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Sunday, August 24, 2014

The essence of being human

The essence of being human: skaters explore upside to Napa quake damage. cc @GreatDismal pic.twitter.com/LzekB7RBYr
— Dudley Storey (@dudleystorey) August 24, 2014

UPDATE: 6.0-magnitude quake in Northern California causes injuries, fires, road closures. http://t.co/Cdd0Jq4gOO pic.twitter.com/tsdKDhOQHw
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) August 24, 2014

6.0 magnitude #earthquake. 4 mi from #AmericanCanyon, #CA, ###UnitedStates http://t.co/WGXt6uMvFB
— CA Earthquakes (@QuakesInCA) August 24, 2014

4.01 magnitude #earthquake. 7 mi from ##Lamont, CA, ##UnitedStates http://t.co/huJbKpSk7x
— CA Earthquakes (@QuakesInCA) August 24, 2014

◼ A magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck the North Bay early Sunday, injuring more than 100 people, causing extensive damage to dozens of buildings in downtown Napa and Vallejo... - SF Chron
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Napa earthquake: Residents share photos of damage Mercury News

Friday, September 02, 2011

7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes off Alaska

◼ A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Friday in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, prompting a brief tsunami warning for a portion of Alaska's coast. - CNN

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Magnitude 7.1 - VANUATU

◼ 18.260°S, 168.069°E Depth: 40.6 km (25.2 miles) - USGS

Saturday, July 09, 2011

7.0 quake off Honshu, Japan – no Tsunami Warning

◼ 7.0 quake off Honshu, Japan – no Tsunami Warning - Watts Up With That

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off New Zealand's Kermadec Islands, triggering a tsunami in the region

◼ The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.9, triggered a tsunami warning for New Zealand, the Kermadec Islands and Tonga, the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Center said. - Reuters

Friday, April 15, 2011

Swarm of (Nevada) Quakes have Experts Concerned

◼ Swarm of Quakes have Experts Concerned
Nevada Seismologists are keeping a close eye on an area southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada where hundreds of earthquakes have been detected since Sunday.

" It's a little bit concerning in a sense.. The largest earthquakes in these sequences are pretty large in size." Graham Kent is Director of Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada Reno. He says there have been hundreds of earthquakes southwest of Hawthorne over the past few days. The largest-- recorded at a 4.4 in size....

Size is not the only reason Kent says they are watching the swarm of quakes closely. The location of these quakes is on top of a fault that has until now remained unknown or has not been active. Kent then made an eerie comparison, "Whats really interesting about most of these earthquakes we've experienced. Short of the Chilean and Japanese; Haiti, Baha, even Christchurch.. Were on unknown faults....

Thursday, April 07, 2011

Tsunami warnings for Japan after 7.4 aftershock, 6.5 in Mexico

◼ Breaking: Tsunami warnings for Japan after 7.4 aftershock
◼ Another strong quake strikes off tsunami-hit Japan
◼ No West Coast tsunami expected after Japan's strong earthquake

◼ 6.5 earthquake shakes southern Mexico

Monday, March 21, 2011

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Warnings are only the first step to being safe in a tsunami....You need to know what areas are safe and what areas are at risk.

◼ Know Your Zone -- how to find out if you are at risk of a tsunami - Lori Dengler, professor and chair of the HSU Geology Department/For the Times-Standard

...The California Geological Survey has taken the lead for mapping tsunami hazards in California.... The state maps are posted online at
◼ www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/tsunami/tsunami_maps.htm...
You can download fliers at
◼ www.humboldt.edu/rctwg/
(select the download Tsunami Maps and Flyers on the right)...
...Find out if you are in a tsunami zone at
◼ http://myhazards.calema.ca.gov/.
Just enter your address, and you can learn not only about tsunamis but earthquake and flood hazards as well. read the rest

Sunday, April 04, 2010

ANOTHER ONE - Magnitude 7.8 quake shakes Indonesia's Sumatra

◼ Magnitude 7.8 quake shakes Indonesia's Sumatra Tuesday the 6th
7.2 EarthQuake - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

◼ link

◼ Magnitude 7.2 - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

◼ Magnitude-7.2 Quake in Baja Shakes SoCal
A magnitude-7.2 earthquake in Baja California could be felt in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. Several aftershocks or other quakes have been reported.
Initial reports said the quake was magnitude-6.9, but officials with the USGS mentioned that number might change.
The quake's epicenter was located about 108 miles east-southeast from Tijuana, about 38 miles southwest San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, Mexico, and about 16 miles south-southwest Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico.

The quake had a depth of 20.1 miles and struck at 3:40 p.m. The quake set high rise buildings in Riverside, Los Angeles and San Diego rocking back and forth. It also was felt in Palm Springs...

A magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck the Imperial area at 4:15 p.m. At 4:09 p.m., a magnitude-4.5 quake was reported about 21 miles south of Ocotillo.

One reporter in the Inland Empire clocked the duration at 45 seconds. An NBCLA.com visitor in Movjave said movement could be felt for one minute.

A Granada Hills resident said things started to settle after about one minute.

"But it seemed like forever," he added.

The quake was felt for about 40 seconds in Tijuana, Mexico, causing buildings to sway and knocking out power in parts of the city. The Associated Press reported that families celebrating Easter ran out of the homes, with children screaming and crying.
Earlier this weekend, a series of small-to-moderate quakes hit the geothermally-active area....
◼ Baja California quake magnitude raised to 7.2

◼ 7.2 Quake Based Near Mexicali Shakes Up SoCal - Tremors Felt In Mexico All The Way To Santa Barbara
◼ List of recent quakes

Friends report 19 earthquakes in the last hour and a half... (h/t: Dorian)

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Quake-Up Call

◼ Quake-Up Call Willamette Week Online h/t: jason
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it.
In the reasonably near future, perhaps within our lifetimes and quite possibly as soon as tomorrow, an earthquake will strike Portland with roughly the same force felt this month in Port-au-Prince.

But while the Jan. 12 Haitian quake lasted less than 40 seconds, the shaking in Portland will continue for at least four minutes. Portland will feel a quake with a strength, duration and destruction never before experienced in the developed Western world.

Our cataclysm will begin 75 miles off the Oregon coastline. The ocean floor will split, sending shock waves racing under the water as fast as 17,000 mph. Those shock waves, felt first as a rumble, will slam into Portland in 30 seconds. The rattling will grow into a pulsing undulation that will repeatedly shove the ground up and down as much as 6 feet.

Landslides will ensue in the West Hills, sending mansions crashing on top of each other. Several of the 10 bridges across the Willamette River will collapse—the Steel Bridge, Sellwood Bridge and Marquam Bridge, most likely—and the rest will be impassible. Big Pink and other office towers will sway so violently their granite and glass façades will shear off and crash into the street, piling rubble up 4 feet deep. The Multnomah County Courthouse will tumble. Underground gas, power and water lines will be pulverized. The soil beneath the Portland International Airport will temporarily turn to soup.

About half an hour later, a 30-foot wall of water will crash into the Oregon coastline, with the tsunami flooding as high as 100 feet above sea level, sweeping in and out for hours.

This is not a pitch for the next Hollywood disaster movie. It is the scientific consensus on what will happen here sooner or later. And the latest data suggest it may in fact be sooner.

Earthquake 5.4 6.0 5.9

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71348851.php

Magnitude - 5.4
Date-Time
Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 20:20:21 UTC
Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 12:20:21 PM at epicenter
Location
40.431°N, 124.929°W
Depth
11.2 km (7.0 miles)
Region
OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

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Magnitude 6.0 - regional moment magnitude (Mw)
Time Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 12:20:21 PM (PST)
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 20:20:21 (UTC)
Distance from Petrolia, CA - 56 km (35 miles) WNW (282 degrees)
Ferndale, CA - 59 km (36 miles) WSW (254 degrees)
Fortuna, CA - 68 km (43 miles) WSW (256 degrees)
Eureka, CA - 76 km (47 miles) WSW (239 degrees)
Sacramento, CA - 363 km (225 miles) NW (306 degrees)

◼ http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc71348851.htm
◼ http://www.northcoastjournal.com/blogthing/2010/02/04/earthquake-1220-pm/
◼ http://sfappeal.com/news/2010/02/another-humboldt-earthquake.php (image source)
◼ http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/6-0-earthquake/
◼ http://kunsoo1024.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/whoa-that-was-a-long-one/
◼ Magnitude 6 rocks Humboldt coast

SOMETHING NEW - An automated call from the school letting all parents know that the kids and facilities were all of, and that they all practiced 'duck and cover' as they have done in countless drills prior.

Paul Gallegos

The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. (Paul Gallegos) does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

Douglas & Zanotti

CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorial
offices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commits
wrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ "...some people actually molest out of different feelings, some times out of feelings of love....” DA Gallegos explaining why Child Abuse prosecutions were down

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

NOTE:

"Helping Crush Progressivism" - ie: exposing the predatory litigious orgs and those who seek power for power's sake.... The original purpose of watchpaul is to post important documents relating to Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos and his handlers who seek to gain power through the acquisition of political offices. This includes, but is not limited to, the manipulations of "Humboldt Watershed Council," "EPIC," "Baykeeper," and other activist groups - the unregulated orgs. It also includes the master manipulators, such as Richard Salzman and Ken Miller.

Links to key stories and documents are also included in the sidebar, so that you do not have to try to scroll back through what has become a lengthy series of posts. I encourage you to use the Search and Labels features as well.

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