Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Saipan, Northern Marianas Earthquake...possible Tsunami?
From here at "ground zero" I can tell you that all is well. According to RadioAustralia:
A powerful earthquake has hit the Northern Marianas sparking concerns of a possible tsunami.
Our reporter in the Northern Marianas, Gemma Casas says buildings in Saipan, the main island of the Northern Marianas, swayed for a few seconds as a quake measuring 7.2 on the richter scale jolted the chain of tiny islands.
Work and classes were momentarily interrupted but the islands' Emergency Management Office says there is no threat of a tsunami despite the intense quake.
The US Geological Survey says the quake was located 408 kilometres north of Saipan and 93 kilometres north, northwest of the volcanic island of Pagan.
Hours before the quake in the Northern Marianas, the USGS recorded a magnitude 5.6 quake hitting the San Francisco Bay Area.
Last month, two strong quakes also jolted the Marianas region which refers to Guam and the Northern Marianas.
In September, the Marianas was also shaken by big quakes measuring up to 7.4 on the richter scale.
Now, with that said, I will now take the opportunity to direct your Saipan interest to a few sites for you to learn more about Saipan.
A powerful earthquake has hit the Northern Marianas sparking concerns of a possible tsunami.
Our reporter in the Northern Marianas, Gemma Casas says buildings in Saipan, the main island of the Northern Marianas, swayed for a few seconds as a quake measuring 7.2 on the richter scale jolted the chain of tiny islands.
Work and classes were momentarily interrupted but the islands' Emergency Management Office says there is no threat of a tsunami despite the intense quake.
The US Geological Survey says the quake was located 408 kilometres north of Saipan and 93 kilometres north, northwest of the volcanic island of Pagan.
Hours before the quake in the Northern Marianas, the USGS recorded a magnitude 5.6 quake hitting the San Francisco Bay Area.
Last month, two strong quakes also jolted the Marianas region which refers to Guam and the Northern Marianas.
In September, the Marianas was also shaken by big quakes measuring up to 7.4 on the richter scale.
Now, with that said, I will now take the opportunity to direct your Saipan interest to a few sites for you to learn more about Saipan.
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Labels: Earthquake, Saipan, WeLoveSaipan
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
3% of the World?
Just a reminder to myself that I've still got a lot of the world to see! (Inspired, perhaps, by Angelo's adventures!)
Labels: Lifestyle
(Click on a 'Label' category above to read all the posts in that category)Thursday, October 11, 2007
New YouTube Videos of Saipan (Korean Hip Hop on Saipan)
More from the "He's got WAY too much time on his hands" files....I've filmed a few videos and posted to my YouTube account.
There's the sequel to "See the World" which chronicled my first few months on Saipan....it's entitled "Runaway: See the World Too"
Someone who once lived on Saiipan and who now lives stateside asked me to show what Koblerville looks like since they miss home. So, I can proudly say, that "by popular demand"There are also three sequels to "A Drive Through Saipan" entitled "Another Dive Through Saipan (Koblervill)" and "The Road To Marpi" and "Saipan Drive Through San Antonio."
There are also 2 videos of the Korean B-Boy crew breakdancing at the Paseo De Marianas Street Market. Check them out and let me know if the quality is ok and if you like my musical taste!
Visit The Passion Prophet's YouTube Channel
Individual videos:
"Runaway...See The World TOO"
Another Drive thru Saipan (Koblerville)
A Saipan Drive Through San Antonio
The Road to Marpi
Korean Hip Hop On Saipan I
Korean Hip Hop On Saipan II
There's the sequel to "See the World" which chronicled my first few months on Saipan....it's entitled "Runaway: See the World Too"
Someone who once lived on Saiipan and who now lives stateside asked me to show what Koblerville looks like since they miss home. So, I can proudly say, that "by popular demand"There are also three sequels to "A Drive Through Saipan" entitled "Another Dive Through Saipan (Koblervill)" and "The Road To Marpi" and "Saipan Drive Through San Antonio."
There are also 2 videos of the Korean B-Boy crew breakdancing at the Paseo De Marianas Street Market. Check them out and let me know if the quality is ok and if you like my musical taste!
Individual videos:
Labels: Lifestyle, WeLoveSaipan
(Click on a 'Label' category above to read all the posts in that category)Tuesday, October 9, 2007
PassionProfit.com site is now PR5!
Perhaps only the techies and webmasters will really appreciate this one, but according to my Firefox browser toolbar, my three most popular sites, passionprofit.com, hiphopentrepreneur.com (aka hiphopbz.com) and welovesaipan.com now have a PageRank of 5!
Here is an explanation of page rank from webworkshop.net
"PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated.
PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one."
Page rank ranges from 1 to 10.
Now from a site owner's point of view, having a high page rank allows you to charge more for links on your site. In other words, once your site has a high enough page rank, other sites with lower page rank will pay you to place a text link to their sites from your site to help improve their page rank.
Yes, links from these three sites are available...Email me for details.
Here is an explanation of page rank from webworkshop.net
"PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated.
PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one."
Page rank ranges from 1 to 10.
Now from a site owner's point of view, having a high page rank allows you to charge more for links on your site. In other words, once your site has a high enough page rank, other sites with lower page rank will pay you to place a text link to their sites from your site to help improve their page rank.
Yes, links from these three sites are available...Email me for details.
Labels: Sideline Business Tips
(Click on a 'Label' category above to read all the posts in that category)Harlem building blast is....
So here I am in Saipan, driving around town when I hear a stateside news report of an explosion in a Harlem apartment building.
Once I heard that there were rumors of an illegal restaurant operating in the building, I knew what I would find once I got back home to do the research.
The blast occurred in the very building I moved out of (escaped) a year ago to move to Saipan. 10 West 119 St. The fireman peering out the window in the picture is probably standing in what used to be my bedroom.
Seems "blasts" are following me around...I escaped the World Trade center blast by a few years (I used to work on the 73rd floor of tower one, and escaped this blast by one year.
Life is so interesting.
News story here
The blast occurred at 4pm on a Saturday....wonder what I would have been doing at that time?
Labels: Lifestyle
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