Cyclone Xynthia struck the coast of France with 100 mph winds as of February 28 and there was reportedly a windspeed of 130 mph at a summit named Pyrenees. I routinely track the potential seismic energy of such high speed winds as these and watch in a straight line from about the point where they strike the coastline. This storm went on to affect France and Germany and has done fairly great damage there. The straight line should now track a fair amount of seismic energy, but not a real major amount, to Belarus, Moscow, Poland, Kazakhstan, and Xinjiang, China. I'll say to watch for a smallish shaker in the range of 5 or 6 Richters Magnitude. This size of earthquake can still be damaging to places such as those, where buildings have very little ability to withstand much shaking. One way to prevent death and injuries in our future is to construct all buildings so that they are much safer up to the range of at least 7 Magnitude, and I also like to stress that all buildings be inspected and carry a rating for exactly what magnitude a building is safe up to. . . then in almost any alert the buildings that carry the lowest ratings will be watched.
Snowfall alerts and Official Predictions should be extended now until March 27 which coincidentally is the exact date that the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 struck, and my regular readers know I always say an alert basically runs until the major earthquake strikes, so that one may be officially over, but we just let the days run out for safety sake. And then the full moon stuff runs a few more days, yet, too, but unless we apply it to Poland/Moscow/Belarus we just basically keep a watch for that, too.
Thank-You everybody for reading and I want you all to know that it is my hope that in the very near future we can come up with a way to get the message to the people whenever there is POTENTIAL SEISMIC ACTIVITY HEADING FOR THEM!!!
Respectfully, The EQ Alert Guy
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