Earthquake shook Las Vegas and surrounding areas

By Iran Reporter
23 May 2015

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake shook Las Vegas and surrounding areas Friday morning, forcing loose a rubber casing on a bridge and leading the state to close Spaghetti Bowl interchanges for several hours.

After the Nevada Department of Transportation inspected bridges for possible structural damage, they deemed the roads safe for travel and reopened them just before 5 p.m. Traffic had backed up for miles during
 the closures, which came at the start of the Memorial Day weekend.

The quake, which hit at 11:47 a.m., was centered about 23 miles south-southwest of Caliente, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The magnitude was originally reported as 5.4, but the official number was lowered twice Friday afternoon.

The ramp from southbound U.S. Route 95 to southbound Interstate 15 was closed about 12:20 p.m. Friday, NDOT said.

“The joint damage was pre-existing. The tremblor simply dislodged the protective rubber encasing the bridge seam making it look much worse than it was in reality” and prompting an immediate shutdown of the ramps, NDOT engineer Mary Martini said in a news release about 3:45 p.m. An emergency contract was issued to repair the seam, but the ramps are structurally sound, Martini said.

‘DID YOU FEEL IT?’

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office had no immediate reports of any damage in or around Caliente.

There was a more dangerous earthquake shock in Syria and no one of the policy makers felt it either !!
Key Syria-Iraqborder crossing falls to ISIL
ISIL fighters capture the last border crossing with Iraq still held by the Syrian government

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group have reinforced their self-declared "caliphate" with the capture of the al-Tanaf to al-Walid crossing on the Damascus-Baghdad highway.

Al-Walid crossing is the last border crossing with Iraq that was held by the Damascus government. Except for a short section of frontier in the north under Kurdish control, all the rest are now held by ISIL.
ISIL's advance, which was preceded by the capture of Anbar's capital Ramadi and the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in the past week, comes despite eight months of US-led air strikes aimed at pushing them back.

It has sparked an exodus of tens of thousands of civilians in both countries and raised fears that the ISIL will repeat at Palmyra the destruction they have already wreaked at ancient sites in Iraq.

As ISIL fighters fanned out across Palmyra on Thursday, they went door to door executing their enemis

ISIL takes half of Syria

ISIL now controls "more than 95,000 square km in Syria, which is 50 percent of the country's territory," the Syrian Observatory said.

Fabrice Balanche, a French expert on Syria, said "ISIL now dominates central Syria, a crossroads of primary importance" that could allow it to advance towards the capital and third city Homs.

Matthew Henman, head of IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre, said the ISIL advance boosted its claim to be

The rivals of ISIL al-Nusra Front, have also been on the offensive as part of a rebel alliance that has stormed through nearly all of the northwestern province of Idlib.

The rebels on Friday overran a hospital in the town of Jisr al-Shughur where at least 250 regime forces and some Hezbollah melitias( Iranian merceners) and were trapped for nearly a month, the Syrian Observatory said.

President Barack Obama played down the ISIL advance as a tactical "setback" and denied the US-led coalition was "losing" his arab allies

The Pentagon insisted on Monday that said the U.S. strategy against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is working, despite the fall of a key Iraqi city.

"We still believe the strategy is working," Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters.

"Ramadi is an urban environment that is among the very toughest to fight in," Warren added in an acknowledgement that U.S. air power alone is no panacea for the city. "It is an environment that limits the ability of airpower, so it creates unique challenges," he said.

Warren said the Pentagon would accept help from Shia militia fighters — even though many are believed to be backed by Iran — to retake the city.

"The militias have a part to play in this. As long as they are controlled by the central Iraqi government, then they will participate," Warren said.

According to mojahedin khalg the main Iranian opposition group in exile, U.S. Special Operations forces killed a senior ISIS commander during a raid intended to capture him in eastern Syria overnight Friday to Saturday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said.
The ISIS commander, Abu Sayyaf, fought capture and was killed in the raid in Omar oil wells in the state of Dayr –alzoor in Syria.

The Iranian opposition group who is led by Maryam Rajavi and has a political branch in Paris in the name of National council of resistance has named the ruling mullahs in Iran as the god father of ISIS. They think that ISIS in Iraq and Syria follow their path by imitating what Iranian Ayatollahs have done to their own people during the past decades.

Therefore, if the policy makers need to feel the dangerous earthquake, they should at first believe that the source of earthquake is in Tehran and the ruling Ayatollahs of Iran motivate it in any moment that they find themselves in chaos . So let us be honest and save millions of lives all over the world , threatened by the so called Islamic Khalifat of Qom & Tehran, named Ali –Khamenei. Time to put an end to God father of terrorism