posted 04-20-2002 11:37 AM            

The earthquake hit just before 7 a.m. (1100 GMT) about 15 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Plattsburgh, in northern New York near the Vermont and Canadian borders.

There were no immediate reports of injuries, but the Vermont State Police received calls about cracked foundations and broken windows, and sections of at least two roads collapsed near the epicenter in upstate New York.

Sandy Caligiore, of Lake Placid, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) southwest of Plattsburgh, said he felt the shaking for about 30 seconds. It was so strong, decorations were falling off the walls, he said.

The earthquake was recorded at 6:50 a.m. (1050 GMT), said William Ott, a seismologist at Weston Observatory at Boston College.

He said the quake was "moderate." A typical 5.1 earthquake would cause cracked plaster, broken windows and minor structural damage around the epicenter, he said.

"There are faults all over the northeastern United States," Ott said. "They're not as active as the ones in California, but they're capable of producing earthquakes of this size from time to time."

The largest earthquake recorded in New York, according to the USGS , was a 5.8 magnitude quake in 1944 that was centered in Massena, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the Canadian border.

Reports of the shaking Saturday came from as far away as Baltimore, Toronto and Portland, Maine. The USGS National Earthquake Information Center measured the earthquake's depth at 3.1 miles (5 kilometers).

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posted 04-20-2002 05:51 PM            

AU SABLE FORKS, N.Y. — An earthquake that registered 5.1 on the Richter scale shook the Northeast awake early Saturday, collapsing roads in New York and rattling homes from Maine to Maryland. No injuries were immediately reported.

The quake, centered 15 miles southwest of Plattsburgh, N.Y., left cracks in foundations and chimneys throughout the region, said Ray Thatcher, director of emergency services for Essex County.

"It was shaking pretty good," said Jimmy Mussaw, who said he was standing in a Plattsburgh supermarket just before 7 a.m. when the walls and beams begin to shake. "Everybody was running from the back of the store to the front."

Essex and Clinton counties, near the Vermont and Canada borders, declared states of emergency, and state inspectors were set to the Adirondack region to examine bridges and dams for structural damage. No restrictions were placed on travel, but police were urging drivers to use caution.

William Ott, a seismologist at Weston Observatory at Boston College, said the quake had a magnitude of 5.1, and at least two aftershocks were reported.

He called the earthquake "moderate." A typical magnitude 5.1 earthquake would cause cracked plaster, broken windows and minor structural damage around the epicenter, he said.

The quake broke off a 100-foot section from one road in Ausable, said David Fessette, highway construction supervisor for Clinton County. A crew was filling the area in with limestone Saturday afternoon. Parts of at least two other roads collapsed, and there were several water main breaks in the area.

At Adirondack Mountain Spirits in Ausable, the earthquake rattled liquor bottles off the shelves.

"It was just a mess," said owner Dayle Richards. "Even if they didn't break, they were covered with other debris."

The largest earthquake recorded in New York, according to the USGS, was a 5.8 magnitude quake in 1944 that was centered in Massena, about 3 miles from the Canadian border.

Won Young Kim, a seismologist with the Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, said a magnitude 3.5 quake occurred in the same area on the same day, April 20, two years ago.

"Northern New York is an active area, but most of the earthquakes that occur in the area are smaller," said Frank Revetta, a professor of geology at State University of New York at Potsdam. "Normally you'd got one this big just every 100 years or so.

"During the last two or three years, there haven't been many at all, and I wondered if that meant anything. This might prove the strained energy had not been released, and now it has been."

By several accounts, the shaking lasted about 30 seconds.

Amanda Slattery, of Yorktown Heights just north of New York City, said she was in bed when the temblor struck.

"I could hear the frame of the house shaking," Slattery said. "I lay there long enough to realize it was an earthquake. ... I was relieved when it stop."

Tremors also were felt in Canada, as far east as Boston and Portland, Maine, and as far south as Baltimore.

