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Mysterious rumblings bring down a barn in Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

A barn on the 4000-block of Otter Point Road collapsed after a series of unexplained tremors rumbled through the region on Thursday, March 15. Barrie Hanslip, owner of the 35-acre property where the barn was located, said the steepled barn tumbled downward after a large "boom" and rumble at 11:30 a.m. The large tremor was preceded by two smaller shakes around 9:00 a.m.


Magic Hat

Massive drill in Mexico coincides with real earthquake

Translated from Spanish by Sott.net

The government of the state of Chiapas had prepared for today at 12:00 a massive drill ("mega simulacro") of a 7.9 earthquake in the Richter scale.

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A poster of the government of the southern state of Chiapas announcing a massive earthquake drill
Monterrey - It was nothing but a moment of panic, as there are no lost lives, the president of Mexico Felipe Calderón Hinojosa confirmed today in Monterrey, commenting on the 7.8 earthquake in the Richter scale with epicenter in the borders of the state of Guerrero and that was felt in Mexico City and several other states.

In view of the scale of the event and because there have not been any lost lives, it is noteworthy that the government of the state of Chiapas had prepared precisely for today at 12:00 a massive drill ("mega simulacro") of the earthquake - something that is being actively discussed in social media networks.

Comment: A three-minute difference and almost the same intensity? It is too much coincidence to let it pass unnoticed.


Bizarro Earth

7.4 quake shakes Mexico, 100s of homes damaged

A woman comforts her children outside a school at the Roma neighborhood after a earthquake felt in Mexico City
© AP Photo/Alexandre MeneghiniA woman comforts her children outside a school at the Roma neighborhood after a earthquake felt in Mexico City Tuesday March 20, 2012. A strong, long earthquake with epicenter in Guerrero state shook central southern Mexico on Tuesday, swaying buildings in Mexico City and sending frightened workers and residents into the streets..
Mexico City -- A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit southern Mexico on Tuesday, damaging some 800 homes near the epicenter and swaying tall buildings and spreading fear and panic hundreds of miles away in the capital of Mexico City.

One of the strongest to shake Mexico since the deadly 1985 temblor that killed thousands in Mexico City, Tuesday's earthquake hit hardest in border area of southern Oaxaca and Guerrero states. In Guerrero, officials confirmed that some 800 homes had been damaged, with another 60 having collapsed.

Hours after the shaking at noon local time (18:02 GMT), there were still no reports of death or serious injury, even after a less powerful, magnitude-5.1 aftershock was felt in the capital and several other aftershocks near the epicenter in a mountainous rural region.

"It was very strong, very substantial," said Campos Benitez, hospital director in Ometepec, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) from the epicenter.

Attention

Big Earthquake Hits Mexico, No Major Damage Reported

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© Reuters/Edgard GarridoMexico City residents stand outside their buildings after feeling the tremors from an earthquake in the southern state of Guerrero, in Mexico City March 20, 2012.
Mexico City - A major earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, unleashing panic as it damaged hundreds of buildings and caused homes in the capital to bounce like "trampolines".

Office workers fled into the street when the 7.4-magnitude quake shook Mexico City for more than a minute. Cell phone lines went down, building were evacuated, traffic snarled and the stock exchange had to suspend trading early.

The governor of the southwestern state of Guerrero, Angel Aguirre, said he had received reports of 500 homes damaged, with some of them knocked down, but he gave no more details.

The tremor was one of the strongest since the devastating 8.1-magnitude earthquake of 1985, which killed thousands in Mexico City.

No deaths were reported on Tuesday and the quake caused no major disruptions to air travel or to oil installations, but it scared many residents.

Martha Suarez, an Argentine living in the capital's Roma neighborhood said she had never known anything like it.

"My TV set fell over, the building felt like it was on a trampoline. This one was like no other I have felt before," Suarez said, holding her little dog close.

Emergency services said 800 houses were damaged in Guerrero state, many of them in Ometepec, near the epicenter of the quake. Officials in Guerrero, which is home of popular Pacific beach resort Acapulco, could not say if buildings had collapsed.

