Hurricane Irma is so strong it’s registering on devices designed to detect earthquakes

Posted on September 6, 2017 by SouthernGirl2

US-bound Hurricane Irma has gotten so strong that it is showing up on equipment designed to measure earthquakes.

Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, said seismometer recordings on Guadeloupe, an island group in the southern Caribbean Sea, show the now-Category 5 storm approaching the Lesser Antilles, another Caribbean island group.

“Seismometer recordings from the past 48 hours on Guadeloupe show Cat. 5 #Hurricane #Irma driving closer toward the Lesser Antilles,” Dr Hicks tweeted.

In a later tweet, Dr Hicks clarified that background noise – for example, wind causing trees to move and crashing ocean waves – was causing seismographs to pick up Irma.

Irma, which is already the strongest hurricane ever recorded outside the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, is likely to make landfall somewhere in Florida over the weekend.

Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands have declared states of emergency.

Rick Scott, the governor of Florida, has said Irma’s exact path is unknown, but that the storm could affect “millions of Floridians”.

Because of Irma’s size and power, very dangerous weather could also occur up to 200 miles away from the eyewall, the most devastating region of a hurricane.

“The hurricane force winds in Irma are wider than Florida,” tweeted Bryan Norcross, hurricane specialist at the Weather Channel. “You won’t need a direct hit to get Wilma-type winds & storm surge on both coasts.”

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121 Responses to Hurricane Irma is so strong it’s registering on devices designed to detect earthquakes

  1. rikyrah says:
    September 10, 2017 at 3:51 pm

    Storm Sturge Update in Naples
    4 feet in 30 minutes.

    Reply
  2. rikyrah says:
    September 10, 2017 at 3:48 pm

    The surge is coming in Naples.

    Water has risen 2 feet in 12 minutes.

    Reply
  4. rikyrah says:
    September 10, 2017 at 3:32 pm

    Dude just got hit on The Weather Channel.

    Reply
  11. SouthernGirl2 says:
    September 10, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    Look yall, the ocean disappeared and then came back. I’ve never seen nor heard of this except when reading Moses parted the Red Sea….

    https://twitter.com/deejayeasya/status/906327303646580736

    https://twitter.com/deejayeasya/status/906557496373936129

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  19. rikyrah says:
    September 9, 2017 at 7:34 pm

    Florida Light and Power believes 3.4 million will be without power.

    3.4 MILLION?

    Reply
  20. rikyrah says:
    September 9, 2017 at 7:23 pm

    Tampa has not been directly hit by a hurricane in 90 years.
    They are just going off of ‘plans’ for preparation.
    Lord, have mercy.

    Reply
  27. yahtzeebutterfly says:
    September 9, 2017 at 4:51 pm

    “HURRICANE IRMA LIVE CAMS – MIAMI – FORT LAUDERDALE – KEY WEST”

    https://youtu.be/JZvTR7861Yk&rel=0

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  43. SouthernGirl2 says:
    September 8, 2017 at 11:53 pm

    A hurricane is born in Africa over warm water and follows the same path of the Middle Passage

    http://www.onuptoit.com/2017/09/hurricanes-and-middle-passage.html?spref=fb

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  44. SouthernGirl2 says:
    September 8, 2017 at 11:53 pm

    Hurricanes and the Middle Passage

    http://www.onuptoit.com/2017/09/hurricanes-and-middle-passage.html?spref=fb

    The late Dick Gregory stated, “Hurricanes, that’s the Black Woman’s spirit. All hurricanes start at the exact spot in West Africa where the slaves were put on the ship. They stay underwater and follow the same route the ships followed. No slaves were loaded on the ship until it got to the Caribbeans. No hurricane rises above water until it gets to the Caribbean.”

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  59. SouthernGirl2 says:
    September 8, 2017 at 10:36 am

    Heads up, people. Stay away from downed power lines….

    https://twitter.com/postandcourier/status/906179030113767424

    Reply
  87. SouthernGirl2 says:
    September 6, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/905480593177284612

    ://twitter.com/CityofMiami/status/905185163558223872

    Reply
  93. SouthernGirl2 says:
    September 6, 2017 at 11:06 am

    Carson is coming home tomorrow! Yay! My Twitter pal, Patricia, sent me this for our little darling…..

    Reply
  94. Mama Cass says:
    September 6, 2017 at 10:46 am

    Holy mother that’s YUGE!! I have lots of family in Florida a d am pretty worried

    Reply

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