Carol McDonald of Downingtown, Pa., about 40 northwest of Philadelphia, said she woke up to find the windows of her home rattling. She and her husband grabbed their baby and waited out the tremors.

posted 04-20-2002 09:37 PM            

excerpts from 'Planet earth - the latest weapon of war.' Rosalie Bertell, 2001

(page 99)
..." A United States Senate inquiry into the 28 May fireball over Western Australia took seriously the theory that Russia, known to have investigated Tesla physics, was testing a new superweapon capable of inducing earthquakes a hemisphere away. Some Japanese investigative reporters and Austrailian and American researchers also believe that the russians have had Tesla-type weapons since 1963."...

page 131,132
"On 12 September 1989, megnetometers at Corralitos (near Monterey Bay, in California) detected unusual ultra-low frequency waves between 0.01 Hertz and 10 Hertz. This is the lowest range of ELF waves. These waves grew to about 30 times their first intensity, and finally subsided on 5 October 1989. On 17 october they suddenly appeared again at 2:00pm local time, with signals so strong that they went off the scale. Three hours later the San Fransisco earthquake took place. On 29 March 1992, the Washington Times reported that 'satellites and ground sensors detected mysterious radiowaves or related electrical and magnetic activity before major earthquakes in Southern california during 1986-7, Armenia in 1988, and Japan and Northern California in 1989'. The 17 January 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles was also preceded by unusual radio waves and two sonic booms. These strange 'coincidences' have never been completely explained.

Some recent earthquakes have been significantly different from the so-called 'typical' earthquake. Normally earthquakes occur at about 20 to 25 km below sea level. However, the devastating earthquake in Bolivia on 8 June 1994 took place 600 km below the surface.

While earthquakes have always taken place periodically on the Earth, their number has increased in recent years. Not all of the data we would like is available for each earthquake, since many regions of the world lack the sensitive equipment required, but it seems highly probable that some of these earthquakes have been a result of human activity, not natural forces. In a press briefing on 28 April 1997, United States Secretary of Defense William Cohen commented on new threats possibly held by terrorist organizations: 'Others are engaging in an eco-type terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes, remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.' The military has a habit of accusing others of having capabilities they already hold!"

and on and on

My thanks for Rosalie for the work she has done exposing these things. If I wasn't such a slow typist I'd share more. as it is, her publisher probably isn't thrilled about me freely sharing anyway. so go find this book
isbn 1-55164-182-8

On another note, remember the recent 'quakes in Afghanistan? hmmm?

posted 04-21-2002 09:27 PM               

18th April 2002

18:00 NEAR COAST OF GUERRERO, MEXICO 4.9

18:47 OAXACA, MEXICO 4.3

19:23 NEAR COAST OF NORTHERN CHILE 4.9
20:56 SOUTHERN ITALY 4.5
22:03 NEAR COAST OF NORTHERN CHILE 4.6

22:12 NORTHWESTERN KASHMIR 4.6

22:51 KYUSHU, JAPAN 4.0

23:24 NEAR COAST OF NORTHERN CHILE 4.9

19th April 2002

00:16 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION 5.1

13:46 WESTERN IRAN 5.1

20th April 2002

00:32 SEA OF OKHOTSK 4.4
08:48 TAIWAN REGION 4.9

10:50 NEW YORK 5.1
11:04 NEW YORK 4.0
11:45 NEW YORK 2.6

15:59 FIJI ISLANDS REGION 5.9

16:17 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 3.0
19:59 NEW MADRID, MISSOURI REGION 2.8

21:30 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION 4.7

22:39 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES 5.3

21st April 2002

16:37 OFF COAST OF OREGON 4.1

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/quakexe/quakes

posted 04-22-2002 06:00 PM               

21st APRIL 2002

17:58 NEW CALEDONIA 5.2
19:24 JAVA SEA 5.0
19:34 NORTHEASTERN CHINA 4.9
19:50 NEAR COAST OF GUATEMALA 4.4

20:23 NEAR COAST OF JALISCO, MEXICO 4.4

22:24 NEAR COAST OF NORTHERN PERU 5.2

22nd April 2002

01:56 SOLOMON ISLANDS 5.2
04:07 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS 4.3
04:12 NEAR COAST OF NORTHERN PERU 4.5
15:14 TAIWAN REGION 4.6

19:40 ALASKA PENINSULA 3.8

19:48 NEW BRITAIN REGION, P.N.G. 5.1

posted 05-14-2002 02:27 AM               

GILROY, Calif. (AP) - A substantial earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area on Monday, rattling the stands at hockey and baseball games, sending frightened customers running from area businesses and knocking out phone service in parts of San Jose.

