**Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way...
but you can never say again that you did not know.**
William Wilberforce
LARGEST QUAKES -
This morning -
5.1 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
5.2 SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN
Yesterday -
7/10/10 -
5.2 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
5.1 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
5.8 SOLOMON ISLANDS
5.1 SOLOMON ISLANDS
6.2 SOUTH OF MARIANA ISLANDS
5.6 ROTA REGION, N. MARIANA ISLANDS
7/9/10 -
5.1 SUNDA STRAIT, INDONESIA
5.0 OFF COAST OF AISEN, CHILE
5.1 SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
5.0 WESTERN INDIAN-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
5.2 TAIWAN REGION
VOLCANOES -
INDONESIA - After two years, spewing about 100,000 tons a day, the Lusi mud volcano in East Java shows no signs of letting up.
CHINA - The Tianchi volcano located in Changbai mountain along China's border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will not erupt in the next dozens of years, a Chinese seismology expert said Friday. The comprehensive monitor data showed the volcano was in a stable condition without any abnormity. A geology professor in Korea had declared that the volcano might erupt between 2014 and 2015. The professor who made this assumption, saying the eruption may occur "within several years," based it on the data provided in the scientific papers of various Chinese experts. The volcano was active from 2002 to 2005 as shown by the monitored data, but it became stable in 2005 and the parameters of its status have been down close to the level in 2002.
Tianchi volcano is regarded as the most dangerous volcano on the Chinese mainland with eruption potential, and the 2-billion-cubic-meter water on the top of the volcano has further increased its destructive potential in case of possible eruption. The last time the volcano erupted was in 1903. Later, the Changbai mountain became a famous mountain resort in China, known for its beautiful natural scenery. China started the research and monitoring of Tianchi volcano in 1985 and experts said a comprehensive volcano monitor system combining gravity, deformation, electromagnet and fluid monitor and seismology forecast would be established to further strengthen the monitoring.
TROPICAL STORMS -
No current tropical cyclones.
