An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 has shaken the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan today at 01:23:26 AM local time according to the USGS.

For more scientific and general information about this event please go to the
USGS webpage.

This is not the first large or damaging earthquake which has happened in that zone. Below there is a list of historical earthquakes collected from the International Seismological Centre since 1964.

This is the map of the events shown above

Global positioning	Afghanistan-Pakistan border

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When I watch USGS’s maps http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/
I always see a lot of movement near the Southern California Mexico border.

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http://www.scsn.org/2009olancha4.html

i dont understand. it comes up under significant earthquakes in the usgs.gov site here:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2009/

is it similar to yellowstone swarms? is there an active volcano around there or something what do u know about it?

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i just had a dream of two earthquakes of 8.0+ Magnitude in the US, it was on the map of USGS and it was in Taxes and new mexico, why am i seeing this? >:|, everything i ‘feel, see or hear’ comes True
do you think this might happen sometime Later in the years??
im only 15 and im scared

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My neighbor told my mom this morning that he has a friend who works for the USGS or someplace that monitors earthquakes and that his friend’s boss sent everyone home and told them to spend time with their families…like while they still can. He said it might have something to do with Yosemite?

I just wanted to know if anyone else had heard any rumors? It totally makes sense not to tell the public…that’d just cause chaos and wouldn’t really help anyone.
Haha I think it was more like a volcano triggering a series of earthquakes or something like that, but I don’t even know if thats possible. :] Thanks for your answer! I wasn’t sure whether to believe him, it just aroused my curiosity.

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i got the info from USGS and i’m really worried about what an earthquake could do to this island, even worse a tsunami! can someone help?!

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I recall after the earthquake in Chile, a seimologist from the USGS said there is a 6.0 earthquake every four weeks or so. There were two in the last week and have been 21 so far in 2010 and 20 in all of 2002.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2002/

Ok, so there have been more 6.0 or greater quakes so far in 2010 than in 2002 and you don’t see an increase? Wow!
Check out the links, show me your proof that they haven’t increased, please.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2002/

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It happened in Dominican Republic. Here is the link the the Seismic Server and if you look at ALL the devices it shows activity around 6 pm yesterday.

http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtml

Why did every device across the world pick up activity. How can ALL the devices record false information at approximately the same time.

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First Haiti, then Guatemala, then Chile, now California:

An earthquake rumbled early Saturday off the northern California coast and dozens of people in Humboldt County reported feeling it, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The 4.6-magnitude temblor hit at 12:46 a.m. and was centered in the Pacific Ocean about 30 miles west of Ferndale.

USGS geophysicist Randy Baldwin said the temblor was lightly felt in area cities such as Eureka and Ferndale but wasn’t strong enough to cause damage.

"Ferndale felt it the most," he said.http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-mew-earthquake-northern-california6-2010mar06,0,5397081.story?track=rss

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/44-earthquake-rattles-los-angeles-area.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/la-earthquake-rattled-region-awake-but-no-major-damage-reported.html

I really LOVE the reporters names associated with story #2 – makes you wonder whether it is just Yahoo or also the USGS that is losing credibility.
CHECK DRAFTS NOW LULA
CHECK DRAFTS BEN B
CHECK DRAFTS NOW BEN B/YEO/SILVIO

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As you may or may not have heard, a devastating 8.8 earthquake struck Chile earlier this evening, and our USGS Immediately issued warnings in Chile and the surrounding regions about the likelihood of a tsunami.

Much like Haiti, you can be sure that Chile will require an outpouring of international help to rebuild from this catastrophe. My question is, where should that help come from? Should it continue to come from the United States, given how many other resource draining situations we are already involved in? Should we provide intelligence and effort coordination, helping other aid and what not get where it needs to go, or should we do something like send money and food and stay the Hell out of the way?

