Hello everyone,

On Monday 27th June a mini-tsunami affected south and south-west England. No-one was reported hurt, and the event is being seen as a harmless curio.

According to the article I read in the London Daily Telegraph newspaper (paper version) this was probably caused by a seabed landslide in the Atlantic ocean.

My thoughts relate to it possibly / probably presaging something much more powerful that changes the coastline, forever.

The link below has some eye-witness accounts and a link to a BBC website article.

http://www.salinated.co.uk/2011/06/29/tidal-surge-tsunami-devon-cornwall-on-monday-27th-june-2011/

Simon

ps: re: inserting hyperlinks, I usually paste the link in first and then select it & press the 'URL' button. That automatically adds the 'url' codes required at the start and end of the link. This nearly allways works, except when I'm in a hurry / rushing and 'sods law' invokes itself!

There were reports of rivers changing direction, fish leaping out of water and hair standing on end due to static

Boatman Dave Ladner said: "The funniest thing was on the causeway all the ladies' hair was standing on end with the static.

He said: "The tide was coming in from left to right, all of a sudden it stopped coming in from the sea and went back the other way.

"It came back at quite a force, all the boats were bobbing around.

The sea at St Michael's Mount is normally "a gentle meeting in the middle" of the causeway "To see a tide suddenly stop and go back the other way at four times the speed was unbelievable."

He said a local landowner told him the first thing he noticed was "lots and lots of fish jumping out of the water".

Elenin is presently being tracked as it goes through the asteroid belt on its way into the inner solar system. I am truly sorry to have to be the bearer of such grave and threatening news but the source, NASA, is impeccable. We have an incoming mass (what might possibly be a neutron star) coming in and it will do a hard turn around the sun like any comet would, crossing and coming in between Mercury and Venus before starting its journey back out. On its way out it will cross our bow, meaning it will pass very close to the earth and the earth will pass behind it, plowing into its tail.

Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012.
Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.


Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012?
A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.

Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction?
A: Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is about 4 billion miles.

Google, NSA and NASA Conspiring to Hide Coming “Extinction Level Event”

See these extremely important related stories here.: NASA Shuts Down Prolific Sky-Mapping Space Telescope, Can WISE Find the Hypothetical Planet ‘Tyche’? Data Release To Tell the Tale, Mysterious Planetoid Sedna Inward Bound

I am currently running an investigation on Google and NASA and Department of Homeland Security conspiring together to hide evidence that a brown dwarf with three moons is currently between Jupiter and Mars orbit ascending from the southern hemisphere of our solar system at 100,000 miles per hour or 2.4 million miles every day. The NASA tracking/orbit data for the Elenin Comet is a psy-op cover story for a brown dwarf 2.5 Jupiter mass sizes and powerful magnetic polarity that has been affecting Earth magnetic field, rotation and tilt since 2004. We have images of the brown dwarf with moons in tow here:

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Extinction Level Event? Nibiru Is Near?

It’s funny how things happen. Just last weekend I was ridiculing the end of the world prophecies and the people who believe them, then after we decided to engage in some extremely deep meditation.
It started as a normal experience .....

The room disappears as another appears made of a liquid flowing substance that is neither solid, liquid or gas. Guides appeared and spoke with objects of colors moving in synchronicity order showing me the sound of their visual language. The objects before me spelled out letters that I have never seen before but recognized immediately and as my soul translated the objects into one of my native languages – English, it was clear the objects represented E.L.E.N.I.N. I knew the name but I shrugged it off a few weeks ago when people started bringing it up, justifying my ignorance of the subject with Y2K and many other end of the world prophecies before.

The next day I decided to have a look at the data from a 5-sense reality and scientific perspective. Apparently, I was being directed towards this information for a reason and while the reason is unclear as of now, what I found was worth noting to say the least. While the information is pretty available for those who look for it, perhaps my purpose in discovering this information is to make even MORE people aware of it.

“Comet” Elenin, as it’s been called by NASA, is supposedly a 3km-wide-comet first detected in December 2010. Officially, the scientist who discovered it is named “Leonid Elenin”, hailing from Russia. The path of the comet is not really disputed, having a long elliptical orbit around our sun....

