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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Did You Know that John Kerry's Daughter is Married to an Iranian?

Did You Know that John Kerry's Daughter is Married to an Iranian?
Reaganite Republican ^ | 11 March 2015 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 3/11/2015, 11:38:08 AM by Reaganite Republican
Just when you thought the Mullah-butt-licking Obama regime couldn't be any more deeply infiltrated.

Somehow the newspapers never had much to say about this, and when forced to -i.e. wedding announcements- the Iranian ancestry and birthplace of Vanessa Kerry's husband are -untypically- omitted.

So as Obama and John Kerry set-out to strike a grand bargain with the Mullahs (and flush Israel down the drain), you would think this to be a pertinent fact, one that really ought to be public- or at least it would have been back before this country began to forget anything that ever mattered (and how the world works).

With deep Muslim infiltration of our current White House -and Obama in the midst making a reckless 'deal' with Tehran- it just seems to get worse every time you turn around.

Employees are one thing... family is another: a far tighter union and merger of interests, as if Hillary's daughter Chelsea was married to the son of a prominent Russian family while she was Secretary of State. And happy father-in-law John Kerry's dumb as a box of dirt- that's what makes it even scarier.

We all know Obama's the one hell-bent on foolhardy negotiation with Iran -going so far as to threaten to shoot down Israeli jets in order to stop them from hitting Tehran's nuclear sites.

But Lurch's family ties to Iran are unsettling at best- at least they are to me.

TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: daughter; hanoijohn; inlaws; iran; irandeal; iranian; johnkerry; kerry; kerryinlaws; nukes; secstate; state; statedepartment; statedept; tehranjohn; traitor; vanessakerry

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Sen. Vitter: State Dept Reinterpreted Law by Allowing Iranians to Study Nuclear Engineering

51 posted on 3/11/2015, 1:15:25 PM by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)

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52 posted on 3/11/2015, 1:15:46 PM by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)

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To: Reaganite Republican

Marrying Middle Easterners seems to be the latest fad in Hollyweird and The Hill.

53 posted on 3/11/2015, 2:21:44 PM by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")

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So the bridegroom didn’t pick the daughter who wore the see-through dress.

54 posted on 3/11/2015, 2:31:21 PM by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")

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I was going to say I would not believe Lurch actually had a child unless I saw a DNA test — but then I saw the pictures....

55 posted on 3/11/2015, 2:57:18 PM by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)

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To: Buckeye McFrog

We forced our daughters to watch it as well! Should be required in all homes!

56 posted on 3/11/2015, 3:04:04 PM by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)

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To: shadeaud

When I look at her, it is reminiscent of Gengis Khan. I wonder if there is Mongolian in her?

57 posted on 3/11/2015, 3:06:23 PM by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)

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This is perhaps the most definitive information I have found on the status of Mr. Kerry’s Navy Discharge.
http://www.nysun.com/national/mystery-surrounds-kerrys-navy-discharge/3107/

58 posted on 3/12/2015, 4:54:24 AM by Gaffer

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German FM: Iran letter 'not helpful’

Frank-Walter Steinmeier says calling the missive unhelpful was 'an understatement.'

A key European diplomat said Thursday that the letter to Iran from Senate Republicans “was not helpful” to ongoing international nuclear talks with Iran.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was reacting to a letter signed by 47 Senate Republicans warning Tehran that any nuclear deal it strikes with President Barack Obama will be non-binding and easily undone.

