7.8 just hit Ecuador

USGS just upgraded it to 7.8... yikes that's big. Hope everyone's ok.

TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST...UPDATED ---------------------------------
* TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 0.3 TO 1 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL ARE POSSIBLE FOR SOME COASTS OF ECUADOR.
* TSUNAMI WAVES ARE FORECAST TO BE LESS THAN 0.3 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL FOR THE COASTS OF COLOMBIA... COSTA RICA... PANAMA... AND PERU.
* ACTUAL AMPLITUDES AT THE COAST MAY VARY FROM FORECAST AMPLITUDES DUE TO UNCERTAINTIES IN THE FORECAST AND LOCAL FEATURES. IN PARTICULAR MAXIMUM TSUNAMI AMPLITUDES ON ATOLLS WILL LIKELY BE MUCH SMALLER THAN THE FORECAST INDICATES.
* FOR OTHER AREAS COVERED BY THIS PRODUCT A FORECAST HAS NOT YET BEEN COMPUTED. THE FORECAST WILL BE EXPANDED AS NECESSARY IN SUBSEQUENT PRODUCTS.

ptwc.weather.gov...

a reply to: TrueAmerican

It came up as a 7.4 on my phone not a 7.8

originally posted by: desertguy
a reply to: TrueAmerican

It came up as a 7.4 on my phone not a 7.8

Wow I see they upgraded it.. Its getting bad with all these quakes. Im 40 miles from the fault line in California .. hope it dont go.

originally posted by: desertguy
a reply to: TrueAmerican

It came up as a 7.4 on my phone not a 7.8

It's been updated and the OP is still in the time limit to edit his title.

a reply to: TrueAmerican

Wow. 7.8....? That's pretty big..!

twitter.com...

Apparently a bridge collapsed. There are other pictures on this twitter account.

a reply to: lostbook

The earth is STILL ringing like a bell from it. Just about every seismic station on my rig is going nuts (except for short period stations around volcanos)- even 30 minutes afterwards.

Planetary positioning affecting each other.

You want to predict EQ, pay attention to above, where the real forces take place.

Every big or major EQ is accompanied with the planets pulling and pushing in terms of gravitational energy.

The ancients could prepare for events by reading the solar/planetary maps, positioning.

Last night I was using my cellphone app, mapping the stars and their positions. Noticing how close and aligned many were, I had a feeling their dance was causing shifting to one another.

Tonight, download star map kind of apps and check it out. Really useful....

Eta - of course the planetary dance is going to shift and cause kinetic energy with the planets. That of course effects the itsy biological bodies that planet governs.
Humans dance, and their bodies shake and quake as they do so, devastating bacteria and cells.

As above so below.

a reply to: Elementalist

Nope.

About as acurate as astrology

a reply to: Phage
You're the best.

Sadly, so much loss of life and damage. The suffering and fear is palpable in the after math. But the constant movement of the earth's crust is beyond fascinating (at least to me).

Prayers and good thoughts to Ecuador.

a reply to: Phage

The population of California is sliding into the state I live in.

originally posted by: Phage
But the notion that solar activity has any influence on large earthquakes doesn't really cut it.

I'm not ready to come to that conclusion just yet. There are far too many reports of "Aurora Borealis" type lights seen before many major earthquakes. That would imply some correlation between solar activity and earthquakes.

Just because we haven't discovered what exactly causes earthquakes and when, doesn't necessarily rule out one factor or another (solar activity for instance).

a reply to: _BoneZ_

You're assuming earthquake lights originate in space. If they do exist in direct correlation to earthquakes, I'm more inclined to believe them to be terrestrial in origin. Could be electrical discharges, gases, etc from faults on the planet itself rather than flares from the sun or stellar phenomena.

Going off my expert opinion, this is not good. And, yea, Cali! Quit sliding up into us here in WA!


TA or any of the resident experts, is is safe to assume that this quake is related to the quakes in Japan over the last few days? Also, safe to say the ring is waking up? If so, is anyone in the Pacific safe?

originally posted by: jhn7537
Going off my expert opinion, this is not good. And, yea, Cali! Quit sliding up into us here in WA!

TA or any of the resident experts, is is safe to assume that this quake is related to the quakes in Japan over the last few days? Also, safe to say the ring is waking up? If so, is anyone in the Pacific safe?

I don't think there is ANY "safe" assumption when it comes to earthquakes. Sometimes they come in bunches, like "when it rains, it pours." Sometimes they don't. Best not to assume.

a reply to: Elementalist

Ignore Chadwickus it's nearly childish to believe that one thing does not effect the other.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: SaturnFX

this is the part where California slides into the ocean.

Except that California won't slide into the ocean. It's "sliding" up to Washington.

More like slipping than sliding. Or grinding. I prefer grinding against one another, personally. How can something as big as a continent slip and slide?

a reply to: intrptr

Sounds like a mating ritual between the states.

Is there a baby in our future?

originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: Elementalist

Ignore Chadwickus it's nearly childish to believe that one thing does not effect the other.

I could have sworn one of the brilliant fellas in one year's EQ Watch thread tried to find a correlation to stellar & lunar alignments, but found not much beyond inconclusive in their copious amounts of data. Entertaining ideas is fine, it's how people get the bug up their backside to find things out, but if the proof one way or the other isn't there, it's just not there.