What people seem to dispute is the actual size of the comet. Allegedly, this comet was spotted approximately 1 billion miles away with an 18-inch telescope. Many amateur astronomers are suggesting that if this comet is indeed only 3 km wide then it would be impossible to view at that great distance. In order for this object to be visible at that distance with that type of equipment, it would have to be approx twice the size of Jupiter, the largest celestial body in our solar system. Another interesting note is that NASA has dubbed it a “controlled comet”, whatever that means.
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Amateur astronomers have posted infrared red images of this object revealing at least 5 objects orbiting it. Other photos point out the “dark rift” left by this object and comparing it to the Sumerian tablets which talk about a 12th planet. Our top scientists including Michio Kaku have publicly stated that they are stumped by the phenomenon. Either that or his contracts with Fox News and the Discovery Channel have kept him quiet about his actual findings.
What we do know to be a fact is that the mainstream media has reported on three different events – A brown dwarf star found in our galaxy (a mini-solar system) which they call Tyche, Comet Elenin, and the asteroid Apophis. It is my belief that these events are cover stories and disinformation campaigns to confuse, hide or.....

For those of you who are not familiar with the 12th planet, aka Nibiru, please research the information as it would take too long to explain in this article. However, here is a well put together list of 25 points on the symptoms of Nibiru: {list of 25 'symptoms' redacted for space, but we all know what's on the list, or click on the link and read them-dd}

If this is really the case and Nibiru is coming back then everything suddenly makes sense. The FEMA camps, the millions of FEMA coffins, the high cost of food and gas (funding the contingency plan) and so on and so forth. Is it possible the elite would rather have us believe they are evil reptilians than reveal this coming disaster? The question is purely hypothetical of course, but ponder it for a moment.

Side Note: Consider this idea for a moment too. If the sun is the “Son of God”, (the “disciples” are the 12 constellations and so on and so forth), then Nibiru, being a brown dwarf, would in essence be the “Anti-christ” and the battle of Armageddon may be waged not on earth but in a magnetic battle for control of the earth between the “Christ” and the “Anti-Christ”. I’ll get into that line of thinking more in another article and break down the parallels between the book of Revelations and what would happen if Nibiru came back.
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Subject: Family/Personal Preparedness Plan
From: HQ-NASA INC
Date: Friday, June 10, 2011

AGENCYWIDE MESSAGE TO ALL NASA EMPLOYEES:

Point of Contact: Darrius Lewis, Mission Support Directorate, NASA Headquarters, 202-358-0608, darrius.l.lewis@nasa.gov

Family/Personal Preparedness Plan

NASA is the only federal agency responsible for its people's safety and well-being here on Earth and in space and has a longtime commitment to safety and emergency preparedness. Over the past year, Administrator Bolden has emphasized the importance of Family/Personal Preparedness for the entire NASA family. Family and personal preparedness plans are key to protecting our families and communities during potential emergencies such as fires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorist attacks and other unforeseen catastrophes.

The most important assets in the successful completion of NASA's mission are its people and their loved ones. The agency has developed a set of informational guides designed to prepare you, your families and pets for emergencies. These guides will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to develop your Family Preparedness Plan.

All employees are encouraged to download these guides, prepare plans, and review them with your families. The agency has taken the steps to prepare our NASA family; now it is your personal obligation to prepare yourself and/or your family for an emergency.

To view Administrator Bolden's video on family preparedness and to download your Family Preparedness guides, visit http://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/emergenc ... index.html

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SIMULATING THE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF A LARGE-SCALE ELECTRIC
NETWORK IN THE U.S. MIDWEST
Argonne National Laboratory FEMA Region V
9700 South Cass Avenue 535 South Clark Street, 6th Floor
Argonne, IL 60439, USA Chicago, IL 60605, USA

ABSTRACT

This paper summarizes the methodology and simulation tools used by Argonne National Laboratory to
examine the impact that a high-intensity New Madrid seismic event could have on local electric assets
and the performance of surrounding regional electric networks. Local impacts are expressed in terms of
the number of assets (under various equipment categories) most likely to be damaged. The total megawatt equivalent of damage-prone power plants is assessed, as is an estimate of power flows that could be disrupted. Damage functions and fragility curves are employed to identify specific electric assets that could be affected. The potential of large-scale electric system collapse is explored via a series of network simulations. ......

