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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Three portable seismographs will be installed in the Challis area in central Idaho to help experts better understand a recent flurry of earthquakes.
Harley Benz, scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center, said scientists decided Tuesday to put in the devices. One of them should be in place by Wednesday and two more within a week to record future earthquakes.
"It certainly has gotten the attention of the state and our regional partners," Benz said. "So what we're trying to do is put in an array to get a better feel for the location of the events and the depths and the rate of activity."
The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a sequence of quakes rumbling the area, the largest of them being a 4.1-magnitude quake on Thursday, a 4.9 quake on Sunday and a 4.4 on Monday. Smaller quakes have also been recorded, including five on Monday ranging from 2.5 to 3.3 in magnitude. Three of the quakes took place within a 40-minute span starting about 9:12 p.m. Monday.
Probably just the fault that runs under the college's nuclear power plant in Austin acting up. It's been quiet for a long time.
Just trying to rile up the Texans on the site.
A warning issued today by the Ministry of the Russian Federal for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM) has advised the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (WOVO) that a "Red Alert" status level for the Borah Peak Mountain in Idaho (North America/United States) may be warranted in the coming weeks due to increased volcanic-seismic activity detected by both ground and satellite observations.
This is the second such warning issued by EMERCOM this year and follows their 24 January prediction that an earthquake and ensuing tsunami are expected to strike off the southwestern coast of Sakhalin Island, to the north of the epicenter of the 2 August 2007 6.2 magnitude earthquake in the town of Nevelsk that had, likewise, been successfully predicted by Russian scientists.
Important to note about EMERCOM predictions is that unlike their Western counterparts, Russian scientists suggest four new techniques for long-range prediction of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, which are universal and can be applied to all of the regions of the earth. This type of forecasting has no psychic aspects to it at all, and is called "phase trajectory technique." It concerns a simultaneous analysis of periodic and quasi-periodic space rhythms, which involve many factors that have a great effect on these terrible formations, including but not limited to lunar tides and solar cycles.
The "Red Alert" status for Borah Peak Mountain (the largest in Idaho), this report states, means that an eruption is forecast to be imminent with significant emission of ash into the atmosphere likely.
The Blood Moon is set to appear three more times in the next 18 months, according to NASA scientists.
The next total eclipse and subsequent Blood Moon will appear on October 8, followed by the same event appearing on April 4 2015 and September 28 2015.
Four Blood Moons in a row are an incredibly rare astrological event and some religious extremists believe it heralds the end of the world.
2manyholes
It appears that it is unusual enough that Russia is concerned. Source
DATE-(UTC)-TIME* LAT LONG DEP MAG Q GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION/COMMENTS
yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss deg. deg. km Ml
________ ________ ______ _______ ____ ___ _ ______________________________
________ ________ ______ _______ ____ ___ _ ______________________________
14/04/13 00:04:39 44.62N 114.33W 3.5 4.7 D 15.8 km NW of Challis, ID; Felt V
14/04/12 13:06:19 44.57N 114.30W 9.2 3.5 C 10.2 km NW of Challis, ID; Felt III
14/04/12 07:20:19 46.47N 111.32W 14.1 1.5 D 23.2 km NE of Townsend
14/04/12 00:07:38 44.64N 112.47W 9.7 0.9 C 8.6 km WSW of Lima Dam
14/04/12 00:05:51 44.64N 112.51W 6.9 1.1 B 6.1 km E of Lima
14/04/11 14:19:00 44.55N 114.30W 10.9 2.7 C 8.7 km NW of Challis, ID
14/04/11 10:15:57 47.71N 113.90W 6.4 0.7 B 18.8 km E of Polson
14/04/11 06:25:28 47.88N 114.11W 4.2 0.0 B 5.8 km ESE of Rollins
14/04/10 23:54:05 44.58N 112.50W 9.5 1.8 B 8.8 km SE of Lima
14/04/10 22:35:46 44.58N 112.50W 8.4 1.4 B 9.4 km SE of Lima
14/04/10 19:11:39 47.72N 113.87W 5.4 0.0 C 21.6 km E of Polson
14/04/10 17:09:08 47.69N 112.49W 17.7 1.6 D 24.5 km NNW of Augusta
14/04/10 12:26:01 44.58N 114.29W 11.7 2.0 C 10.8 km NNW of Challis, ID
14/04/10 12:21:33 44.60N 114.33W 6.6 4.2 D 14.0 km NW of Challis, ID; Felt IV
14/04/10 08:23:03 44.85N 111.49W 7.2 0.8 B 3.2 km NE of Cliff Lake
14/04/10 08:21:12 47.33N 113.16W 16.6 1.1 C 30.8 km NE of Seeley Lake
14/04/10 02:46:34 44.57N 114.29W 11.7 2.4 C 9.2 km NW of Challis, ID
14/04/09 14:35:11 47.63N 113.58W 7.2 0.4 D 15.4 km NE of Condon
14/04/09 08:46:34 45.70N 112.40W 9.1 0.7 B 10.7 km WNW of Silver Star
14/04/09 05:54:54 43.23N 110.80W 9.4 2.9 B 11.6 km SW of Hoback Jct, WY
14/04/09 05:04:20 45.00N 111.90W 7.1 0.6 C 29.3 km SW of Cameron
14/04/09 02:33:59 44.65N 110.44W 5.2 2.5 C 10.6 km SSE of Canyon Jct, YNP; UUSS
14/04/08 22:00:48 45.04N 112.78W 9.3 1.0 C 7.7 km ENE of Clark Canyon Dam
14/04/08 20:59:13 44.58N 114.31W 8.1 2.4 C 11.8 km NW of Challis, ID
14/04/08 14:42:37 47.22N 114.13W 11.3-0.1 B 5.6 km SSE of Ravalli
14/04/08 10:22:03 44.79N 111.64W 6.7 1.0 B 10.8 km WSW of Cliff Lake
FlyersFan
Well ... seriously though ... there's nothing about earthquakes on the USGS Earthquake map ...
I'm thinking it didn't happen.