Quake Watch 2015

Things may be picking up.

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Lets hope not.

a reply to: crappiekat

I think something big could go down very soon. There is EQ,Supervolcano and even Asteroid threat to a certain extent.

everything around the same time makes you go: hmmm

a reply to: crappiekat
Yes I did feel it.
Had just gone to bed, and was in the twilight zone, almost asleep, when the bed seemed to wobble. I thought it was one of the cats scratching at the side of the bed, as they do sometimes, rolled over and called out "stop that" and went to sleep.
Just seen it on the list this morning, 5.76ML .
Widely felt across the NI, 5266 felt reports.
I did also notice what are now "foreshocks" yesterday morning when I posted that comment about impending disaster, there were 3 quakes, 1.9, 2.7 and 2.8 in this very area. It is not often we get "foreshocks" before a M5+ so I didn't mention it at the time for fear of being wrong.
edit: 5289 felt reports now, that will likely climb, there will be a lot of people like myself who went to bed early and didn't bother getting up when it hit, now filling out the form this morning. I filled in the EMSC form too, I like reading those, they can be funny sometimes.

www.geonet.org.nz...

aftershock quickmap
34 @ 10hrs elapsed time


the 3 foreshocks (previous 24 hrs)

a reply to: muzzy

Yea, I like reading them too.

So you don't think this is a foreshock to something bigger coming then. The 5.7 was the one.

Well stay safe.

Starting with this one.
earthquake.usgs.gov...

Things seem to be ramping up abit.
There have been no sun spots. Very Quiet.

But then there's this.

www.suspicious0bservers.org...

I know some of you don't like this guy, but I do.

a reply to: crappiekat
No I don't think so, it seems to be deteriorating in the proper manner for a one off. early days yet though I could be wrong.

And it has been downgraded to a 5.69ML now.

There was a series not far from here back in 1990/91 called the Weber 123, but that started with a bigger ( 6.2 ) first shock, then a 6.4 and a 5.7
tauhouanga.blogspot.co.nz...
(those NZ pages need fixing, still languishing from the Google Maps demise earlier this year)

I notice EMSC didn't post up my comments??? Just said what I said here.

also of interest before the Wairarapa quake, to the south

ID: 2015p767780 Network: geonet
Status: confirmed
Date/Time NZST: 12/10/2015 13:52:45
Date/Time UTC: 12/10/2015 01:52:45
Latitude, Longitude: -49.5225, 164.4488
Magnitude: 5.18M
Depth: 12.00 km
Energy Released: 895.6912346 tonnes of TNT
Location: Auckland Islands. N.Z. Region
www.bing.com...://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1132313/2015/Oct12.kml
another reaction to that Pac-Ant Ridge 6.0?

Something a little different..........
Avalanche?
This jumped out at me from the NIED data 12/10/2015 "look at me, look at me"
Hida Mountains, Honshu.
12/10/2015 09:42:42 - 22:27:27
mag~1=84,mag1=10, mag2=2,total=96, total energy released=0.171TTNT
The swarm is on the valley side of the Higashizawa River, about 1km south of the Higashizawa Hydro dam, which feeds Lake Kurobe-ko and the largest Hydro dam in Japan Kurobe.
Wiki article says "The Kurobe No. 4 power station was built completely underground to protect it from common avalanches in the gorge"
It is early in the Winter season there I know, but looking at the various GPS Visualizer maps, the map Quest World Aerial seems to indicate that the mountains have permanent snow cover.
Location (same as USGS use as their Summary maps)


National Geographic Map (closer)


Map Quest World Aerial (same zoom level as NatGeo map)


Open Cycle Map (closer)


Bing Interactive sorted by time, earliest first.

a reply to: muzzy

Na, nothing much more in the last 24hrs in the fault area, just this;

ID: 2015p772812 Network: geonet
Status: automatic
Date/Time NZST: 14/10/2015 10:34:29
Date/Time UTC: 13/10/2015 22:34:29
Latitude, Longitude: -40.5589, 176.3249
Magnitude: 1.64M
Depth: 15.5 km
Energy Released: 0.004334194 tonnes of TNT
Location: Wairarapa

a reply to: muzzy
but it may have disturbed the Pa Valley Fault, scene of the 20/01/2014 M6.2
7 small quakes there yesterday UTC, had been quiet for quite a while.

a reply to: muzzy

Muzzy your link won't let me look at the information you posted.

