Quake Watch 2010

Originally posted by Austria
Today is a very active day. within 6 hours there were 10 medium-sized earthquake, and a strong earthquake (6.3)

and 3 EQ's in California....

whats going on today?

New Moon yesterday and Perigee tommorrow

It all started off with the 5.3ML in New Zealand, off course we are 12 hrs ahead of everyone else so the New Moon affected here first.

[edit on 13-6-2010 by muzzy]

reply to post by PuterMan


Pressure has been building up for a couple of weeks with just Light quakes around the usual places.
I'm not surprised to see a release of higher number than normal Moderate 5's and a couple of strong quakes at all.

The number of 7+ quakes for 2010 is at 12, and we are only half way through the year, could be a high count this year. 2007 was the highest for a few decades with 30 count 7+.

[edit on 13-6-2010 by muzzy]

Yep, I've been noticing that too over the last 24-48 hrs. A few 4s in SoCal and *several* 5s scattered around the globe - seems like every hour I'm getting a new 5 update. Woke up this morning and the inbox on my phone was 'bout full


Just as I finished typing I got a new one: 5.2 eastern New Guinea region. Literally, it's like a new 5 every hour.

[edit on 6/13/2010 by Whisper67]

Earthquake
Country: South Africa
State: Province of North-West
Location: Fochville
Date: 2010-06-14 : 11:51:58
Magnitude: 5.0
Depth: 10 km
Details

x2

[edit on 14-6-2010 by jumpingbeanz]

Originally posted by Whisper67
Yep, I've been noticing that too over the last 24-48 hrs. A few 4s in SoCal and *several* 5s scattered around the globe - seems like every hour I'm getting a new 5 update. Woke up this morning and the inbox on my phone was 'bout full

Just as I finished typing I got a new one: 5.2 eastern New Guinea region. Literally, it's like a new 5 every hour.

[edit on 6/13/2010 by Whisper67]

The reality versus the perception

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[edit on 14/6/2010 by PuterMan]

reply to post by jumpingbeanz


Given that the World Cup is taking place you would think there would be atleast on mention on tv?

Okay, my dog is driving me crazy. Just gotta say it in case something ends up shakin. He keeps staring at me like "don't you hear that?" and doing a weird kind of bark...none like he usually does. It's been going on for about 2 hrs. now. Hopefully the neighbors are making some sort of noise I just can't hear!

To keep more to the point, we have been a bit active in this small part of the world lately!:

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km LOCATION
MAP 1.3 2010/06/14 21:35:53 47.937 -115.574 5.9 12 km ( 7 mi) N of Trout Creek, MT
MAP 1.4 2010/06/14 15:41:07 45.360 -121.760 6.0 17 km ( 10 mi) E of Mount Hood Village, OR
MAP 1.7 2010/06/14 15:16:49 45.642 -122.766 20.9 8 km ( 5 mi) SW of Lake Shore, WA
MAP 1.0 2010/06/14 09:13:26 47.861 -122.090 23.8 2 km ( 1 mi) NE of Cathcart, WA
MAP 1.0 2010/06/14 01:15:03 45.359 -121.766 6.3 16 km ( 10 mi) E of Mount Hood Village, OR
MAP 1.4 2010/06/13 22:07:14 47.695 -121.921 25.6 0 km ( 0 mi) W of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, WA
MAP 1.2 2010/06/13 16:26:21 46.194 -122.194 1.8 1 km ( 1 mi) WSW of Mount St. Helens Volcano, WA
MAP 1.2 2010/06/13 12:57:58 46.858 -121.978 9.0 12 km ( 7 mi) NNE of Ashford, WA
MAP 1.1 2010/06/12 07:43:02 47.440 -121.764 22.5 3 km ( 2 mi) SSW of Riverbend, WA
MAP 1.3 2010/06/12 06:51:37 47.910 -122.892 20.8 9 km ( 5 mi) N of Quilcene, WA
MAP 1.0 2010/06/11 09:57:27 47.913 -124.485 15.5 9 km ( 5 mi) WSW of Forks, WA
MAP 1.8 2010/06/10 12:49:14 47.908 -122.897 20.6 9 km ( 5 mi) N of Quilcene, WA
MAP 1.1 2010/06/10 11:42:38 46.672 -119.217 0.0 10 km ( 6 mi) NNW of Basin City, WA
MAP 1.1 2010/06/09 21:29:05 47.532 -121.989 7.4 4 km ( 3 mi) E of Issaquah, WA
MAP 2.3 2010/06/09 06:52:54 45.419 -122.924 10.0 9 km ( 6 mi) SSW of Aloha, OR
MAP 2.3 2010/06/08 20:27:29 44.516 -116.067 12.6 2 km ( 1 mi) W of Cascade, ID
MAP 1.7 2010/06/08 12:25:24 46.767 -120.931 7.2 15 km ( 9 mi) WNW of Tieton, WA
MAP 1.1 2010/06/08 11:48:47 48.008 -121.865 19.2 5 km ( 3 mi) NE of Lake Roesiger, WA
MAP 1.8 2010/06/08 05:14:09 45.114 -123.039 24.7 10 km ( 6 mi) NW of Brooks, OR

Just felt a quake here in Socal...
will edit in the stats when I find out.

