Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Areas and Magnitude 4.5 or Greater in the Rest of the World - Last 7 days

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This list contains all earthquakes with magnitude greater than 2.5 located by the USGS and contributing networks in the last week (168 hours). Magnitudes 4.5 and above are in bold font. Magnitudes 6 and above are in red. (Some early events may be obscured by later ones on the maps.)

The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Click on the word "map" to see a ten-degree tall map displaying the earthquake. Click on an event's "DATE" to get a detailed report.

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Update time = Sun Jul 18 16:00:02 UTC 2010

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	2.5	2010/07/18 15:43:43	32.684	-115.936	6.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/18 15:28:45	34.322	-120.362	3.4	SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL, CALIFORNIA
MAP	7.3	2010/07/18 13:35:03	-6.019	150.497	57.6	NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP	6.9	2010/07/18 13:04:13	-6.116	150.522	57.5	NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP	5.1	2010/07/18 13:03:25	24.031	122.439	27.2	TAIWAN REGION
MAP	2.8	2010/07/18 12:48:34	57.307	-153.878	17.2	KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	2.9	2010/07/18 12:32:42	38.841	-107.391	1.0	COLORADO
MAP	4.5	2010/07/18 11:52:43	52.654	-168.684	10.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.7	2010/07/18 11:30:23	60.661	-147.407	2.1	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/18 11:16:55	32.402	-115.540	4.6	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.8	2010/07/18 10:51:10	32.703	-115.964	1.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.2	2010/07/18 10:24:52	52.824	-169.740	10.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.9	2010/07/18 10:07:23	52.907	-169.933	6.1	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.9	2010/07/18 09:07:26	52.632	-169.636	10.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.1	2010/07/18 07:52:08	52.702	-169.506	10.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.5	2010/07/18 07:49:17	38.826	-122.811	3.8	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.9	2010/07/18 07:48:50	52.724	-169.490	10.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.8	2010/07/18 07:32:04	52.652	-169.666	10.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.7	2010/07/18 07:28:03	39.011	-118.810	10.4	NEVADA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/18 07:21:56	18.312	-64.514	52.5	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.0	2010/07/18 06:53:28	52.745	-169.460	4.8	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/18 06:30:07	63.236	-144.959	2.9	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	3.5	2010/07/18 06:16:26	37.621	-118.814	7.8	LONG VALLEY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.4	2010/07/18 06:15:51	52.649	-169.463	0.4	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.8	2010/07/18 06:09:56	52.698	-169.591	6.9	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	6.7	2010/07/18 05:56:44	52.861	-169.839	10.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	5.0	2010/07/18 03:29:38	-41.813	-73.464	34.9	GOLFO DE ANCUD, LOS LAGOS, CHILE
MAP	4.7	2010/07/18 02:43:46	-30.593	-71.105	58.0	COQUIMBO, CHILE
MAP	4.5	2010/07/18 01:54:47	30.025	70.235	37.3	PAKISTAN
MAP	2.5	2010/07/18 01:25:09	39.385	-123.273	0.0	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	3.2	2010/07/17 23:49:58	40.295	-124.444	19.2	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.7	2010/07/17 23:42:15	3.775	126.742	55.3	KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/17 22:25:45	57.267	-154.766	34.7	KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	3.1	2010/07/17 21:37:02	32.123	-115.259	7.2	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.1	2010/07/17 21:34:17	64.173	-153.891	36.5	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	5.2	2010/07/17 20:35:34	-54.364	-136.262	16.6	PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
MAP	2.6	2010/07/17 19:10:34	32.222	-115.412	4.8	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.8	2010/07/17 18:46:56	32.110	-115.214	21.5	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.7	2010/07/17 16:54:27	17.752	-65.438	23.9	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	5.3	2010/07/17 16:20:03	-15.551	-175.084	10.2	TONGA
MAP	4.3	2010/07/17 14:44:16	52.683	-169.732	7.6	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/17 13:19:01	61.768	-150.681	65.0	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/17 12:54:45	32.723	-115.985	3.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2010/07/17 09:52:26	39.022	-118.785	1.7	NEVADA
MAP	4.7	2010/07/17 09:04:18	23.464	121.600	47.1	TAIWAN
MAP	4.9	2010/07/17 08:59:33	18.436	-62.429	35.0	ANGUILLA REGION, LEEWARD ISLANDS
MAP	4.3	2010/07/17 07:01:45	19.352	-72.927	37.9	HAITI REGION
