Medium strength quake hits near Venezuela coast

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

Fri Jan 15, 2010 1:24pm ESTCARACAS (Reuters) - A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Venezuela near the small Caribbean coastal town of Carupano, the United States Geological Survey said on Friday.

Initial USGS reports had put the quake at 5.7 magnitude.

The quake, at a relatively shallow depth of 7.3 miles, happened 24 miles southwest of Carupano and was felt in Puerto La Cruz, where state oil company PDVSA has a refinery.

No damage was initially reported.




Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E4M920100115

[Baclava]

1. It's all coming apart at the seams

[dipsydoodle]

3. Quite amazing picture that

Apparently you only live about 3 inches or so away from me.

[Grey]

4. That is an excellent map...

nt

[lib2DaBone]

5. Thanks for the map... very informative

This is like the "Ring of Fire" in the Pacific Basin...

With all of our National Guard troops shipped away fighting the MIC wars in the mideast... I shudder to think of what the USA might look like after a major earthquake.

Probably.. much like Haiti.

[Baclava]

10. The "Ring of Fire" volcanoes run along the same boundary cracks in the crust

We're just floating along for the ride.

[Joanne98]

6. I'm stealing your map.

:P

[Baclava]

8. 'Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.' - Ferengi Rules of Acquisition # 9

Enjoy

[Joanne98]

9. LOL

:hi:

[WriteDown]

2. The U.S. gov't has its earthquake machine fully operational now. nt

[Joanne98]

7. That's what I was thinking.

[Joanne98]

11. UPDATE 1-Magnitude 5.6 quake shakes Venezuela coast town

Source: Reuters


CARACAS, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Venezuela near the small Caribbean coastal town of Carupano, the United States Geological Survey said on Friday.

The quake, at a relatively shallow depth of 7.3 miles (12 km), was centered about 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Carupano and was felt in Puerto La Cruz, where state oil company PDVSA has a refinery.

PDVSA said it had no immediate reports of damage.

"Everyone felt it. People are very alarmed," a resident of Puerto La Cruz, Maria de los Angeles Rondon, told Reuters by telephone.

Radio reports said the tremor was felt in a wide area stretching to the Caribbean island of Margarita, a popular holiday destination for European tourists.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1516160820100115?type=marketsNews

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Makes ya wonder about the HAARP CT's....

[lib2DaBone]

12. Sounds like Mother Nature is trying to send a message to the chumps in Washington...

..then again.. maybe we are the chumps for letting them get away with what the have for the last 30 years.

[naaman fletcher]

13. huh?

Mother Nature is kind of a bitch if she is setting off earth quakes in places other than the US in order to punish the US.

[flyarm]

14. +2 n/t

[Sans Culottes]

15. If *ONLY*

they hadn't signed that pact with Satan!


:cry:

[bitchkitty]

16. Pat Robertson will be all over this.

I hope nobody is seriously injured.

[w8liftinglady]

17. Ok...is there a correlation?

http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/gas_oil.html#gasHaiti
Oil and gas industry in Haiti

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/Venezuela/Oil.html
Oil and gas production in venezuela...

http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/06/25/at-fault-does-drilling-cause-earthquakes/
At Fault: Does Drilling Cause Earthquakes?

[Peace Patriot]

21. Interesting notion. Hadn't thought of that. And I didn't know there is a big oil & gas industry in

Haiti. That explains a lot--100 years of interference by the U.S. and even more by France/EU. Somebody commented at DU the other day that Haiti has "no strategic importance." I figure: massive interference = strategic importance to somebody for something! (slave labor? proximity to Cuba? whatever...). Now I have more of clue.

Worth quoting...

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It's June 10, 2008 and for over four years now, since the 2004 Bush regime change in Haiti began, I have pretty much been begging folks concerned with Haitian development to help HLLN discover what the US is really doing in Haiti, with Haiti's natural resources. Especially Haiti’s oil and gas reserves, which we've been given information to believe is located in La Gonave, Ile-à-Vache, Cayes, and that there are gas/oil reserves near Aquin, Haiti. (LINKS AT THE SITE) See, Map of mining resources in Haiti and showing five oil/gas sites in Haiti; Drill, and then pump the oil of Haiti!; Oil in Haiti; Digging up Haiti; Haitian Riches ; Haiti lignite/coal mine in Hinche at Matraco-Colorado Haiti Projects; Hidalgo Mining International; Eurasian Minerals Acquires two Gold Projects in Haiti; Copper Mining in Haiti /KWG Resources Inc. - Haiti: Copper Values from Drilling of the Douvray Porphyry Copper Deposit.) We have even been given information to suggest that the oil reserves located in Haiti are being tapped into from outside of Haiti, from Guantanamo Bay by the US. And given some indication that the head of the oil reserves that feed Venezuela comes, originates out of Haitian territory. Moreover, knowledgeable Haitians tell there are many sites in Haiti with black stones that when tested are oil deposits. These black stones are often found littering the beaches of La Gonave. These same Haitians tell of US boats drilling and sucking out Haiti's resources, such as the sulfur of TiTanyen. (Source: Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network members, June 17, 2008.)

According to the testimony of another Ezili HLLNetwork member, "One Haitian fisherman on the North area has been requested to bring back from Haiti's ocean floor some algaes that are used in medicine only found in Haiti. The people came back for more and depleted the area, he told me." The same Network member stated "I was told by Italian marble exporters that the best marble is from Haiti and when they get it there, no one really knows because it is sold by private elite organization ...Further it has been said that in remote areas of Haiti there are metal plaques engraved, 'Property of the US government.'"

http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/gas_oil.html#gasHaiti

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I don't know enough about geology to know if oil drilling could affect the movement of tectonic plates and cause earthquakes, or make earthquakes more frequent or of worse magnitude. It seems logical that sucking large quantities of anything out of the earth's crust--oil, gas, water--might do so, as well as large blasting activities (such as nuclear bomb testing), and--who knows?--maybe even the weight of a city (roads, buildings, constant rumble of traffic) might trigger pressure points. I just don't know.

[damntexdem]

18. Hey, what's happening to the world? It's not 2012 yet!

;-)

[Baclava]

22. Better check Edgar Casey's Earth Changes map

[cbgb2112]

19. Shaking us off...

Like fleas from a dog's back.

[Baclava]

24. We obviously need more virgin sacrifices to the underlords

This shit ain't working

[TexasObserver]

20. Recommend

[gauguin57]

23. Always lots of quakes on the map (today's are in red)

[Baclava]

25. That's why I like pictures - we are all so visual.

I've stayed away from living on the cracks as much as I can.