1 INTRODUCTION

This paper reflects recent work performed for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Region V Disaster Operations Division in Chicago, Illinois, by Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne
was tasked to estimate the impacts on electric assets and pertinent wide-area electric system operations
that could result from simultaneous New Madrid and Wabash Valley seismic events. Region V includes
the states of Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Concerns about the recurrence of a major seismic event heightened in recent months because of the
“200-year-recurrence cycle” ...... associated with the New Madrid Fault. A series of more than 2,000 earthquakes were felt by the few pioneers who lived in the region in 1811 and 1812. Some of the strongest were “recorded” at magnitudes of 7.7 in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) and 6.8 in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (WVSZ). This information indicates that it would be prudent for disaster response agencies like FEMA to prepare for such potentially devastating events and to estimate the impacts they might have on emergency response organizations.
A brief review of the literature indicates that a number of studies were done on the impacts of a major
New Madrid seismic event in the Midwest .......These studies were found to be somewhat lacking in details on the impacts to specific types of electric assets and subsequent rippling effects to surrounding utilities (i.e., networks not directly within the seismic zones).

FEMA
commissioned this study with four primary objectives:


• Identify high-voltage (230- to 745-kilovolt or kV) transmission lines, substations, and power
plants that are at risk for potential damage;
• Examine the impacts of equipment damage and estimated procurement times for damaged key
components;
• Identify components needing long lead times and possible sources of supply; and
• Estimate downstream impacts on FEMA Region V states.

In the statement of work (SOW) that FEMA provided to Argonne, FEMA defined the scenario to be
simulated, as follows. The seismic event would occur on February 24 at 2:00 a.m. The NMSZ would
exhibit a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that would occur in southern Illinois. The northern arm of the New
Madrid Fault would rupture over a distance of tens of miles, generating intense shaking in southern
Illinois and the boot heel of Missouri accompanied by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake along the Wabash
Valley, with an epicenter located at 38.45N and 87.89W at a depth of 14.2 miles. The SOW tasked
Argonne to determine the impacts as outlined .....

Electric Asset Inventory

Substation, transmission line, and power plant data were taken from Platt’s PowerMap. PowerMap is a
commercial geospatial information system (GIS) that contains spatial and tabular information on the
electric infrastructure for the entire United States. Data on the locations of towers are not publicly
available, so it was assumed that the towers along a transmission line are spaced at regular intervals of
500 meters. There are hundreds of transmission lines directly above the seismic zones.
The focus of this current assessment is on five major types of power plants: oil, natural gas, coal,
hydroelectric, and nuclear. These five types represent the top five conventional generation sources for the U.S. electric power industry. There are hundreds of power plants in the vicinity of the epicenter
(including units below 20 MW).

MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS

Five major assumptions pertain to the electric transmission system assessment:
• Events occur on February 24 at 2:00 a.m.
• Loading levels of transmission lines are about 50–60% of peak power flows.
• February is a relatively low-demand month in terms of electrical load in all regions of NERC.
• A failure of a substation would cause its associated transmission lines to de-energize and interrupt
operations.
• Power plants and transmission facilities will shut down once a moderate damage state is reached.
The assumption on the timing of the event was specified by FEMA. If the event were assumed to
happen in August when electric demand is high, the potential impact is certain to be more disastrous.

Local Electric Assets

The quantity and megawatt equivalent of the electric assets that would be directly and instantly damaged by the earthquake are summarized below:
Attributes Description or Quantity
A. General
NERC regions partially covered RFC, SPP, MRO, SERC
Simulation case description Summer peak day
B. Supply-demand (MW)
Peak-day load 150,000
Peak-day generation 151,140
Estimated off-peak load 100,000
C. No. of buses
Total 17,146
765-kV buses 31
500-kV buses 197
345-kV buses 592
230-kV buses 1,618
115-kV buses 3,221
69 kV buses 4,135
34.5 kV buses 991
<34.5 kV 6,361
Active gen buses 1,670
Inactive gen buses 469
D. No. of lines and transformers
Total lines 37,829
Total transformers 15,722

