A magnitude 3.0 Earthquake has occurred yesterday, almost at midnight, 80 miles NW of New Orleans and 35 miles) NNE of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sunday, August 01, 2010 at 11:34:28 PM with an epicenter located at 30.873-N, 90.874-W

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Magnitude 3.0 Earthquake hits Gulf of Mexico New Orleans Region by Geologist Chris Landau

A magnitude 3.0 Earthquake has occurred yesterday, almost at midnight, 80 miles NW of New Orleans and 35 miles) NNE of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sunday, August 01, 2010 at 11:34:28 PM with an epicenter located at 30.873N, 90.874W. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.1 miles according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Infrequent earthquakes occur here. By the very nature of this being a shallow earthquake, it is probably related to oil drilling. Subsidence due to removal of oil and gas in the earth's crust is probably responsible for this event.

An alternate cause might be due to a fault that runs parallel to the famous New Madrid- St Lawrence River fault that triggered the largest historical earthquake to strike the continental United States. This happened in the winter of 1811 to 1812 along the New Madrid seismic zone, which stretches from just west of Memphis, Tenn., into southern Illinois.

There is a second large fault zone, which is traced out by the minor earthquakes occurring weekly as documented by the USGS. This fault zone lies parallel to and about 300 miles to the south east of The New Madrid Fault Zone.

The USGS presents an excellent summary of fault zones and earthquakes around the world. See their details below.

Earthquake Details

• This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude

3.0

Date-Time

• Monday, August 02, 2010 at 04:34:28 UTC

• Sunday, August 01, 2010 at 11:34:28 PM at epicenter

• Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location

30.873N, 90.874W

Depth

5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program

Region

LOUISIANA

Distances

55 km (35 miles) NNE of BATON ROUGE, Louisiana
55 km (35 miles) NW of Hammond, Louisiana
55 km (35 miles) SW of McComb, Mississippi
130 km (80 miles) NW of New Orleans, Louisiana

Location Uncertainty

horizontal +/- 19.6 km (12.2 miles); depth fixed by location program

Parameters

NST= 7, Nph= 7, Dmin=153.2 km, Rmss=0.4 sec, Gp=198,
M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (mbLg), Version=6

Source

• USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID

us2010zlai

Earthquake Summary

Tectonic Summary. USGS History

Earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains, although less frequent than in the West, are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. A magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S. earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 100 km (60 mi) from where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually can be felt as far as 500 km (300 mi) from where it occurred, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 40 km (25 mi).

The link below shows Historical Information.

Earthquake Information for Louisiana (Historical Information)

The link below shows a location map for the earthquake.
Historical Seismicity

The link below shows the Google location for the earthquake.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=30.8726+-90.8744(M3.0+-+LOUISIANA+-+2010+August+02++04%3A34%3A28+UTC)&ll=30.8726,-90.8744&spn=2,2&f=d&t=h&hl=e

Google Map

Do I think, this earthquake will affect the BP-Transocean-Halliburton-Anadarko-Mitsui Blowout Well? I do not. The distance of more than 120 miles from that location is too far away. I also do not think that the pressure building up in the formation in the capped well has caused this earthquake. But should earthquakes move into the Gulf itself to be close to the blowout well, then, I would have to agree that they are related. Do I think that this earthquake will cause damage to some local oil and gas wells? I am sure it will.

As I must present a well balanced article, I have presented the scientific view and now here is an alternate viewpoint to run with.

For the Conspiracy Theorists

Could someone have detonated a bomb at this depth of 3.1 miles in an oil well? The answer is yes. Do I think it happened? Who knows? For what purpose would they have done such a thing? Who knows?

I look forward to your comments, both for and against all viewpoints.

Chris Landau

August 2, 2010

Authors Bio:

I was born in South Africa in 1958. I came to the USA with my wife and three daughters in 2003. We became US citizens in 2009 and 2010. My wife Susan is a Special Education English Teacher. She has a bachelor's degree in Micro anatomy and biochemistry. I have two daughters at university and one in the tech world. I am lucky to be surrounded by such talented women.

I am a vegetarian and enjoy growing trees, vegetables and plants from seed.

My interests lie in astronomy, meteorology, geology and biology.
In astronomy, I am interested in dimensions, the speed of electromagnetic radiation in different density conditions, redshift, magnetism associated with rings of planets and stars, black holes and contracting galaxies and the rotation of the universe.

In September 2010 I presented three new concepts on our Earth, our Sun and the planets and stars that surround us. The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) published my ideas on October 4, 2010 on Planetary-Spin heat relationships, Jupiter-Saturn-Solar Tidal-Sunspot coupling and Planetary-Solar alternating magnetic fields. The paper can be found at the AIPG website at:

http://www.aipg.org/Events/2010 Annual Meeting/final papers.htm

In meteorology, my interests lie in long-range hourly weather forecasts through tidal and magnetic forces for both convectional and cyclonic rainfall.

In geology, my interests are in the inorganic origin of oil, gas and coal, under reducing conditions, through hydrogen sulfide and water acting on coal, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and calcareous formations. My chemical and thermodynamic equations to prove how this occurred have been published.
As a geologist, I delivered two peer reviewed presentations to prove the theory, one to the Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists in 2008 (AEG).

http://www.aegweb.org/files/public/abstracts.pdf, page 17.

The other was to The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG)

AIPG 2009 Geology and Resources Conference
Grand Junction, CO
October 3-7, 2009
Proceedings Page 93

http://aipg.org/Events/pastmeeting.htm

These publications include methods of carbon capture that help generate new energy and make carbon dioxide a reusable resource. Understanding fracking by water is when hydrogen is added to carbon through the coal gas, Fischer Tropsch and Wurtz syntheses. Fracking is chemical Cracking and Fractional distillation in situ. It is making oil and gas by adding hydrogen to carbon. It is not hydraulic fracturing of rock.

My other interests are in the driving forces for continental drift, "magnetic rock vortices".

I enjoy growing my own fruit trees and vines and hope to be self-sufficient one day.
I hope that the world will one day all be vegetarians. I believe we can only truly respect ourselves and the other animals if we do not see them as a food source. No human being likes the thought of being eaten by animals. Animals should not be raised as a protein source.

I would like to see the oil, gas and coal being recycled daily, so no carbon dioxide or other pollutants are released into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide can be reduced back to methane under reducing conditions.
Solar power should be stepped up in a huge way to create clean renewable energy for the world. Desalination of seawater by solar power is the long-term solution to our water needs and our food production. Education to limit global population growth is vital to have sustainable resources for the world and its animals.
I look forward to mutually beneficial relationships that exploit neither party.

Chris Landau