UPDATE: 6.0 Richters 255 Miles North of Juneau, Alaska! INFO @ http://eqalert.blogspot.com/2014/07/60-richters-strikes-255-miles-north-of.html NOW Todays EQ Blog:
Although the information that I've seen so far does not exactly indicate as bad of overall damage as I might have thought, for now let us start watching thinking it could be that next 8 Magnitude Earthquake that does a real lot of damage somewhere. Took a good deal of time to cross the Philippines and all that amount of time when all totaled, similar to the amount of time Hurricane Katrina churned across the south, equals the amount of time overall that somebody is going to be shaking! That list contained places such as Bangladesh, and Nepal where a Major Earthquake this big will sure be noticeable as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan where another big line of earthquake energy posted as 6.6 will be crossing, but having had some time to ponder this one am now thinking maybe the crossing effect will not be so bad if Rammasun turns out not to have left all that much damage behind. We will have to see what the total amount of damage from that giant landfall and crossing of Manila from Typhoon Rammasun comes to, first, then assess the amount of possible earthquake energy we might be looking at. For now expect a big earthquake!
I received a Twitter Message from a person in Philippines who sent me along a reminder that there had already been a devastating "E-Quake" as he called it, on July 16, 1990 and so I looked it up and found a very bad 7.8 Richters Earthquake there with a 125 Kilometer long rupture in the Philippine Fault System at Luzon where 1621 people were killed and destroyed many buildings. So, my regular readers already now automatically know the next thing I'm going to be doing is looking up the Typhoon that most likely preceded this Major Earthquake. Well it looks like Typhoon Percy made landfall at Luzon on June 27, 1990 with 135mph winds and this earthquake then struck on Day-19 after that landfall as well as Typhoon Ofelia which also struck basically the same region about 10 days earlier!
So, with that said, we should probably now add Philippines to the list where this upcoming Major Earthquake might strike! Looking at the names of the other places where the earthquake energy will be passing and I suppose we should stress earthquake preperation for all of these places during the days we have to wait.
Currently now updating my book "Earthquake Memoirs" and am reviewing the earthquake stuff that has happened since about the year 2011 and just a matter of how I go about an update, but am leaning towards a whole additional chapter, it's just that I also sort of want to wait and see if Rammasun will yet become a part of that update!!! Lots of other EQ Alerts currently going on so be watching and be prepared, everybody!!! EQ Guy
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