Steinmeier added that to call the missive unhelpful was “an understatement.”
Germany is among the six nations conducting talks with Iran in an effort to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. In addition to the United States, the others are France, Britain, Russia, and China.
Steinmeier elaborated in German-language remarks to his country’s media this morning.
“It’s not just a matter of U.S. politics. It has an impact on the talks in Geneva. Because now of course mistrust is growing on the Iranian side about whether our side is really serious about negotiations,” according to a translation from German network Deutsche Welle.
According to sources close to the negotiations, the letter may have given Iran more leverage in the nuclear talks.
“The game that was played in the past is that we are credible and the Iranians are not credible,” said one. “The letter is creating the advantage for the Iranians. It is hurting our position in the negotiations.”
One of the sources predicted that the letter would be the first issue raised by Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, in his next meeting with nuclear negotiators which will be held in Brussels on Monday.
Zarif, considered a relative moderate within the Iranian system, is expected to argue that the letter undermines his ability to sell a nuclear deal to Iranian hard-liners already distrustful towards the U.S.
Speaking before parliament on Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned that the Senate GOP letter “could become a spanner in the works” of a nuclear deal, using a British term for a wrench. He added that Republican opposition to a deal “could have an unpredictable effect on leadership opinion and public opinion in Tehran.”
POLITICO reported earlier this week that a nuclear deal appears to be within reach but that achieving a framework deal by the end of March will be difficult. Several Senate Democrats have said that they will vote for GOP-backed legislation which Obama officials insist will blow up the talks if a framework is not struck by March 24.
Hammond expressed doubt about that deadline: “You have to make some really quite heroic assumptions to get to the point where it is all agreed in the next two or three weeks,” he said.
“There is reason for cautious optimism that signals are coming out of Tehran that there is a desire to find a deal,” the British diplomat added, even though negotiators remain stalled on some key issues. “But compared to where we were when we left Vienna in November, I think we have actually made significant progress over the last few weeks, although it is still very challenging.”
The March 24 deadline may be even tighter than it appears. On March 21, Iran marks the Persian New Year holiday of Nowruz — a date somewhat like Christmas in the U.S. in that business in the country will cease for several days. Experts expect Iranian officials to take a break of at least three days from the talks, making the effective deadline March 20.
While aware of the deadline set by congressional Democrats, the State Department maintains that its goal is to achieve a political framework by March 31, with complex technical details to be completed by the end of June, when a current interim nuclear agreement with Iran will expire.

M7.1 - Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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Map showing extent (w,s,e,n) = (-36.883700000000005, 47.6354, -26.8837, 57.6354) — 52.635°N 31.884°W depth=16.4 kmView interactive map

Event Time

2015-02-13 18:59:12 (UTC)
2015-02-13 14:59:12 (UTC-04:00) in your timezone
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Nearby Cities

1170km (727mi) SE of Nanortalik, Greenland
1396km (867mi) SSW of Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
1401km (871mi) SSW of Kopavogur, Iceland
1404km (872mi) SSW of Reykjavik, Iceland
1502km (933mi) W of Tralee, Ireland

Tectonic Summary

The February 13, 2015 M 7.1 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge earthquake occurred as the result of right-lateral strike-slip faulting on or near a transform fault forming part of the North America:Eurasia plate boundary. At the latitude of this earthquake, the North America plate moves approximately westward at a rate of 21 mm/yr with respect to Eurasia. The preliminary location and mechanism of the earthquake are consistent with its occurrence on the Charlie-Gibbs Transform (the seismically active section of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone), though more detailed analyses of the event will be required to definitively determine the causative structure.

Moderate-to-large earthquakes in this region of the north Atlantic are not uncommon – over the past century, five other earthquakes of M 6.3-7.0 have occurred within 250 km of the February 13, 2015 event, likely along the same fracture zone. The largest of these was a M 7.0 event on the same day in 1967, 48 years before today’s M 7.1 earthquake. Because of their strike-slip mechanisms and locations in the remote north Atlantic, none of these historic events are known to have caused damage.

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M6.2 - 32km ESE of Taitung City, Taiwan

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Map showing extent (w,s,e,n) = (116.4249, 17.6207, 126.4249, 27.6207) — 22.621°N 121.425°E depth=24.3 kmView interactive map

Event Time

2015-02-13 20:06:31 (UTC)
2015-02-13 16:06:31 (UTC-04:00) in your timezone
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Nearby Cities

32km (20mi) ESE of Taitung City, Taiwan
97km (60mi) NE of Hengchun, Taiwan
113km (70mi) ESE of Yujing, Taiwan
114km (71mi) E of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
748km (465mi) E of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Tectonic Summary

