Gulf of Mexico Earthquake

Posted On February 19th, 2011 by Stewart Swerdlow

Yesterday, a magnitude 3.5 quake struck just off the coast of Alabama/ NW Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. This is just the beginning of a series of even larger tremors that will develop as the sea floor continues to sag and collapse from the oil disaster of last year.
Geologists will tell the public and have already told the public that they are completely unsure of the tectonic/ seismic attributes and conditions of the Gulf of Mexico. The government has purposely kept this under wraps for decades. But, since 3 large quakes have struck in the Gulf during the past 4 years, scientists are beginning to question the old idea that the Gulf was seismically dead.

During the disaster of 2010, alternative geologists determined that the drilling had weakened an already volatile sea floor, allowing oil and methane gas to rapidly come to the surface. As these huge pockets of volatile material move upward, the sea floor changes shape and bulges. This causes fracturing and fissures that create small tremors at first. As enough pressure builds, an explosion of gas and oil bursts through the sea floor, creating a huge quake with a simultaneous tsunami.
Given that the coast around the Gulf of Mexico is barely above sea level, this will be one of the greatest “natural” disasters in human history. Millions will be affected with no time or place to flee.
Meanwhile, CNN depicts the abundance of oysters now available and sanctioned by your caring government for you to eat. A couple of weeks ago, CNN had a story about how all the oysters in the world were vanishing and soon there would hardly be any. Then, voila! , as if by magic, the Gulf oysters make a comeback, calming the panic of oyster-lovers everywhere. Wasn’t that a miracle?
In the last year since the Gulf oil event, there has been a moderate quake north of New Orleans, as well a a fair-sized tremor in the Gulf south of Louisiana. Now, this newest tremor in a new spot does indicate that there is sea floor movement. This is not to be taken lightly. The government will downplay the event and say it is nothing.
Many geologists now believe that the Gulf tectonic plate is connected intricately to the New Madrid fault line and the St. Lawrence Seaway fault line. They all affect each other and may be the cause of the over 700 quakes in Arkansas during the last 6 months! Something sinister appears to be occurring under the ground in the New Madrid fault zone. Even the animals are dying.
There could even be a connection to the Yellowstone caldera which has picked up in ground movement since the Gulf oil incident. Scientists are covering up the increased seismic activities there by saying that their earthquake equipment is being affected by the movement of ice! Really? Must be some pretty junky equipment, then, especially since the monitoring devices are firmly anchored to the ground.
Something is going on. It is affecting the actions and emotions of people as well as animals. It is a huge activation, coupled with Earth energies that are rapidly changing. Hold on tight. Use your protection techniques and brown merger 24/7. Anyone can be easily triggered and activated–even those you would never suspect.
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official news article:
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama -- The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that a magnitude 3.5 earthquake, centered just south of Fort Morgan, struck this evening.
The earthquake occurred about 5:15 p.m., according to the USGS website. The tremors — which lasted about 10 seconds — rattled residents, many of who had recently arrived home from work. The brief tremors shook cabinets, rattled televisions, even caused a car to roll forward on the Fort Morgan peninsula, residents said.
“My wife and I were sitting in our recliners and the house started shaking,” said Glenn Stevens, assistant chief of the Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department. “There has been a lot of beach cleanup going on, and we thought that one of the cranes had hit the house.”
According to the USGS website, the earthquake was mostly felt along the coastline, and the epicenter was in the Gulf of Mexico, 11 miles southwest of Gulf Shores and 17 miles east-southeast of Dauphin Island.
“One of my neighbors called to say that it actually moved his car and it bumped the back of his chair,” Stevens said. “They were sitting under the house in a plastic chair and the car rolled forward.”
Stevens said the neighbor wasn’t injured, and no other injuries or damage were reported.
Across Mobile Bay on Dauphin Island, residents started calling the Police Department shortly afterward, Chief George Goodwin said.
“The people with elevated houses felt it more than the people on the ground with slabs,” Goodwin said.
“It was like a really bad sonic boom, but with no noise,” Goodwin said, describing what he felt. “A lot of people called the Police Department asking what happened.”
Goodwin said he had been home long enough to change clothes, and had returned to the main level of the house when the shaking occurred.
“I don’t know what it was, but it shook the house pretty good,” Goodwin said.
Goodwin said that he doesn’t believe the tremors had any effect on the Katrina cut, the section of western of Dauphin Island that was opened following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Crews working in response to last year’s oil spill reconnected the two sections of the island in January.
Dauphin Island residents had become accustomed to sonic booms from Blue Angels practice runs, but today’s sensations were “a graduated buildup of rumbling, shaking and vibrations,” Mayor Jeff Collier said.
“It got your attention,” Collier said.
Earlier today, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake had struck near Greenbrier, Ark., about 40 miles north of Little Rock, according to the geological survey website.
The last earthquake felt in Alabama was Feb. 9, when a 2.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Gadsden, according to the website. �

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MY COMMENTS
Well we all know earthquakes are inevitable. There are many people who believe they can be manufactured by something like the technology of HAARP but I am not sure. Has this something to do with the HUGE COVERUP over the Gulf "Oil" crisis? Is the bottom of the ocean really cracking up?