Quake Watch 2015

M6.7 - 146km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Event Time
2015-02-16 22:00:53 (UTC)
2015-02-16 16:00:53 (UTC-06:00)

Nearby Cities
146km (91mi) NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
2518km (1565mi) ESE of Ushuaia, Argentina
2707km (1682mi) ESE of Rio Gallegos, Argentina
2707km (1682mi) ESE of Puerto Deseado, Argentina
1988km (1235mi) ESE of Stanley, Falkland Islands

USGS

M 6.9 - 220km E of Miyako, Japan

sunami Warning Center
Time
2015-02-16 17:06:29 UTC-06:00
Location
39.900°N 144.500°E
Depth
10.0 km

oh things are surely shaking this evening

6.9
220km E of Miyako, Japan
2015-02-16 17:06:29 UTC-06:0010.0 km
6.8
77km ENE of Miyako, Japan
2015-02-16 17:06:26 UTC-06:0010.0 km

ouch if true

a reply to: berkeleygal

The usgs is showing a 6.8 and a 6.9 about 26 seconds apart. I'm assuming it's just some glitch though. It definitely threw me off when I saw that.

The agency said a tsunami of up to one meter (3.3 feet) was forecast to hit the coast of Iwate at around 8:30 am local time (2330 GMT Monday

www.rappler.com...

a reply to: berkeleygal

That is of course only 192 miles from that place in Japan that has very wobbly things that are highly radioactive.

originally posted by: phoenixlights321
a reply to: berkeleygal

The agency said a tsunami of up to one meter (3.3 feet) was forecast to hit the coast of Iwate at around 8:30 am local time (2330 GMT Monday

so what happened?

A 20-centimeter wave caused by the quake was observed at Kuji port in Iwate roughly an hour after the quake, while a 10-cm wave was observed in Miyako, Iwate, before the tsunami advisory was lifted later in the morning, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

english.kyodonews.jp...

also

"This quake is an aftershock of the 2011 quake that hit the Tohoku region," Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) seismologist Yasuhiro Yoshida told reporters.

and

Tohoku Electric Power Co (TEPCO), which operates the Onagawa and Higashidori nuclear plants in nearby Miyagi and Aomori prefectures, said it saw no irregularities at the facilities after the quake. All 48 of Japan's nuclear reactors remain offline after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A spokesman for TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear plants, said no irregularities were recorded. The quake was felt only weakly in the area, he said. Unlisted Japan Nuclear Fuel also said there were no irregularities recorded at its nuclear fuel reprocessing facility or other plants in Aomori.

www.abc.net.au...

What do you make of this one? Good size near some active volcanos.


Magnitude: 4.4 ml± 0.2

Location: 47.247°N 120.723°W± 0.3 km

Depth: 5.3 km± 0.6

Origin Time: 2015-02-18 09:04:11.500 UTC

Be Well,

bishop

F-E Region: Santa Cruz Islands Region
Time: 2015-02-18 09:32:28.0 UTC
Magnitude: 6.0 (Mw)
Epicenter: 164.01°E 10.69°S
Depth: 10 km
Status: C - confirmed
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...
also 5.3 and 5.2 aftershocks
area bridges F_E regions Santa Cruz and Solomon is, so may show on lists as either
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

originally posted by: muzzy
I feel a M6 for NZ coming on.
data shows a pre-M5 low of energy released of 8TTNT the last 24 hours, very low.

not the M6 I was expecting, but still within the 6 days Muzzy Rule.

5.18-17/02/2015 05:56:54
ID: 2015p127696 Network: geonet
Status: confirmed
Date/Time NZDT: 17/02/2015 18:56:54
Date/Time UTC: 17/02/2015 05:56:54
Latitude, Longitude: -37.683, -179.9163
Magnitude: 5.18M
Depth: 47.19 km
Energy Released: 900.3437 tonnes of TNT
Location: East Cape Ridge Off NI N.Z.
nzeq2015.blogspot.co.nz...

about the same area as the M6.64 aftershocks last year 16/11/2014
nzeq2014.blogspot.co.nz... (switch to satellite view)

Mag 6.4 6.5 Vanuatu incoming EMSC only at present

www.emsc-csem.org...

Magnitude 6.5 - Vanuatu Islands (186)

Location in Google Maps

• Date-Time: Thursday, February 19, 2015 @ 13:18:32 UTC
  
• Earthquake location: 16.400°S, 168.088°E,
  
• Earthquake depth: 10.0 km
  
• Event ID: usc000trf9
  

Derived from Event Data Source: USGS
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VIII on the shaking.

Bit of an upsurge of 6's last 4 days?

19/02/2015 13:18, 6.4, 16.41°S, 168.14°E, 11, Vanuatu Islands
18/02/2015 9:32, 6.0, 10.69°S, 164.01°E, 10, Santa Cruz Islands Region
16/02/2015 23:06, 6.7, 39.80°N, 143.01°E, 21, Off East Coast of Honshu
16/02/2015 22:00, 6.2, 55.60°S, 28.38°W, 10, South Sandwich Islands
13/02/2015 20:06, 6.1, 22.61°N, 121.46°E, 27, Taiwan Region
13/02/2015 18:59, 7.0, 52.70°N, 31.93°W, 10, Northern Mid Atlantic Ridge
11/02/2015 18:57, 6.7, 23.03°S, 66.61°W, 198, Jujuy Province, Argentina
2/02/2015 10:49, 6.3, 32.62°S, 67.11°W, 156, Mendoza Province, Argentina
30/01/2015 17:57, 6.0, 21.40°S, 170.18°E, 10, Southeast of Loyalty Is
28/01/2015 2:43, 6.1, 20.96°S, 178.37°W, 483, Fiji Islands Region
23/01/2015 3:47, 6.7, 17.08°S, 168.47°E, 216, Vanuatu Islands
7/01/2015 5:07, 6.4, 5.85°N, 82.80°W, 10, South of Panama
7/01/2015 3:06, 6.0, 35.91°S, 102.84°W, 10, Southeast of Easter Is
GFZ search

a reply to: muzzy

i'd say yes!
(as I am freezing my patooty off here at -2 wind chill at 4 am. Gotta go roll those breakfast burritos!)