Seismotectonics of the Philippine Sea and Vicinity

The Philippine Sea plate is bordered by the larger Pacific and Eurasia plates and the smaller Sunda plate. The Philippine Sea plate is unusual in that its borders are nearly all zones of plate convergence. The Pacific plate is subducted into the mantle, south of Japan, beneath the Izu-Bonin and Mariana island arcs, which extend more than 3,000 km along the eastern margin of the Philippine Sea plate. This subduction zone is characterized by rapid plate convergence and high-level seismicity extending to depths of over 600 km. In spite of this extensive zone of plate convergence, the plate interface has been associated with few great (M>8.0) ‘megathrust’ earthquakes. This low seismic energy release is thought to result from weak coupling along the plate interface (Scholz and Campos, 1995). These convergent plate margins are also associated with unusual zones of back-arc extension (along with resulting seismic activity) that decouple the volcanic island arcs from the remainder of the Philippine Sea Plate (Karig et al., 1978; Klaus et al., 1992).
South of the Mariana arc, the Pacific plate is subducted beneath the Yap Islands along the Yap trench. The long zone of Pacific plate subduction at the eastern margin of the Philippine Sea Plate is responsible for the generation of the deep Izu-Bonin, Mariana, and Yap trenches as well as parallel chains of islands and volcanoes, typical of circum-pacific island arcs. Similarly, the northwestern margin of the Philippine Sea plate is subducting beneath the Eurasia plate along a convergent zone, extending from southern Honshu to the northeastern coast of Taiwan, manifested by the Ryukyu Islands and the Nansei-Shoto (Ryukyu) trench. The Ryukyu Subduction Zone is associated with a similar zone of back-arc extension, the Okinawa Trough. At Taiwan, the plate boundary is characterized by a zone of arc-continent collision, whereby the northern end of the Luzon island arc is colliding with the buoyant crust of the Eurasia continental margin offshore China.
Along its western margin, the Philippine Sea plate is associated with a zone of oblique convergence with the Sunda Plate. This highly active convergent plate boundary extends along both sides the Philippine Islands, from Luzon in the north to the Celebes Islands in the south. The tectonic setting of the Philippines is unusual in several respects: it is characterized by opposite-facing subduction systems on its east and west sides; the archipelago is cut by a major transform fault, the Philippine Fault; and the arc complex itself is marked by active volcanism, faulting, and high seismic activity. Subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate occurs at the eastern margin of the archipelago along the Philippine Trench and its northern extension, the East Luzon Trough. The East Luzon Trough is thought to be an unusual example of a subduction zone in the process of formation, as the Philippine Trench system gradually extends northward (Hamburger et al., 1983). On the west side of Luzon, the Sunda Plate subducts eastward along a series of trenches, including the Manila Trench in the north, the smaller less well-developed Negros Trench in the central Philippines, and the Sulu and Cotabato trenches in the south (Cardwell et al., 1980). At its northern and southern terminations, subduction at the Manila Trench is interrupted by arc-continent collision, between the northern Philippine arc and the Eurasian continental margin at Taiwan and between the Sulu-Borneo Block and Luzon at the island of Mindoro. The Philippine fault, which extends over 1,200 km within the Philippine arc, is seismically active. The fault has been associated with major historical earthquakes, including the destructive M7.6 Luzon earthquake of 1990 (Yoshida and Abe, 1992). A number of other active intra-arc fault systems are associated with high seismic activity, including the Cotabato Fault and the Verde Passage-Sibuyan Sea Fault (Galgana et al., 2007).
Relative plate motion vectors near the Philippines (about 80 mm/yr) is oblique to the plate boundary along the two plate margins of central Luzon, where it is partitioned into orthogonal plate convergence along the trenches and nearly pure translational motion along the Philippine Fault (Barrier et al., 1991). Profiles B and C reveal evidence of opposing inclined seismic zones at intermediate depths (roughly 70-300 km) and complex tectonics at the surface along the Philippine Fault.
Several relevant tectonic elements, plate boundaries and active volcanoes, provide a context for the seismicity presented on the main map. The plate boundaries are most accurate along the axis of the trenches and more diffuse or speculative in the South China Sea and Lesser Sunda Islands. The active volcanic arcs (Siebert and Simkin, 2002) follow the Izu, Volcano, Mariana, and Ryukyu island chains and the main Philippine islands parallel to the Manila, Negros, Cotabato, and Philippine trenches.
Seismic activity along the boundaries of the Philippine Sea Plate (Allen et al., 2009) has produced 7 great (M>8.0) earthquakes and 250 large (M>7) events. Among the most destructive events were the 1923 Kanto, the 1948 Fukui and the 1995 Kobe (Japan) earthquakes (99,000, 5,100, and 6,400 casualties, respectively), the 1935 and the 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan) earthquakes (3,300 and 2,500 casualties, respectively), and the 1976 M7.6 Moro Gulf and 1990 M7.6 Luzon (Philippines) earthquakes (7,100 and 2,400 casualties, respectively). There have also been a number of tsunami-generating events in the region, including the Moro Gulf earthquake, whose tsunami resulted in more than 5000 deaths.
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Felt (V) at Taitung; (III) at Hsinchu, Tainan and Yungho. Also felt at Changhwa, Fengshan, Hsichih, Kangshan, Kaohsiung, Shanhwa, Tali and Yuanlin. Felt at Fujian, China. Recorded (5 TAP) in Taitung; (3 TAP) in Changhua, Chiayi, Hualien, Kaohsiung, Nantou, Pintung and Yunlin; (2 TAP) in Hsinchu, Miaoli, Penghu and Yilan. Recorded (1 JMA) on Iriomote-jima and Yonaguni-jima.