No injuries or significant damage were initially reported from the quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 5.2. But it caused a low rumbling in San Francisco, where it seemed to last for several seconds and get stronger as it went along, and buildings could be heard rumbling in Watsonville, about 100 miles to the south.

The U.S. Geological Service reported that the quake struck at 10 p.m. and was centered 3 miles southwest of Gilroy, outside San Jose.

Danny Sharma, a manager at Rodeway Inn in Gilroy, said the motel shook violently. Coffee pots and glasses were knocked from counters.

``It was the worst one I've ever felt,'' Sharma said. ``The whole building was shaking and there was just this rumbling sound. It was a bad quake.''

The USGS said weak to light trembling was felt for almost 200 miles north to south, from Carmel on the Pacific Coast up to Guerneville, a small town along the Russian River 148 miles north of the quake's epicenter. The quake also was felt to the east, with weak shaking felt in Modesto and Turlock, and a slightly stronger shock felt about 80 miles east in Merced.

People reported a rolling sensation in the Santa Cruz area, where police had calls about wires down. The quake shattered a window in Watsonville, setting off an alarm.
The quake was immediately followed by four earthquakes centered in the same area with magnitudes ranging from 1.4 to 2.5.

Gilroy seemed mostly undisturbed a few minutes after the quake. At a Lenox china outlet store, several broken plates littered the floor, and a few porcelain figurines in a window display had fallen. Most of the china was still intact.

Police in Gilroy said the quake didn't appear to cause any fires and they had no preliminary word of damage.

Customers in nearby businesses ran outside for protection, but no one appeared to be injured, Sharma said. Brent Seidel, a firefighter and paramedic with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said fire engines at the Santa Clara Fire District station in Gilroy rocked back and forth and a firefighter's car alarm sounded, but there was no damage.

As a precaution, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system was slowing trains and checking the tracks for damage.

``It was a pretty good swing,'' said a phone operator at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco who was flooded with calls from guests worried about the shaking. ``One guy on the 15th floor said his room just started swaying.''

The quake jolted the Compaq Center in San Jose, where thousands were watching the San Jose Sharks play the Colorado Avalanche in a National Hockey League playoff game.

The arena's upper stands shook strongly for about 10 seconds, and light fixtures continued to sway for several seconds afterward. The game continued uninterrupted, however.

``Everything was shaking,'' said Michel Goulet, vice president of player personnel for the Avalanche, who was sitting in the stadium's upper level. ``You start thinking, `Should I run or what?' I wasn't sure what to do.''

Though photographers at ice level felt the quake, players on both teams said they didn't even realize there had been a quake until they came off the ice at the end of the third period.

``I didn't feel anything. This building is pretty loud, so it's shaking anyway,'' said Colorado's Milan Hejduk.

The quake also jolted Pacific Bell Park during a game between the Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants.

Glass panes in the front of the press box rattled in the ninth inning, but there was no noticeable reaction from the players or the crowd of 36,331 and play was not interrupted. After the bottom of the ninth ended with the score tied, the stadium sound system played Jerry Lee Lewis' song ``Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On.''

``I was sitting upstairs and it was a good jolt,'' fan Jenny Hsin said. ``At first I thought it was the guy behind me kicking my chair, then I looked and saw the whole row shaking with me. At one point I was going to turn around and tell him to stop. That's when I saw the whole row.''

posted 05-14-2002 04:07 AM            

cool site
http://www.syzygyjob.org/

posted 05-29-2002 12:29 AM               

Strong earthquake rocks Taiwan

A powerful undersea earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan, seismologists said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

The tremor hit around 0:46 am (1646 GMT Tuesday), shaking buildings and waking people from their sleep.

posted 06-14-2002 01:02 AM               

TOKYO (AP) - A strong earthquake jolted Japan's capital Friday. There were no reports of serious damage, but one man was injured by a falling chandelier.

The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2, was strong enough to sway tall buildings in Tokyo and caused a temporary halt to express train service.

