6.8 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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Magnitude 6.8
Date-Time Friday, February 08, 2008 at 09:38:14 UTC
Friday, February 08, 2008 at 06:38:14 AM at epicenter

Location 10.703°N, 41.879°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

Distances
1530 km (950 miles) NNE of Belem, Para, Brazil
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 6.6 km (4.1 miles); depth fixed by location program

Parameters
Nst=126, Nph=126, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.91 sec, Gp= 58°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7

Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2008nean

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nean.php
 
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6.8 magnitude quake strikes ocean east of French Guiana

6.8 magnitude quake strikes ocean east of French Guiana

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 19:09:00 02/08/2008

WASHINGTON -- An earthquake measuring 6.8 struck in the Atlantic Ocean early Friday, hundreds of kilometers (miles) off the northern coast of Brazil and French Guiana, the US Geological Survey reported.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was a small possibility a local tsunami could hit coasts in countries within and bordering the Caribbean Sea, but ruled out "a destructive, widespread tsunami threat."

The quake struck at 0938 GMT, at a depth of 10 kilometers (six miles) along the northern mid-Atlantic ridge.

Its epicenter was located 1,316 kilometers (818 miles) east-northeast of Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana, and 1,530 kilometers (950 miles) north-northeast of the coastal city of Belem, in Para state, Brazil, it said.

"A destructive widespread tsunami threat does not exist based on historical earthquake and tsunami data," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a bulletin issued shortly after the quake.

"However, there is a small possibility of a local tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a hundred kilometers from the earthquake epicenter," it said.

It said the statement pertained to countries within and bordering the Caribbean sea, except for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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Hey, take a look at all that activity on Puerto Rico... or near the isle anyway.. small, but it's looking like the Aleutians... interesting anyway.
 
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Gdpetti, thanks for pointing that activity out. I try to pay attention to activity like that no matter what the size of the quakes are. Usually, here in MO we only have "little quakes" for the most part, but we both know what the New Madrid is capable of. Besides, we had a 2.9 a few years back that was scary and it was only a 2.9.

Do you know if Puerto Rico usually has activity like that? I don't usually pay attention to that area.
 
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The more we pay attention, the more we notice and then we give events meaning in our lives.... even that 2.9 can be an alarm bell ringing for areas that never get them.... at least if the 2.9 is a harbinger of bigger ones that follow... leading to a major event.... it seems that all such activity is increasing in a parabolic form... which doesn't decrease until we get pass the catalyst causing the occurence.... said to be this 3d to 4d shift in the planet's EM grid... coming soon... 2012 at the lastest... or so it is said and prophecied for eons.... this 'wave' approaching like a wave at sea upon the shore... ready or not, here it comes!
 
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