Earth Quakes??

young seniors

Bronze
Feb 1, 2012
559
0
0
Is this a regular occurence like in California? Seems to me that it is occuring frequently lately. Just wondering:eek::ermm:
 

Castle

Silver
Sep 1, 2012
2,982
1
0
Hey! The fact that there was a day of earthquakes does not mean there are earthquakes everyday. Do not generalize!

What? Ooooops, wrong thread, sorry.

Well, yeah, there are some good 2-3 minor earthquakes every year, and a big one very 10 years or so..
I get that purely from observation, with no scientific data to back me up:p
 

NV_

Bronze
Aug 4, 2003
710
6
0
Small tremors every few days at least once a week....Most you wont even feel/notice. Big ones (6.0+) about once every 7-10 yrs. Quite a few fault lines around the island so it is pretty active.
 

CFA123

Silver
May 29, 2004
3,512
413
83
Below is a list of DR quakes over from the last 30 days on the USGS website.

In my years living here I was rocked in Santiago by the 6.5 quake on Sep 22, 2003 & in Cabarete during the big 7.0 in Haiti on Jan 12, 2010. Both of those events I would describe as major in terms of what I felt - the Santiago quake being the stronger of the two as I was closer to the epicenter.

Otherwise, the several aftershocks from the 2003 quake and perhaps a half dozen others while in Cabarete are the only ones worth mentioning. Most of those were in the 4.5-5.0 range. The effects of those ranged from sharp bumps to gentle rolling motions.

4.38km ENE of Arroyo Salado, Dominican Republic<time>2012-10-21 15:07:30</time>19.521?N69.823?W17.9
4.76km SW of El Guayabal, Dominican Republic<time>2012-10-17 03:30:47</time>18.707?N70.873?W12.7
2.628km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic<time>2012-10-16 21:23:20</time>18.149?N68.491?W66.0
4.424km N of Miches, Dominican Republic<time>2012-10-15 02:46:41</time>19.203?N69.044?W61.3
2.835km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic<time>2012-10-11 16:38:23</time>18.063?N68.530?W119.0
3.640km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic<time>2012-10-07 07:49:30</time>18.015?N68.561?W97.0
3.241km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic<time>2012-10-01 23:09:57</time>18.014?N68.532?W83.0
3.223km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic<time>2012-09-29 01:14:20</time>18.174?N68.546?W15.0
3.24km SSE of Guaymate, Dominican Republic<time>2012-09-27 23:59:39</time>18.546?N68.963?W101.0
3.624km N of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic<time>2012-09-24 14:45:26</time>18.866?N68.628?W169.0
3.645km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic<time>2012-09-23 09:07:17</time>19.291?N68.766?W82.0

<tbody>
</tbody>
 

dv8

Gold
Sep 27, 2006
31,266
363
0
i am pretty sure the earth here moves every day. there are tiny shakes daily when tectonic plates rub against each other. every now and then there is a bigger shake you can feel. really big ones happen seldom.
so relax, rapture is not near :)
 

Ringo

On Vacation!
Mar 6, 2003
2,823
41
0
Is this a regular occurence like in California? Seems to me that it is occuring frequently lately. Just wondering:eek::ermm:

I lived in the S.F. area of CA for over 20 years. The itty bitty shivers that happen here in the D.R. I don't even feel. This is not CA nor are the earthquakes anywhere near what they have... or Chili, Peru, Colombia, Central America or even the last one last week in Maine in the U.S.

Be gratefull that the ones in the D.R. are small and the more the better giving the fault an even and gentle tension release. Be ready IF a larger one happens but don't go nuts over the small ones and just smile. These are a good thing.
 

CFA123

Silver
May 29, 2004
3,512
413
83
The effects of those ranged from sharp bumps to gentle rolling motions.

To clarify... 'gentle rolling motion' to me means feeling your entire building swaying for a few seconds & seeing chandeliers move and water sloshing in botellones.
 

Conchman

Silver
Jul 3, 2002
4,586
160
63
57
www.oceanworld.net
Thats my garage after a 6.5 on Sept. 22, 2003


2evdits.jpg



seems like earthquakes above 7.0 happen about every 40 years in DR, but not sure if the 7.1 in Haiti counts towards that. It is technically on the same fault line that runs through the middle of Hispaniola. In 1946 (or somewhere close to that) were two quakes above 8.0 within a few months that caused a tsunami that killed hundreds of people in Puerto Rico and Samana.
 

Criss Colon

Platinum
Jan 2, 2002
21,843
191
0
38
yahoomail.com
"Bronzeallspice", WHy do you find it necessary to make every thread about "SEX"???????????????????
Without "Earthquakes", there would be no Dominican Republic, or "Hispanola"!
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
 

bronzeallspice

Live everyday like it's your last
Mar 26, 2012
11,009
2
38
"Bronzeallspice", WHy do you find it necessary to make every thread about "SEX"???????????????????
Without "Earthquakes", there would be no Dominican Republic, or "Hispanola"!

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

LMAO! You're a riot!:D
 

Criss Colon

Platinum
Jan 2, 2002
21,843
191
0
38
yahoomail.com
Whenever it going to "Snow" in Massachusetts, I tell everyone that:
"There's a woman in Boston expecting 8 inches tonight!"
But only if her husband gets home!"
"SEX, is like "Snow!"
You never know how many inches you are going to get, or, how long it's going to last!
I'm not "Off Topic" yet AGAN, am I????????????????????????
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
 

NV_

Bronze
Aug 4, 2003
710
6
0
The 2003 earthquake in S.D. in a top floor apartment in a 6 story building that used pillars for support over the 1st floor garage was the most terrifying moment of my life (helluva run-on sentence). That thing swayed for a good 15-20 seconds. Definitely a "puckering" moment.... lol

Never even felt the Haiti earthquake. Driving in the car and didnt notice it.

