Quake Watch 2008

Not really all that many, considering there are aftershocks from the Loyalty Islands quakes yesterday, and the Rim of Fire, as usual, and Svalbard, well I'm not so sure about that.

I keep having a recurring dream about being on a golf trip and my Blackberry going off(I have it setup to get email from USGS for quakes over 7.0 worldwide and 6.0 US) and seeing that there was a 9.6 off the Coast of Chile. I'm sure it's probably bogus but just wanted to get it out there since my trip is coming up from April 23-27 and I had it again last night. It's kind of confusing though because one time a couple months back when I had it I remember looking at a calendar in my dream and it said Nov 6 so that was kind of contradictory but I usually don't have repeating dreams that depict actual events.

[edit on 11-4-2008 by Necrosis]

Swarm of 600 earthquakes detected off Oregon

I suppose I should have put this thread here.

By JEFF BARNARD

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption — except there are no volcanoes in the area.

There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport. The biggest was magnitude 5.4, and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, OSU reported.

Either there's an unknown volcano yet to be discovered or it may be something bigger.

What do you earthquake experts think?

I'll try to get it figured out how to post these "properly" -- but I can't seem to figure that out yet. One of these days...

Magnitude 7.1
Date-Time Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 00:30:11 UTC
Location 55.681°S, 158.527°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region MACQUARIE ISLAND REGION

earthquake.usgs.gov...

This was followed by a 5.1 aftershock at 07:03:52 UTC right on top of it.

[edit on 4/12/2008 by RabbitChaser]

Magnitude 5.0 - BERING STRAIT -
Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 13:41:33 UTC
Depth 11.4 km (7.1 miles)





Update with after shock:
Magnitude 3.5
Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 20:00:55 UTC
Depth 40 km (24.9 miles)


I posted this one because of the location. Just a bit further away and a bit larger than the majority up there recently

And testting if I can get some of this code to work for me... fingers crossed... post!

[edit on 4/13/2008 by RabbitChaser]

Magnitude 6.0
Monday, April 14, 2008 at 09:45:22 UTC
Depth 162.1 km (100.7 miles)
SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION

Kind of a big sandwich. And it's off all by itself... off south west tip of Africa
earthquake.usgs.gov...


[edit on 4/14/2008 by RabbitChaser]

[edit on 4/14/2008 by RabbitChaser]

fromn the looks of the oregon swarm, they've had 4 smaller earthquakes allready today...Ive been watching this map to keep an eye on them..





why won't this show up as an embedded picture??! Any ideas? I used the img tags, and i thought that would put it up as an embed.

Tela

ps. heres the link to the page that has that picture on it:
earthquake.usgs.gov...

[edit on 4/14/2008 by Telafree]

wow.. 5 more quakes off of oregon in the last 24 hours.. now we are seeing them up here in BC off the coast of vancouver island..

with that being said, if anyone is interested, I have a USGS googleearth plug in to share... any ideas on how to post it to the forum? its only like a 9k file.

thx

Magnitude 6.1 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 03:03:10 UTC
Depth 79.5 km (49.4 miles)

Originally posted by pynner
wow.. 5 more quakes off of oregon in the last 24 hours.. now we are seeing them up here in BC off the coast of vancouver island..

with that being said, if anyone is interested, I have a USGS googleearth plug in to share... any ideas on how to post it to the forum? its only like a 9k file.

thx

do you mean the one on the front page of the usgs earthquakes site? It's quite good. this is the link to it
earthquakes.usgs.gov...

yeah.. that's the one.. people always ask me about it but I never knew where it actually came from.. thanks!

Magnitude 6.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 22:59:54 UTC
Depth 29.6 km (18.4 miles)

Magnitude 6.5 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 05:54:23 UTC
Depth 31.5 km (19.6 miles)

The following two have "not yet been reviewed by a seismologist" at the time of this post.

Magnitude 4.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 06:22:47 UTC
Depth 64.8 km (40.3 miles)

Magnitude 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 06:29:10 UTC
Depth 13.8 km (8.6 miles)

Rumblin' bumblin' stumblin'...

[edit on 4/16/2008 by RabbitChaser]

quake.wr.usgs.gov...

We've been having swarms of earthquakes here in Reno, NV for weeks now, about five miles from my house, some thirty or so yesterday. They're mostly 3.5 and under, but it is concerning.

These were all spread out and not associated with one another, in regards to being an aftershock to any of them.

Magnitude 5.8 MOLUCCA SEA
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 08:11:32 UTC
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles)

Magnitude 5.7 NEAR THE WEST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 19:19:34 UTC
Depth 147.4 km (91.6 miles)

Magnitude 5.0 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 03:34:31 UTC
463 km (287.7 miles)

These are all betwen 5.1 and 5.5, but I post them because these have all occurred from 4/17/08 - 07:57:18 UTC thru 4/18/08 - 05:58:37 UTC.
Seven in total.

Magnitude 5.1 OFFSHORE TARAPACA, CHILE
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 07:57:18 UTC
Depth 26.6 km (16.5 miles)

Magnitude 5.4 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 08:29:04 UTC
10 km (6.2 miles)

Magnitude 5.3 VANUATU REGION
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 10:20:27 UTC
35 km (21.7 miles)

Magnitude 5.1 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 13:30:06 UTC
35 km (21.7 miles)

Magnitude 5.5 SAIPAN REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 17:02:54 UTC
22.6 km (14.0 miles)

Magnitude 5.3 VANUATU
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 22:52:19 UTC
221.6 km (137.7 miles)

Magnitude 5.2 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 05:58:37 UTC
35 km (21.7 miles)

The Vanuatu ones appear to be separate events.

And lets add an eighth that just occurred in the last hour:

Magnitude 5.3 KURIL ISLANDS
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 07:35:46 UTC
58.9 km (36.6 miles)



All the above are on the map in orange, except the most recent one in red and the first one listed off the coast of Chile has turned yellow since I started this post.

[edit on 4/18/2008 by RabbitChaser]

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Look at the quake "count".........normally it fall arounf 160-200 at any given time. Just checked...the "count" is 320..........basically double....

reply to post by heliosprime

Whoa! Thanks for pointing that out, helio I can post 'em but I have just started to delve into all the aspects of tracking these. This does all seem a bit active when you factor that in as well. Maybe the thread regarding the 17th and a Quake in Cali wasn't too far off? Let's give it another day

Is this one a little out of place...?

Magnitude 5.2 ILLINOIS
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 09:37:00 UTC
11.6 km (7.2 miles)



5.4 earthquake rocks Illinois; also felt in Indiana

"It shook our house where it woke me up," said David Behm of Philo, 10 miles south of Champaign. "Windows were rattling, and you could hear it. The house was shaking inches. For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California."

Edit the downgrade and other stats -- Thank you below

[edit on 4/18/2008 by RabbitChaser]

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Look at a historical of the last week. There was a 3.7 just south of San Antonio Texas, now this in Illinois...........

There is a larger version of New madrid that has been lost that starts in Mexico City flows thru Texas (called Balcones escarpment) and continues up into Memphis (New Madrid).............dig in...........