Swarm of quakes 15 miles off south Oregon coast
Six since 4:50 this afternoon, the biggest a 3.0, 20 miles southwest of Gold Beach.
UPDATE, 9:57 a.m.: There were two more overnight, for a total of eight.
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Comments (7)
Doesn't bode well for old nuclear plants.
Posted by class clown | July 31, 2012 11:46 PM
Is that where in the 50s we sunk barges loaded with Hanford waste?
Posted by Abe | August 1, 2012 7:55 AM
jack,
I'm constantly amazed that you seem unaware of the Cascadia subduction zone right off the Oregon coast. It's one of the biggest fault lines in the world, where two of the earth's plates come together.
We're due for a big quake soon (geologically seaking)
Posted by T | August 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Looking at the Coast Range and the Cascades, I only wonder whether that "big quake soon" occurs over tens of years or thousands of years.
My preference is millimeters of movement over millions of years.
Posted by Mike (one of the many) | August 1, 2012 10:35 AM
I'm constantly amazed that you seem unaware of the Cascadia subduction zone right off the Oregon coast. It's one of the biggest fault lines in the world, where two of the earth's plates come together.
We're due for a big quake soon (geologically s[p]eaking)
Ohhh, there goes that pesky Blanco Fracture Zone, again! A cute little rift perpendicular to the Cascadian Subduction zone, but little threat to us in the Valley.
Could that stimulate the economy of Coos Bay? Supersede the tweaker economy? Of course the rumblings of a big Cascadian quake (likely centered hundreds of miles away from here on the 900 mile long fault zone 75 miles off the Coast line) would fire up the money hungry seismic upgrading industry and dig ever more deeper into the Portland taxpayers pocketbooks, but I think most of the damage would more likely be due to coastal tsunamis.
Invest in emergency life preservers maybe?
Posted by Ron Swaren | August 1, 2012 11:22 AM
Blanco Fracture Zone
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanco_Fracture_Zone)
Mother Nature's Stimulus Plan for nervous Oregon nanny state politicians. "Hurry! The bridges are going to fall in the river!"
Posted by Ron Swaren | August 1, 2012 12:09 PM
I'm constantly amazed that you seem unaware of the Cascadia subduction zone
right off the Oregon coast.
Why do I "seem unaware" of something so obvious? Because I report earthquakes out there?
Posted by Jack Bog | August 1, 2012 1:10 PM