Just a quick post to say that the Virgin Islands was not affected by the powerful earthquake experienced in Haiti yesterday, January 12, 2010.
Everything is fine here.
Showing posts with label Earthquake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earthquake. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Monday, October 05, 2009
Earthquake in Sint Maarten / St Martin / SXM October 5 2009
Wow, here we are at anchor in St. Martin in the Simpson Bay Lagoon near Explorer Island and at about 12:30pm AST the boat started shaking.
What's that? Are we dragging? Is something pushing us? What's that vibration? An explosion? No "boom" so probably not... An earthquake? Never felt an earthquake at anchor before.
Looked outside and everything is OK. Our neighbor is also looking about, so obviously he felt it too.
Called the radio station (Island 92) and he said that their building (FedEx) was shaking. At 12:52pm the radio station had to go on generator power as GEBE must have gone down.
Nothing on the internet yet...
12:58pm AST
Just found this: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=200910051651-TJSJ-SECA62-EQRSJU
(which appears to be inaccurate as reports lower down says it was EAST of St Martin....)
More info... Map
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/295_20.php
Odd map... That's not SW of St Thomas... That's southEAST and right on top of St Martin!
So what's up???
1:19pm AST
I think that first report, mentioned above, from San Juan Puerto Rico made a typo when they said southWEST...
This site http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009mjbi.php
lists it as being 18.043°N, 62.781°W and
29 km (18 miles) ESE (102°) from Marigot, Saint Martin, Guadeloupe
30 km (18 miles) E (87°) from Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles
That's more like it :)
Hopefully we won't get tsunami... Kick 'em Jenny???
What's that? Are we dragging? Is something pushing us? What's that vibration? An explosion? No "boom" so probably not... An earthquake? Never felt an earthquake at anchor before.
Looked outside and everything is OK. Our neighbor is also looking about, so obviously he felt it too.
Called the radio station (Island 92) and he said that their building (FedEx) was shaking. At 12:52pm the radio station had to go on generator power as GEBE must have gone down.
Nothing on the internet yet...
12:58pm AST
Just found this: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=200910051651-TJSJ-SECA62-EQRSJU
(which appears to be inaccurate as reports lower down says it was EAST of St Martin....)
9181:09pm AST
SECA62 TJSJ 051651
EQRSJU
PRZ012-013-VIZ001-002-052000-
EARTHQUAKE REPORT
RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
1251 PM AST MON OCT 5 2009
AN EARTHQUAKE OF PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE 4.5 WAS REPORTED BY THE PUERTO RICAN SEISMIC NETWORK AT 1228 PM AST...APPROXIMATELY 28 KILOMETERS SOUTHWEST OF CHARLOTTE AMALIE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. THE DEPTH OF THIS EARTHQUAKE WAS APPROXIMATELY 57 KILOMETERS. THE MAGNITUDE IS SUCH THAT A TSUNAMI WILL NOT BE GENERATED AND NO DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE INITIAL QUAKE.
More info... Map
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/295_20.php
Odd map... That's not SW of St Thomas... That's southEAST and right on top of St Martin!
So what's up???
I think that first report, mentioned above, from San Juan Puerto Rico made a typo when they said southWEST...
This site http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009mjbi.php
lists it as being 18.043°N, 62.781°W and
29 km (18 miles) ESE (102°) from Marigot, Saint Martin, Guadeloupe
30 km (18 miles) E (87°) from Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles
That's more like it :)
Hopefully we won't get tsunami... Kick 'em Jenny???
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Earthquake in Sint Maarten / St Martin / SXM
Well, that was something I wasn't expecting !!!
Bob & I were watching a DVD and at about 8:56pm (AST & EDT) the boat started shaking. I thought that someone had hit one of the jackstands that are holding the boat upright (we are currently on the hard in the boatyard). It woke up the cats and had them looking around.
Turns out it was an earthquake !
Being on a boat in the Caribbean, you can expect problems with hurricanes (we had Hurricane Omar last season), but I never thought about possible damage from an earthquake when you are out of the water.
Lots of tweeting going on right now about an earthquake in California near LA.
Hope they'll have something on the radio news tomorrow morning.
Bob & I were watching a DVD and at about 8:56pm (AST & EDT) the boat started shaking. I thought that someone had hit one of the jackstands that are holding the boat upright (we are currently on the hard in the boatyard). It woke up the cats and had them looking around.
Turns out it was an earthquake !
Being on a boat in the Caribbean, you can expect problems with hurricanes (we had Hurricane Omar last season), but I never thought about possible damage from an earthquake when you are out of the water.
Lots of tweeting going on right now about an earthquake in California near LA.
Hope they'll have something on the radio news tomorrow morning.
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