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Good Morning #Canada
Apparently the earth moved last night but I didn't feel a thing. An earthquake, a magnitude 3.7 to 4.1 depending on different reports, was reported in my neighbourhood near Orilla Ontario last night. The epicenter was across Lake Simcoe, approximately 35km away from my home and 5km deep. Maybe the lake reduced the impact and we do have a pretty good mattress.
There are 4,000 ish earthquakes measured in Canada annually but most are minor. Perhaps 40 might be large enough or not remote, and people will feel the ground shaking. That's about 1 every 8 days. Most of our earthquakes occur along the West Coast, the High Arctic, and lower frequency along the eastern seaboard. Earthquakes are monitored by the National Seismograph Network with approximately 100 seismographs distributed across Canada.
I know you're wondering about the 10 largest earthquakes ever felt in Canada. I got you covered...
#CanadaIsAwesome #Seismology
https://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pubs/GF-GI/GEOFACT_largest-earthquakes_e.pdf

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
In recent years it has been found that phytoplankton productivity can be fueled by deep-sea hydrothermal vents. These vents produce iron and dense microbial blooms which can locally stimulate algae blooms, but it wasn't clear how this linkage of ecosystems separated by kilometers was possible. Now, an Antarctic study suggests that earthquakes can cause violen…

None of us happened to notice the epistemological earthquakes, the epileptic seizures of ethics, the twilight of the idols

"Fracking in Argentina 'linked to hundreds of tremors'"
#Argentina #Fracking
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Fracking in Argentina 'linked to hundreds of tremors'
The extraction of gas and oil by fracking—large-scale fracturing of underground rocks by injecting water, sand and additives—is generating growing concern in Argentine Patagonia. Neuquén province—home to the country's largest hydrocarbon reserves—has experienced an increase in earthquakes since fracking operations began there in 2015.

A widespread power outage in
San Francisco that led to Waymo robotaxis stalling and snarling traffic earlier this month
has raised concerns about the readiness of autonomous vehicle operators to tackle major emergencies like earthquakes and floods

A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy
-- but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster,
residents’ fears about tsunamis, earthquakes and evacuation plans remain
Activity around the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is reaching its peak:
workers remove earth to expand the width of a main road,
while lorries arrive at its heavily guarded entrance.
When all seven of its reactors are working, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa generates 8.2 gigawatt…

Well THAT'S fun!
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/massive-climate-induced-earthquakes

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115707785778663043
Thank you everyone for all your earthquakes stories and descriptions! :blobcatsweat:

RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540
A thoughtful consideration of thoughtfulness. With earthquakes and tsunamis. Recommended.

The clusters of earthquakes — the latest of which struck Monday — have all been underneath the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, which is close to the Calaveras fault.
There were at least 19 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or greater on Monday alone, with the largest, a magnitude 3.6, striking at 9:07 a.m.

Heute vor 13 Jahren: Am 12. Februar 2013 gaben nordkoreanische Staatsmedien bekannt, dass sie einen unterirdischen #Atomtest durchgeführt hätten, den dritten in sieben Jahren. Es ist unklar, ob die Explosion nuklearer oder konventioneller Natur war.