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M6.7 - 82km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Map showing extent (w,s,e,n) = (137.8748, 34.8567, 147.8748, 44.8567) — 39.857°N 142.875°E depth=23.0 kmView interactive map

Event Time

2015-02-16 23:06:28 (UTC)
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Nearby Cities

82km (51mi) ENE of Miyako, Japan
90km (56mi) ENE of Yamada, Japan
99km (62mi) ENE of Otsuchi, Japan
107km (66mi) NE of Kamaishi, Japan
540km (336mi) NNE of Tokyo, Japan

Tectonic Summary

Seismotectonics of Japan and Vicinity

Japan and the surrounding islands straddle four major tectonic plates: Pacific plate; North America plate; Eurasia plate; and Philippine Sea plate. The Pacific plate is subducted into the mantle, beneath Hokkaido and northern Honshu, along the eastern margin of the Okhotsk microplate, a proposed subdivision of the North America plate. Farther south, the Pacific plate is subducted beneath volcanic islands along the eastern margin of the Philippine Sea plate. This 2,200 km-long zone of subduction of the Pacific plate is responsible for the creation of the deep offshore Ogasawara and Japan trenches as well as parallel chains of islands and volcanoes, typical of Circumpacific island arcs. Similarly, the Philippine Sea plate is itself subducting under the Eurasia plate along a zone, extending from Taiwan to southern Honshu that comprises the Ryukyu Islands and the Nansei-Shoto trench.
Subduction zones at the Japanese island arcs are geologically complex and produce numerous earthquakes from multiple sources. Deformation of the overriding plates generates shallow crustal earthquakes, whereas slip at the interface of the plates generates interplate earthquakes that extend from near the base of the trench to depths of 40 to 60 km. At greater depths, Japanese arc earthquakes occur within the subducting Pacific and Philippine Sea plates and can reach depths of nearly 700 km. Since 1900, three great earthquakes occurred off Japan and three north of Hokkaido. They are the M8.4 1933 Sanriku-oki earthquake, the M8.3 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake, the M9.0 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the M8.4 1958 Etorofu earthquake, the M8.5 1963 Kuril earthquake, and the M8.3 1994 Shikotan earthquake.
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Felt at Misawa, Musashino, Natori, Sendai and Tokyo. Small tsunami of up to 20 centermeters recorded.

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M6.3 - 140km E of Miyako, Japan

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Map showing extent (w,s,e,n) = (138.569, 34.8472, 148.569, 44.8472) — 39.847°N 143.569°E depth=13.5 kmView interactive map

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2015-02-20 04:25:24 (UTC)
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140km (87mi) E of Miyako, Japan
145km (90mi) ENE of Yamada, Japan
152km (94mi) ENE of Otsuchi, Japan
158km (98mi) ENE of Kamaishi, Japan
574km (357mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan

Tectonic Summary

Seismotectonics of Japan and Vicinity

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M7.0 - 131km N of Nebe, Indonesia

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Map showing extent (w,s,e,n) = (117.532, -12.2878, 127.532, -2.2878) — 7.288°S 122.532°E depth=552.3 kmView interactive map

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2015-02-27 13:45:05 (UTC)
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Nearby Cities

131km (81mi) N of Nebe, Indonesia
151km (94mi) NNE of Maumere, Indonesia
196km (122mi) NNE of Ende, Indonesia
201km (125mi) S of Baubau, Indonesia
363km (226mi) WNW of Dili, East Timor

Tectonic Summary

The February 27, 2015 M 7.0 earthquake north of Nebe, Indonesia occurred as the result of oblique strike-slip faulting within the subducted Australia plate, 550 km beneath the Flores Sea. Focal mechanisms for the earthquake indicate rupture occurred on either a left-lateral structure with a moderately dipping, northeast striking plane, or on a right lateral fault dipping steeply towards the southwest. The earthquake is located at the eastern end of the Australia slab that was originally subducted at the Sunda-Java trench, several hundred kilometers to the south of the event (and at the surface of the Earth). At the location of the earthquake, the Australia plate moves approximately northwards with respect to the Sunda plate at a rate of 74 mm/yr. The February 27, 2015 earthquake occurred in response to stresses generated by the slow distortion of the Australia plate at depth, rather than on the shallower interface with the overriding Sunda plate.