MAP	5.7	2010/07/17 06:07:43	-24.807	-69.949	52.7	ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP	4.8	2010/07/17 04:34:01	-20.610	-178.897	608.4	FIJI REGION
MAP	5.0	2010/07/17 01:03:50	-5.736	147.134	69.8	EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	2.7	2010/07/16 22:19:36	32.670	-115.936	3.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2010/07/16 21:25:52	33.243	-116.778	7.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.0	2010/07/16 18:53:10	39.383	23.934	2.6	AEGEAN SEA
MAP	4.6	2010/07/16 18:47:40	9.457	126.268	90.7	MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP	4.5	2010/07/16 18:47:24	-25.226	179.773	506.6	SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP	2.5	2010/07/16 17:26:20	36.493	-89.561	9.4	SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI
MAP	3.1	2010/07/16 15:29:59	32.562	-115.709	7.7	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.4	2010/07/16 12:53:34	18.591	-68.992	120.2	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP	2.9	2010/07/16 12:05:31	32.111	-115.251	5.5	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.6	2010/07/16 09:04:47	39.167	-77.252	5.0	POTOMAC-SHENANDOAH REGION
MAP	5.4	2010/07/16 08:11:02	36.904	26.956	159.4	DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE
MAP	2.7	2010/07/16 06:59:43	38.827	-122.806	2.6	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.0	2010/07/16 05:58:26	-8.203	118.658	35.0	SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	5.0	2010/07/16 05:45:52	-8.252	118.638	29.9	SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	4.5	2010/07/16 05:09:17	51.381	179.607	63.1	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.4	2010/07/16 04:37:28	53.636	-158.649	10.0	SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/16 03:09:32	18.091	-67.911	130.8	ISLA DE MONA, PUERTO RICO
MAP	4.7	2010/07/16 03:05:44	1.393	126.607	56.9	MOLUCCA SEA
MAP	4.1	2010/07/16 03:04:20	18.695	-108.554	10.0	REVILLA GIGEDO ISLANDS REGION
MAP	5.1	2010/07/16 02:25:23	-21.275	-68.001	115.4	POTOSI, BOLIVIA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/16 01:59:01	31.360	-116.789	6.0	OFFSHORE BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.5	2010/07/16 01:25:06	32.673	-115.918	8.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2010/07/16 01:10:52	31.805	-114.827	10.0	GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.9	2010/07/16 00:48:51	3.979	125.831	155.6	KEPULAUAN SANGIHE, INDONESIA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/16 00:16:50	19.493	-66.291	14.1	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.9	2010/07/16 00:06:44	12.965	-88.482	68.3	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	3.8	2010/07/15 23:54:20	38.815	-122.816	2.4	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/15 23:13:51	32.147	-115.209	5.8	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.7	2010/07/15 23:08:16	32.131	-115.207	2.4	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	4.7	2010/07/15 22:57:05	-35.106	-72.517	40.2	OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP	2.7	2010/07/15 22:39:57	32.237	-115.326	6.0	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.6	2010/07/15 22:39:41	32.207	-115.339	5.6	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.9	2010/07/15 22:39:20	32.274	-115.320	6.0	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.4	2010/07/15 21:52:52	52.618	-169.989	0.8	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.6	2010/07/15 21:18:37	42.864	145.004	67.7	HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP	4.8	2010/07/15 20:28:10	52.513	160.382	31.9	OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/15 15:33:25	38.814	-122.774	0.0	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.0	2010/07/15 15:31:44	38.819	-122.808	2.9	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.9	2010/07/15 14:42:44	-22.394	-175.128	35.0	TONGA REGION
MAP	2.6	2010/07/15 13:56:37	32.273	-115.430	7.0	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.6	2010/07/15 09:25:01	53.365	-164.234	17.2	UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/15 06:18:33	19.150	-66.650	52.5	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	2.6	2010/07/15 04:46:38	53.288	-167.251	60.6	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.8	2010/07/15 04:23:34	50.098	177.791	4.8	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.5	2010/07/15 04:19:25	-29.937	-71.061	55.9	COQUIMBO, CHILE
MAP	4.6	2010/07/15 01:30:31	22.243	93.601	60.4	MYANMAR-INDIA BORDER REGION
