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 …

The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on January 12, 2010. An estimated three million people were affected by the quake; the Haitian Government reported that an estimated 230000 people had died, 300000 had been injured and 1000000 made homeless. Betwa Sharma has traveled the earthquake-hit nation and filed this report.

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Donation Links: United States www.redcross.org (the Red Cross) www.americares.org (AmeriCares) doctorswithoutborders.org (Docs w/o Border) United Kingdom www.redcross.org.uk (Red Cross) Tax deductible (US, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, Newzeland, Hong Kong, Japan) www.wfp.org Netherlands www.giro555.nl ((SHO): Giro 555) I made this video as an urgent call for Haiti relief. It took me quite a while to find non-graphic non-bloody images of quake victims because almost all the images were un-presentably graphic. My Haitian friends and their families are all safe. But their friends were not as lucky as ‘em and some lost the whole family. If I hear of any local charities or church humanitarian operations, I will let you all know. For now, please make donation to the Red Cross or AmeriCares. I donated to Red Cross and Help Earthquake survivors in Haiti on Facebook Causes. It’s quite easy to donate to Red Cross. Text “90999″ and will be given automatically to the Red Cross, charged to your cell phone bill. Facebook causes require a credit card. www.americares.org Please also share Haiti Relief efforts/ charities information from your country with me so I can post their information here. That way people watching this video can donate to those non-profits charities if they lived within that region. Some countries are not just lucky and Haiti is one of them. Finding survivors from debris is over. Now, it is about keeping those alive survive for another day, another week …

UPDATE APR. 6: INDONESIA’s Sumatra Island rocked by 7.7 Earthquake UPDATE APR. 4: BAJA, CALIFORNIA hit by 7.2 Earthquake. MAR. 11: CHILE is rocked by a stunning 7.2 AFTERSHOCK during today’s presidential inauguration. It’s also reported much of HAITI’s best + brightest of this generation, who were dedicated to helping the rebuilding process, perished. Many more are forced to leave the homeland they love as the conditions there makes it increasingly impossible to live there . UPDATE MAR. 8: AN 6.0 EARTHQUAKE HITS OKCULAR, TURKEY. OVER 50 AFTERSHOCKS IN THE 5.3 – 5.5 RANGE FOLLOWS. UPDATE: TAIWAN also experiences a devastating earthquake! UPDATE MAR. 1: SOMOS EL MUNDO is a WONDERFUL SPANISH VERSION OF WE ARE THE WORLD UNITING ANOTHER BRANCH OF GREAT INTERNATIONAL SINGERS. UPDATE FEB. 27: AN 8.8 EARTHQUAKE ROCKS CHILE UPDATE FEB. 23: AFTERSHOCK OF 4.7 HITS HAITI. MORE INSTABILITY ENSUES. UPDATE FEB. 12: WE ARE THE WORLD 25 FOR HAITI PREMIERES ON NBC WINTER OLYMPICS UPDATE FEB. 3: SIMON COWELL ORGANIZES AN ALL-STAR BENEFIT RECORDING OF REM’s “EVERYBODY HURTS”. UPDATE JAN. 28: HOPE FOR HAITI DEBUTS #1 ON THE BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART UPDATE: JAN. 25th, RADIOHEAD raises more than 0000.00 FOR THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF. UPDATE JAN. 22: KIRK FRANKLIN & FRIENDS PREMIERES “ARE YOU LISTENING: A LOVE SONG TO HAITI” DURING A ONE HOUR GOSPEL SPECIAL. UPDATE JAN. 20: HAITI HIT BY NEW 6.1 EARTHQUAKE The Haiti Earthquake event during the last 4 days has been a rush of emotions …

This update covers the 5 top stories for YWAM Haiti in February. It shows: -How YWAM’s long standing work in Haiti gives them the platform to distribute food from the World Food Program. -The Mercy Trucks ambulance serves as a mobile clinic in Port-au-Prince -A supernatural healing by kids helping out around the New Beginnings clinic -the 3 days of prayer and repentance by Haitians who want to see a new beginning in Haiti -The long term plan of tent communties and how you could get involved in the near future Youth With A Mission began it’s first base in Haiti in 1991 in the city of Saint Marc. Since then, YWAM Haiti has grown to play a significant role in the city, doing projects such as sanatizing the beef market and building housing for the homeless out in the province. The vision has aways been the same from its 1st founding: to turn Haiti into a blessing! Based off of the Bible scripture in Zech. 8:13, YWAM looks for ways to not just preach or fill a humanitarian need, but to create the spiritual change needed to free this nation. For decades YWAM has recieved humanitarian aid, but without the spiritual change Haiti has remained the poorest nation of the Western Hemisphere. We believe that only through God can this nation change from a curse, to a blessing! Stay up to date on what Youth With A Mission is doing in Haiti by visiting www.ywamhaiti.org

Many of the injured in Port-au-Prince, Haiti are trapped in devastated neighborhoods without adequate access to healthcare. Byron Pitts reports city’s largest hospital has become a makeshift morgue.

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**AVAILABLE on iTunes** Original song written by AHMIR Lyrics: Verse 1: My whole world just started spinning, things that used to work for me no longer work Feels like I’m back at the beginning of a long race Trapped inside this long face and sometimes it hurts Life has a way of shaping us and molding us Breaking then consoling us, I’m just barely holding up But I know I gotta grow up, I just wish it wasn’t so tough But all in all, there’s nothing like the comfort of home… Chorus: There’s no place like home, Everything’s so new, really takes some getting used to, There’s no place like home, Feeling so alone, out here on my own, There’s no place like home, Gotta clear my mind, make it worth my time, There’s no place like home, But there’s so much here for me, I just gotta believe in me… Verse 2: Feels like these walls are closing in on me, I just wanna give up, but that ain’t my style, Know there’s a lesson here, but i can’t see, Know there’s a better way, a better card to play, Does anybody out there feel my pain, Does anybody out there know my name? Or am i just the invisible one, Caught up in memories and visuals of home? Chorus Bridge: I understand there’s a reason, for the things I’m going through, But I must admit it’d be easier, if I knew exactly what to do, The more I keep on moving forward, keep on moving onward the more I see, There’s no palce like home, and though I’m moving on, I know home will always be in me…. Chorus If youd like to help, you can take …

Thanks to RussiaToday www.youtube.com rt.com Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has accused the United States of causing Haiti’s disastrous earthquake. He says the US navy launched a weapon capable of inducing a powerful earthquake off the shore of Haiti. He adds that this time it was only a drill and the final target is to take over Iran.