Quake Watch 2007

Combine this w/ the one that killed 500 in Peru in August and you got a couple of awful moments lately for beautiful South America.

Here's a good site explaining plate tectonics w/ a plate map:
www.extremescience.com...

[edit on 14-11-2007 by anhinga]

I made a new thread on the 7.7 quake in Chile:

www.abovetopsecret.com...


Historically, the worlds greatest quake was in this neighborhood. A magnitude 9.5

reply to post by Hellmutt


As a (disgruntled) American -- I think about is the Cali "big one" that's hundreds of years overdue. The 1600s one took out 3,000 then, imagine today, with population density on that coast.


[edit on 14-11-2007 by anhinga]

6.8 in Chile right now.

Total devastation- watching the report on FOX.

Magnitude 6.0 - BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
2007 November 20 12:52:59 UTC
Depth 50.8km

Magnitude 6.0 - KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
2007 November 20 15:28:26 UTC
Depth 33km

Magnitude 6.7 - EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
2007 November 22 08:48:31 UTC
Depth 109km

[edit on 22-11-2007 by apex]

Southern Iran, 5.3:

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New Guinea, 6.7:

earthquake.usgs.gov...

(looks like Apex already mentioned the New Guinea one earlier)

[edit on 22-11-2007 by anhinga]

Aleutian Islands, Alaska; 5.4:

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Sumatra, Indonesia, 6.1 -- looks like the HAARP machine's still working fine.

90 km (55 miles) SSW of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia

earthquake.usgs.gov...
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[edit on 22-11-2007 by anhinga]

reply to post by anhinga


Ayyy! Not so far from the location of the Boxing day tsunami quake. Not good. I hope this is not a signal for a stronger quake to come.

Magnitude 6.7 - SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
2007 November 25 16:02:17 UTC
Depth 30km

Magnitude 6.1 - KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
2007 November 25 02:51:51 UTC
Depth 10km

reply to post by apex


...not good, a direct hit at almost seven of the R scale:

6.2 off the coast of Japan... 40 miles from land...

earthquake.usgs.gov...

...western Mexico, 5.8...

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Magnitude 6.6 - SOLOMON ISLANDS
2007 November 27 11:50:01 UTC
Depth 41.6km

Magnitude 6.0 - LUZON, PHILIPPINES
2007 November 27 04:27:01 UTC
Depth 62.5km

Definitely seems to be more than normal of magnitude 6 range at the moment, not sure how significant a number above normal though.

[edit on 27-11-2007 by apex]

MY FIRST EARTHQUAKE! And I was at my desk, on the top floor of the second highest building in Alaska, 19 floors off the ground.

Cook Inlet - Alaska - 5.0 ML - Depth 44 miles
Wednesday November 28th, 2007
11/28/2007 23:57:00.000 UTC

[edit on 11/28/2007 by damajikninja]

Magnitude 7.4 - MARTINIQUE REGION, WINDWARD ISLANDS
2007 November 29 19:00:19 UTC
Depth 143.1km

Thats pretty big, in the Atlantic too.

reply to post by apex


That is amazing.

Windwards!? Thats wild! It's getting really busy.

reply to post by damajikninja


It was funny, I was in a truck with my buddy when this one happened. The strangest thing is we were talking about the big one on Easter way back when up here, then discussing how during a good friday documentary of it that one happened. The Alaskan Earthquake spirits enjoy being talked about... shhh.