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POPSQuakes Follow Typhoons, Pacific Plate Swarms with 6.0+ Shakers A violent 24 hour period of Pacific activity which followed an already violent week. 10/7 Breaking news--The Vanuatu region quakes have triggered Tsunami alert for as far as New Zealand. Earthquakes also followed on the heels of the major typhoons in both the Philippines and Taiwan, specifically. An article from Science Daily in June said this regarding typhoons and quakes: ScienceDaily (June 12, 2009) — Scientists have made the surprising finding that typhoons trigger slow earthquakes, at least in eastern Taiwan. Slow earthquakes are non-violent fault slippage events that take hours or days instead of a few brutal seconds to minutes to release their potent energy But what we have observed recently is not "slow non-violent quakes", but major ones following typhoons. There must be another reason for this strange coincidence in the Philippines and Taiwan in particular.
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POPSSwarms of Earthquakes Lately Today Indonesia had 12 quakes over 5.0 , including one of 6.7. This week Japan had a 6.7, India a 7.6, and the last 30 days includes many more within the U.S., and around the Pacific Rim. Only one article addressing this was found here: Quakes and Typhoons: What's Up with Mother Nature? Typhoon Morakot was the first to strike, slamming into Taiwan Sunday ... a 7.1-magnitude earthquake rumbled off the Japan coast, also on Sunday . On Tuesday, Japan was struck again by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that triggered a small tsunami ..., according to news Minutes before, another earthquake had ruptured in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, north of India's Andaman Islands . the magnitude of that temblor at 7.6.
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POPSSwarms of Earthquakes, Indonesia, 7.6 Sat. Magnitude 7.3 - NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA The quake feed at source shows 10 quakes in this Indonesian area in the last 24 hours, all over 5.0 magnitude. This week there were about a dozen more in the same area. Now breaking in some press : MANOKWARI, Indonesia (AFP) — Two powerful earthquakes rattled Indonesia's West Papua province early Sunday, triggering panic among residents but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or heavy damage. The first 7.6-magnitude quake struck at 4:43 am (1943 GMT Saturday), about 150 kilometres northwest of the city of Manokwari, the US Geological Survey said, triggering a tsunami alert that was later withdrawn.
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POPSHuman Tragedy Granted, Myanmar has a terrible track record of human abuse. Their government is cuel and dictatorial. Yet for the US to offer a paultry $250,000 is an insult and shows a deep lack of humanity. The people of Myanmar are not the corrupt military dictatorship. Yet, it seems as though we are making them pay to score political points. Something is not right here.
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POPS"It is the smell of shit. Raw untreated sewage is pumped every day out of the Jewish settlements" "Humanitarian & Environmental Disaster of Epic Proportions" Vast stagnant pools of waste are being held within fragile dykes across the strip, and rotting. Last March, one of them burst, drowning a nine-month-old baby and his elderly grandmother in a tsunami of human waste. The Centre on Housing Rights warns that one heavy rainfall could send 1.5m cubic metres of faeces flowing all over Gaza, causing "a humanitarian and environmental disaster of epic proportions". So how did it come to this? How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago with a promise to be "a light unto the nations" end up flinging its filth at a cowering Palestinian population? ...Johann Hari
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POPSTsunami devastates western Solomons The magnitude-8 quake struck shortly after 7:39 a.m. six miles beneath the sea floor, about 215 miles northwest of the Solomons capital, Honiara, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Within five minutes, waves 10-16 feet tall roared ashore and went up to half a mile inland, inundating buildings and sending thousands fleeing for higher ground, witnesses said. The Pacific region went on high alert for several hours after the quake struck between the islands of Bougainville and New Georgia, with Sydney's famous Bondi among beaches closed more than 1,250 miles away in Australia.
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