Earthquakes that have focal depths greater than 300 km are commonly termed "deep-focus". Deep-focus earthquakes cause less damage on the ground surface above their foci than is the case with similar magnitude shallow-focus earthquakes, but large deep-focus earthquakes may be felt at great distance from their epicenters. The largest recorded deep-focus earthquake was a M 8.3 event that occurred at a depth of 600 km within the subducted Pacific plate beneath the Sea of Okhotsk, offshore northeastern Russia, in 2013. The M 8.3 Okhotsk earthquake was felt all over Asia, as far away as Moscow, and across the Pacific along the western seaboard of the United States. Over the past century, 66 earthquakes with a magnitude of M7 or more have occurred at depths greater than 500 km; four of these were located in the same region as today's event. The largest nearby event at these depths was a M 7.9 earthquake in June 1996, just 18 km to the north and 40 km deeper than the February 2015 event.

Seismotectonics of the Java Region

The Sunda convergent margin extends for 5,600 km from the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, both located northwest of the map area, towards Sumba Island in the southeast, and then continues eastward as the Banda arc system. This tectonically active margin is a result of the India and Australia plates converging with and subducting beneath the Sunda plate at a rate of approximately 50 to 70 mm/yr. The main physiographic feature associated with this convergent margin is the Sunda-Java Trench, which stretches for 3,000 km parallel to the Java and Sumatra land masses and terminates at 120° E. The convergence of the Indo-Australia and Sunda plates produces two active volcanic arcs: Sunda, which extends from 105 to 122° E and Banda, which extends from 122 to 128° E. The Sunda arc results solely from relatively simple oceanic plate subduction, while the Banda arc represents the transition from oceanic subduction to continental collision, where a complex, broad deforming zone is found.
Based on modern activity, the Banda arc can be divided into three distinct zones: an inactive section, the Wetar Zone - bound by two active segments, the Flores Zone in the west and the Damar Zone in the east. The lack of volcanism in the Wetar Zone is attributed to the collision of Australia with the Sunda plate. The gap in volcanic activity is underlain by a gap in intermediate depth seismicity, which is in contrast to nearly continuous deep seismicity below all three sections of the arc. The Flores Zone is characterized by down-dip compression in the subducted slab at intermediate depths and late Quaternary uplift of the forearc. These unusual features, along with GPS data interpretations, show that the Flores Zone marks the transition between subduction of oceanic crust in the west and the collision of continental crust in the east.
The Java section of the Sunda arc is considered relatively aseismic historically when compared to the highly seismically active Sumatra section, despite both areas being located along the same active subduction margin. Shallow (0-20 km) events have occurred historically in the overlying Sunda plate, causing damage to local and regional communities. A recent example was the May 26, 2006 M6.3 left-lateral strike-slip event, which occurred at a depth of 10 km in central Java, and caused over 5,700 fatalities. Intermediate depth (70-300 km) earthquakes frequently occur beneath Java as a result of intraplate faulting within the Australia slab. Deep (300-650 km) earthquakes occur beneath the Java Sea and the back-arc region to the north of Java. Similar to other intermediate depth events these earthquakes are also associated with intraslab faulting. However, this subduction zone exhibits a gap in seismicity from 250-400 km, interpreted as the transition between extensional and compressional slab stresses. Historic examples of large intraplate events include: the 1903 M8.1 event, 1921 M7.5 event, 1977 M8.3 event, and August 2007 M7.5 event.
Large thrust earthquakes close to the Java trench are typically interplate faulting events along the slab interface between the Australia and Sunda plates. These earthquakes also generally have high tsunamigenic potential due to their shallow hypocentral depths. In some cases, these events have demonstrated slow moment-release, and have been defined as ‘tsunami’ earthquakes, where rupture is large in the weak crustal layers very close to the seafloor. These events are categorized by tsunamis that are significantly larger than predicted by the earthquake???s magnitude. The most notable tsunami earthquakes in the Java region occurred on June 2, 1994 (M7.8) and July 17, 2006 (M7.7). The 1994 event produced a tsunami with wave run-up heights of 13 m, killing over 200 people. The 2006 event produced a tsunami of up to 15 m, and killed 730 people. While both of these tsunami earthquakes were characterized by rupture along thrust faults, they were followed by an abundance of normal faulting aftershocks. These aftershocks are interpreted to result from extension within the subducting Australia plate, while the mainshocks represented interplate faulting between the Australia and Sunda plates.