A 58-year-old man in the Tokyo suburb of Toride was taken to the hospital after a living room chandelier crashed on his head during the shaking, local fire department spokesman Shoji Sometani said.

A magnitude-5 quake can damage homes if it occurs close to the earth's surface.

Friday's earthquake struck just before noon and was focused about 30 miles underground and about 50 miles north of Tokyo.

Japan's Central Meteorological Agency said there was no danger of tsunami, or ocean waves caused by seismic activity.

posted 06-14-2002 04:18 PM               

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A mild earthquake ( news - web sites) rumbled beneath the desert early Friday near Yucca Mountain, the federal government's proposed site for a nuclear waste repository.

No damage or injuries were immediately reported.The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 and hit about 5:40 a.m., 75 miles northwest of Las Vegas and about 3 miles beneath the surface, said scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo.

Allen Benson, a federal Department of Energy spokesman for the Yucca Mountain project in Las Vegas, told The Associated Press that about 100 scientists and employees at the site on Friday were not reporting any damage.Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is the site that President Bush picked in February to store the nation's spent commercial, industrial and military nuclear waste beginning in 2010.

Benson said that while operations have been scaled back since February, employees and scientists are continuing to monitor scientific studies and a five-mile tunnel bored about 1,000 feet beneath the volcanic ridge.

Nevada opposes the Yucca Mountain project, and Congress is debating whether to override Gov. Kenny Guinn's April veto of the presidential selection.

President Bush in February approved building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, saying 20 years of study had found the ridge of volcanic rock to be a safe place to store nuclear material.

Opponents of the project have cited the possibility of earthquakes as one reason to reject Yucca Mountain as the site.

The waste, expected to remain radioactive for more than 10,000 years, would be buried 1,000 feet below ground. The Energy Department has said the earliest the Yucca facility could open is 2010.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020614/ap_on_re_us/yucca_earthquake_1

posted 06-18-2002 05:51 PM               

EVANSVILLE, Ind.- A moderate earthquake rattled church bells and nerves Tuesday in portions of the Midwest and South, but authorities had no immediate reports of damage.

The quake, which struck at 12:37 p.m. CDT, registered a magnitude of 5.0, said John Bellini with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo.

The epicenter was 10 miles northwest of Evansville, Ind., near the small town of Darmstadt.

"Initially, it was this thunderous noise, and then the actual vibration," said Vicki Stuffle, an employee of Old National Bank in Darmstadt. "We actually saw the building moving."

The quake was hard enough to sound the bells inside a church steeple, she said.

The quake shook buildings in downtown Evansville and was felt in Indiana as far north as South Bend, about 250 miles away. It also was felt in Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.

"An earthquake of this size can typically crack chimneys, knock things off the shelves, and may crack windows," Bellini said. "We wouldn't expect much more than that at the most."

Officials were inundated with calls from people asking about the tremor.

In Louisville, Ky., Jerrod Pratt, who works the night shift at a Ford Co. assembly plant, said the quake shook him from his sleep but didn't appear to damage his house.

"I was laying in my bed and my bed was shaking, my house was shaking," Pratt said. "I looked out my window and my neighbors were all standing outside looking around."

"It was weird," he said. "I'd never experienced anything like that."

Bill Smith, a U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist, said the Wabash Valley region periodically is struck by small earthquakes, typically ones that are not strong enough to be felt.

"This is much larger than average for the region, but not unprecedented," Smith said

The strongest earthquake in the region in the last 100 years happened on Nov. 9, 1968. Centered in south-central Illinois, it had a magnitude of 5.4 and was felt in 23 states.

Maj. Tom Wallis of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Department felt the quake in his office and said authorities were checking bridges and other structures for damage.

posted 06-28-2002 10:39 PM               

A larger view of the map can be seen here at http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/crustal_mag/purucker.gif

This map of the known magnetic anomalies was provided by NASA and one that we use if we see something really unusual on satellite images.

This is the cloud formation in question. A lot of the information was posted on this thread http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000593.html

Well anyway, there was another earthquake.

