Okay on Wednesday Ottawa experienced what they say was a 5.0 earthquake, which rattled allot of nerves that is for sure. For myself, well I was at the library when it hit and like everyone else said, “What the hell is that?” However, as the place was shaking I just sat there and let nature take its course. I was surprised to se exactly how people panic which as you are reading this, you are probably thinking that I was sitting there and I should have run outside as if everyone else did. Wrong people! The best place to go during a quake is under a table, or between a doorframe. Running outside is the WORSE thing anyone can do. Where peoples are minds when things like this happens?
Now here is a theory that I came up with after the quake. After the quake hit I proceeded to go home, thinking on the way that Oh no, all my bottles are probably smashed on the floor. Okay at this point is when my mind started visioning what surprises awaited for me at home. Well upon entering my place started to check for damages. All my bottles on the wet bar were fine, but then I turned around and looked into my living room Disaster, because as I eyeballed the two shelves that I have all my figurines on and other memories were either on the floor or were shaken around. Then I look around, see my aquarium, and noticed water all over. I should mention here that when I returned from the west coast a few weeks ago. My aquarium was leaking so I had to do a repair job on it; ironically, I had just filled it back up on Monday. Well it was all over, I started to think oh no it\s leaking again dammit! However, cleaning it up it was not leaking but the water had actually swished and splashed out from the top. Therefore, my place must have shaken good then.
Okay so a few things got broken at my place but really no biggy the real biggy I started thinking about was what really caused it?
Now I am no rocket scientist but lets take a look at what I started thinking? If my memory is correct, then go back to geography class and remember that lesson on the earths crust and the different layers of rock that move. Well since the BP oil spill that is oozing probably more then 100, 00 gallons of oil per day as what the media is reporting, which is what they are getting from the BP execs.
Well if that much oil is coming out each day and how many days are we into now with this? Well all that oil that is pumping out came from the earth. OUR EARTH! In addition, this is where you really have to think about it? If that much oil is coming to the surface THEN there must be a void somewhere beneath the earths crust, which is going to affect the different layers of the shelves of rock well bingo we have movement and hence earthquake.
So is that oil gushing out daily is it affecting our lives, well sorry to say YES! It is, that is it is affecting our planet making it unsafe in many areas because after the quake I looked at my globe and tried to see where the line sort of goes to from the gulf oil spill.
Sure enough that line goes along up to the area where the quake was ….
Lately everyone is getting on this but who is in charge?
Reports tell us this and that, then we are told something else then they say they are going to tap the leak again and again they tried no avail. Oil still oozing out at a massive rate. Then CEO goes in yacht race, and now the oil-oozing out we are told that: Wait for it, Oh it is now bigger then the Valdes spill.
What is wrong here?
Jun 25, 3:41 PM (ET)
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tests show BP is on target for mid-August completion of a relief well in the Gulf of Mexico, the best hope of stopping the oil that's been gushing since April, the company said Friday.
The crew drilling the first of two wells ran a procedure this week to confirm it is on the correct path, spokesman Bill Salvin said.
"The layman's translation is, 'We are where we thought we were,'" he said.
Several such tests are needed to determine the relief well's location relative to the well that blew out April 20 when the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded. Once the new well intersects the blown-out one, BP plans to pump heavy drilling mud in to stop the oil flow and plug it with cement.
Salvin said the relief well should be done by mid-August, but that didn't seem to help the company's stock price, which plunged following the company's announcement that the price tag for the response has risen to $2.35 billion.
BP shares fell more than 6 percent in New York on Friday to a 14-year low. If the decline holds, BP will have lost more than $100 billion in market value since the spill.
The company's shares closed at $60.48 the day of the rig blast. On Friday, they dipped as low as $26.92 - their lowest level since July 1996. They traded at $27.06 Friday afternoon, down $1.68. At that price, shares have lost $104.6 billion in value since April 20 and $14.71 billion this week alone.
Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Vice President Joe Biden will head to the Gulf on Tuesday to visit a command center in New Orleans and the Florida Panhandle, where a section of a popular beach was closed because large pools of oil washed up.
Meanwhile, officials kept a wary eye on an area of low-pressure in the Caribbean that threatened to turn into the first tropical depression of the Atlantic season.
BP would need about five days to move all of its equipment out of harm's way if a storm threatens, Salvin said. So far, the company hasn't started that process.
Lt. Cmdr. Dave Roberts, a Navy hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center, said an Air Force reconnaissance plane was on its way to investigate the system Friday and would likely know later in the day whether it will develop further.
The equipment to be secured would include ships working to process oil being sucked to the surface from a containment device and the rigs drilling the two relief wells. The way the system is set up now, oil would flow unabated into the Gulf if BP had to abandon its containment effort because of a storm.
The first well, started May 2, reached a depth of 16,275 feet on Wednesday before workers paused for the first test known as a ranging run. Although the first relief well is only 200 feet laterally from the original well, the crew still has to drill around 3,000 feet deeper before it can intercept the original well, according to Salvin.
"We have to hit a target essentially nine inches in diameter," he said.
The second relief well, started on May 16, has reached a depth of 10,500 feet.
Worst-case government estimates say about 2.5 million gallons are leaking from the well, though no one really knows for sure.
August seems a long way off to many dealing with the fallout that includes oil washing up on beaches and creeping into delicate wetlands.
Along Pensacola Beach in Florida, part of which was closed Thursday, lifeguard Collin Cobia wore a red handkerchief over his nose and mouth to block the oil smell. "It's enough to knock you down," he said.
Others weren't happy about the situation but declined to second-guess the BP engineers.
"I have no clue at all about the correct way to stop it," said Rocky Ditcharo, a seafood dock owner in Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. "'Powerless' - that's a good word for it."
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