The tornado that struck Oklahoma on February 10 with wind speeds estimated at 170mph has as of today been about exactly 50 days ago, or the amount of time that I follow the potential seismic energy from these big storms. While there have been one or two much smaller tornadoes that have struck since then, they did not seem to be as large, with as much damage, and didn’t have the advertised wind speed Oklahoma February 10th had. Therefore, I generally do not spend quite as much time and energy tracking the potential seismic energy from these. Of course you may note that some tornadoes, including the one that struck late last week in my previous entry have still generated significant potential seismic activity, and that I did say 7 Richters. I will leave 7 as the size of one earthquake that we will still watch for through April and for the immediate days and hours we should still primarily watch California and our West Coast, as well as Mexico, Alaska, Central America, and South Carolina.
There are no other current alerts as far as I know. But take note that while the old alert officially ends today, that new one from last week will now continue until about May 10, 2009. It is further my opinion that the present state of shaking happening and concerning folks at different places is probably going to end up being a lot of foreshocks that indicate the ultimate movement of the Pacific Tectonic Plate and that the resulting major earthquake will most likely be along the Indian Ocean/Australian tectonic plate or the Asian Plate after the movement pushes the Pacific plate into those other plates. We should always still be prepared for something just in case.
Thank-You again for reading.
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