Earthquake Shakes Northeastern China

The Associated Press
Friday, June 28, 2002; 7:24 PM

BEIJING –– A strong earthquake shook northeastern China early Saturday and was felt as far away as Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

There were no immediate reports of deaths.The magnitude-7 quake struck Jilin province, which borders Russia and North Korea, at 1:19 a.m., Xinhua said, citing the Beijing Seismological Bureau. The area is about 700 miles northeast of the Chinese capital.Xinhua said no damage was immediately reported.

The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., put the preliminary magnitude of the quake at 7.3, while France's national seismic center in Strasbourg said it was 7.2.

It struck an area about 65 miles west of the Russian city of Ussuriysk, the nearest major city, according to the survey.The epicenter was 350 miles below the surface of the earth, said Don Blakeman, an earthquake analyst for the survey. A magnitude-7 quake is capable of causing widespread, heavy damage.

However, Blakeman said, "We expect the quake will be felt very widely but we don't think there will be much destruction because the quake has considerable depth."

A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in Vladivostok said residents of the region felt the quake, but that there were no immediate reports of damage or injury. Vladivostok, about 150 miles northeast of the epicenter, is the major city of that part of Russia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63494-2002Jun28.html

posted 07-03-2002 01:01 AM               

4.5 magnitude quake shakes Mt. Hood

GOVERNMENT CAMP - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 shook the Mount Hood area early Saturday but there were no reports of damage or injuries.

Bill Steele of the University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Seismographic Network said the quake hit at 7:36 a.m. and was centered about three miles south of the summit of Mount Hood and was about four miles deep.

Scientists said the quake was at least partially linked to the fact that Mount Hood is an active volcano, but that it did not presage volcanic activity from the 11,239-foot snow peak 45 miles southeast of Portland.

It was the strongest quake in the area in recent decades, Steele said, and had been followed by hundreds of small aftershocks. "It is reasonable to expect aftershocks of a magnitude of three or greater" within the next few weeks, he said.

Steele said there have been several groups of quakes around the mountain since the 1970s. "This was stronger than any of those," he said.

"It shook the mobile home, the beds, the floors, but obviously there was no damage," Dale Roberts of the Deschutes River town of Maupin east of the mountain said.

Mark Vincent, general manager at the Timberline Lodge ski area on the mountain said the quake registered "a sharp jolt" and a couple of lesser aftershocks. "If you were sitting you might have felt (the aftershocks) but if you were walking you might not have felt them," he said. "We checked out the facilities and everything is fine." A quake of a magnitude of 4 can cause moderate damage in built-up areas. A magnitude of 5 can cause considerable damage.

On May 15 Oregon felt two earthquakes, one measuring 4.3 in the Klamath Falls area and another of a 5.4 magnitude off the coast of Coos Bay. There were no damage or injury reports from either quake.

Steve Malone of the seismographic network said they were still not sure Saturday whether the Mount Hood earthquake was directly related to volcanic activity or related to the movement of the earth's plates and stresses and strains that caused the May earthquakes and the larger Scotts Mills quake in Oregon's Willamette Valley in 1993.

Those quakes, he said "are run of the mill quakes that occur throughout the Pacific Northwest."

"The Mount Hood quake had some characteristics that make it somewhat different from those, but not clearly volcano-related," he said. "It had some characteristics of both types of events." Geologists say Mount Hood has undergone four eruption phases within the past 15,000 years, a blink of an eye in geologic time.

posted 07-31-2002 02:47 AM               

Tuesday, July 30, 2002; 10:04 PM

PANAMA CITY, Panama –– A strong earthquake knocked out power and telephone service in parts of Panama Tuesday, and was also felt in neighboring Costa Rica, authorities reported.

There were no immediate reports of injury.

The quake struck late Tuesday and was centered on Panama's Pacific coast near the border with Costa Rica.

Jaime Toral, an employee of Panama's Geo-Sciences Institute placed the magnitude at 6.0.

The U.S. Geological Survey placed the magnitude at 5.9.The quake caused blackouts in the city of David, located about 25 miles from the epicenter and 200 miles west of Panama City.

posted 08-20-2002 06:29 PM               

Published 12:05 a.m. PDT Tuesday, August 20, 2002
LOS ANGELES (AP) - When the Earth started shaking in Fiji, people and computers thousands of miles away in quake-sensitive Southern California took notice.

