6.5 Richters Strikes Fiji--Update: No Tsunami!!! (PTWC) ALSO: Full Report on Oso, Washington Landslide, Too

I want to start out todays EQ Blog by sending my sincere sympathy to all of those involved in the very serious landslide and rescue currently taking place in the Oso, Washington Region! Here's hoping the very best for all involved and sorry for those losses being reported!

A quick search did reveal that there have been many earthquakes up in that shaky region in the last few days including Gold Bar, Washington on March 24, 2.3 Princeton, Canada on March 25, and Port Townsend, Washington on March 21, 2014 at 3:30am Pacific Time. One of these two stories that I cut and pasted here said something about an earthquake that struck right in the immediate area although you will have to check the story for more specific information: Earthquake Story @ http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2015956064_snocoquake20m.html AND AT http://mashable.com/2014/03/25/earthquake-washington-mudslide/

There is also a Wikipedia Page devoted to the matter at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide

Also very sorry to hear that the authorities are uncertain of the number of people missing and so I checked the map of the neighborhood and the nearby highway:

AND it actually appears to be mostly houses along a road which is across the river from the primary landslide area, the GREEN ARROW in the pic, and there do not appear to be any homes that had been built up along the actual landslide area. The actual landslide area appears to be strictly the side of a big mountain and I do not know what portion of it may be totally involved, but got at least one pic that might help answer that:

WITH My Thanks to person who posted that pic and hope all is well with you and yours on Post Road, there! Could be one of the mountians involved there in the background across the bridge actually more to the left of the end of bridge there, but in any event it is the general look of the highlands involved in the landslide and some portion of that big hill in the distance loosened up and cascaded down towards the river. It was also mentioned that they had been at around 200 percent of their regular rainfall recently. Lots of rain is always a contributing factor in earthquakes as well as loosening of the soil and measures are more and more often now taken to mitigate such hazards. Again, sorry it must be at such a loss!!!

The search for the missing plane in the Indian Ocean was finally halted as a result of the now remnants of Tropical Cyclone Gillian that I have been reporting on all week and hopefully that will pass entirely and the search may continue after the storm with now gale force winds passes directly over Perth, Australia.

There was a 6.5 Richters Earthquake late last night! UPDATE: "EVALUATION--A DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI WAS NOT GENERATED BASED ON EARTHQUAKE AND HISTORICAL TSUNAMI DATA"--Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC)

There is also a town in Idaho named Chalice where they have also now been getting a lot of earthquakes even as big as 3 Richters and so we should continue to watch, although primary sources of major earthquake energy wane more everyday, we are still only at Day 25 following the landfall of the California Vortex at King City, so we should continue to watch King City, Lone Pine, Las Vegas, Oklahoma, and the Caribbean because we need to follow that potential earthquake energy for a while yet and we know there are still a lot of places shaking so there will remain the chance of something big to shake somewhere, yet, probably into April and especially starting Saturday and through this weekend with the New Moon on Sunday!!! And the 50th Anniversary of the Great Alaska, "Good Friday Earthquake" of 9.2 Richters on March 27, 1964. . . although there are no signs of another 9.2 coming!!! Thank-You Again for Reading! EQ Guy

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