MAP	5.0	2010/07/15 01:02:15	-37.369	-72.896	26.3	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	5.1	2010/07/15 00:36:03	-34.131	-72.152	11.4	OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	2.7	2010/07/14 23:53:15	53.050	-168.695	106.1	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.9	2010/07/14 23:16:08	52.712	-170.868	52.5	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.9	2010/07/14 22:38:19	34.129	-117.440	8.1	GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2010/07/14 22:28:42	37.736	-122.132	7.0	SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2010/07/14 22:13:51	53.285	-164.160	7.9	UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	2.9	2010/07/14 22:02:31	53.300	-164.198	20.1	UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	3.1	2010/07/14 21:08:28	32.135	-115.218	21.4	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.7	2010/07/14 20:37:28	18.825	-64.424	36.7	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.6	2010/07/14 20:14:55	33.647	-116.767	13.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2010/07/14 17:30:33	32.185	-115.242	10.1	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.9	2010/07/14 15:17:27	32.247	-115.332	15.0	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	5.7	2010/07/14 15:05:52	-38.169	-73.053	35.0	ARAUCANIA, CHILE
MAP	2.8	2010/07/14 13:40:23	55.336	-163.811	261.7	UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	2.7	2010/07/14 12:46:11	53.062	-167.030	25.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.9	2010/07/14 12:44:19	-37.962	-73.484	35.0	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	3.3	2010/07/14 12:34:05	18.022	-65.327	7.8	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	5.6	2010/07/14 11:01:28	51.859	-176.085	56.2	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	2.8	2010/07/14 09:40:00	52.091	-170.477	10.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.7	2010/07/14 09:10:54	52.320	-162.625	10.0	SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP	6.5	2010/07/14 08:32:23	-38.002	-73.282	28.4	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	5.3	2010/07/14 08:21:13	-38.005	-73.324	21.9	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	3.5	2010/07/14 07:09:33	32.137	-115.273	12.6	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.0	2010/07/14 05:22:35	19.353	-155.078	9.0	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.7	2010/07/14 04:55:24	-7.737	158.739	35.0	SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP	3.0	2010/07/14 04:14:52	60.480	-151.071	46.3	KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP	3.1	2010/07/14 03:21:09	32.083	-115.225	10.0	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.3	2010/07/14 02:59:49	64.272	-137.680	8.4	SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
MAP	2.7	2010/07/14 02:26:10	32.274	-115.321	6.0	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.9	2010/07/14 01:26:50	32.303	-115.324	7.0	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.1	2010/07/14 01:21:43	32.304	-115.324	2.3	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.8	2010/07/14 00:40:11	55.529	-154.335	25.0	SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP	2.6	2010/07/14 00:28:28	51.033	-179.707	25.9	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	3.3	2010/07/14 00:27:53	50.401	177.844	10.0	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	5.6	2010/07/13 23:56:31	-2.664	138.621	15.9	PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP	3.6	2010/07/13 23:46:22	18.409	-68.434	161.1	MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP	2.6	2010/07/13 22:23:04	38.819	-122.797	3.8	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.0	2010/07/13 22:21:03	1.346	97.088	25.2	NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	4.8	2010/07/13 21:12:32	-27.942	-70.503	66.6	ATACAMA, CHILE
MAP	4.6	2010/07/13 20:36:21	45.124	150.839	69.9	KURIL ISLANDS
MAP	2.9	2010/07/13 20:10:18	52.372	-171.912	40.0	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.8	2010/07/13 20:09:11	52.544	-165.020	29.2	SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
MAP	2.7	2010/07/13 19:43:41	36.078	-117.888	0.4	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.5	2010/07/13 19:27:50	-4.193	-78.107	108.6	PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION
MAP	4.7	2010/07/13 19:15:48	-4.260	143.193	105.1	NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/13 11:24:30	60.484	-152.912	154.4	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.8	2010/07/13 07:11:28	51.154	-179.097	30.6	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	2.6	2010/07/13 06:50:38	19.321	-155.227	8.4	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.7	2010/07/13 05:29:37	-23.442	-179.695	525.2	SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP	3.1	2010/07/13 05:23:08	17.923	-65.505	9.8	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	2.7	2010/07/13 04:27:07	50.238	179.743	10.0	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	5.2	2010/07/13 04:26:26	1.455	97.147	28.0	NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	4.9	2010/07/13 04:24:43	1.252	97.087	39.5	NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	2.8	2010/07/13 03:56:07	18.355	-65.496	11.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.5	2010/07/13 03:18:11	36.405	21.893	35.0	SOUTHERN GREECE
MAP	3.2	2010/07/13 03:03:23	38.792	-122.757	2.5	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/13 02:51:19	61.514	-150.739	68.6	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/13 01:21:56	56.669	-155.037	33.8	ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/13 01:08:46	55.403	-154.440	47.0	SOUTH OF ALASKA

