San Francisco earthquakes fires and kites

This image is taken from a kite - of San Francisco after the fires and devastation that followed the 1906 earthquake. It is a perspective that was unavailable to a human at the time the shutter was pressed. A remote-sensing viewpoint on a tragedy which has ingrained through stories and repetition into the psyche of the place. 

English Channel undersea earthquake and tsunamis in British Isles

Click Here to see the British Geological Survey report of an undersea earthquake in the English Channel (la Manche). This is a reminder that several Tsunamis have struck the British Isles. A tsunami following the Lisbon Earthquake severed Aughinish from County Clare, making an island that is now linked via a causeway to County Galway (see Wikipedia entry on Aughinish ) and catastrophic wave erosion noted in the Bristol Channel has been related to a possible tsunami in 1607 2007 paper .

ENGLISH CHANNEL
July 14, 2011
Time: 06:59:10.9
Lat./Lon.: 50.122 -0.743
National Grid: 489.8 km E, 25.5 km N
Depth: 10.0
Magnitude: 3.9
Intensity: 3
FELT S COAST ENGLAND

Update - another underssea quake in the Southern North Sea

SOUTHERN NORTH SEA
July 21, 2011
Time: 14:21:18.6
Lat./Lon.: 53.573 2.243
National Grid: 680.9 km E, 416.9 km N
Depth: 11.8
Magnitude: 3.5

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