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USGS.GOV
HAS EARTHQUAKE ALERTS.
THIS IS TRULY THE YEAR OF MANY EARTHQUAKES THUS FAR.
MATT 24 SPEAK OF WHAT THE LAST SIGNPOST SIGNS AND WONDERS OF OUR END TIME.
AS A WARNING TO THE CHURCH AND NON BELIEVERS AS WELL FENCE SITTING CHURCH MEMBERS WHO NEED TO GET OFF THE FENCE, AND READ THEIR BIBLE, BUY TEACHING END TIME TEACHING, LEARN KINGDOM PRINCIPLES AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, THEN ALL THESE OTHER THINGS PERTAIINLING LIFE BY FAITH, WILL BE ADDED ONTO YOU.
THE AZUSA STREET REVIVAL OF 1906 HAPPEN SOON AFTER THE BIG ONE IN CALIFORNIA
EARTHQUAKE OF SAN FRANSICO..OF 1906..MAYBE IT HAPPEN AGAIN? WHO KNOWS.
BUT ONE THING FOR SURE…CHRIST IS PREPARING HIS APOSTLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, PASTORS AND TEACHERS WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF HOLY LOVELY MIGHTY POWER AND FIRE. MIRACLES OUTBREAK WILL HAPPEN ALL OVER USA..AND WORLD.
AGAIN..DO YOU THINK THESE EARTHQUAKE THE BEGINNING OF ENDTIME?

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I’ve been looking at USGS and there are so many earthquakes everywhere,is it normal to have this many?

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The USGS needs to revise their formulas. 500 times greater would have sunk South America.
I realize how the calculations are done. It’s the theory that’s screwed up. Don’t tell the Haitians their’s wasn’t worse, energy theory or not.

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(CNN) — An early morning earthquake rattled northern Illinois on Wednesday, shaking an area about 50 miles west-northwest of downtown Chicago, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake was originally reported as having a magnitude of 4.3, but the USGS later downgraded it to magnitude 3.8. It hit just before 4 a.m. CT (5 a.m. ET), with an epicenter about 3 miles underground. The USGS pinpointed the quake between the towns of Virgil and Sycamore, Illinois.http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/10/illinois.earthquake/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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I get notices of all earthquakes over a 2.5 (Richter) there seems to be way to many small ones called clusters. In one area of CA where my sister lives there were 99 from 1.1 to 4.4 in one week. There are also quakes happening in areas that are normally very quiet. Yellowstone National Park, CA is dancing all over the place north, central and southern, Mexico is getting in on the action too as well as there being quakes all over the world. Today there was a 4.1 almost on the border of New Mexico and Colorado. That’s an odd one. We had a couple small ones here in Texas. I’m beginning to wonder what is going on, if it walks like a duck! Anyone interested www.ens@usgs.gov will get you all the info. on the US as well as the world.
Since I posted this questipn there has been a 5.1 in Greese, 5.7 Santa Cruz Islands, a 5.5 in Argentina and a 6. in Guatamala. Plus many small ones. What do you say ot a 4.0 in New Mexico.
Your right about CA but I’m talking about not just the ones in CA, I’m talking about Yellowstone Park, and other places. I do hope your right that all these little ones is releasing pressure and not putting more pressure on the faults, because if it’s adding pressure we’re (the world) going to be in trouble.

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Mon Jan 18, 12:15 pm ET
GUATEMALA CITY – A strong earthquake has rocked Guatemala and parts of El Salvador, but no there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in either country.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.0.

The USGS says it hit Monday morning about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Guatemala City, where it was felt by many residents. There were reports of shaking in the Guatemalan countryside and in El Salvador as well.

Civil protection officials in the two countries says so far there are no reports of injuries or damage, but authorities are still checking.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100118/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_guatemala_earthquake_2

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250 small earthquakes in Yellowstone.
Scientists can’t figure out why.
Ground is moving under their feet.
They don’t know why…uh, Snidely!

Take this one on, dear bird….
USGS-IS-LYING-ABOUT-SOMETHING!!!!
And, uh, what makes you think that?
IT-BLEW-640,000-YEARS-AGO-MEGA-ZONE!!!

Uh, Snidely? Where are you going?
I’M-GETTING-THE-FLOCK-OUTTA-HERE!!!!
Ain’t too much to crow about, eh?
Well, talk about it, talk about it…

Gotta move on, gotta move on…first,
Won’t you take me to Funky Town?
Dream baby, got me dreamin
Sweet dreams, the whole night thru…

Pink under blue under hazey daze
Of yellow…back to stone…free…
What a day for a daydream…ride,
Ride my see-saw, take a trip with me…

One year past the Past,
One year before the Future…
Take everything you’ve done
And roll it into one…happy or sad?

Mambo Number Five! Number Nine!
The Doors are open for the NEW YEAR!!!