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	2.6	2010/07/12 23:15:44	32.673	-115.924	8.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2010/07/12 23:13:29	52.532	-163.354	42.7	SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP	2.9	2010/07/12 22:13:13	39.562	-123.394	7.3	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.3	2010/07/12 22:11:38	31.896	-114.938	10.0	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.2	2010/07/12 21:10:12	32.670	-115.919	12.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2010/07/12 19:55:11	32.496	-115.627	2.2	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.7	2010/07/12 18:57:02	51.397	-167.723	31.8	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.1	2010/07/12 17:56:48	18.788	-64.000	64.1	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.0	2010/07/12 17:28:28	19.492	-66.245	25.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	5.3	2010/07/12 16:53:07	6.605	123.375	614.7	MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP	3.3	2010/07/12 16:37:48	19.309	-155.219	9.3	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	2.5	2010/07/12 16:06:26	53.516	-165.369	37.1	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/12 15:27:13	32.299	-115.426	11.3	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.1	2010/07/12 15:15:13	40.681	-124.614	23.5	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2010/07/12 14:52:09	32.054	-115.093	14.2	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	4.7	2010/07/12 12:44:48	-17.018	-70.034	94.8	SOUTHERN PERU
MAP	2.5	2010/07/12 11:45:20	32.237	-115.337	6.0	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.9	2010/07/12 10:57:51	32.211	-115.328	0.5	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	3.2	2010/07/12 10:09:10	19.467	-66.237	64.5	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.9	2010/07/12 10:06:44	73.058	123.446	10.0	NEAR COAST OF NORTHWESTERN SAKHA, RUSSIA
MAP	3.2	2010/07/12 10:01:24	19.804	-157.370	31.3	HAWAIIAN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.8	2010/07/12 10:00:29	32.662	-115.873	12.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.2	2010/07/12 09:42:51	19.410	-66.325	72.1	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	3.0	2010/07/12 09:20:15	19.522	-66.293	42.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	3.4	2010/07/12 09:14:47	19.614	-66.282	76.1	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	3.5	2010/07/12 09:10:02	19.565	-66.420	43.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	2.7	2010/07/12 09:06:56	51.474	-178.493	26.0	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	4.7	2010/07/12 08:38:17	-8.779	119.198	115.5	FLORES REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/12 08:37:51	32.100	-115.178	6.4	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	4.9	2010/07/12 08:15:56	26.930	127.756	57.1	RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP	3.0	2010/07/12 06:58:58	20.311	-155.720	38.9	HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP	3.3	2010/07/12 05:50:29	33.478	-116.442	9.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2010/07/12 03:38:16	19.364	-65.177	120.4	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	2.8	2010/07/12 02:51:25	59.936	-153.702	164.5	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.8	2010/07/12 01:24:41	19.032	-67.526	4.7	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	2.5	2010/07/12 00:49:20	35.797	-121.138	4.9	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	6.2	2010/07/12 00:11:18	-22.255	-68.205	91.3	ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	2.7	2010/07/11 23:29:39	32.498	-115.640	12.1	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	2.6	2010/07/11 23:27:06	52.067	-169.506	28.5	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	5.1	2010/07/11 21:08:23	7.418	91.878	29.0	NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP	3.6	2010/07/11 19:15:33	54.004	-165.132	92.3	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2010/07/11 18:47:46	53.639	-164.916	56.6	UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA

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Most recent earthquakes are at the top of this list.

Fed's volte face sends the dollar tumbling

Rarely before have a few coded words in the minutes of the US Federal Reserve caused such an upheaval in the global currency system, or such a sudden flight from the dollar.

The US workforce has shrunk by a 1m over the past two months as discouraged jobless give up the hunt Photo: AP

The euro rocketed to a two-month high of $1.29 and sterling jumped two cents to almost $1.54 after the Fed confessed that the US economy may not recover for five or six years. Far from winding down emergency stimulus, the bank may need a fresh blast of bond purchases or quantitative easing.

Usually the dollar serves as a safe haven whenever the world takes fright, and there was plenty of sobering news from China and other quarters on Thursday. Not this time. The US itself has become the problem.

"The worm is turning," said David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC. "We're in a world of rotating sovereign crises. The market seems to become obsessed with one idea at a time, then violently swings towards another. People thought the euro would break-up. Now we're moving into a new phase because we're hearing alarm bells of a US double dip."

Mr Bloom said a deep change is under way in investor psychology as funds and central banks respond to the blizzard of shocking US data and again focus on the fragility of an economy where public debt is surging towards 100pc of GDP, not helped by the malaise enveloping the Obama White House. "The Europeans have aired their dirty debt in public and taken some measures to address it, whilst the US has not," he said.

The Fed minutes warned of "significant downside risks" and a possible slide into deflation, an admission that zero interest rates, $1.75 trillion of QE, and a fiscal deficit above 10pc of GDP have so far failed to lift the economy out of a structural slump.

"The Committee would need to consider whether further policy stimulus might become appropriate if the outlook were to worsen appreciably," it said. The economy might not regain its "longer-run path" until 2016.

"The Fed is throwing in the towel," said Gabriel Stein, of Lombard Street Research. "They are preparing to start QE again. This was predictable because the M3 broad money supply has been contracting for months."

The Fed minutes amount to a policy thunderbolt, evidence of how quickly the recovery has lost steam. Just weeks ago the Fed was mapping out withdrawal of stimulus.

Goldman Sachs said it expects the euro to rise to $1.35 by the end of the year. The yen will appreciate to ¥83, through the pain barrier for most of Japan's big exporters. The new twist is that SAFE, China's $2.4 trillion fund, has begun buying record amounts of Japanese bonds, a shift in reserve allocation away from the dollar.

The signs of a deep and sudden slowdown in the US are becoming ever clearer as the "sugar rush" from the Obama fiscal stimulus wears off and the inventory boost fades. California, Illinois and other states are cutting spending, tightening US fiscal policy by 0.8pc of GDP.

Thursday's plunge in the Philadelphia Fed's July index of new manufacturing orders to –4.3 suggests that the economy may have buckled abruptly, as it did in mid-2008. The Economic Cycle Research Institute's ECRI leading indicator has tumbled, reaching –8.3pc last week. This points to a sharp slowdown or recession within three months.

While US port data looked buoyant in June, the details were troubling. Outbound traffic from Long Beach fell from 139,000 containers in May to 116,000 in June. Shipments from Los Angeles fell from 161,000 to 155,000. This drop in exports is worsening the US trade deficit, eroding the dollar.