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M6.2 - 10km NNE of Aratoca, Colombia

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Map showing extent (w,s,e,n) = (-77.9802, 1.7824999999999998, -67.9802, 11.782499999999999) — 6.782°N 72.980°W depth=157.1 kmView interactive map

Event Time

2015-03-10 20:55:44 (UTC)
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Nearby Cities

10km (6mi) NNE of Aratoca, Colombia
23km (14mi) SSE of Piedecuesta, Colombia
28km (17mi) WNW of Malaga, Colombia
30km (19mi) NE of San Gil, Colombia
269km (167mi) NNE of Bogota, Colombia

Tectonic Summary

Seismotectonics of the Caribbean Region and Vicinity

Extensive diversity and complexity of tectonic regimes characterizes the perimeter of the Caribbean plate, involving no fewer than four major plates (North America, South America, Nazca, and Cocos). Inclined zones of deep earthquakes (Wadati-Benioff zones), ocean trenches, and arcs of volcanoes clearly indicate subduction of oceanic lithosphere along the Central American and Atlantic Ocean margins of the Caribbean plate, while crustal seismicity in Guatemala, northern Venezuela, and the Cayman Ridge and Cayman Trench indicate transform fault and pull-apart basin tectonics.
Along the northern margin of the Caribbean plate, the North America plate moves westwards with respect to the Caribbean plate at a velocity of approximately 20 mm/yr. Motion is accommodated along several major transform faults that extend eastward from Isla de Roatan to Haiti, including the Swan Island Fault and the Oriente Fault. These faults represent the southern and northern boundaries of the Cayman Trench. Further east, from the Dominican Republic to the Island of Barbuda, relative motion between the North America plate and the Caribbean plate becomes increasingly complex and is partially accommodated by nearly arc-parallel subduction of the North America plate beneath the Caribbean plate. This results in the formation of the deep Puerto Rico Trench and a zone of intermediate focus earthquakes (70-300 km depth) within the subducted slab. Although the Puerto Rico subduction zone is thought to be capable of generating a megathrust earthquake, there have been no such events in the past century. The last probable interplate (thrust fault) event here occurred on May 2, 1787 and was widely felt throughout the island with documented destruction across the entire northern coast, including Arecibo and San Juan. Since 1900, the two largest earthquakes to occur in this region were the August 4, 1946 M8.0 Samana earthquake in northeastern Hispaniola and the July 29, 1943 M7.6 Mona Passage earthquake, both of which were shallow thrust fault earthquakes. A significant portion of the motion between the North America plate and the Caribbean plate in this region is accommodated by a series of left-lateral strike-slip faults that bisect the island of Hispaniola, notably the Septentrional Fault in the north and the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault in the south. Activity adjacent to the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault system is best documented by the devastating January 12, 2010 M7.0 Haiti strike-slip earthquake, its associated aftershocks and a comparable earthquake in 1770.
Moving east and south, the plate boundary curves around Puerto Rico and the northern Lesser Antilles where the plate motion vector of the Caribbean plate relative to the North and South America plates is less oblique, resulting in active island-arc tectonics. Here, the North and South America plates subduct towards the west beneath the Caribbean plate along the Lesser Antilles Trench at rates of approximately 20 mm/yr. As a result of this subduction, there exists both intermediate focus earthquakes within the subducted plates and a chain of active volcanoes along the island arc. Although the Lesser Antilles is considered one of the most seismically active regions in the Caribbean, few of these events have been greater than M7.0 over the past century. The island of Guadeloupe was the site of one of the largest megathrust earthquakes to occur in this region on February 8, 1843, with a suggested magnitude greater than 8.0. The largest recent intermediate-depth earthquake to occur along the Lesser Antilles arc was the November 29, 2007 M7.4 Martinique earthquake northwest of Fort-De-France.
The southern Caribbean plate boundary with the South America plate strikes east-west across Trinidad and western Venezuela at a relative rate of approximately 20 mm/yr. This boundary is characterized by major transform faults, including the Central Range Fault and the Boconó-San Sebastian-El Pilar Faults, and shallow seismicity. Since 1900, the largest earthquakes to occur in this region were the October 29, 1900 M7.7 Caracas earthquake, and the July 29, 1967 M6.5 earthquake near this same region. Further to the west, a broad zone of compressive deformation trends southwestward across western Venezuela and central Columbia. The plate boundary is not well defined across northwestern South America, but deformation transitions from being dominated by Caribbean/South America convergence in the east to Nazca/South America convergence in the west. The transition zone between subduction on the eastern and western margins of the Caribbean plate is characterized by diffuse seismicity involving low- to intermediate-magnitude (M<6.0) earthquakes of shallow to intermediate depth.
The plate boundary offshore of Colombia is also characterized by convergence, where the Nazca plate subducts beneath South America towards the east at a rate of approximately 65 mm/yr. The January 31, 1906 M8.5 earthquake occurred on the shallowly dipping megathrust interface of this plate boundary segment. Along the western coast of Central America, the Cocos plate subducts towards the east beneath the Caribbean plate at the Middle America Trench. Convergence rates vary between 72-81 mm/yr, decreasing towards the north. This subduction results in relatively high rates of seismicity and a chain of numerous active volcanoes; intermediate-focus earthquakes occur within the subducted Cocos plate to depths of nearly 300 km. Since 1900, there have been many moderately sized intermediate-depth earthquakes in this region, including the September 7, 1915 M7.4 El Salvador and the October 5, 1950 M7.8 Costa Rica events.
The boundary between the Cocos and Nazca plates is characterized by a series of north-south trending transform faults and east-west trending spreading centers. The largest and most seismically active of these transform boundaries is the Panama Fracture Zone. The Panama Fracture Zone terminates in the south at the Galapagos rift zone and in the north at the Middle America trench, where it forms part of the Cocos-Nazca-Caribbean triple junction. Earthquakes along the Panama Fracture Zone are generally shallow, low- to intermediate in magnitude (M<7.2) and are characteristically right-lateral strike-slip faulting earthquakes. Since 1900, the largest earthquake to occur along the Panama Fracture Zone was the July 26, 1962 M7.2 earthquake.
References for the Panama Fracture Zone:
Molnar, P., and Sykes, L. R., 1969, Tectonics of the Caribbean and Middle America Regions from Focal Mechanisms and Seismicity: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 80, p. 1639-1684.
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One hundred homes destroyed and 120 homes damaged at Rionegro. Ten houses destroyed and 80 damaged at Matanza. Damage to buildings in Barrancabermeja, Betania, Bogota, Bucaramanga, El Playon, Engativa, Mesa de los Santos, Modelia and Santa Rita. Felt (V) at Bucaramanga, Chia and Floridablanca; (IV) at Barranquilla, Bogota, Cartagena, Cota, Envigado, Ibague, Itagui, Jordan, La Calera, Manizales, Medellin, Pereira, Piedecuesta, Soacha and Villavicencio; (III) at Armenia, Cali and Sabaneta. Felt (IV) at San Cristobal and (III) at Chacao, Venezuela. Also felt at Caracas, Ejido, Maracaibo, San Carlos, Tariba and Trujillo.

