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Earthquake Off Gulf Of Mexico
Topic Started: Sep 11 2006, 02:55 PM (142 Views)
mychrissy
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Chrissy
This is a little too close for comfort. Hurricanes, now earthquakes? :banghead:
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll...0/NEWS/60910007

Strong earthquake shakes Gulf of Mexico; no damage reported

The Associated Press


TAMPA, FLA. — A rare and strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday rattled homes from Louisiana to southwest Florida, but no damage was reported, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The earthquake, centered about 260 miles southwest of Tampa, was not powerful enough to trigger tsunami danger or other dangerous wave activity, the agency said. The USGS received more than 2,800 reports from people who felt the 10:56 a.m. earthquake.

“It rattled our trailer pretty good,” said Dan Hawks, who lives near Ocala in the small central Florida community of Pedro. “The house started shaking. We could actually see it moving. We looked at each stupidly and said, ’What’s the deal?”’

Scientists said it was the largest and most widely felt of more than a dozen earthquakes recorded in the eastern Gulf of Mexico in the last 30 years.

“This is a fairly unique event. There is no danger,” said Don Blakeman, an earthquake analyst with the USGS National Earthquake Information Center. “I wouldn’t expect any substantial damage, but it is possible there will be some minor damage.”

The most prevalent vibration, which lasted about 20 seconds, was felt on the gulf coast of Florida and in southern Georgia, Blakeman said. But residents in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana also called in reports.
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I was expecting breaking news of an event that would cause oil prices to skyrocket after a few weeks of decline. So this event could have been worse in a lot of ways.
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Maybe this will help.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=51888

Gulf of Mexico saturated with oil?
Another find preceded this week's major discovery

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Chevron's announcement this week that the Jack Field located in the Gulf of Mexico 270 miles southwest of New Orleans may have as much as 15 billion barrels of oil was not the only recent find of oil in the Gulf.

In March, Mexico announced the discovery of a new huge oil find, the Noxal Field some 60 miles from the port of Coatzacoalcos on the coast of Veracruz state. Estimated to contain as much as 10 billion barrels of oil, the find could well be larger than Cantarell, Mexico's biggest oil field, near Yucatan.

Like the Jack Field discovery, the Noxal Field is a deep-water find, relying on new drilling technology. Chevron is drilling the Jack Field under some 7,000 feet of water in a 28,175-foot well, in total nearly seven miles under the surface of the Gulf.


The Noxal find was deep-water, though somewhat less so that the Jack field, at under a little more than half a mile of water and a further two and a half miles underground.

"The new deep-water finds in the Gulf of Mexico are more validation for what we wrote in "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil," co-author Jerome R. Corsi explained to WND. "The deep-earth, abiotic theory – that the origin of oil has nothing to do with biological material – argues that oil is abundant at levels deep within the earth."

Co-author Craig R. Smith pointed out "all of these Gulf of Mexico oil finds are at deeper levels than traditional-thinking 'fossil fuel' geologists typically looked."

"Moreover, these finds call into question the 'peak oil' theories that we are running out of oil," he said. "When huge new finds are being made in the Gulf, why does President Bush continues to believe we must prepare for a world running out of oil?"

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