Quake Watch 2010

MAP 5.0 2010/04/12 12:36:48 -35.356 -104.748 22.4 SOUTHEAST OF EASTER ISLAND

MAP 4.6 2010/04/12 11:10:06 16.450 -92.525 231.7 CHIAPAS, MEXICO

MAP 5.6 2010/04/12 10:23:13 -56.929 147.418 10.0 WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND

Good Morning Quake Watchers - Here is today's Earthquake Fact from the USGS -

Today’s Earthquake Fact
Be Prepared for an Earthquake: Create a disaster kit - flashlight and extra batteries, portable radio and extra batteries, first aid kit, essential medicines, sturdy shoes. Have enough food and water for the entire family for at least three days.

Magnitude 4.0
Date-Time Monday, April 12, 2010 at 15:10:05 UTC
Monday, April 12, 2010 at 08:10:05 AM at epicenter

Location 40.301°N, 124.442°W
Depth 19.1 km (11.9 miles)
Region OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances 14 km (8 miles) W (259°) from Petrolia, CA
34 km (21 miles) SSW (206°) from Ferndale, CA
36 km (22 miles) SW (232°) from Rio Dell, CA
59 km (37 miles) SSW (204°) from Eureka, CA
321 km (199 miles) NW (308°) from Sacramento, CA

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 2.8 km (1.7 miles); depth +/- 0.7 km (0.4 miles)
Parameters Nph= 13, Dmin=13 km, Rmss=0.2 sec, Gp=256°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=3
Source California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR

Event ID nc71381091


What's going on here???????

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 2.4
Date-Time Monday, April 12, 2010 at 15:13:04 UTC
Monday, April 12, 2010 at 08:13:04 AM at epicenter

Location 40.296°N, 124.420°W
Depth 19.6 km (12.2 miles)
Region OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances 12 km (7 miles) WSW (254°) from Petrolia, CA
34 km (21 miles) SSW (203°) from Ferndale, CA
35 km (22 miles) SW (230°) from Rio Dell, CA
59 km (37 miles) SSW (202°) from Eureka, CA
319 km (198 miles) NW (308°) from Sacramento, CA

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 4.1 km (2.5 miles); depth +/- 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Parameters Nph= 9, Dmin=11 km, Rmss=0.2 sec, Gp=256°,
M-type=duration magnitude (Md), Version=0
Source California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR

Event ID nc71381096


[edit on 12-4-2010 by Anmarie96]

Ohps my fault... was digging old quakes and did not go back to the front page...
Now I hve to go take a look wat realy happened..

Here is a link for you folks about salt water injection causing earthquakes in the Barnett Shale gas/oil fields. An excellent wilf by SWMBO.

On another note, why did USGS not put Iran on the list huh? It was a 4.6 so should have been included. In the light of I'm a dinner jacket's announcement yesterday I think this is quite significant.

reply to post by PuterMan


I don't understand that comment? Could you explain for those of us in the dark?

reply to post by westcoast


Which bit did you not understand?

The salt water relates to injecting fluids into fractures causing quakes. A wilf is a wander off onto another website from the one you started on, and often another subject. SWMBO is, well SWMBO.

USGS reports 4.5 and the Iranian President announced yesterday that people would have to move out of Tehran because of expected quakes, yet this (quake) did not get reported.

[edit on 12/4/2010 by PuterMan]

reply to post by PuterMan


So I ask if the USGS never fudges anything why is this quake not on their list?
www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by PuterMan


LOL...what, couldn't you read my mind?

It was the part about Tehran. I had not heard anything about that. Thank you for the info and the link. Off to read it now......

Whatever we just felt in SoCal was no 2.5 in Baja. Can't find it on the list yet. 5.2 in Baja, it felt like !



EQ veteran

reply to post by PuterMan


I had the same idea, but I didn't want to spell it out. It seems realy as far away from everything as possible.

Now there are two, far arround the only ones.
Magnitude ML 4.5
Region NORTHEASTERN IRAN

Date time 2010-04-12 at 11:56:32.8 UTC
Location 35.01 N ; 58.75 E
Depth 2 km
Distances
52 km SW Torbat-e h'eydariyeh (pop 125,633 ; local time 15:26 2010-04-12)
33 km SE Kashmar (pop 96,151 ; local time 15:26 2010-04-12)

But this one I posted earlier spells a non human source too deep for humans to drill.
Magnitude ML 4.0
Region NORTHEASTERN IRAN

Date time 2010-04-12 at 08:29:04.0 UTC
Location 34.73 N ; 58.45 E
Depth 41 km
Distances
93 km SW Torbat-e h'eydariyeh (pop 125,633 ; local time 11:59 2010-04-12)
47 km NW Gonabad (pop 43,465 ; local time 11:59 2010-04-12)

reply to post by Hellmutt


Quake being predicted TODAY by 5:30 p.m. EST for Southeast South Dakota near the Nebraska River and Littel Big Horn/Oter Creek area.

www.godlikeproductions.com...

reply to post by solosister


That first (08:29) 4.0 seems to have vanished off the database in EMSC, or am I imagining it?

Looking at some of the other quakes I think 2km is the EMSC default, just as it is 10km for USGS.

[edit on 12/4/2010 by PuterMan]

Oh - Happy 100 Pages Folks!

Sorry no big quakes to report - maybe later

reply to post by PuterMan


Nope still there:
line ten is the 4.5 line in red for Manually reviewed location (depth should be revised too?)
line twenty the 4.0 line in normal print for Event reported by another agency



[edit on 12-4-2010 by solosister]

[edit on 12-4-2010 by solosister]

Hi fooks, i ran in to this in a dutch site, don't no if it's posted yet. Greetings from planet rumbling earth.

www.standeyo.com...

reply to post by solosister


Duh! Misreading the times.

Sorry.

reply to post by Anmarie96


Quake Watch 2009 achieved 20 pages!

[edit on 12/4/2010 by PuterMan]

I was today caught with my fingers in the wrong cookie jar äh webpage too.
makes us more human.
as long as we keep an eye on each other...

reply to post by ni91ck


Hi ni91ck, welcome -

Sorry if this - as I am sure you are not knowledgeable on the subject - and I don't mean this to sound grumpy - but -

A few things here -

The author of the paper got the date wrong. It was April 4, not May 4.

Must be the date time/thing going around :-).

Author fails to mention Geothermal plant responsible for many of these quakes. I wonder if the folks who had damage can hold the plant and or state responsible?

And last but not least - I wonder just how many quakes - or other items of interest there would be if we put a large geothermal plant on top of Yellowstone - you know, just to tap for green energy.. After all, green energy is so much better for the planet as a whole - don't you think??


EDIT: to reply to Nuffsaid747 --- It appears that other web site you posted has issue with me or with us. I have never been on that site before and this is what I got when I clicked your link

"""""SORRY - YOUR IP ADDRESS HAS BEEN BANNED - Thank you for not stalking!""""

- I didn't really want to go there anyway - here is all I need!


EDITED AGAIN - to clarify what the link i tried to open said

[edit on 12-4-2010 by Anmarie96]

I have not been able to get any data in GEE since 17:51 UTC yesterday
on CI.SWS. Just went through the CI network and found only 16 stations
working. There are 37 down like CI.SWS and 16 more with no data, or
which have been down longer. I found TA.113A in Arizona but it is too
far away to get much. Anyone found a good replacement?

Edit: forget it. As soon as I finished writing this and went back to GEE
CI.SWS was working again!! And TA.113A is better than I thought. I
guess I never looked at the right time.

It would still be nice to know of an alternate though.


[edit on 12-4-2010 by EngTech36]