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A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Guatemala on Wednesday at around 10:35 a.m. local time (11:35 EDT), killing at least 48 people.
At least 23 people are still missing.
The strong earthquake damaged buildings, cars and roads.
The quake struck off Guatemala’s Pacific coast, 15 miles south of Champerico and 101 miles west-southwest of the capital”, said the US Geological Survey.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 26 miles below the surface.
Most of the dead were buried under debris in San Marcos state, a mountainous region near the Mexican border.
Landslides that blocked the roads in some areas and severely damaged about 40 houses.
San Marcos state governor Luis Rivera said that the state government offices were almost completely destroyed.
In Guatemala City, office workers evacuated office buildings, although most soon returned to work.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said a small tsunami was registered on Guatemala’s coast, adding that there was…
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Ghost did a post on logic and
how we lost it. We thank him for
the mention, and we’ll have to get
together for a coffee.
He makes some solid points and we
can assure him we won’t give up.
but one can’t use logic when dealing
with politics anymore.
You can’t argue with people who
have no facts and only rely on
the drive-by media for their news.
Too many Americans don’t know what
happened in Benghazi, and think
that “Fast and Furious” was just a
movie about racing.
These same people don’t realize
that Hurricane Sandy was a category
1 hurricane and people are still
without power or help.
They don’t know because they don’t
care, don’t care because they
think these things don’t involve
them, and are too lazy to seek
the truth.
It wouldn’t make a difference to
them that Harry Reid wants to raise
the…
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It’s been a few years since I was here, but I loved Monterey. The sand was almost as soft and white as the Caribbean, even though the water was colder. And the sea lions! And the jellyfish at the aquarium! And the man without a nose! Good times…
Monterey, California.
Quote of the day: “I never considered a difference of opinion, in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” — Thomas Jefferson
Daily gratitudes:
Clouds that look like alien spaceships
Our gorgeous blue sky today
Moonshiners
A new book idea
MKL
We’ve had an interesting set of quakes here. A 6 ish in the Philippines, another 6 ish in British Columbia, but a bit further south than the last one and near the subduction fault. Then there’s a 7.4 down offshore Guatemala.
The ‘pattern’ looks like activity moving consistently closer to the locked fault system in California nearer to me. Then again, it could easily be mild paranoia on my part. Living on top of a seismic bomb can make you ‘twitchy’ 😉
I’m going to leave in the “static image” from the prior 7.7 in B.C. as it was just a bit north of the present quake, so related. Here’s the static image of right now:
British Columbia 6.3
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Click here for the article in Metropolis
This past summer those poorly stitched up old wounds in East Asia just about turned septic. As Japanese flags went up in flames in China, the prime minister of Japan, Yoshihiko Noda, pleaded with its neighbors to look at the “broader picture,” hoping they would side with their usual pragmatism rather than give in to the nationalist fervor that evidently fills their countries. But if Noda wants to subdue nationalists from across the sea, he has to be willing to stand up to the overbearing nationalist lobby in his own country.
It’s usually around the end of the summer, with the anniversaries of the A-bomb and Japan’s surrender, that East Asia opens the books on “war memory” and goes through its annual disputes over historical records, compensation and island sovereignty. For over 60 years, China and South Korea have refused to accept international…
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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
Less than 24 hours after winning the election, Obama has indicated he plans to further impoverish Americans by imposing carbon taxes.
Obama is selling it as a way to cut the budget deficit, according to Bloomberg.
A tax starting at $20 a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent and rising at about 6 percent a year could raise $154 billion by 2021, Nick Robins, an analyst at the bank in London, said today in an e-mailed research note, citing Congressional Research Service estimates. “Applied to the Congressional Budget Office’s 2012 baseline, this would halve the fiscal deficit by 2022,” Robins said.
Elliot Diringer, executive vice president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, said a carbon tax wouldn’t hurt the economy. In fact, according to Diringer, the tax may free up space for reductions in company taxes that dissuade employment.
In the wake of Hurricane…
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It was gloomy and it drizzled a little. We were walking out of Raffles Place MRT station to grab a bite. The area was mostly surrounded by these.
Yummy sky scrappers.