• The combined NMSZ and WVSZ events could de-energize at least 111 high-voltage lines and
84 substations (on the basis of PowerMap’s inventory). A much larger quantity was revealed
when the FERC-provided load flow data were considered, particularly the data that pertained to
equipment with voltage ratings of 230 kV or less. More specifically, when including all voltage
levels, the load flow data indicated that about 760 lines and 615 buses could be directly impacted.
Figure 2 shows the locations of high-risk, high-voltage transmission lines based on the
PowerMap inventory.
• The combined events could potentially cause physical damage to about 170 to 200 high-voltage
towers. Most of these towers are located along or near the New Madrid fault lines. Most towers
are 500-kV structures, and the associated lines are included in the 111 disrupted high-voltage line
count. Furthermore, FERC’s load flow data revealed that more lower-voltage towers could fail
around the fault lines.
The combined events could potentially directly affect a large number of oil, natural gas, coal, and
hydroelectric plants, with a total combined capacity of about 25,000 MW. (The actual operational level of
the power plants, however, might be lower than this due to maintenance or unit commitment
considerations). No nuclear power plants were found to be at risk of being damaged by the earthquake.
The complete listing of the identified damaged electric equipment is contained in Argonne’s report to
FEMA.....

Load Flow Results, System Collapse, and Customers Affected

The results of the MATLAB-assisted EPfast load flow simulations confirmed that with the simultaneous
outage of assets described above, the system encompassing the Region V states and beyond would
splinter into numerous island grids. The manner of fragmentation of the base system appeared to be a
complete disintegration and total network collapse as the system splintered into hundreds of isolated
grids.

At the instant of the seismic event (Case 1), the initial outage of the directly affected lines and
substations caused a load loss of about 9,100 MW and splintered the original grid into 410 separate grids
(762 lines and 615 nodes were made nonoperational directly because of the quake), according to the load
flow data. The largest island was composed of 16,030 nodes, or about 6.5 % smaller than the original
network. The remaining nodes were mostly one-node island grids. However, this 16,030-node network
was noted as having numerous overloaded lines. When these overloaded lines were assumed to be open,
the 16,030-node grid splintered further into 572 isolated grids, as shown in Table 3 (Case 2). Table 3
shows that the combined effects of the ground movement and the ensuing line overloads caused an overall load reduction of at least 34% (i.e., relative to the original system-wide loading of about 100,000 MW), assuming a quick supply-demand balance is attained for each of the 572 island grids. However, because generator dispatch is assumed to be non-optimal, each of the 572 island grids could further experience more line overloads and splinter again into secondary island grids. Thus, more loads could be lost, possibly up to 60% of the original load.


Table 5: Summary of major blackout events in the United States.

Event Name MW lost
No. of People
Affected
(millions)
Aug. 14, 2003, Northeast U.S.-Canada Blackout 61,800 50.0
Aug. 10, 1996, WSCC Blackout 30,500 22.5
Nov. 9, 1965, Northeast U.S.-Canada Blackout 37,080 30.0
July 2, 1996, WSCC Blackout 12,000 8.9
Dec. 22, 1982, West Coast Blackout 12,350 5.0

Note that the worst outage event in U.S. history (Aug. 14, 2003, blackout) was triggered by the failure of
only two 345-kV lines (Stuart-Atlanta and Harding-Chamberlin lines) and the outage of a 597-MW power
plant (Eastlake 5). The power plant outage took away the initial reactive support that eventually led to
widespread voltage collapse in both Canada and the northeastern United States. Power plants are the
primary source of reactive power in the system, and when a cluster of them abruptly disengages as the
result of some event, a voltage deterioration is likely to ensue. The study determined that in the case of
NMSZ and WVSZ seismic events, about 9,000 MW of operational power plant capacity is likely to go off
line instantly. This situation implies a very large loss of reactive power, leading to widespread collapse.
Combine that situation with more than 111 high-voltage lines tripping simultaneously, and a scenario that
is more significant than the Aug. 14 blackout occurs. The steady-state simulation results and the
supporting heuristics-based analysis led Argonne to the following conclusions:
• The impacts of the combined NMSZ and WVSZ events could far exceed the impact of the
Aug. 14, 2003, Northeast U.S.–Canada blackout.
• This event could possibly affect 50–100 million people especially in states nearer to the
earthquake’s epicenter, with the Northeast and the Midwest regions likely to experience the brunt
of the impact.
• Region V states could potentially experience a 45–100% reduction in power service, especially
when adverse transient effects (e.g., frequency decay, voltage deterioration, large power swings)
are considered.
• Many areas in FEMA Region V states could experience downtimes of at least 14 hours and up to
5 days, as experienced in the Aug. 14 blackout.

