6.8 quake Burma

Anyone else think it strange that Obama is headed there in a few days. Maybe God is trying to tell us something.

Place is rockin....3 almost 6 quakes in the last hour...the first 6.8 was 10 hours ago.


Sunday November 11 2012, 10:54:42 UTC ago Myanmar 5.8 depth..9.8

Sunday November 11 2012, 10:54:42 UTC Myanmar 5.4 depth...10.0

Sunday November 11 2012, 10:54:41 UTC Myanmar. 6.0

Death is a certainty..

Maybe not....looking at the map again, these seem to be the same quake reported by three seperate agencies.

Still, 2 6 mag quakes in under 12 hours

A strong earthquake has struck northern Burma, causing a bridge and a gold mine to collapse, damaging several ancient Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead. No casualties or major damage were reported in the nearest major population centre, the country's second-biggest city of Mandalay, about 72 miles south of the quake's epicentre near the town of Shwebo.

Smaller towns closer to the quake's epicentre were worse-hit.

An official from Burma's Meteorological Department said the magnitude-6.8 quake struck at 7.42am local time.

The area surrounding the epicentre is underdeveloped, and casualty reports were coming in bit by bit, mostly from local media.

Read more: [link to www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk]

There's been another one there. 6.0 - depth level zero!

[link to quakes.globalincidentmap.com]

According to USGS, it was at 9.8 km depth. Same as the other ones today.

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

I wonder if it did any damage to those really old, mysterious temples of Bagan. Check out these pics...

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Midnight Oil -- great band!

Peter Garrett uber alles!

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

There has just been a 5.5 EQ aswell.


Magnitude Mw 5.5

Region MYANMAR



Date time 2012-11-11 18:19:42.0 UTC



Location 23.23 N ; 95.89 E



Depth 10 km

The Indian subcontinent continues grinding into Asia, further raising the Himalayas.

During WWII, US airmen flying "over the hump" back and forth from India to China over Burma used to call their flight path "the aluminum highway" because so many planes had gone down over these treacherous heights that their wreckage formed an easily identifiable swathe.

Mysterious, haunted place.