"The Big One" Alert - Earthquake recorded in Northern California

They upgraded this from a 4.0 as you see in the article below, up to a 7.2... The big one could be coming sooner than later on that side of the country with all the seismic activity we've been seeing lately. And that's not my assessment, that's coming from the experts.

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Baja California, Mexico shook buildings as far north as downtown Los Angeles and parts of Arizona forcing people outside their homes. continued

Again this below was the "original report",  and it was a much smaller magnitude of 4, which is the lower limit of actual detection,   and  much smaller than the upgraded 7 plus. Got this little list from hotair.com which is linked at the bottom....

Video from the AssociatedPress — April 04, 2010 — A strong earthquake south of the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday shook high-rises in downtown Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona. (April 4)

FOXNews.com -SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.0 has been recorded in Northern California.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 3:49 p.m. Sunday about 25 miles north of Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa is about 50 miles north of San Francisco.

The area frequently experiences small earthquakes, and there was no indication the earthquake was an aftershock from the larger quake that struck in Baja California, Mexico, on Sunday afternoon.

A dispatcher with the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department in Santa Rosa said he didn't feel the quake and that the department had not received any calls for service after the quake."

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Holy Armageddon ....Taiwan earthquake measuring 6.4 sparks widespread panic; scores injured but no casualties

"Mother Earth is on a tear. A large earthquake hit Taiwan Thursday morning, registering 6.4 on the Richter scale.

There were no immediate reports of deaths, but the quake injured at least 64 people, spawned blackouts, disrupted rail service and caused widespread panic.

Coming in the wake of the devastating 7.0 quake in Haiti and this week's 8.8 quake in Chile, could something sinister be going on?

Experts say no. 'It's coincidental. These quakes are not connected,' said geophysicist Don Blakeman at the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.

'We constantly have quakes going off. It takes one big damaging earthquake to get people's attention and then they start noticing all the quakes.'

Tell that to the Japanese."  continued

Again, the democrats are worried about global warming when the core of the earth is ready to explode, or has been doing so, and Obama's shoving health care nobody wants down our throats.

Today it was a pretty decent sized one in Japan, and they were talking the other day with this Science guy with the long hair I'm sure everyone saw once during the Chilean earthquake aftermath, and he called it, he said Japan would be next so he had California on his list and I'd be sweating if I were the people out there because these quakes are related.

We better hope and pray that day isn't coming sooner than we all expected, hell we had a small one here a couple weeks ago, so who knows what Mother Nature has cooked up but we do know global warming should be the last of our concerns.

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Hawaii Governor Declares State of Emergency -

8 foot Tsunami created from this morning's Chilean earthquake could hit Hawaii in about 10 minutes at 3 pm central time according to Fox News....

FOXNews.com: "Hawaii's governor has declared a state of emergency as the island chain braces for possible tsunami damage generated from a major earthquake that rocked Chile on Sunday.

Gov. Linda Lingle signed an emergency disaster proclamation as a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said that a potential tsunami was approaching Hawaii faster than originally predicted.

Victor Sardina said data coming in from buoys and tide gauges across the Pacific indicated the tsunami should arrive in Hawaii at 11:05 a.m. (4:05 p.m. ET), instead of 11:19 a.m.

The tsunami waves are expected to measure roughly 8 feet at Hilo, Hawaii."

This was a video from this morning with a caller who was describing the aftershocks of the earthquake that may cause further damage to the Hawaiian islands....

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4.3-magnitude earthquake hits near Sycamore Illinois, 45 Miles West of Chicago

Kind of robotic but chock-full of the pertinent info regarding the small quake

Centered about 45 miles from Chicago, 20 from here we had a little trembling this morning, and while up at the time, I didn't feel a thing, but many others not too far from here did. 

Many are unaware, but there's a nasty fault line through the Midwest called the New Madrid fault in Southern Illinois Missouri, etc as the pic indicates. And while it's too early to tell where it originated, the early assumption is that might the case, and this isn't the first,  nor will it be the last earthquake in Illinois.

The epicenter of this morning's quake was near the city where the University of Northern Illinois is located, in De Kalb County, Illinois.

4.3-magnitude earthquake hits near Sycamore

Chicago Breaking News: "A mild earthquake shook northern Illinois this morning.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 4.3-magnitude quake at 3:59:43 a.m. centered about 5.5 miles east of Sycamore and 3.1 miles underground. The epicenter is about 45 miles west of Chicago.

The quake was felt over a wide area, but there were no reports of any damage 90 minutes later, according to the Kane County and DeKalb County sheriff's departments, which are closest to the epicenter.

The nature of the fault activity that caused the quake was unclear, said Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the geological survey in Golden, Colo. Past quakes that have affected southern Illinois have been in the Wabash Valley or New Madrid seismic zones.

The fault systems in northern Illinois are not as well understood as those in other regions where earthquakes are more common, and more investigation will be needed to determine the cause of this morning's temblor, Vaughan said."

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Jupiter Struck by Object, NASA Images Confirm

That white crater on Jupiter snapped from a Hawaiian' based telescope, which is this focus of this picture and accompanying post, is about the size of our piddly little planet earth or Obama's ego ! Same difference...

FOXNews.com: "PASADENA, California — A large comet or asteroid has slammed into Jupiter, creating an impact site the size of Earth, pictures by an Australian amateur astronomer show.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed the discovery using its large infrared telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, said computer programer Anthony Wesley, 44, who discovered the impact zone while stargazing at home.

News of Wesley's find on a backyard 14.5-inch reflecting telescope has stunned the astronomy world, with scientists saying the impact will last only days more.

Wesley said it took him 30 minutes to realize a dark spot rotating in Jupiter's clouds on July 19 was actually the first impact seen by astronomers since a comet collided with the giant planet in July 1994.

"I thought (it) likely to be just a normal dark polar storm," he said on his website.

"However as it rotated further into view and the conditions improved I suddenly realized that it wasn't just dark, it was black in all channels, meaning it was truly a black spot," Wesley said from his home at Murrumbateman, north of Canberra.

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