With regard to equipment procurement and replacement, a number of engineering firms were
consulted, and they provided the following insights:
• The equipment with the longest lead time (8–12 months) is the transformer.
• In general, there are more approved suppliers for towers, switches, bushings, arresters and
inductive reactors, implying that lead times would be shorter (1–4 months) for this equipment.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


The region of potential impact due to earthquake activity in the New Madrid Seismic
Zone (NMSZ) is comprised of eight states: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. Moreover, the Wabash Valley Seismic
Zone (WVSZ) in southern Illinois and southeast Indiana and the East Tennessee Seismic
Zone in eastern Tennessee and northeastern Alabama constitute significant risk of
moderate-to-severe earthquakes throughout the central region of the USA. The
investigation summarized in this report includes earthquake impact assessment scenarios
completed using HAZUS-MH MR2 for several potential earthquake scenarios affecting
the aforementioned eight-state region. The NMSZ includes eight scenarios - one for each
state - whilst the WVSZ scenario in Indiana and the ETSZ scenario in Alabama complete
the suite of ten total scenarios. These ten scenarios are designed to provide scientificallycredible, worst case damage and loss estimates for the purposes of emergency planning,
response and recovery.
The earthquake impact assessments presented in this report employ an analysis
methodology comprising three major components; namely hazard, inventory and fragility
(or vulnerability). The hazard characterizes not only the shaking of the ground but also
the consequential transient and permanent deformation of the ground due to strong
ground shaking. The inventory comprises all assets in a specified region, including the
built environment and population data. Fragility or vulnerability functions relate the
severity of shaking to the likelihood of reaching or exceeding damage states (light,
moderate, extensive and near-collapse, for example). Social impact models are also
included in the current assessment methodology and employ infrastructure damage
results to estimate the effects on populations subjected to the earthquake. Whereas the
modeling software used (HAZUS-MH MR2, FEMA-NIBS, 2006) provides default values
for all of the above, most of these default values were replaced by components of
traceable provenance and higher reliability than the default data, as described below.
The hazard employed in this investigation includes ground shaking for three seismic
zones and various events within those zones. The NMSZ consists of three fault segments:
the northeast segment, the reelfoot thrust or central segment, and the southwest segment.
Each segment comprises a deterministic, magnitude 7.7 (Mw7.7) earthquake caused by a
rupture over the entire length of the segment. The employed magnitude was provided by
US Geological Survey (USGS). The NMSZ represents the first of three hazard events
utilized in this report. Two deterministic events are also included, namely a magnitude
Mw7.1 in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (WVSZ) and a magnitude Mw5.9 in the East
Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ) earthquakes. Permanent ground deformation is
characterized by a liquefaction susceptibility map that provides data for part of the eight
states.......

The results indicate that the State of Tennessee incurs the highest level of damage and
social impacts. Over 250,000 buildings are moderately or more severely damaged, over
260,000 people are displaced and well over 60,000 casualties (injuries and fatalities) are
expected. Total direct economic losses surpass $56 billion. The State of Missouri also
incurs substantial damage and loss, though estimates are less than those in Tennessee.
Well over 80,000 buildings are damaged leaving more than 120,000 people displaced and
causing over 15,000 casualties. Total direct economic losses in Missouri reach nearly $40
billion. Kentucky and Illinois also incur significant losses with total direct economic
losses reaching approximately $45 and $35 billion, respectively. The State of Arkansas
incurs nearly $19 billion in direct economic loss while the State of Mississippi incurs
$9.5 billion in direct economic losses. States such as Indiana and Alabama experience
limited damage and loss from NMSZ events with approximately $1.5 and $1.0 billion,
respectively. Noting that experience confirms that the indirect economic loss due to
business interpretation and loss of market share, amongst other features, is at least as high
if not much higher than the direct economic losses, the total economic impact of a series
of NMSZ earthquakes is likely to constitute by far the highest economic loss due to a
natural disaster in the USA.

