Quake Watch 2017

a reply to: muzzy

I thought about it, but only if nobody did another one after a couple weeks or something. But nah, this is your turf man, and you run it well. I'll stick to the real time monitoring side, and keeping us updated with Yellowstone swarms. F&S for joo!

a reply to: muzzy

Yeah that one has disappeared from the list as well this morning
Guess the warning

Disclaimer: Unless revised by a geophysicist, automatically determined earthquake locations may be erroneous!

has to be taken seriously
The North Pacific Ocean 5.9 was listed between two of those Fiji aftershocks of 23:03 and 23:34
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

5 hours ago
Intensity severe
Region intensity strong
NZDT Fri, Jan 6 2017, 12:17:33 am
Depth 13 km
Magnitude 5.3
Location 20 km south-west of Seddon
www.geonet.org.nz...

Felt this one very slight rocking
8 hours ago
Intensity strong
Region intensity moderate
NZDT Fri, Jan 6 2017, 9:45:17 pm
Depth 10 km
Magnitude 4.7
Location 15 km east of Seddon
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A couple of earthquakes off Canada near B.C.
And there's a big storm right on top of it. Also, yesterday or the day before, there were a couple in the Atlantic and there was a storm there too. This year has been slow for big Atlantic storms and there have been fewer earthquakes as well.

a reply to: ericblair4891

Yeah seen those
Waiting for the new topic to come up on ATS again "OMG the Cascadia is going to go"
Did you mean those 5s on reykjanes ridge on the 2nd?

M5.5 - 175km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada
-- upgraded to 5.7--
2017-01-07
03:13:57 UTC
50.250°N 129.790°W
11.0 km depth

This is the biggest one so far out of the canadian cluster going on.
Hope they don't get much bigger.

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The others in 24 hours:
4.1
193km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada
2017-01-06 21:05:29 (UTC)
10.0 km

4.6
183km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada
2017-01-06 16:52:22 (UTC)
10.0 km

4.3
175km W of Port Hardy, Canada
2017-01-06 16:42:16 (UTC)
10.0 km

5.1
186km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada
2017-01-06 15:49:00 (UTC)

I smell a mid 7 mag about to pop West of B.C.

There has been a little action mid way down the Juan de Fuca fault in the last couple of weeks.

We shall see.

Not to mention the 6.5 West of Eureka Cali.. several weeks ago! This one was close to the Juan -Cascadia- San Andres junction.

Those 5's and 6's at either end of those 2 faults might be a little cause for concern.

a reply to: radpeteage

You could also look at those with some relief. Energy being released rather than building up.
No quakes means stress is building.
It's the old "glass half full or half empty" depends which way you look at it.

West Chatham Rise, approx 350km east of Cook Strait
Mag, UTC, Lat, Long, Depthkm
4.16, 08/01/2017 08:42:38, -42.32666, 178.46924, 34.91
3.86, 08/01/2017 11:43:46, -42.31201, 178.396, 34.91
3.98, 09/01/2017 02:47:37, -42.59766, 178.53516, 136.91

Not sure what this means, they are rare here, but not unknown, I can't recall 3 together like this before, the size is the size of earthquake size you get during a volcanic eruption (Chile, Iceland, Japan etc) but there are no known active volcanos at this location, and they are well spaced out timewise.
You can see 2 of them on the 08/01 map nzeq2017.blogspot.co.nz...
the 3rd one (different day so doesn't show on the map) is just a few km to the SE of these

Another unusual location
Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada
Time: 2017-01-08 23:47:11.7 UTC
Magnitude: 5.8
Epicenter: 92.29°W 74.30°N
Depth: 10 km
Status: C - confirmed
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

USGS say same
earthquake.usgs.gov...

as do the Canadians
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca...
It is actually in a moderate hazard area
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca...

update to: muzzy
GFZ have upgraded to 6.0Mw

same link

new aftershock
F-E Region: Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada
Time: 2017-01-09 17:55:34.9 UTC
Magnitude: 5.2 (mb)
Epicenter: 92.37°W 74.26°N
Depth: 10 km
Status: M - manually revised

geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca...

Another interesting one.

earthquake.usgs.gov...-info

update to: muzzy
So a reaction to those today?
That last one has been changed, location and size (orange arrow on map image below)
Mag, UTC, Lat, Long, Depthkm
3.98, 09/01/2017 02:47:37, -42.59766, 178.53516, 136.91, West Chatham Rise
to
3.45, 09/01/2017 02:47:51, -41.8834, 177.60117, 33, E. Of Wairarapa (Bennett Knoll)

some new events also at E. Of Wairarapa (Bennett Knoll)
Mag, UTC, Lat, Long, Depthkm
3.43, 09/01/2017 12:40:30, -41.52798, 177.83994, 12
3.00, 09/01/2017 12:42:58, -41.5402, 177.64137, 12
3.51, 09/01/2017 12:46:40, -41.53185, 177.66525, 12
3.13, 09/01/2017 22:56:16, -41.25415, 177.0388, 49.1
09012017NZ


moving across the Hikurangi subduction zone towards the Wairarapa coast

I wonder if this has anything to do with the row of quakes spreading out from Kaikoura I mentioned on QW2016 Jan, 1 2017 @ 09:43 AM
Its a bit of a stretch but there isa major undersea canyon(fault?) that runs out from Kaikoura NE then meets up with the Cook Strait Canyon and then heads further out east towards where these were.

I wouldn't expect the next M7+ to be right here, but the East Coast Wairarapa has had a decent one here before

ID: 1546797 Network: geonet;
Status: reviewed;
Date/Time UTC: 1961-12-27 23:47:57;
Latitude, Longitude: -41.51, 176.11;
Magnitude: 6.4;
Depth: 12.00 km;
Energy Released: 60035.5 tonnes of TNT;
Location: Off Wairarapa coast
1815-2017 Mag 6+



Oh and at the same time
it has been 3.25 days since the west end of the Hope Fault did anything at Inchbonnie. The total there (in tandem with the Culverden-Cook series (which I say is also part of it)) @ 105 events

a reply to: crappiekat
Yeah

there was another one near Macquarie Island as well yesterday
F-E Region: Macquarie Island Region
Time: 2017-01-09 00:51:50.3 UTC
Magnitude: 5.1
Epicenter: 160.20°E 60.57°S
Depth: 10 km
Status: C - confirmed
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

Antarctic Plate shifting?
or the Australian Plate?
depends where you are looking from I guess.

M6.9 - 199km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines

earthquake.usgs.gov...

ETA: That USGS 6.9 is in Mwp.

a reply to: TrueAmerican
GFZ have already converted to Mw
7.2
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

PHIVOLCS say 7.2, but in mb www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph...

i think they may all be too high, its just coming on LISS now, doesn't look anything like a 7
earthquake.usgs.gov...

check out Tiksi, Russia, wavey

I had not seen this thread and I am over a week late, sorry! Grats on the 2017 EQ thread, I will be following as usual. Interesting times, the Earth is still rumbling my interest here...