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In the area of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, located on Cape Cod, dozens of large, human-sized icebergs now litter the shores and coastal waters.
“It’s obvious that the ice ‘boulders’ have a more complex history than the typical ice found on calmer waters such as lakes and sluggish rivers,” AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Jim Andrews said.
“Most likely it is formed by the bashing together of pancake ice or ice floes,” Andrews said.

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“The ocean is a dynamic place, and with the extreme cold in New England, it’s not uncommon to get ice near the shore,” he said. “Wind and wave will also tend to pile up the ice against the shore.”
As this process occurs the ice tends to get thicker.
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Miami: Muslim yells “Allah Akbar” and “We will cut your heads off” at synagogue members

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via Rabbi Reacts To Threats At His Synagogue « CBS Miami.
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Members of a Miami Beach synagogue are on edge after a man was allegedly arrested for yelling threatening comments.
Diego Chaar was arrested and faces charges of assault and stalking.
According to a police report, two members of the Ohev Shalom Congregation on Bonita Drive were standing outside the Miami Beach synagogue Saturday night when Chaar and another man walked by.
The report says the man shouted “Allah Akbar” at least twice, and once said “We will cut your heads off.”
“That’s called assault. Threatening to kill,” said Rabbi Phineas Webberman. “His attitude was that this is his religious responsibility of carrying out killing infidels.”
Cops were able to track down Charr a few blocks away.
The report says “the subject denied having said anything to the victim.”
He’s out of jail on bond.
“It’s terrible,” said Joe McCormack, a retired officer and longtime friend of Rabbi Webberman. “How would you feel if I said ‘I’ll cut your head off you Jew.’ It shouldn’t be. It shouldn’t be allowed.”
Rabbi Webberman has a message for Charr.
“Change your religion to a religion of life, not one of death,” he said.

Webberman is a bit early, April Fool’s Day is still three weeks away. But it’s an approach the State Dept. should consider – it would save a of taxpayer money.
Just days ago, Muslims were casing a New York mosque.