Kentucky New Madrid Seismic Zone Scenario

The northeast fault segment generates substantial shaking in western Kentucky. As a
result 25 counties are identified in that area and are expected to incur the majority of the
damage from a NMSZ earthquake. These critical counties are highlighted in Figure 15
and are also listed below:
 Ballard
 Caldwell
 Calloway
 Carlisle
 Christian
 Crittenden
 Daviess
 Fulton
 Graves
 Hancock
 Henderson
 Hickman
 Hopkins
 Livingston
 Logan
 Lyon
 McCracken
 McLean
 Marshall
 Muhlenberg
 Ohio
 Todd
 Trigg
 Union
 Webster

The State of Kentucky experiences substantial damage to its building stock of nearly 1.5
million buildings, most of which is confined to the western half of the state. Table 37
illustrates the number of building damaged by the NMSZ event. Nearly 30,000 buildings
are completely damaged and another 53,000 buildings experience moderate or severe
damage. All but roughly 150 cases of complete damage occur in the critical counties and
approximately 95% of all moderate and severe damage occurs in these counties. As with
many other scenarios, residential structures comprise the majority of the damage. Nearly
98% of all complete damage and over 99% of all moderate and severe damage occurs to
single family homes and other residential buildings. This percentage of damage is
proportional to the inventory; however, roughly 98% of the building stock is residential
construction. As mentioned earlier, other residential structures are most commonly multiunit dwellings.

Table 37: NMSZ Event Building Damage by Occupancy Type for the State of Kentucky
General Occupancy Type Damage
General Occupancy Type
Total No. Buildings
Moderate to Severe Damage
Complete Damage

Single Family 1,159,114.... 39,150.... 18,768
Other Residential 292,873.... 13,050.... 9,673
Commercial 16,431.... 306... 475
Industrial 3,002.... 48.... 53
Other 1,900... 34... 60
Total 1,473,320.... 52,588.... 29,029

Building damage by building type is shown in Table 38. Nearly half of all complete
damage occurs in wood frame structures, with mobile homes comprising 30% of
complete damage and unreinforced masonry (URM) representing slightly less than 30%.
Though nearly 14,000 cases of complete damage occur to wood frame structures, this
only represents 1.3% of all wood frame buildings in Kentucky. The roughly 6,200 URMs
and 8,800 mobile homes that are completely damaged represent a much higher portion of
their respective inventories at 3.9% of all URMs and 3.6% of all mobile homes. When
comparing these percentages, it is evident that URMs are more vulnerable to damage
despite having fewer actual instances of complete damage. The same type of comparison
can be done for moderate and extensive damage. In this case, the 11,800 instances of
moderate and severe damage to mobile homes represents 4.8% of all mobile homes in
Kentucky, which is the greatest proportion of inventory damaged at this level by far.
Only 3.4% of wood frame buildings and 2.7% of URMs are damaged at these severity
levels.

Essential facilities experience substantial damage, particularly in the westernmost
counties in Kentucky. Nearly 100 schools are at least moderately damaged, with roughly
80 being completely damaged. This leaves nearly all schools in Fulton, Hickman, Carlisle,
Ballard, McCracken, Graves, Calloway and Marshall Counties completely damaged and
non functional for a significant period after the earthquake. Schools are often used as
public shelters, though with so many damaged in western Kentucky displaced people will
need to be housed elsewhere. Emergency services also suffer tremendous losses in
western Kentucky. There are 77 at least moderately damaged fire stations and 23 police
stations similarly damaged, as shown in Table 39. In addition, 107 fire stations and 34
police stations, all in the western Kentucky, are not operational the day after the event.
With 17 hospitals in that same area not operational, all emergency response services will
be impaired.

Transportation lifelines in the critical counties incur substantial damage and are likely to
make travel within the region and access to the region from the outside difficult. There
are approximately 200 damaged bridges in western Kentucky and nearly 50 of those are
completely damaged, indicating they will not regain functionality for a significant period
of time (see Table 40). The majority of these completely damaged bridges are in Fulton,
Hickman, Carlisle, Ballard, McCracken and Graves Counties. In addition, there are 14
completely damaged port facilities, with roughly half on the Mississippi and half on the
Ohio Rivers. Also, 19 airports are moderately or more severely damaged with 13 non
operational immediately after the earthquake.