Criss, who's the dude flexing in your signature?
 

dv8

Gold
Sep 27, 2006
31,266
363
0
i kinda love it when earth moves under my feet. or back, if so happens. :) :) :) i come from a place with no environmental excitement like hurricanes, tornadoes or earthquakes. so i treat them like fun, in a way. i know those are deadly events, yes, but having seen so little of it i have a silly point of view.

however, all this swaying in the earthquake always gives me nausea. during haiti quake i was only praying i make it to the toilet before i throw up :)
 

Ringo

On Vacation!
Mar 6, 2003
2,823
41
0
NOT Predict an Earthquake = Prison.

What's next? Do we lynch Mikefisher? (NOTE: I have great respect for Mike and what he does for us.)

Italian scientists resign over L'Aquila quake verdicts - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Earthquake experts worldwide expressed shock at the manslaughter convictions of six Italian scientists who failed to predict the deadly L'Aquila quake, warning that the decision could severely harm future research.

Two scientists resigned their posts with the government's disaster preparedness agency Tuesday after a court in L'Aquila sentenced six scientists and a government official to six years in prison. The court ruled Monday that the scientists failed to accurately communicate the risk of the 2009 quake, which killed more than 300 people.

Luciano Maiani, the physicist who led the National Commission for the Prediction and Prevention of Major Risks, resigned in protest of the verdict Tuesday afternoon, Italy's Civil Protection Agency announced.

"The situation created by the sentencing yesterday on the facts from L'Aquila is incompatible with a clear and effective performance of the functions of the commission and its role as a consulting bodies for the state," Maiani said in a statement released by the agency.

In addition, Mauro Dolce quit as director of the office that monitors volcano and earthquake threats, the agency said. Dolce will be given another post, it said.

'Total destruction' in Italy quake Seismologists were aghast at the court's decision, noting that earthquakes remain impossible to forecast with any kind of accuracy.

"To predict a large quake on the basis of a relatively commonplace sequence of small earthquakes and to advise the local population to flee" would constitute "both bad science and bad public policy," said David Oglesby, an associate professor in the Earth sciences faculty of the University of California, Riverside.

"If scientists can be held personally and legally responsible for situations where predictions don't pan out, then it will be very hard to find scientists to stick their necks out in the future," Oglesby said in a statement.

Prosecutors argued that the scientists gave "inaccurate, incomplete and contradictory information about the dangers" facing L'Aquila at a meeting a week before the magnitude-6.3 quake. The experts determined that it was "unlikely" but not impossible that a major quake would take place, despite concern among the city's residents over recent seismic activity.

The court agreed, finding the six scientists from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and a member of the Civil Protection Agency guilty and ordering Italian authorities to pay 7.8 million euros ($10 million) in damages.

"It's chilling that people can be jailed for giving a scientific opinion in the line of their work," Roger Musson, the head of seismic hazard and archives at the British Geological Survey, wrote in a comment published on the organization's Twitter feed.

Comments from one of the defendants -- Enzo Boschi, former president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology -- suggested that the scientists were shell-shocked by their conviction.

"I'm dejected, despairing. I still don't understand what I'm accused of," Boschi said after the ruling, according to ANSA, Italy's official news agency.

Boschi and the six others convicted Monday will remain free during the appeal process.

The Italian geophysics institute expressed "regret and concern" about the verdict in a statement Monday. It said the ruling "threatens to undermine one of the cornerstones of scientific research: that of freedom of investigation, of open and transparent discussion and sharing of results."

Some experts have argued that the issue was a failure of communications, not calculations. Domenico Giardini, who held Boschi's old job at the institute for several months, said last year that the trial was about "the number of weak points in the communication chain."

"We all have to work on new, and more clear, protocols, on the transfer of information," said Giardini, who now conducts research in Switzerland.

Survivors of the 2009 quake, some of whom who lost relatives or property in the disaster, have voiced anger at the officials who downplayed the risks despite the worries expressed by residents.

"I can understand the grief of people who lost loved ones and the frustration that people feel when terrible events happen, especially ones outside their control," Oglesby said. "Convicting honest scientists of manslaughter does nothing to help this situation and may well put a chill on exactly the kind of science that could save lives in the future."

The ruling may well change the way experts disclose their opinions, according to David Spiegelhalter, a professor specializing in the public understanding of risk at Cambridge University in Britain.

"L'Aquila trial shows public scientists need to take media communication very seriously," he wrote on his Twitter account. "And get indemnity."
 

CaptnGlenn

Silver
Mar 29, 2010
2,321
26
48
Whenever it going to "Snow" in Massachusetts, I tell everyone that:
"There's a woman in Boston expecting 8 inches tonight!"
But only if her husband gets home!"
"SEX, is like "Snow!"
You never know how many inches you are going to get, or, how long it's going to last!
I'm not "Off Topic" yet AGAN, am I????????????????????????
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC



It's OK, CC... I was going to go "off topic" with Dv8's comment about "the Earth moving every day". LOL She's lucky, I wish "the Earth was moving" for me that often, or even a couple of times a day. LOL
 

dv8

Gold
Sep 27, 2006
31,266
363
0
It's OK, CC... I was going to go "off topic" with Dv8's comment about "the Earth moving every day". LOL She's lucky, I wish "the Earth was moving" for me that often, or even a couple of times a day. LOL

marry a dominican. you'd have so much of earth shaking moves your ass will hurt :laugh: