Friday, April 11, 2008

Hey Son, Are you ready to rumble?

My son is currently living and working in Eugene, Oregon. I hope he keeps his eyes open:

Swarm of Earthquakes Detected Off Oregon

There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport. The biggest was magnitude 5.4 and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, OSU reported. They have not followed the typical pattern of a major shock followed by a series of diminishing aftershocks, and few have been strong enough to be felt on shore.

It looks like what happens before a volcanic eruption, except there are no volcanoes in the area, Dziak said.


Yet. He should have added, “yet” to the end of that sentence.

Here’s a map of the area.


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