5.9 2010/06/14 21:26:58 32.698N 115.924W 6.8 8 km ( 5 mi) SE of Ocotillo, CA


felt bigger.

[edit on 14-6-2010 by tk2dsky]

same here, this earthquake was intense rolling hard.

Quite a few rattling through - friends in SoCal reporting it as loud and rolling..

MAP 4.1 2010/06/15 04:36:06 32.681 -115.918 0.0 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.1 2010/06/15 04:35:47 32.696 -115.965 8.7 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 2010/06/15 04:34:26 32.696 -115.955 0.0 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 2010/06/15 04:33:04 32.568 -116.553 10.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.2 2010/06/15 04:32:57 33.153 -116.250 27.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.6 2010/06/15 04:31:54 32.715 -115.947 0.1 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.9 2010/06/15 04:29:55 32.733 -115.973 2.9 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.7 2010/06/15 04:26:58 32.698 -115.924 6.9 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Hey Westcoast - all okay ??

Seems your dog was certainly picking up that activity !

Yep felt this one too, but it was very rolling in Indio Ca.
San andreas (if this is the active fault) has been active these last few day.

Not much structure in Ocotillo.

That's a good thing. Actually - not much of anything in Ocotillo - 'cept the Desert Fuel Stop.

There have been 20+ quakes now on the 2.5+ list for SoCal since the 5.7 kick-off quake...

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Seems to me as if the Baja quake started off this chain of events moving north. More to come, I think.

EDIT: There goes another 4 and 4.5



[edit on 15-6-2010 by MoorfNZ]

Originally posted by MoorfNZ
Hey Westcoast - all okay ??

Seems your dog was certainly picking up that activity !

Okay, I just got back on after my last post and OMG!!! The quake list is strolling.....

I see that my post about my dogs behavior was about 2 min before the first quake. Thing that's making me nervous is that is over a thousand miles away from me AND Mt Hood and Saint Helens have both had several quakes today....

Not going to bed quite yet.....

reply to post by westcoast


Ah good, there you are

Was amazed at the timing of your post and then the quakes began!

Seismologists are saying they are aftershocks from the Baja quake in April. I think it's definitely ongoing activity from that quake but I can't help but think we haven't seen the big one from this event yet....

reply to post by MoorfNZ


Yah, I know, I am not liking it at all. It is making me think that if my dog sensed that, then it means that energy is being transferred all the way up the fault line. Now, I know they are connected, but with Mt Hood and Helens both having several quakes today, and there being several other quakes in the area here today......my spidy senses are tingling.

Anyways, I was compelled to revive my Washington State thread....

reply to post by jumpingbeanz


Further to your post, we had 4 confirmed tremours yesterday:
www.news24.com... 20100422

Johannesburg – Four earthquakes were recorded around Gauteng, the North West province and Limpopo on Wednesday, the Council for Geosciences reported on Thursday.
The first was at 13:28 in the Gamoep area of Limpopo and measured 2.4 on the Richter scale, with a depth of 5km.
The second earthquake was at 19:.34 in Gauteng, along the Roodepoort mining belt, west of Johannesburg. It measured 2.4 on the Richter scale and was recorded with a depth of 2km.
A third earthquake was recorded in the area of the West Rand gold mines in the North West at 23:42, measuring 2.9 with a depth of 2km.
A fourth was recorded at 23:49 in the same area, measuring 2.9 with a depth of 2km.

I also felt smaller tremours in between. Not huge quakes, but really unusual for so many together like this. The conventional answer is always "mining shafts collapsing" since we're not near any fault lines.

It follows a 4.3 about a month ago.
I'm in Johannesburg SA.

So it is looking like Dr Turi might be correct with his astronomy/astrological prediction of a VERY big quake for July 2010.
This all makes me wonder what is the general progression for big quakes. Do they usually just happen out of nowhere or is there a build up of activity that leads to a big one?
Bob

Originally posted by DesertDweller
So it is looking like Dr Turi might be correct with his astronomy/astrological prediction of a VERY big quake for July 2010.
This all makes me wonder what is the general progression for big quakes. Do they usually just happen out of nowhere or is there a build up of activity that leads to a big one?
Bob

I often wonder why Californians in particular seem to keep talking on Internet Forums about " building up to a big one" or "there is more to come and bigger" and "foreshocks" when there is no data whatsoever to base this stuff on.
Most big quakes come out of nowhere, and a foreshock is only a foreshock after a main shock hits, there is no way to know a foreshock actaully is one before hand.
Here in New Zealand we are dealing with sub-duction quakes, strike-slip events like the San Andreas are rarer (Alpine Fault) so buildups to big ones are likely different than California, here there is a trend of quietness before a large quake, the number of events reduce to almost nothing, then bang!.

If anyone can provide the data to show a build up before any historic big event then I'd be pleased to change my thoughts on this.

I will say this though, 5 x low 4mag aftershocks, (as well as the rest) seems quite a lot for a 5.7 quake. That tends to lean towards that these are all aftershocks of the Baja 7.2, including the 5.7

I know Puterman has done graphs since the 7.2, what I'd like to see is a map of ALL the events.