In addition, numerous utility lifelines are damaged and not functioning in the critical
counties. As shown in Table 41 more than 500 waste water facilities incur at least
moderate damage and 81 of those facilities are completely damaged. In the days
immediately after the earthquake, approximately 800 waste water facilities in the critical
counties are not functioning, which will severely limit service to many residents in
western Kentucky. Electric power facilities in the critical counties are also heavily
damaged with 132 facilities incurring at least moderate damage and 232 of the 463
electric power facilities not operational immediately after the event. In addition, 850
communication facilities are out of service in the days after the earthquake.
With such extensive functional losses in the critical counties, tens of thousands of
households are without crucial services. Table 42 illustrates the numbers of households
without potable water and electric power in the days and weeks after the NMSZ
earthquake. The day after the event, nearly 109,000 households are without water and
77,000 are without electricity. A large portion of households regain service within the
first week, but there are still 67,000 households without water in the most heavily
damaged areas. With such extended service losses in western Kentucky, some residents
whose homes are not heavily damaged may be forced to leave due to a lack of drinking
water and electricity. For more information on direct damage and functional losses in the
State of Kentucky, please refer to Appendix V for detailed assessment results and to
Appendix VIII for damage and functionality maps.

As it lies south of the Antarctic Circle, the sun does not rise at Mawson for approximately six weeks from the first week in June and does not set for the same period from early December. During those six weeks in June and July, the day consists of a few hours of twilight.

This is from a blog - so I post it in entirety as the story is getting "real" interesting...

Elenin What To Make Of It?

Solar Dynamics

A talented friend kindly, generous with his time, has put together images of the sun taken at each hour over the period of the last month and a half. He did this in order to better understand my claims on the Kevin Smith Show that an enormous object now acknowledged in proximity with the sun, is not only fixed in position there, but operating in an interaction with the sun to accomplish certain dynamics only possible to a technology far beyond that of any planetary civilization.

These features become very important to discussions today as we see an errant drift of mindset being fostered more and more to portray an hostile ET presence as virtually inevitable. That this is absurd in any context, historical or present, as a matter of common sense, is being lost more and more to the drum beat of steady media repetition.

In dredging up myth, superstition and the remnants of poorly developed logic among western science fiction writers, an underlying theme of this “inevitability” has already been implanted. Still, /it is no less absurd, and fostered and promoted on vast scale simply because it has a designed agenda behind it. Now, instead of manufactured terrorism and attacks on national sovereignty on earth, to engineer the ages-old device of war upon people in order to deny them more personal freedoms and better means of financial sustainment, the stage is set to bring an end to all social contracts based on the advances, cultural and technological, mankind has achieved on earth in the last 300 years to win any equality among levels of society for the individual. The fear driven agenda of an hostile ET threat has been developed as the ultimate false flag operation to do just this.

Just as we were led to believe that nations must form alliances under detente in order to escape “certain” destruction from the imposed threat of the hydrogen bomb and that nations must combine on the same basis to afford advancing space exploration, we will be “taught” combating this new alien threat will require a nationless New World Order... already set up as a feudal corporate police state. We already see evidence of this as corporations like BP are allowed to police their own catastrophic environmental holocaust in the Gulf of Mexico, instead of the EPA and Coast Guard and Monsanto is allowed to confine food production to corporate control with laws that prohibit non-hybrid seed.

These trends are not justified by any external threat, but are part of a growingly apparent agenda around what lies behind the false flag fabrication of one, world dominance by an elite that has long lost its way morally and in any context appropriate to evolutionary advance.

At this stage of crucial decision-making, is important to view certain dynamics in a perspective long denied the people of this planet. For all to see that the design in nature governing all things on the astrophysical plane have both order and design shared in common knowledge by all civilizations that advance beyond the point at which the people of earth now near.

Why, dearest fellow children of the Universe, you have nothing to fear from those part and parcel to these dynamics.

View what you see as but an example of what is possible when people survive their own technology and share it without the constraints of any lords and masters. –James Horak

Bow Tightens

During the 7 of 10 scenarios, the S America roll much precedes the New Madrid adjustment. What happens to Mexico when the top part of S America pulls west by 250 miles, shoving Central America westward in front of it? Of course the north Pacific is compressing in step with the central and southern Pacific, but surely Mexico would be affected, as would the countries in Central America being pushed to the west over the Cocos Plate. Per the Zetas, the N American bow essentially tightens during this time, affecting Mexico.

ZetaTalk Explanation 4/30/2011:
http://www.zetatalk2.com/ning/30ap2011.htm
We stated that as a result of the 7 of 10 scenarios that the top of S America would find itself 250 miles further to the west, though not all of this would be due to movement of S America and the Caribbean and Central America. We have described the Pacific Plate as being composed of four plates, not one. They are folding over one another, and thus the Pacific compresses. What happens to Mexico during this process? When the Mariana and Philippine plates tilt and fold this affects Mexico, which is directly to the east. This portion of the N American continent moves in concert with the S American roll, putting the N American continent under an excruciating bow stress prior to its anticipated New Madrid adjustment. This will be felt primarily in the US southwest and east through Texas, as well as Mexico.

