Earthquakes

Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global

5.6 Earthquake hits the Carlsberg ridge.

5.3 Earthquake hits the Carlsberg ridge.

5.3 Earthquake hits the Molucca Sea.

5.2 Earthquake hits the Carlsberg ridge.

5.1 Earthquake hits the Carlsberg ridge.

5.1 Earthquake hits the Carlsberg ridge.

5.1 Earthquake hits the Carlsberg ridge.

5.0 Earthquake hits Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

5.0 Earthquake hits the Carlsberg ridge.

5.0 Earthquake hits the Molucca Sea.

The Carlsberg ridge is located in the north-western Indian Ocean.

Fukushima's Radioactive Ocean Water Arrives At West Coast

Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant has reached waters offshore Canada, researchers said today at the annual American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu.

Two radioactive cesium isotopes, cesium-134 and cesium-137, have been detected offshore of Vancouver, British Columbia, researchers said at a news conference. The detected concentrations are much lower than the Canadian safety limit for cesium levels in drinking water, said John Smith, a research scientist at Canada's Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Tests conducted at U.S. beaches indicate that Fukushima radioactivity has not yet reached Washington, California or Hawaii, said Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, Mass.