Here's another!

M 6.3 - 140km E of Miyako, Japan

Time
2015-02-19 22:25:24 UTC-06:00
Location
39.847°N 143.569°E
Depth
13.5 km

Hi guys,

Can anyone provide a good link to a Japanese live seismograph ???

Another one for the bag

Magnitude 6.1 - Off East Coast Of Honshu. Japan (229)

Location in Google Maps

• Date-Time: Saturday, February 21, 2015 @ 10:13:54 UTC
  
• Earthquake location: 39.863°N, 143.425°E,
  
• Earthquake depth: 10.0 km
  
• Event ID: usc000ts49
  

Derived from Event Data Source: USGS
Powered by QVSData

a reply to: bellagirl

UPDATED Japan page now corrected for the problems below.

Looks as if IRIS is down at present.....checking.... See below

OMG they have changed the web address that I use of all the seismo stations! I now have days of work to update the program, and all my web pages. Thanks IRIS for doing this without consulting me!!!!



Looks as if it happened 2 days ago.

Looks as if what they have done is to remove the facility that existed to show Today, Yesterday or the day beofre using plot_f instead of webicorder_f which means that all my pages where I show the today, yesterday and day before options are now useless as WordPress does not allow me to program the page so I can't calculate the required dates on the fly.

One has to wonder why these organisations are continually removing access bit by bit. (Well no I don't wonder or I would not be on a conspiracy theory site!)

Bar stewards is all I have to say about it.



The good news on the program is that it is only my version that is affected. Pro and Standard versions look from the code as if the seismograms in the View Webicorder part of the program should still work. (Can someone confirm that?)

a reply to: PuterMan

Yes it the Webicorder viewer seems to be OK on my DataPro, latest BUD graph for SNZO BHZ is up to 1700 UTC, and can go back in dates OK.
LISS, NZ Drums and Canaries are also working OK

a reply to: PuterMan
wandered through to this translated page from your Japan page, very interesting, may be helpful in the M7+project when I eventually get back to pre 1900, especially for details of deaths, damage etc.
Nagano Prefecture Earthquakes by Division Matsushiro earthquake observatory JMA
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M6.6 - 235km SW of Tomatlan, Mexico

Event Time

2015-02-22 14:23:18 (UTC)
2015-02-22 07:23:18 (UTC-07:00) in your timezone
Times in other timezones

Nearby Cities

235km (146mi) SW of Tomatlan, Mexico
259km (161mi) WSW of Cihuatlan, Mexico
278km (173mi) WSW of Manzanillo, Mexico
285km (177mi) WSW of El Colomo, Mexico
824km (512mi) W of Mexico City, Mexico

No tsunami warnings issued
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

USGS

a reply to: sageturkey
Off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico, converted to 6.2 Mwb
earthquake.usgs.gov...

certainly a lot of 6's lately

Not sure about these being aftershocks of the M9 of 2011 like the scientist said, they are 155km north of the 2011 event. started with a 6.7 and 3 other sixes since

this is a image grab from yesterday off the Hypocenter map, 4 main islands, 7 days,

rightclickviewimage for full size

cluster looks bigger today

www.hinet.bosai.go.jp...

going into NIED today to get the data and do my own map.

a reply to: muzzy

Took a bit of time but got there in the end.

I think the use of Mw by the main Networks skewed things a bit
Although the 6's that were aftershocks were quite big in size, when you see the ML readings and that the first one was almost a M7.0 then it makes sense, regardless these are all aftershocks of the 6.9ML
whether the 6.9 is an aftershock of the M9 of 2011 is debatable.
If you took that stance globally, every earthquake would be an aftershock of one previously, back hundreds of years
I think seismologist Yasuhiro Yoshida was being simplistic ABC News

link to interactive map shown in image above

I have started a new Japan page on Blogger, in the new 2015 Flipcard style, its the only way I can post 233 icons on one map and then link it here, now that Google have withdrawn their KMZ mapping facilities.
Its probably a good move anyway, Japan on Wordpress only got 250 views in 2 years, whereas Japan on Blogger has already got 75 views in 24 hrs (before I even posted the link here now)
It may take a bit of getting used to, using the slider to bring up the background map behind the icons, but heck its the best option of all the mapping systems I have tested so far.
Working on replicating the March 2011 M9 series on Blogger now.

F-E Region: Spain
Time: 2015-02-23 16:16:30.7 UTC
Magnitude: 4.6 (mb)
Epicenter: 2.77°W 39.02°N
Depth: 10 km
Status: M - manually revised

geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

Only 3m from a small town Ossa de Montiel.

ETA: The closest report so far is 48km away. I hope this does not mean there is a lot of damage in the area hit especially as this was felt up to 200km away.


EMSC calling it 4.7 (mb)
www.emsc-csem.org...

Several report from the area
www.emsc-csem.org...

No reports of damage so far.