Bizarro Earth

Strange noise: Something's rattling small Wisconsin town

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Mysterious explosions. Unexplained shaking. Something's going on in Clintonville, Wisconsin, but nobody seems to know what it is.

The sounds -- variously described as rattling pipes, clanging metal, thunder or firecrackers -- have continued on and off since early Sunday night in just one part of the small town of 4,600, located about 180 miles northeast of Madison.

Accompanying the sounds are vibrations that have shaken homes and household objects in the northeast corner of town, city manager Lisa Kuss said.

The sounds were loud enough Monday morning that a CNN journalist could hear them during a cell phone conversation with Kuss.

Bizarro Earth

Earthquake Magnitude 7.6 - Oaxaca, Mexico

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Date-Time:
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 18:02:48 UTC
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 12:02:48 PM at epicenter

Location:
16.662°N, 98.188°W

Depth:
17.5 km (10.9 miles)

Region:
OAXACA, MEXICO

Distances:
25 km (15 miles) E (95°) from Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico

42 km (26 miles) NNW (335°) from Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, Mexico

87 km (54 miles) SW (219°) from Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico

162 km (101 miles) WSW (255°) from Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

186 km (115 miles) E (96°) from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico

Bizarro Earth

2011 - The Year Of The Earthquake: A Visual And Auditory Guide

If there is one thing 2011 taught us is that one totally unpredictable and unexpected event, such as the great March 11 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima disaster, can wreak massive havoc on otherwise stable economic ecosystems, models and forecasts. According to many, most certainly the Fed, the events in Japan had a major spillover effect on global GDP that lasted for months, in turn forcing fiscal and monetary responses around the world. A true black swan. As the following brief video summarizes, 2011 was the year of earthquakes. Has the earth become increasingly unstable? Will the pattern from 2011 continue into 2012 and beyond? Is mother nature getting angrier? We have no idea, but we do know that the following clip is quite awesome: make sure you have your volume turned up high.


Evil Rays

Rumblings in Sooke Spark Mystery

(British Columbia, Canada) In the last 48 hours a number of people in Sooke have reported feeling powerful tremors that some believe are an earthquake. "I heard what sounded like a freight train coming, that rumble, and it was very brief.


My bed actually shifted," one Sooke homeowner told CTV News. Seismologists say there are no indications of an earthquake in the Sooke area and all calling the recent reports a mystery.

Bizarro Earth

4.6-Magnitude Earthquake Rumbles Haiti Again

According to the United States Geological Survey, on March 7th at about 9:51:32 p.m. EDT, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake panicked southern Haiti.

The earthquake was centered 22 miles (37 kilometers) southeast of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince and was about 3 miles (4.9 kms) deep.

After the devastating earthquake that left many Haitians traumatized on January 12, 2010, the rattle they felt from this year's earthquake caused some residents to run into the streets in fear that their homes would collapse again.

Although the 7-magnitude earthquake killed 314,000 Haitians in 2010, there has been no immediate report of death and serious damages with this 4.6-magnitude earthquake.

Marguerite Supre, an 82-year-old Haitian-born U.S. citizen said, "When I first became aware of this earthquake, I got scared and started to panic because of my daughter. I just wanted to know she was safe."

Her daughter Guerdy Ambroise has been in Haiti her whole life. She explained that during the 2010 earthquake she nearly lost her life.

Evil Rays

Mysterious rumbles bring down an old barn

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© Supplied photoMysterious "rumbles" are blamed for the colapse of Sharon Hanslipês barn in Otter Point on Friday March 16, 2012.
(British Columbia, Canada) Life is full of mysteries: why hot water freezes faster than cold, how they built the pyramids, why anyone listens to Rush Limbaugh.

And now, or perhaps still, The Rumbles.

Three times Thursday morning, an unexplained phenomenon rattled windows, dishes and nerves from Langford to Otter Point, even knocking down an old barn.

It sounded like sustained thunder, or God bowling. Some feared it was an earthquake, others suspected blasting, while still others thought it was bad choices from the '60s coming home to roost.

"It's still pretty much of a mystery," said Otter Point's Sharon Hanslip on Friday.

The episodes came at 9: 30 a.m, 10 and 11, the last the most intense. "It shook the house and brought down the barn."