The US workforce has shrunk by a 1m over the past two months as discouraged jobless give up the hunt. Retail sales have fallen for the past two months. New homes sales crashed to 300,000 in May after tax credits ran out, the lowest since records began in 1963. Mortgage applications have fallen by 42pc to 13-year low since April. Paul Dales at Capital Economics said the "shadow inventory" of unsold properties has risen to 7.8m. "The double dip in housing has begun," he said.

Alcoa, CSX, Intel, and JP Morgan have reported good earnings, but they mostly did so in July 2008 just before their shares collapsed. Such earnings rarely catch turning points and can be a lagging indicator. Profits have been boosted in this cycle by cost-cutting, which is self-defeating for the economy as a whole.

The minutes confirm the Fed is split down the middle over QE. Fed watchers say the Board in Washington wants to be ready to launch another round of bond purchases if necessary, pushing the banks balance sheet from $2.4 trillion towards $5 trillion, but hawks at the regional banks are highly sceptical.

A study by the San Francisco Fed said the interest rates need to be –4.5pc to stabilise the economy under the Fed's "rule of thumb". Since this is impossible, massive QE needs to make up the difference.

Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research said the US authorities have botched policy response. "They are forcing banks to contract lending by raising their capital asset ratios. They have let M3 shrink by 1pc a month, as in the early 1930s. The solution is simple. The Fed must raise the level of deposits by purchasing bonds from the non-banking system as the Bank of England has done. They refuse to do it," he said.

Slaying the Debt Spider

The webs of deception and debt are controlled by an evil spider that is seldom seen.

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."
- U.S. President John Adams

"Britain is the slave of an international financial bloc."
- British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, June 20, 1934

"If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
- U.S. President Andrew Jackson, 1829

"The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or so dependent upon its favors that there will be no opposition from that class while, on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending…will bear its burdens without complaint."
- The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863

"There is a much larger group behind these [9/11 attacks] which is the international banking cartel which controls trillions of dollars and which has an interest in controlling countries in the Middle East which are not under their control."
- Professor Steven E. Jones on KUER (Salt Lake City's NPR affiliate), September 5, 2006

I have recently been listed in something called the Encyclopedia of American Loons, which is being put together (in alphabetical order) by Ryan Nathaniel Lake, a 33-year-old post-graduate student of philosophy at the University of Miami. Lake, originally from Muskegon, Michigan, lives in Miami Beach and teaches on the virtual college website of Miami Dade College.


The Pacific Loon is a strong swimmer

By definition, a loon is one of the fish-eating, diving birds of the genus Gavia of northern regions, but "loon" is also used informally to mean a person who "is crazy or deranged", which is apparently how Ryan Lake views me. At the bottom of my entry he provides this "diagnosis".

Diagnosis: Complete loon and master at interpreting the fact that anyone disagrees with him, for whatever reason, as evidence for the truth of his conspiracy theories. Specific impact uncertain, but his views are apparently relatively widespread and must be considered dangerous.

Dangerous to whom? Exactly to whom are my views dangerous? To the American people who are suffering under a mountain of debt and whose loved ones are made to fight an utterly fraudulent war in Afghanistan and Iraq? My views about what happened on 9-11 are based on documented facts and evidence that are in the public domain. The evidence from 9-11, such as the discovery of super-thermite in the dust of the World Trade Center, is certainly dangerous to the Zionist criminals who carried out the false-flag terror attacks and the Elders of Zion from the House of Rothschild who control them, because it liberates us from their web of deception about what really happened - and why.


A large amount of super-thermite was found in the dust of the pulverized World Trade Center. This extremely powerful explosive coating was made using nanotechnology and evidently applied to the floor pans of the Twin Towers. This scientific evidence exposes the government and media explanation of 9-11 as nothing but a pack of lies. Who profits from America's extremely costly wars in the Middle East? Ask the Rothschild Debt Spider.

Although he is clearly hostile to my thesis, Lake does a fair job summing it up:

9-11 was the product of a Zionist conspiracy (in particular organized by the Rothschild family) – the Zionist conspiracy that controls the US government and media. They have also infiltrated the Senate, as shown by Bollyn’s razor-sharp and fearless investigations, e.g. “Arlen Specter - The Elder of Zion in the U.S. Senate”. Henry Kissinger is at the top of the conspiracy, and “still a key player in the crimocracy as seen by the conspicuous fact that he was sent by the new Obama administration to meet with the leadership of Russia, although the nominal Secretary of State was Hillary Clinton.” I guess you can’t argue with evidence like that.