Good Morning! Good Morning!
Ya’llses!
Where is Sin? she lives around Yellowstone….she’ll tell us the goods on this one….
Jeff…you live in dis South? Dey wood shoots ya fer dat!!! ‘youse’ is a New Yorker term…means ‘youths’…well, that’s according to My Cousin Vinny!!!
Oak…yeah, they’re laughing their axxes off at Old Faithful…release valve for pressure…
How’d you get that word past the Yahoo editors?
Octogen…even the ancients had a New Year celebration in the Americas…they smashed all the old pottery, burned everything they weren’t using at the time, and started over again.
Mixtli…strange that Nostradamus and the Mayans would predict the same date…worlds and times apart, yet 2012 for both! And, December 21st! Midwinter! The world ends not in fire, but in ice…who wrote that?

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I live in Washington state, and receive notifications from the USGS about earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest area. There have been a series of quakes off the Oregon coast over the past 10 days or so – the largest was a 5.2. I’m not a geologist by any stretch of the imagination, but I was watching the news last night, and a short piece on the quakes mentioned that this kind of series of quakes is usually associated with volcanic eruptions. Of course, right now, there IS no volcano in that region; is it possible that we’re about to see a new one begin? I’d be curious to know what people educated in this sort of science think – thanks!
Btw – I’m not "worried" about it or anything; I’m just wondering if it’s POSSIBLE. I certainly think it would be fascinating to see if it occurs, but I have no idea if that’s possible. I do remember MANY years ago (I’m 53) the process of a volcano (in the Atlantic, I think) turning into an island; it was documented in something like Life or National Geographic, but I was much too young at the time to do much more than look at the pictures.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/230_45.php

Ok – yeah, I know about the Cascade volcanoes, of course (I can look out my window and see Rainier, after all…). I guess it’s just that the USGS folks are saying there’s no volcano in the immediate area of the quakes, so I’m wondering if it’s reasonable at all to think that another one MIGHT form. Of course, I know it would take an EXTREMELY long time to form to the size of a Rainier or a St. Helens, but *could* this be the start of a new one?

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I was on the computer and all of a sudden everything shook very slightly and I hear a rumbling sound and after 4 seconds it stopped. I just felt it right now as I typed. I live near Midway but this was different. It’s happening right now.. If you felt it go here:http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/html/unknown_form.html

For the time put; around 11:35 or something close to that time. Put the date March 18, 2008

and fill out the form please
IM truely sorry For the time please put 10:35 PM or or close to that time NOT 11:35 pm that was a mistake…
OKay Let me restate the directions: For the earthquake report form please put the date March 18 2008 and have the time between 10:35PM to 10:45 PM please. And fill the form out
Also answer this question please if you felt it or not, and tell your effects/experiences

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If you did tell me about it and the effects it should appear on USGS in an hour.
I actually think we had a much smaller one yesterday.
Many people around the block probably felt shaking>>> I’m now guessing it was a 2.9 or 3.1 no higher unless the depth was very low and the magnitude was higher. On the Mercalli scale i would rate it a IV. PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION! I ONLY HAVE ONE ANSWER!!!

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Has anyone been following up on it lately? There has been about a good 100 to 200 or so, most small. Here’s a list:

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/115-33_eqs.htm

Its in a geothermal area near a dormant volcano. Its getting annoying aside from nerve racking trying to sleep at night.
Here’s a recent report of earthquakes, man they just keep coming,gah, I hope its just easing pressure off of San Andreas.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

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http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40204628.html

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I love geology but would rather kill myself than work for an oil company.

In both the near and intermediate future, do you think the USGS will have use for the two specialties aforementioned?

If you are aware, what are some great universities to study Geology? I have heard West Virginia has a strong program.

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http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/STORE/X40221260/ciim_form.html

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http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14383980.htm

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http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/118-34.html

my house shook for like 30 seconds to a min.

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http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/STORE/X14383980/ciim_display.html

look how cool , jst found this . it shows how much shaking each place around the quake today happened. im in the "moderate" zone – how much did you feel the earthquake?
really in norco there was an aftershock? someof my family said they felt one too, but over here nothing. but im glad ! after shocks make me more uneasy cuz now its like your expecting another earthquake
wow and im liek 5 min away form norco in corona ahah

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If an 8.0 hit San Fran now, what damage would be done to all aspects of life? I tried looking at info from USGS and other sites but most info just recaps the 1906 quake. It would be awesome if someone pointed me in the right direction to some sources

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apparently there was a 5.2 earthquake about 5:30 a.m. EDT in Illinois. I live in southern Indiana and slept right through it. add that to the list of the disasters I have slept through in my life. I did however, feel the aftershock around 11:15 a.m. I looked and the USGS said it was a 4.6. I always thought that aftershocks were a lot smaller than that for an eatherquake of that size

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