A shift west obviously occurred from July 11 to July 13, as the bending and breaking in Mexico indicates. Costa Rico even lost a river.



Veracruz: We Report Large-Scale Collapse in Geo Los Pinos II
July 11, 2011
http://www.e-consulta.com/veracruz/inde ... Itemid=303
Houses were almost at the edge of a ravine 20 meters, diameter of the dip is about 15 meters.

Ciudad Valles: The Road to El Naranjo Interrumió
July 12, 2011
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldesanluis/notas/n2143428.htm
The asphalt began to break down to such an extent that there was a hole eight meters deep. The damage is significant, given the depth of 8 meters, which fell through the asphalt, and a length of about 30 meters.

Colima: Rain Causes Heavy Damage to Road Michoacán
July 4, 2011
http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias ... 757da6f3...
Three large cuts on the coastal road of Michoacan prevent the total circulation of vehicles in this line of communication linking the ports of Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo

Tlahuac: Alarm Cracks in Valle de Chalco
July 13, 2011
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n2144215.htm
The emergence of three huge cracks that damaged two avenues and at least 10 dwellings severely, so they require the presence of geologists from the highest seat of learning. Three huge cracks soon appeared, one with about 30 meters long and half meters wide in some parts.

Costa Rico: 5.3 Earthquake in Upala Alajuela
July 13, 2011
http://www.costaricanewssite.com/5-3-ea ... a-alajuela
In the moments following the earthquake, a community stood watch as their river disappeared in to the Earth. What is on the minds of many Ticos is whether or not this spike in activity is any indication of something bigger to come.

Buoy activity on both the west and east coasts of N America were in step with this obvious adjustment in Mexico and Central America. Buoy 46407 on the Juan de Fuca Plate border shows choppy water, as did Buoy 44401 on the edge of the N American Plate in the Atlantic. Where one malfunctioning buoy might occur, for this duet to occur is NOT an accident – east and west. And they appear to be on the same LATITUDE. Notice the correlation in dates – July 12 to July 15.



Then there is the rash of sinkholes across the US between July 14 and July 15 as noted on the Pole Shift ning.
http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blog ... a-jul-15th
Again, too many correlations to be coincidence. And note the LINE these incidents draw across the US, from the San Francisco Bay area east through Utah, Kansas, Tennessee, and over to South Carolina! Almost on the same LATITUDE. Clearly, during these few days in July, the bow tightened.



CA: Caltrans Makes Repairs to Sinkhole
July 14, 2011
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio ... fic&id=8...
A giant 30-foot-long sinkhole that opened up on a South Bay freeway might be just the beginning of a larger problem.

UT: Huge Sink Hole Opens Causing Fatal Utah Crash
July 15, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/huge-sink-hole-op ... ah-crash...
A 15-year-old girl died after heavy rains caused a huge sink hole to open on a Utah highway, swallowing one vehicle and causing her father's SUV to careen off the road. At about the same time, a second car actually went into the 40-foot-wide, 30-foot-deep hole.

KS: Big Sinkhole Growing Larger in South County
July 14, 2011
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/267044 ... ing-larg...
Residents of a South St. Louis County neighborhood are concerned about a huge sinkhole in their street.

TN: Sinkhole at North Second and College Street
July 15, 2011
http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2011/0 ... th-secon...
The road has sunk, but not caved in.

SC: Rain Forms Sinkhole off I-526 Near Dorchester Road
July 15, 2011
http://northcharleston.live5news.com/ne ... inkhole-...
The sinkhole, which is about 6 x 4 feet, is located off of the Dorchester Road exit on-ramp.

SC: Sinkhole Forms On North Main Street In Greenville
July 15, 2011
http://www2.wspa.com/news/2011/jul/15/s ... main-str...
Greenville workers are on the scene of a sinkhole at the intersection of North Main Street and Croft Street.

FL: Sinkhole Close U.S. 19 Entrance to Innisbrook Resort
July 15, 2011
http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/ ... -close-u...
A sinkhole formed in the westbound lane of Innisbrook Drive, the entrance to the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Course off U.S. 19.

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