SLAYING THE DEBT SPIDER


The second part of "The Coming American Revolution" will be my next article. It may be titled "Slaying the Spider" because it will deal with identifying the spider which has woven the web of deception and debt in which we find ourselves and our nation(s) trapped.


The American people are clearly enraged by the Rothschild criminal "banksters" and their corruption of the government and media monopoly. Even the most conservative Encyclopedia Britannica article on the Rothschild family describes it as a criminal enterprise.

Americans are deeply enraged and the revolutionary zeal is clearly palpable. The U.S. population was against the bail-out of Zionist banksters 1,000 to 1, but public opinion didn't slow down the trillion dollar transfer of wealth to the criminals for one minute. How do we wage a revolution if we don't even know who we are fighting against? We need to know exactly who the enemy is before we can take effective action of any kind.

Our American republic is in an extreme debt crisis that has been caused by the Rothschild bankers who control the world by controlling the money supply and keeping the governments of the world in deep debt. Ellen Hodgson Brown, the author of an excellent book entitled The Web of Debt, says this about the coming revolution in the chapter "Stepping from Scarcity into Abundance":

Wars, competition and strife are the inevitable results of this scarcity-driven system. The obvious solution is to eliminate the parasitic banking scheme that is feeding on the world's prosperity. But how? The Witches of Wall Street are not likely to release their vice-like grip without some sort of revolution, and a violent revolution would probably fail, because the world's most feared military machine is already in the hands of the money cartel. Violent revolution would just furnish them with an excuse to test their equipment.

I agree with Ellen Brown, who refers to the familiar Wizard of Oz allegory throughout her most readable work, that it is the Debt Spider that must be vanquished. Our nation(s) and our lives are stuck fast in a very sticky web of debt while our minds are trapped tightly in the controlled-media web of deception. These webs both belong to a spider that remains out of sight. Although we can see those who are caught in the web, we don't see the spider.

In the allegorical Wizard of Oz, the courageous Lion killed the great spider, who symbolizes the head of the international banking cartel: "With one blow of his heavy paw, all armed with sharp claws, he knocked the spider's head from its body."

To free ourselves from the ocean of debt that is drowning our nation and killing prosperity we must kill the Debt Spider. How is the Rothschild debt spider to be slain in the real world?

Hans Schicht, author of "The Death of Banking and Macro Politics", explains how:

If prime ministers and presidents would only be blessed with the most basic knowledge of the perversity of banking, they would not go onto their knees to the Central Banker and ask His Highness for loans…With a little bit of brains they would expropriate all banking institutions.

The first banking institution that needs to be nationalized is the Federal Reserve System. To return the control over the supply and value of money to the U.S. government is the only realistic solution to the debt crisis.

As financial writer John Hoefle wrote:

This is not an academic question, as the Fed is actively involved in looting the American population for the benefit of giant U.S. and global financial institutions, and the global casino. Few Americans have any idea the extent to which the Fed and its system reach into their pockets on a daily basis, and the extent to which their standard of living has been eroded by the financier-led deindustrialization of the United States.

VULTURE CAPITALISM

Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee filed a Petition for Articles of Impeachment against the Federal Reserve Board in 1934. He told Congress:

This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Fed, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

The struggle between the people of the United States and the House of Rothschild is older than the American republic. The Rothschild banking cartel and its desire to control the money supply was actually behind the American Revolution of 1776, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. This same international banking cartel is certainly behind the current debt crisis and the costly wars in the Middle East, which are the root causes of the revolutionary fervor in America today. The coming revolution is not against the U.S. government per se but should be targeted against the specific agent which has corrupted our government. As Ellen Brown says, "What has allowed government to become corrupted today is that it is actually run by the money cartel."

