So I'm getting gas this morning when I open our KOIN Local 6 PinPoint Weather App to see if we have any showers going. We did not. But right on the App I saw 4 red circles and learned instantly we had a micro-quake under the slopes of Mt. Hood! And to tell where, exactly, I zoomed in on … [Read more...]
Weekend Quake Is Largest Earthquake In Oklahoma History
The USGS says it was a magnitude 5.6 earthquake that hit on Saturday night November 5, 2011. And now, aftershocks are already happening on this Sunday. This snapshot is of a buckled road from KOCO 5 Television, one of the news stations in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City is about 45 miles west of … [Read more...]
Magnitude 5.9 Quake Off The Oregon Coast
On Wednesday evening October 12, 2011, a magnitude 5.9 quake rumbled under the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon Coast. It was a little more than 200miles west-southwest of Newport, Oregon. This was too small to generate any kind of tsunami (closer to magnitude 7.0 is the approximate 'tsunami … [Read more...]
East Coast Earthquake Energy Also Hit The Northwest
Hard to believe, isn't it? The same 5.8 earthquake that hit near Washington D.C. & Richmond, Virginia on August 23, 2011 sent energy all the way to the northwest. This picture shows the damage at the National Cathedral in the Washington D.C. area. A really old structure built before … [Read more...]
Giant Icebergs Created By Japan Tsunami
You're looking at the icy shores of Antarctica--8,000 miles from Japan. It's a place called the Sulzberger Ice Shelf. This satellite image on the right was taken on March 11, 2011--just hours after that day's great Japan quake and Tsunami. I want you to notice some of the pieces that are … [Read more...]
Chile Volcano Eruption Causes ‘Volcanic Sunsets’
Check this out: it's ash shooting more than 20,000 feet into the sky above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile. The NASA image shows the massive ash plume as it looked from outer space during June 2011. And if you look toward the top right of the photo, you'll also see mountains … [Read more...]
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