UPDATE: 3.3 Richters Strikes Connecticut, 24 Miles West of Providence and maybe 50 Miles East of Hartford, and New Haven! At 6:36am Eastern Time, Here's the Felt Report: http://eqalert.blogspot.com/2015/01/33-richters-earthquake-strikes.html NOW Todays EQ Blog:
Just occurred to me over the weekend that one other earthquake that struck in the day range we are approaching was the now Great Honshu Japan Earthquake-Tsunami of 2011. So I went back and searched the basic information on that and found landfall of Cyclone Yasi at Queensland, Australia was on February 2, 2011 and the Honshu, Japan Earthquake was on March 11, 2011 or Day 37 after that landfall. Day 37 after landfall of Typhoon Hagupit at Philippines will be Tuesday of this week.
Lots of earthquakes seem to be striking at the Mid-Atlantic and one that looks like it is shaking at the same time on the other side of the Continent of Africa. At least one up in the region around Iceland, too, but that might otherwise be considered usual if it wasn't happening in the middle of all this other stuff.
My regular readers know that I have been routinely keeping track of everything that goes on with the Golden Gate Bridge. Well, this weekend as a lot of you know that bridge was closed much of the time to install a new barrier between inbound and outbound traffic. Writing about it here today because it is my opinion there could NOW be an issue with how much ADDITIONAL WEIGHT might be involved with all the new concrete they are installing!!! Here's the LINK to that story@ http://news.yahoo.com/golden-gate-bridge-closes-install-collision-barrier-082741256.html At the end of that story you might notice it was closed one other time in 1987 a few hours to celebrate the 50th Anniversary, but my question in brief today is if they celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1987. . . then exactly how old are those cables that are supposed to be "Suspending" this bridge up in the air above San Francisco Bay? And did the engineers calculate all the additional weight of all those concrete barriers before installing them because it does not look like too good of an idea to me to be installing MORE concrete out in the middle of a 2000 foot span of steel that is only being supported by two cables that now appear to be going on something like 75 years old? Today we are now forced by laws to replace any such cables when they reach like five years of age including the cables we use for rigging and lifting of the heaviest of objects. . . not sure what the reason is that they seem to NOT have to replace those cables EVER!? This is at least partly due to having worked out there for all the contractors at one time and was one of the guys who always hoped for such a Great Job!!!
Moving on, here is the now updated complete list of countries from my "Performance Page" and that entire list of countries so far is: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Russia, Romania, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Japan, Egypt, Hong Kong, Singapore, Slovenia, Antilles, Malta, Romania, Malaysia, Guam, Philippines, France, Germany, Poland, New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa, Kenya, Nepal, Indonesia, India, Canada, Haiti, Chile, Australia, and Jamaica. I'll keep this list updated at this location through late January, too, and will see if it grows at all or not.
So, let's watch as Day 37 approaches on Tuesday because there is probably still one Major Earthquake-Tsunami awaiting! The occasion of that Japan Earthquake-Tsunami was also eerily similar to this occasion in that it seemed rather quiet at the time. . . all except for ME, continuing to be watching!!!!! EQ Guy
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