The result, a 7.7-magnitude quake centered in the South Pacific was recorded as temblors of magnitude-3.0 or higher Monday morning in the Southern California cities of Bakersfield, Palm Springs and San Bernardino.

The quake had sent such a powerful shock wave across the Pacific that it was automatically recorded on a network of about 300 Southern California seismic monitors, said Kate Hutton, a seismologist with the California Institute of Technology.

The results, recorded at 4:12 .a.m., were automatically posted on a Web site used by both journalists and scientists, where they remained for about four hours.

Seismologists, who can tell the difference between local and foreign temblors by the patterns they make on computerized recordings, realized the error when they came to work, Hutton said.

The monitors often record foreign quakes but they don't usually trigger the automatic program, she added.

There were no immediate reports of any damage or casualties from the quake near Fiji, which was very deep in the Earth's crust.

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On the Net:

Earthquake information: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

posted 09-08-2002 09:43 PM               

Friday, September 6, 2002; 4:48 AM

ROME –– A 5.6-magnitude earthquake followed by several aftershocks rocked Sicily early Friday, injuring three people and damaging some buildings in the capital, Palermo, officials said.

The Italian news agency ANSA said two elderly people died of heart attacks as an indirect result of the quake.

The quake had its epicenter about 25 miles northeast of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea, said Mario Cerrone, an engineer with the Palermo department of civil protection.

The U.S. National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colo. estimated the preliminary magnitude at 6.1, but the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology in Rome put it at 5.6, he said.

It lasted about 20-30 seconds, and was followed by two large aftershocks and several smaller ones. One of the largest aftershocks was registered five hours after the initial tremor struck.

Cerrone said some buildings in Palermo's historic center suffered some damage, with parts of the masonry falling off.

Three buildings with some of the heaviest damage were evacuated as a precaution, ANSA said.Farther east, a 5.4-magnitude quake rattled the western Aegean Sea on Friday, but no injuries or damage were reported, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said.

The quake, which occurred at 1:19 a.m., had a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 and was felt in Athens, Greece. It had an epicenter under the seabed 70 miles northeast of the Greek capital, between the islands of Skyros and Evia, the institute said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A44353-2002 Sep6

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THIS TSUNAMI ADVISORY BULLETIN IS FOR ALASKA, BRITISHWEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWSISSUED 09/08/2002 AT 2027 UTC...THIS TSUNAMI ADVISORY BULLETIN IS FOR ALASKA, BRITISHCOLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, OREGON, AND CALIFORNIA ONLY...NO - REPEAT NO - WATCH OR WARNING IS IN EFFECT.

EARTHQUAKE DATA:

PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE: 7.7

LOCATION: 3.3S 143.1E - NEAR N COAST OF NEW GUINEA, PNG.

TIME: 1044 ADT 09/08/20021144 PDT 09/08/20021844 UTC 09/08/2002

EVALUATION:BASED ON THE LOCATION, MAGNITUDE AND HISTORICAL RECORDS,THE EARTHQUAKE WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO GENERATE A TSUNAMI DAMAGINGTO CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA OR ALASKA.

SOME AREAS MAY EXPERIENCE SMALL SEA LEVEL CHANGES.

A FEW SELECTED ETA'S FOLLOW FOR INFORMATION AND REFERENCE:

LA JOLLA, CA 0215 PDT SEP 9
TOFINO, BC 0135 PDT SEP 9
SAN FRANCISCO,CA 0149 PDT SEP 9
SITKA, AK 2331 ADT SEP 8
CRESCENT CITY,CA 0123 PDT SEP 9
KODIAK, AK 2250 ADT SEP
8NEAH BAY, WA 0141 PDT SEP 9
SHEMYA, AK 1947 ADT SEP 8

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER AT EWA BEACH, HAWAII WILLISSUE BULLETINS FOR OTHER AREAS OF THE PACIFIC.

BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY TO KEEP YOU INFORMED OF THE PROGRESS OF THIS EVENT UNTIL THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER ISSUES A CANCELLATION OR FINAL BULLETIN.

REFER TO THE INTERNET SITE HTTP://WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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