Quake Watch 2007

Magnitude 5.0 - MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
Depth 85km
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Magnitude 5.2 - TAIWAN REGION
Depth 56.1km
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Magnitude 5.5 - MOLUCCA SEA
Depth 60.1km
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Hello, I thought I would add a few linkeys for anyone who is interested and does not have them yet.

USGS
For the quakes, scroll down a bit, and on the left you can click on either us quakes or world quakes. If you see one or a cluster that grabs your attention, you can click on the ‘volcano’ tab to see if it was one of the volcanoes in the vicinity.

USGS live internet seismic servers
You can watch them as they go there. It is updated every 30 min. you will notice that a lot of them will show storm noise or water noise. After you watch for a little bit you will be able to easily tell the difference between normal noise and quakes.

Norsar
I didn’t want to link you to a specific page at Norsar. So that is the link to the Home page. There is a lot of interesting info at that site, and quite a few seismographs. Their site is set up quite a bit different than the USGS, so I have found it is best to go through that site well and find the pages you like the best and bookmark it.

volcano live
Lots of great info there. The ‘Breaking News’ link there will also give you info about notable quakes.

IRIS
Iris is packed full if all kinds of info.

SOHO
I am adding a link to SOHO, due to the fact that the sun's activity, comets, and so forth are often discussed when odd things happen.


Enjoy!!

And if you are new to the site, please dont be shy, if you find something interesting, post it so we can all take a look, and if you have a question, ask it. Someone is bound to either have the answer, or know where to find it.




[edit on 17-1-2007 by mrsdudara]

Further to this list, I have found these useful for quakes too:

Yellowstone Earthquakes

Yellowstone Webicorders

Hopefully we won't get to see any big stuff on those, but there are occasional Earthquake swarms there.

EMSC

This is good for European Quakes, very few of which are ever on the USGS world map.

Magnitude 5.0 - NEAR THE COAST OF SOUTHERN PERU
Depth 56.3km
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What a swarm of quakes in California today. Have you noticed?

recent quakes USGS

Is it usual?

i hadn't noticed quite how many until you mentioned it actually:

for the Map Centered at 37°N, 120°W, there are currently 291 quakes which seems like a lot more than usual, so thanks for bringing it up.

There was a Magnitude 4 just south of the long Valley Caldera too.

[edit on 17-1-2007 by apex]

Glad to contribute to your topic.

In fact, it started a few days ago, when all these quakes in Indonesia took place. I noticed there were more quakes (minor ones) in California and then, today, after the Papua one, it has increased.

I think we will have to keep an eye on it.

Magnitude 5.9 - PAPUA, INDONESIA
Depth 105.3km
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And heres some useful Information about the two large Kuril Islands Quakes:

EMSC Kuril islands Information

[edit on 17-1-2007 by apex]

Magnitude 6.0 - CARLSBERG RIDGE (Indian ocean near Africa)
Depth 10km
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Magnitude 5.2 - MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
Depth 92.7km
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Magnitude 5.6 - DRAKE PASSAGE
Depth 10km
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Magnitude 5.9 - SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Depth 13.8km
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In relation with the quakes that have taken place on the Drake Passage and the Carlsberg Ridge, I would like to point out that the Drake Passage divides the Antartic from the American Continent and that the Carlsberg Ridge divides the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea.

Don´t you think we are having some important shakings these days?

Looking at the Seismic monitor (IRIS) it has the last 5 years quakes on there. And you're right, there haven't been anywhere near as many in those places as there have in others. Something may be happening, but lets wait and see what that thing is.

Magnitude 5.4 - OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
Depth 56.7km
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Magnitude 5.9 - SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA
Depth 10km
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This is rather interesting, this is part of the list of quakes in Yellowstone, all of these were in the area of the lake, all close to each other. It is interesting that yesterday none of these were on this page and only showed up today.

MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION

0.7 2007/01/18 12:58:27 44.426N 110.323W 6.9 67 km (42 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
2.3 2007/01/18 12:40:31 44.414N 110.297W 9.4 70 km (43 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
1.5 2007/01/18 12:27:25 44.430N 110.313W 7.5 68 km (42 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
2.0 2007/01/18 11:36:08 44.419N 110.307W 7.9 69 km (43 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT

Recent Earthquakes for Yellowstone

This is the webicorder readout for Yellowstone lake yesterday:

www.seis.utah.edu...

This seems rather strange and unusual to me.



[edit on 19-1-2007 by apex]

Magnitude 5.8 - SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
Depth 10km
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Magnitude 5.9 - BANDA SEA
Depth 129.6km
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Magnitude 5.1 - EASTERN TURKEY
Depth 10km
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EMSC - 5.0

Originally posted by apex
Magnitude 5.1 - EASTERN TURKEY
Depth 10km
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EMSC - 5.0

Some news on this,

2 villages have been demolished by the quake, But lucky so far there is no reports of death,

The quake knocked down a number of homes in the villages of Yukarikosk and Cobanova, Akpinar said. Snow was slowing down access to some of the villages in the province, he said.

Derya Ozer, the daughter of the local administrator in Cobanova village, said some houses and barns came down in the temblor, while others had suffered cracks or other types of damage.

"But thank God there is nothing serious," she told CNN-Turk television. "Everyone is waiting outside. Nobody will go back into their homes."

The tremor also caused a power outage in the village, she said.

news link,


As turkey is on a fault line they tend to get a few but as was in 1999 18,000 people where killed, So any quake that mag 5 or over can cause major problems there, thank goodness this one seems to have gone without to much probem,

Tsunami alert,
has just been issued for the Indonsian quake that rattled the islands a little while back,



7.2 quake hits of Sillawesi islands Indonisa,


not reported yet will add ASAP