TagsTagsAfter the Virginia earthquake, you knew it was just a matter of time before one of the religious right's odd fear-mongering fanatics started ranting defensively about signs from the heavens; World Net Daily publisher and relentless Birther Joseph Farah is one of the first out of the gate. For some ...
World Net Daily, Joseph Farah, Birthers, Idiocy, Earthquake, Religious Right
DERPAnd... the first right wing blogger to find a way -- not a good way, but a way -- to bash President Obama for the earthquake in Virginia is ... the Crown Prince of Derp, Jim Hoft: Earthquake Rattles Washington DC – Obama Goes Biking | The Gateway Pundit. A ...
Earthquake, Idiocy, Dimmitude, Derp, Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit
An unusual earthquake has just struck Virginia; according to USGS it registered as a Magnitude 5.9.
The enormous Chilean earthquake last month not only shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the length of a day, it actually moved the city of Concepción 10 feet to the west. Studying precise GPS images of the area struck by the quake, a team led by earth scientist Mike Bevis ...
Earthquake, Chile, disaster, Tsunami, Science, Plate Tectonics
The Chilean 8.8 monster quake was so powerful it actually shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the length of a day. The devastating earthquake in Chile that killed almost 700 people probably also shifted the Earth’s axis, say NASA scientists, permanently making days shorter by 1.26 microseconds. But since a ...
Earthquake, Chile, disaster, Tsunami, Science, Plate Tectonics
More than a million and a half people are displaced in Chile after yesterday’s 8.8 earthquake, and at least 300 people have been reported killed — a terrible number, yet surprisingly low for such an enormous event. With a quake this size, the danger isn’t over; more than 90 aftershocks ...
Earthquake, Chile, disaster, Tsunami, Science, Plate Tectonics
The tsunami is expected to begin hitting the islands of Hawaii in the next 20 minutes or so; this is a live stream of the local CBS channel. (Changed from KHON because it's better quality...) [Video removed...] (Note: sometimes Ustream videos cause problems with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. You may have better ...
Earthquake, Chile, disaster, Tsunami, Hawaii, Twitter, Live Video
Here's an embedded Twitter feed for '#hitsunami', for the latest news on the tsunami waves expected to hit Hawaii in about two hours... [Twitter feed moved to newer thread...]
A gigantic earthquake struck Chile this morning — magnitude 8.8. Tsunami waves are expected to reach Hawaii in about three hours… TALCA, Chile — One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile on Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth. A tsunami set off by ...
The Dominican consul general told CNN today that he warned the leader of a group of American Baptists that they were going to get in trouble, because they did not have the proper documentation for the Haitian children they tried to smuggle out of the country. “I warned her, I ...
Haiti, Earthquake, disaster, Baptists, Religious Right, Fanaticism
Ten American Baptists are in jail in Haiti for attempting to smuggle 33 “orphans” out of the country — and many of the children aren’t even orphans at all: Road From Haiti Was Paved With Good Intentions, American Baptists Say. And one of the pastors involved has denounced “the accusations of ...
Haiti, Earthquake, disaster, Baptists, Religious Right, Fanaticism
So much of the news from Haiti is bad, but here’s a little bit of good news from one of the field hospitals set up by Israeli medical teams: Haiti Earthquake: Mother Delivers Baby In Disaster Zone. By Sunday afternoon, Moritz received the first few hopeful e-mail messages from Besser ...
Tim Blair is still outrageously outraged that Danny Glover said global warming caused the Haitian earthquake. (He didn’t.) Blair links to a Bill O’Reilly segment that blatantly misquotes what Glover did say: [Video] Here’s the misquote: There’s all this hell because of global warming, there’s all this hell because of climate change … ...
Danny Glover, Global Warming, Haiti, Earthquake, Tim Blair, Right Wing, Nontroversy
In today’s outrageous outrage, tu quoque specialists everywhere are faking outrageous outrage over remarks made by leftist actor Danny Glover in a phone interview. The screaming was so high-pitched I was motivated to check out the video recording: [Video] This is the section being pulled out of context: The threat of what ...
Outrageous Outrage, Nontroversy, Danny Glover, Hollywood, Haiti, Earthquake, Global Warming, Tim Blair
More of Rush Limbaugh’s patented sleazy race-baiting from his Wednesday radio show, as he says President Obama will use the Haitian disaster to boost his credibility with the ‘light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country’. Also in the same show, he argued against government aid to Haiti. Lovely. [Video] UPDATE at ...
Sky News video shows the terrible destruction from last night’s 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, where reports are that the capital city of Port-au-Prince was devastated. [Video]
Scary video from a surveillance camera at the FBI’s office in Pago Pago, American Samoa, showing the tsunami rushing into the parking lot. [Video]
A huge earthquake has taken place near the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific, and Hawaii is under a tsunami alert: Magnitude 7.9 - SAMOA ISLANDS REGION.
There’s been a massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Andaman Islands: 10-degree Map Centered at 15°N,95°E. (Hat tip: Rednek.) UPDATE at 8/10/09 1:39:48 pm: About 12 minutes later, there was an apparently unrelated magnitude 6.4 quake in Japan: Magnitude 6.4 - NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN. View Larger Map
A major earthquake has struck central Italy; at least 13 people have been reported killed, and the toll will undoubtedly go higher. The quake, of a 6.3 magnitude, struck 53 miles northeast of Rome, said the US Geological Survey. Four children are among the dead and thousands are said to be ...
A tsunami warning has been issued for the South Pacific near Tonga, after a mammoth 7.9 earthquake was recorded today. Here’s some Reuters footage of an undersea volcano that’s been erupting in the area of the earthquake: [Video]
Just had a rather large earthquake in Los Angeles. Preliminary measurement: 5.8 on the Richter scale, epicenter near Chino Hills...
Quake knocks out power across Hawaii. HONOLULU - A strong earthquake shook Hawaii early Sunday, causing a landslide that blocked a major highway on Hawaii Island and knocking out power across the state, authorities said. Gov. Linda Lingle issued a disaster declaration for the entire state. The state Civil Defense had unconfirmed ...
An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 has struck near the South Pacific island of Tonga: Tsunami Warning Issued for New Zealand.