Quake Watch 2015

further to: muzzy
for some reason I also missed Southern Sumatra (2), that moves Indonesia up one slot above Japan.
rehashed table;


So here are the same regions, sorted by Energy Released, different rankings eh
as expected Nepal (Asia), Bonin Is (Japan), and New Britain (New Guinea)'s big M7's rocket them to the top.


breakdown
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further to: muzzy (previous page)
OK, here is 2014, and 2015 for comparison (numbers count)
definitely down on last year at the half way mark


and the breakdown of 2014
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Quite interesting results, but geez its labourious work!. I have half the work done by using formulas, but I have to sort into the regions by hand.
Bit of a change from mapping though.

26 minutes ago, 6.9 Fox Islands
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will probably go down to 6.7

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Looks bigger to me.


Ehh, Maybe not.

We also have two buoy's going off, but they are not issueing a warning.

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It looks to me from the data, that the wave generated was only a foot high. I could be wrong on that.


WOW!! Another big one in the same spot
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Down graded to a 5.6
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6.9 Aleution Islandsa reply to: muzzy





LINK

a reply to: crappiekat
how about this?
from EMSC page M5
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I say the first one will go down, on conversion to Mw.
As it is currently just M
It already has, to 6.7Mwb
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Now its back up again, on conversion to Mww 6.9, looks like they will settle for that
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I'll wait until GCMT puts it on

a reply to: muzzy

Yea, they keep changing the info.

Kinda makes it hard to report correctly. I thought of how you feel when they do this. LOL! frustrating.

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And they changed the location. LOL!

Earthquake of 6.9 magnitude strikes Alaska's Aleutians - USGS



I think this is the second one at that magnitude within 2 months, maybe a month. In the same area. I know the other day Anchorage and not sure where else had a 5.4 I think it was hit. Getting pretty active.

a reply to: muzzy

Thank you for all the hard work. It is very interesting to see which areas are changing from year to year in the rankings.

Bishop

a reply to: crappiekat
Yeah it is frustrating in the early stages of an event.
As far as the M6.5+ project goes, for 2015 I'm using Wilber3/SPUD as the basis for the IRIS/USGS NEIC/GCMT data for each event, their Energy page has all three plus the two Me readings.
Saves a lot of web page searching. But you have to wait about half a day for them to do the work. The only reading it doesn't show is Ms, you have to go to GCMT itself to get that, often it is the same as Mw, but not always. The Russians usually do a Ms along with mb.
In the meantime (first few hours) I could put up the Mww, Mwp, Mwb, Mo off USGS , but what does it really mean?, they are usually all within 0.1 mag anyway.
Here is the IRIS page for the Fox Is. 6.9
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Because I focus a lot on energy released, note Me_bb is 6.68, as I said originally it looked more like a 6.7.

So is this it for the event or is there a suspicion it will continue to build further or even set off Volcanic eruptions? How far reaching will this be? Is this a pre quake?

Thanks just stopping in for this news and will check back later

a reply to: Bishop2199
No problem.
Here are the two 2014 tables, Energy and Numbers.



I think I have got the Excel formulas sorted out now to do it a bit faster.
Too bad the Supervisors closed the QW2014 Topic, I could have put the table images on there, it seems out of place here on QW2015.
Maybe I'll put them all on one of my Wordpress blogs, they are all useless now since Google shut down the Classic Maps function.

a reply to: antar
The aftershocks show a degrading magnitude trend, so likely its a one off. High M5 aftershocks are to be expected.
You never know though, anything can happen.
The hint that it may be a "foreshock" is if the aftershocks suddenly stop, or there is a big gap just after the main shock (which in this case didn't happen).
So far it looks "normal" for a one off.

We may find later that the 2nd quake was bigger than listed. The time gap was 6 minutes.
Often it is better to look at a far field seismo, than one close to the event
such as the case below
ADAK (Aluetians) compared to SNZO (Karori NZ)
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originally posted by: sandman441
.................I think this is the second one at that magnitude within 2 months, maybe a month.In the same area............Getting pretty active.

yes there was, No 23/31 this year Globally (so far)
6.8-2015/5/29-Alaska Peninsula
Date/Time: 2015/5/29 7:0:8
Lat: 56.694 Long: -156.53
Location: Alaska Peninsula
Magnitude: 6.8Mwp [neic]; 6.4Ms [gsras]; 6.8mb [gsras]; 7mb [neic]; 7.3Me_bb [iris]
Depth: 62 km
Catalog Source: [neic]
2015 map

M7.0 - 221km W of Abepura, Indonesia


Time

2015-07-27 21:41:26 (UTC)

Nearby Cities

221km (137mi) W of Abepura, Indonesia
235km (146mi) W of Jayapura, Indonesia
300km (186mi) W of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea
352km (219mi) E of Nabire, Indonesia
1200km (746mi) NW of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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M7.0 - 234km W of Abepura, Indonesia
2015-07-27 21:41:22 (UTC)
2.690°S 138.479°E depth=52.9 km (32.8 mi)

a reply to: Zintac

FIRST!


lol


Gave you a star for it.

4.5 6km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma 2015-07-27 13:12:15 UTC-05:00 3.2 km
4.0 6km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma 2015-07-27 12:49:28 UTC-05:00 5.6 km

Nearby Cities

6km (4mi) NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma
19km (12mi) NW of Guthrie, Oklahoma
40km (25mi) NNW of Edmond, Oklahoma
48km (30mi) WSW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
59km (37mi) N of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

No one reported on these yet.

I think 4.5 is the biggest one yet!

link to 4.5 USGS

a reply to: Darkblade71
LOL yeah got me by a min.

Ever since the dream i had 2 weeks ago, i have been keeping a very close eye on earthquakes.

As you can see, i have been around for quite some time. But i don't post much.