7.8 earthquake Papua Indonesia

Ok something funky is going on with my firefox alerts. I have two windows open and one of them is showing a M 5.1, near the north coast of papua and the other is showing a 5.4, near the north coast of papua. I've refreshed both of them... what's up with that you think?

4.9 just above indo in philippine
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reply to post by Iamonlyhuman

Don't know, I expected a smaller aftershock in Papua, Indonesia after seeing what their seismograph just did, but instead I got a quake alert of 4.9 in the Phiippines.

4.7 in Indo maybe thats the one you were talking about
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Well, I finally got a quake alert that corresponds to the Indonesia seismograph of a 4.7 in Papua, Indonesia.

Is anyone else using this GEE program, or trying to download it?

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another one 4.8 in Indo. im going to download it now just have to find it , have you got a link for it for me?
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edit ; here it is www.seis.sc.edu...
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I downloaded the program bud haven't gotten it to work. It keeps saying no data available. Is it working for you? Thanks again for the information.

reply to post by orgyofthedead

Here is the page I downloaded it from. Hope it pops up as a link, I'm new at this.

www.seis.sc.edu...

reply to post by starwatcher1

I downloaded the program yesterday and found that sometimes their servers have problems getting thru. I understand that a firewall or going thru a router will slow the process down. Tonight when the 7.8 hit Indonesia I tried linking to their seismograph, and it took about fifteen or more tries of clicking ok when it said they were offline. I figured their servers were busy because of everyone else trying to link to the same site at that time. First try bring up the map, let it do its thing until it fills in the the flying symbol at the upper right stops blinking. Then click on a blue or grey triangle in the area you want to access. Then click on their taskbar where it says load real time data. Good luck!

reply to post by northeaster

Like I said in my last post, you have to be persistent till you get thru. Mine is working fine now that I am on their seismograph reading. If I can be of any help, just ask. Will assist if I can.

reply to post by northeaster


Thanks for the info. I will give it a try tomorrow... Looks like is a great way to keep track of all the earth movements all over the world.. Thanks again

The earth will be at perihelion on January 4th, 2009.

Growth in seismic activity coincides with perihelion when the value of tidal force increases by 6.3% snurl.com...

Seems logical.

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Thanks for that AnonymousATS! I am not even going to pretend I understood much of that but what I did understand, it would seem that this is what could be going on here.

Contribution of tidal forces into seismic process

Analysis of the earthquakes catalogues shows that high seismic activity reveals in areas of high concentration of the tidal energy.

The highest activation of the seismic process is observed in December, whereas the lowest is in April. This is true practically for all analyzed sub-regions of the Pacific basin (the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, Japan, Oceania and others, 31 sub-regions in total), including the Northern as well as the Southern hemispheres. It is shown that the growth of seismic activity in time coincides with the time when the Earth goes across the point of perihelion (minimal distance to the Sun) and this is when the value of tidal force increases by 6.3%.

another one 4.9 in Indo this happened about 3.28 and i watched it on GEE before i got the conformation but now the servers arent working but it is a good programme when the servers work thanks mate.

reply to post by orgyofthedead

Yes, I watched that one on GEE also, but just as I was reading your post, I finally got the quake alert from firefox, mine must be a little slow.

Glad you got the program up and running, its been nice to be able to watch some of the active areas around the world with it.

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are you having server problems at the moment and which stations are you monitoring, i was looking at the three closest to indo.

ps yeah it is good to see it as it happens (if you know what i mean) thanks for the link mate hopefully the servers sort themselves out .

working now!!!

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reply to post by orgyofthedead

Yes, mine is working, it stopped briefly just after the 4.9 was showing but picked back up shortly after.

Have fun with it! It's quite a handy tool.

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Originally posted by orgyofthedead
4.9 just above indo in philippine
earthquake.usgs.gov...

i just asked my Friend about this and she didn't feel it but she lives a few hours away by boat, i am going there on Wednesday. Now as a new traveler i have terrorists and earthquakes to fear. Is there anything i am missing