Haroon Aswat Extradited from the United Kingdom to the Southern District of New York to Face Terrorism Charges

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Haroon Aswat Extradited from the United Kingdom to the Southern District of New York to Face Terrorism Charges

U.S. Attorney’s Office October 21, 2014

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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), announced the extradition of HAROON ASWAT from the United Kingdom to face charges of conspiring to provide and providing material support to al Qaeda and terrorists for attempting to establish a terrorist training camp in the United States.
ASWAT was arrested in Zambia in July 2005, and in August 2005, ASWAT was deported from Zambia to the United Kingdom, where he was arrested pursuant to a provisional warrant that was issued in response to a request by the U.S. Government in connection with this case. On September 4, 2014, the United Kingdom ordered ASWAT extradited to the United States on the charges described below. In coordination with British authorities, ASWAT was extradited from the United Kingdom to the Southern District of New York on October 21, 2014. ASWAT will make his first court appearance later today before U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest.
According to the allegations contained in the Indictment, statements made at related court proceedings, and evidence presented at prior trials:
In late 1999, ASWAT, along with co-defendants Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, a/k/a “Abu Hamza” (“Abu Hamza”), Ouassama Kassir, and Earnest James Ujaama, attempted to create a terrorist training camp in the United States to support al Qaeda, which has been designated by the United States Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organization. ASWAT conspired with Abu Hamza, Kassir, and Ujaama to establish the terrorist training camp on a rural parcel of property located in Bly, Oregon. The purpose of the Bly, Oregon camp was for Muslims to receive various types of training – including military-style jihad training – in preparation to fight
jihad in Afghanistan. As used by the conspirators in this case, the term “jihad” meant defending Islam against purported enemies through violence and armed aggression, including, if necessary, by using murder to expel non-believers from Muslim holy lands.
In a letter faxed from Ujaama, in the United States, to Abu Hamza, in the United Kingdom, the property in Bly was described as a place that “looks just like Afghanistan,” and the letter noted that the men at Bly were “stock-piling weapons and ammunition.” In late 1999, after transmission of the faxed letter, Abu Hamza directed ASWAT and Kassir, both of whom resided in London, England, and attended Abu Hamza’s mosque there, to travel to Oregon to assist in establishing the camp. On November 26, 1999, ASWAT and Kassir arrived in New York, and then traveled to Bly.
ASWAT and Kassir traveled to Bly for the purpose of training men to fight jihad. Kassir told witnesses that he supported Usama Bin Laden and al Qaeda, and that he had previously received jihad training in Pakistan. Kassir also possessed a compact disc that contained instructions on how to make bombs and poisons. After leaving Bly, ASWAT and Kassir traveled to Seattle, Washington, where they resided at a mosque for approximately two months. While in Seattle, Kassir, in ASWAT’s presence, provided men from the mosque with additional terrorist training lessons – including instructions on different types of weapons, how to construct a homemade silencer for a firearm, how to assemble and disassemble an AK-47, and how an AK-47 could be altered to be fully automatic and to launch a grenade. On another occasion, with ASWAT sitting by his side, Kassir announced to the men in Seattle that he had come to the United States for martyrdom and to destroy, and he informed his audience that some of them could die or get hurt.
In September 2002, special agents from the FBI recovered a ledger, among other items, from an al Qaeda safe house in Karachi, Pakistan. The ledger listed a number of individuals associated with al Qaeda, including ASWAT. The al Qaeda safe house was used by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al Qaeda’s chief operational planner and the alleged planner of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Indictment charges ASWAT, 40, a British citizen, with four offenses that carry the following maximum penalties:

Charge	Statutory Violation	Maximum Prison Term
Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists	18 U.S.C. § 371	Five years
Providing material support to terrorists	18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A, 2	10 years
Conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization (al Qaeda)	18 U.S.C. §2339B	10 years
Providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization (al Qaeda)	18 U.S.C. §§ 2339B, 2	10 years

The maximum potential sentences are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the judge.
On May 12, 2009, after a four-week jury trial in the Southern District of New York, Kassir was found guilty of charges relating to his efforts to establish the terrorist training camp in Bly, and his operation of several terrorist websites. On September 15, 2009, U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan sentenced Kassir to life in prison.
On May 19, 2014, after a four-week jury trial in the Southern District of New York, Abu Hamza was found guilty of charges relating to his role in the conspiracy to establish the terrorist training camp in Bly, as well as his role in a hostage-taking in Yemen in 1998 that resulted in four deaths, and his support of violent jihad in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001. Abu Hamza is scheduled to be sentenced on January 9, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest.
Mr. Bharara praised the outstanding efforts of the FBI’s Manhattan-based Joint Terrorism Task Force, which principally consists of agents and detectives of the FBI and the NYPD, the United States Marshals Service, and the Metropolitan Police Department of London, England. Mr. Bharara also thanked the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division and Office of International Affairs, and the United States Department of State for their ongoing assistance.
This case is being handled by the Office’s Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys John P. Cronan and Ian McGinley are in charge of the prosecution.
The allegations contained in the Indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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