William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1896, won the nomination with his famous "Cross of Gold" speech, in which he aimed his criticism squarely at the international banking cartel. Bryan explained the problem - and the solution - in plain English:

I stand with Jefferson…and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government and that the banks should go out of the governing business...when we have restored the money of the Constitution, all other necessary reforms will be possible, and...until that is done there is no reform that can be accomplished.

Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax

WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.

Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.

Under the legislation signed by President Obama in March, most Americans will have to maintain “minimum essential coverage” starting in 2014. Many people will be eligible for federal subsidies to help them pay premiums.

In a brief defending the law, the Justice Department says the requirement for people to carry insurance or pay the penalty is “a valid exercise” of Congress’s power to impose taxes.

Congress can use its taxing power “even for purposes that would exceed its powers under other provisions” of the Constitution, the department said. For more than a century, it added, the Supreme Court has held that Congress can tax activities that it could not reach by using its power to regulate commerce.

While Congress was working on the health care legislation, Mr. Obama refused to accept the argument that a mandate to buy insurance, enforced by financial penalties, was equivalent to a tax.

“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” the president said last September, in a spirited exchange with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”

When Mr. Stephanopoulos said the penalty appeared to fit the dictionary definition of a tax, Mr. Obama replied, “I absolutely reject that notion.”

Congress anticipated a constitutional challenge to the individual mandate. Accordingly, the law includes 10 detailed findings meant to show that the mandate regulates commercial activity important to the nation’s economy. Nowhere does Congress cite its taxing power as a source of authority.

Under the Constitution, Congress can exercise its taxing power to provide for the “general welfare.” It is for Congress, not courts, to decide which taxes are “conducive to the general welfare,” the Supreme Court said 73 years ago in upholding the Social Security Act.

Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, described the tax power as an alternative source of authority.

“The Commerce Clause supplies sufficient authority for the shared-responsibility requirements in the new health reform law,” Mr. Pfeiffer said. “To the extent that there is any question of additional authority — and we don’t believe there is — it would be available through the General Welfare Clause.”

The law describes the levy on the uninsured as a “penalty” rather than a tax. The Justice Department brushes aside the distinction, saying “the statutory label” does not matter. The constitutionality of a tax law depends on “its practical operation,” not the precise form of words used to describe it, the department says, citing a long line of Supreme Court cases.

Moreover, the department says the penalty is a tax because it will raise substantial revenue: $4 billion a year by 2017, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

In addition, the department notes, the penalty is imposed and collected under the Internal Revenue Code, and people must report it on their tax returns “as an addition to income tax liability.”

Because the penalty is a tax, the department says, no one can challenge it in court before paying it and seeking a refund.

Jack M. Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School who supports the new law, said, “The tax argument is the strongest argument for upholding” the individual-coverage requirement.

Mr. Obama “has not been honest with the American people about the nature of this bill,” Mr. Balkin said last month at a meeting of the American Constitution Society, a progressive legal organization. “This bill is a tax. Because it’s a tax, it’s completely constitutional.”

Mr. Balkin and other law professors pressed that argument in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in one of the pending cases.

Opponents contend that the “minimum coverage provision” is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress’s power to regulate commerce.

“This is the first time that Congress has ever ordered Americans to use their own money to purchase a particular good or service,” said Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah.

In their lawsuit, Florida and other states say: “Congress is attempting to regulate and penalize Americans for choosing not to engage in economic activity. If Congress can do this much, there will be virtually no sphere of private decision-making beyond the reach of federal power.”

In reply, the administration and its allies say that a person who goes without insurance is simply choosing to pay for health care out of pocket at a later date. In the aggregate, they say, these decisions have a substantial effect on the interstate market for health care and health insurance.

In its legal briefs, the Obama administration points to a famous New Deal case, Wickard v. Filburn, in which the Supreme Court upheld a penalty imposed on an Ohio farmer who had grown a small amount of wheat, in excess of his production quota, purely for his own use.

The wheat grown by Roscoe Filburn “may be trivial by itself,” the court said, but when combined with the output of other small farmers, it significantly affected interstate commerce and could therefore be regulated by the government as part of a broad scheme regulating interstate commerce.