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August 13th, 2010
05:46 PM ET
USGS: 7.2 quake strikes near Marianas
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has struck south of the Mariana Islands, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The Mariana Islands - an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean - are made up of two U.S. territories, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The islands sit about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a tsunami warning after the quake, which struck at 7:19 a.m. Saturday (5:19 p.m. ET Friday).
2012 is on its way....
and after that 2013, and 2014, retc
Bob you my friend are a clown
Hahaha Bob...you got that right!!!!
We all need to pray and hope to God that these natural disasters reduce... We hold hands with those affected and may the soul of the departed (if any) rest in peace.
Oh right, let's PRAY away the natural disasters... not take steps to fix global warming...
The Marianas Islands are locate id the Pacific Ocean near the equator. The island in the area most people are familiar with is Guam.
Anybody check and see if HAARP was "working" today?
Better not be the John I know.
HAARP. Time to move on.
Yikes – is it still Friday the 13th there? – All kidding aside, it's scary. I hope it was far enough from the islands to spare those who live there.... and that they won't have a tsunami.
Guam is in the Marianas
because this quake is in the middle of nowhere and a 7.2 probably wont create enough wave action to push up a tsunami worth mentioning on islands 100 miles away.
according to USGS there is no tsunami warning issued.
I'm glad they posted such a detailed report.
No Tsunami reported from Hawaii Sunami Center
I just gave more news about this than CNN lol
Per USGS website:
NO DESTRUCTIVE WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON
HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.
HOWEVER – EARTHQUAKES OF THIS SIZE SOMETIMES GENERATE LOCAL
TSUNAMIS THAT CAN BE DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS LOCATED WITHIN
A HUNDRED KILOMETERS OF THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. AUTHORITIES
IN THE REGION OF THE EPICENTER SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS
POSSIBILITY AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION.
I'm from Guam, but living in Sacramento, CA, and I've been on the islands main website (KUAM news) and it hasn't been updated as of yet, but we've experienced earthquakes almost on a daily basis when I was living there.
http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.2010.08.13.212902
According to the offical report, there doesn't seem to be a sunami threat related to the earthquake
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010zxcf.php