-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- One of the known effect of electromagnetic Solar Storms is the triggering of earth changes, including tectonic shifts and earthquakes. These earthquake and volcanic activity alerts in Japan comes in the midst of a Solar Storm alert. Alfred Webre, EcoNews Service, Vancouver, BC ===== Fears for Japan as nature issues warnings AP 28 March 2000 A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck remote Japanese islands Tuesday, just hours after the north of Japn was warned about an impending volcanic eruption. The quake was centered about 93 miles beneath the seabed in the Pacific Ocean near the sparsely populated island of Chichijima, the Meteorological Agency said. Chichijima is about 589 miles south of Tokyo. The quake struck at about 8:01 p.m., the agency said. The region sometimes experiences such powerful quakes, but usually they are so deep as to not be strongly felt on land. Shigeji Sugimoto, a local official on Chichijima, said he felt Tuesday's earthquake but that it wasn't strong enough to have knocked items off shelves. There was no fear of tsunami, or seismic waves caused by undersea disturbances such as volcanic activity or undersea earthquakes, the agency said. Japan is one of the world's most earthquake–prone nations as it sits atop four tectonic plates, slabs of land that move across the earth's surface. A temblor of magnitude 7 is considered a major earthquake capable of causing widespread, heavy damage. Earlier residents in Northern Japan were warned that Mount Usu, a volcano on Japan's northern Hokkaido island, was danger of erupting following a series of tremors related to volcanic activity. The agency issued an emergency volcano warning at 2:50 a.m. after the number and size of quakes increased around the foot of the 2,416 ft. mountain. Three towns with a combined population of 51,300 are near the mountain. While each town is monitoring the volcano and has notified residents of the possible danger, none has issued orders to evacuate, spokesmen for each said. "The tremors are occurring more frequently but there's still no indication of movement in the volcano's magma that would lead to an eruption," said Katsuhiro Morita, a spokesman for Date city, located about 3.7 miles from the volcano. The Meteorological Agency said it recorded as many as 30 quakes in an hour, the same number normally registered in a month. Some of the quakes were big enough to be felt by humans. The mountain, located about 42 miles southwest of Sapporo, last erupted in 1978, killing two and destroying 196 homes, said Takaharu Kiriyama, a spokesman for the National Land Agency. The National Land Agency is charged with gathering information and disseminating it to the appropriate government bureaucracies, Kiriyama said. Orders to evacuate the towns rests with the respective local governments. Sapporo is located 518 miles northwest of Tokyo. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
