Published: August 23, 2010 from Barkley32002 Noticing a Magnitude-8.0 Earthquake Months Later Noticing a Magnitude-8.0 Earthquake Months Later To the amazement of seismologists, they missed a magnitude-8.0 earthquake last year. “It is sort of shocking,” said Thorne Lay, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led a team that uncovered the seismic fingerprints months later. “If we hadn’t done the careful analysis, we would have missed it.” Magnitude-8 earthquakes are known as great earthquakes for their ferocious destructive power, and networks of seismometers can pinpoint much smaller earthquakes. In this case, however, the great earthquake was hidden by a greater quake. The greater earthquake, of magnitude 8.1, struck Sept. 29, 2009, off the Samoa Islands in the Pacific. That in itself was a surprise to seismologists, because there have not been any known magnitude-8 earthquakes around the Tonga trench, where the Pacific plate slips beneath the Australian plate, leading seismologists to believe that the fault there is well lubricated and does not build up enough stress to generate great earthquakes. Still, the two tectonic plates are speeding toward each other there faster than anywhere else in the world, some 10 inches a year. The resulting tsunami, which swept into Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, killing more than 100 people, also puzzled scientists. The magnitude-8.1 earthquake did not occur at the plate boundary …

Update to the previous Haiti Earthquake video. More evidence pointing to a man-made creation instead of just chance. You decide! Please watch the entire clip to get all of the facts. Supporting evidence: thepowerhour.com

Haiti was a poor country to begin with, but when the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck in January, the devastation was beyond belief. More than a million homeless and the death toll and injuries exstensive. Hôpital Lumière Dr. Rudolph Richeme, who who lived through the horror, talks about where things stand seven months later in Haiti in this edition of FOX Toledo Talk Back.

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About 5 pm on September 30th, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck just offshore of the town of Padang in Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake toppled buildings and started many landslides, smashing homes and swallowing up entire villages. 1115 people are known to have died, an additional 3000 have been injured. Please visit the incredible photoblog of Alan Taylor at www.boston.com

ISRAELI AID TO HAiTi (EARTHQUAKE)

The President expresses his condolences to the people of Haiti after a devastating earthquake and promises a swift, coordinated effort to aid rescue efforts and provide humanitarian relief. January 13, 2010.

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