Says, author may have deleted

Bing Bing bad Bing. LOL!!!

a reply to: crappiekat
Looks like the ATS Forum format dropped part of the address, the :// is missing
Oct12
seems you can't post direct Bing addresses here, some USGS ones don't work either

Earthquake swarms: Check
EQ's in unusual places: check
Rumours of Supervolcano threat: check

theres a lot going on.

follow up to: muzzy
Maybe not,
there were 20 more quakes in that valley in the following 24 hrs (NIED data just in)
Avalanches don't last 48hrs
do they?

116 total so far
must be just a swarm.

www.express.co.uk...

a reply to: Eagleyedobserver

Look, The Daily Express is owned by a man called Richard Desmond who owes much of his fortune to publishing cheap low end tat, such as Asian Babes, OK! and oh The Daily Express as a vehicle for advertising lots of other cheap low end tat to the sort of people who enjoy the material one finds in Asian Babes, OK! and errrm, again, The Daily Express. The Daily Express readership is made up of swivel-eyed geriatric UKIP supporters who lack both the mental acuity and life expectancy required for them to realise or care about the truth of such articles. If you don't believe me, may I draw your attention to one particular sentence in the article:

"The events are unconnected, and while there is no scientific or official support for Dr Keshe's claims...."

Is that any help to you at all??

The swarm continues... + earthquakes in rather unusual places. I've seen that combination before, it usually means a more significant quake will follow in some spot.

Magnitude 3.2
Region SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIF.
Date time 2015-10-15 13:10:20.0 UTC
Location 37.79 N ; 121.97 W
Depth 9 km
+
Magnitude 2.5
Region NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Date time 2015-10-15 13:21:32.8 UTC
Location 38.44 N ; 121.98 W
Depth 18 km

www.emsc-csem.org...
+
www.emsc-csem.org...
+
Live quake cam (i'd keep an eye on it for today!)

abc7.com...

a reply to: casinoed

sorry can't focus too much on your reply. too many things going on right now and i'm busy.

And yes I'm aware of the daily express and their over the top articles. However, they do not twist words of interviewed people so you can count on the scientists quote at least.

No scientist is perfect... And if a person feels like warning other people, I only see benefits in that. Maybe he knows something from some source that is top secret. You never know.

Magnitude 4.2
Region OFFSHORE COQUIMBO, CHILE
Date time 2015-10-15 13:21:12.0 UTC
Location 31.52 S ; 71.70 W
Depth 16 km

www.emsc-csem.org...

I have found another way to delay progress (but add value) on :japanearthquakes: and generally waste some more of my spare time.
As I go through each year and month I do the odd special page, if there is a big quake with lots of aftershocks, or a swarm of smaller quakes. I'm trying to keep it to when there are just 100 plus events if I can, there are plenty of them worth putting on, but I'd never get it all done if I did them all.
Right now I'm stuck in the 1980's. E OFF IZU PENINSULA keeps popping up, some huge swarms there, so I have set a special category for IZU. example, it applies to any category on the site, such as a year or a decade.
The best way in is to type IZU into the search box and then click on "show all X results" to get the pies up then click the one that is of interest, that way the popup is full page.
So to find the "specials" to post each month I do a Excel =COUNTIF formula I created with all the Prefecture names for that year, to get the number of quakes for each one.
While I was doing this I thought "hey I wonder what that would look like on a graph?"

the result (for June 1987);
rightclickviewimageforfullsize


I'll do some more

Re Izu; one that blew me away was the "Near Izu-Oshima Island Swarm 16-30 Nov 1986", 1372 events in 2 weeks, it was when the volcano erupted.