television, citing officials, described the quake as a magnitude 5.9. Varying magnitudes are common immediately after a temblor.
Government-run TV did not report any damage at the Bushehr plant, which has seen other earthquakes in the past and was built to resist damage from the tremors.
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According to data on the U.S. Geological Survey's website, there have been six quakes since April 9 in the heart of the state, centered on the town Arnold, which is about 225 miles west of capital Lincoln. The first, a 3.3-magnitude tremor, happened early that morning, followed by three on April 10, another on Sunday, and then the most recent earthquake on Monday. The strongest quake was the first one that struck on April 10, which reached a 3.7 on the scale.
The earthquakes were picked up from nearby Stapleton and were detected about three miles below the surface.
There haven't been any reports of human injury or structural damage related to the seismic activity, according to KWBE-TV.
Around 9:40 a.m., just after San Jose residents experienced hail, torrential rain and thunderous dark clouds, the earth beneath them suddenly shifted. The 3.9 quake was centered about nine miles northeast of downtown San Jose, in the Alum Rock region. Tremors were felt in Milpitas, Fremont and Santa Clara, the USGS reported. Office towers shook in downtown San Jose.
"It was snowing and hailing, with thunder, then there was an earthquake. It felt like a big jerk, not rolling," said Angel Barlow, park services attendant at Joseph D. Grant County Park, in the hills east of San Jose. "It was a landslide of weather!"'
Comment: The writer attempts to normalise the events of the day, but then goes on to state that there have been a series of quakes recently, one of them was above average in strength. And it is being recorded by mainstream US media outlets all over the country that this years winter has been unusually brutal dragging long into Spring.
The original title of the article was: 'Earthquake, hail, fierce rain rattle Bay Area - but, nope, there's no link'. So three unusual events strike in a day, but there's no link? It really is obvious when you take into account other unusual events around the world, but so many supposed journalists fail to connect the dots, or even remember what happened yesterday. Yes, they're connected!
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Earthquakes Canada has recorded 22 earthquakes in New Brunswick over the past 30 days, with most of those near McAdam, on the western edge of the province, near the border with the United States.
Mayor Ken Stannix said the quakes startle people, often producing a bang that's louder than a gunshot.
"I know when I first heard it, it sounded like the hot water tank may have exploded in the basement. Then we realized it was these earthquakes," Mr. Stannix said.
"It will wake you up in the middle of the night, but we've become accustomed to them. You wake up and say 'That must have been an earthquake,' and then you'll hear a couple softer bangs and then the event is over."
Stephen Halchuk, a seismologist at Natural Resources Canada, said all of the recent earthquakes have been minor - less than three on the Richter scale.
Even more fresh snow for the Sierra Nevada, Spain
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The village of Willand in Devon, which is rising 2cm every year
The village of Willand in Devon, which is rising 2cm every year
Scientists have discovered the village is rising by 0.7 inches (2cm) a year, and are utterly baffled about the reason.
The curious elevation was spotted by researchers from the University of Nottingham's spin-off company Geomatic Ventures Limited (GML) who have been compiling satellite images between 2015 and 2017 to create the first country-wide map of land motion in Britain.
"We generally see this sort of uplift where there has been mining works and the pumps have been switched off, allowing the water to gradually seep back into the ground," said Dr Andy Sowter, Chief Technical Officer at GVL.
Comment: Mainstream scientists probably have no idea why because they're lost in a specialised bubble and are not paying attention to what's going on all over the planet:
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- 'Sinking' Pacific Island is actually growing
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- Monster cracks appear in the ground after landslide and heavy rains destroy over 100 buildings in Cusco, Peru (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
- 8 dead as massive sinkhole swallows eight-lane road in Foshan, China (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
- GARGANTUAN sinkhole swallows several cars and building is evacuated in Rome (VIDEO)
- Miles-long crevice opens up overnight near Nariobi in Kenya's Rift Valley
- Major road blocked after large sinkhole appears on seafront in Devon, England
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck about 34 miles (54 kilometers) southwest of Ovalle, Chile at 7:19 a.m. local time. The USGS said it was detected at a depth of 47 miles (76 kilometers).
The quake shook the capital of Santiago and other cities, causing buildings to sway. But Chile's emergency services office said no damages to infrastructure were immediately reported and dismissed the possibility of a tsunami on the country's long coast.
The very shallow quake was only 2 kilometres deep and 93km southwest of Porgera in the Enga province, the EMSC said.
Earthquakes are common in Papua New Guinea, which sits on the Pacific's "Ring of Fire", a hotspot for seismic activity due to friction between tectonic plates.
This is the second powerful earthquake to hit the region in the last few months.
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Though there were no immediate reports of damage, the quake was felt across a wide area and was a blunt reminder that California is earthquake country. The U.S. Geological Survey put the epicenter about 23 miles off the Channel Islands, about 85 miles west of Los Angeles.
It was centered near the Eastern Santa Cruz Basin Fault Zone, Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson said. "Earthquakes happen out there now and again. There's a major offshore fault system," he said.
Seismologist Lucy Jones said on Twitter that the fault system "moves Southern California around a bend of the San Andreas fault."
There is a slightly greater likelihood that the the temblor could trigger a larger earthquake, but that chance decreases with time, Hauksson said.
The last big earthquake in the Channel Islands region before Thursday's temblor was in 1981, which was a magnitude 6.0, Hauksson said. A magnitude 4.8 quake struck near the islands in 2013.
The last quake to be felt this widely in the L.A. area was a magnitude 4.4 in Encino in 2014. That quake also shook a wide area and was the largest in the Los Angeles area in four years. It was the strongest to hit directly under the Santa Monica Mountains in the 80 years.
Comment: The area may be prone to tremors and earthquakes, but when we look at the wider picture, there's clearly an uptick in activity on the planet, manifesting itself in a variety of ways:
- More cracks reported in Kenya as Africa's geographical divide deepens
- Monster cracks appear in the ground after landslide and heavy rains destroy over 100 buildings in Cusco, Peru (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
- GARGANTUAN sinkhole swallows several cars and building is evacuated in Rome (VIDEO)
- 8 dead as massive sinkhole swallows eight-lane road in Foshan, China (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
- New activity notice issued for Kilauea volcano in Hawaii
- UK struck by 21 earthquakes in 50 DAYS including biggest in 10 years
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