Videos: Explain Rare Haiti Earthquake, Ring of Fire Level of Power

From Denny: On the Richter scale this earthquake was a hugely powerful "7." What does that mean in explosive power of Mother Nature? Try 35 times more powerful than one atom bomb. The quake lasted a long full minute when most quakes last only a few seconds. This is why there is so much devastation.

There is a long lateral fault that runs through Haiti and scientists had warned the country they were at risk for a huge earthquake. It has been 200 years since the country experienced this scale of disaster and this type of magnitude quake tends to run in 200 - 250 year cycles according to geologists.

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Scientists predicted this earthquake in 2008


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Dr. Arthur Lerner-Lam, a seismologist at Columbia University, shows Chris Wragge some of the geographical zones most at risk of an earthquake.


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This one shows diagrams of the underlying seismic plates and how they interacted along the fault line of about 40 miles running laterally through the country to create so much damage.


From CBS: About 90 percent of the world's earthquakes strike inside the "ring of fire," which is a 25,000 mile stretch of ocean trenches and volcanoes. Haiti's earthquake was rare, but expected.


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Weird New Planet, Funny Quotes, Awww Pet Video, Chocolate News, Cajun Story with Recipe, and Dreams That Keep You Asleep

Featured on some of my blogs today:

Comfort Food From Louisiana: John's Cajun Pot Roast - Recounting a story about my Cajun father-in-law, Justin Wilson, John's recipe with my adaptations for the classic pot roast Cajun style!

The Social Poets: Cheeky Quote Day! 29 July 2009 - Wednesday is Hump Day of the Work Week and we all need a good grin!

The Healing Waters: Awww Pet Video: Dog and Cluck - two unlikely but inseparable friends, really cute!

Romancing The Chocolate: Video: Chocolate Production Down - Venezuela's Faded Cacao Crop - the latest news about chocolate production, horrors! :)

The Soul Calendar: Video: Too weird to be believed - a new planet in the solar system?
- While we all have heard of this what struck me as interesting was the illustration of how this planet is located in relation to the others, really weird. It looks like a lost ball in high weeds.

Beautiful Illustrated Quotations: How Can Our Dreams Prevent Us From Awakening?
- OK, I had some fun writing this quotation commentary today. Jung is a deep guy and you can write to the end of the Universe and back about his subject matter!

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Coming Soon: Photographic Memory in a Pill?

From Denny: This sounds too good to be true! The only problem I ask is this: So, do you have a pill for extra capacity brain storage? :) Because you know people would go wild with this, testing it by reading whole Oxford Dictionaries, encyclopedias, going to the Library of Congress and reading through the entire library - the largest in the world - just to find out how much they could retain.

From the folks over at Popular Science. Here's an excerpt:

"Scientists isolate a protein that significantly increases visual recall

"Wish you had a photographic memory? Well, Encyclopedia Brown, drugs may amp your brain up to that point soon. A group of Spanish scientists claim to have singled out a protein that can extend the life of visual memory significantly. When the production of the protein was boosted in mice, the rodents' visual memory retention increased, from about an hour to almost 2 months.

"Unlike the long-term memory creation that was imaged recently, this memory extension only applies to memories made through the poorly-understood visual cortex of the brain."

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