Quake Watch 2010

Here you go folks, you might find this of interest.

Earthquake Depths

And I just found this:

Rapid Earthquake Viewer

Select an earthquake from the list and you get the seismos for it. Neat.

[edit to say]Just been playing with it. You get Vertical, N/S and E/W seismos and you can save the siesmos as a PDF file direct from the site. Even neater!!

[Further edit to say] It is historic data, i.e. is not right up to the minute but it is still a great resource. Try station view (The three views are top right.)

This has 4 different views - World, US, North Pole, South Pole.

Click on a station, and click show earthquakes and it will outline any quakes on the plot. Example:
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/3ef25efad41b.png[/atsimg]

Bye, off to play!!!!!!

[edit on 24/7/2010 by PuterMan]

Latest consecutive quakes on the 2.5+ list... busy busy.. the last two Moro Gulf quakes are still very deep...

MAP 5.1 2010/07/24 11:56:26 6.567 123.649 610.7 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 4.7 2010/07/24 11:10:46 6.723 123.651 606.4 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 4.5 2010/07/24 10:30:08 -18.312 -177.798 579.3 FIJI REGION
MAP 5.0 2010/07/24 10:21:48 -4.280 148.235 78.0 BISMARCK SEA
MAP 4.7 2010/07/24 09:46:49 6.688 123.653 609.6 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 5.3 2010/07/24 07:55:42 -10.832 165.572 70.2 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 2010/07/24 07:46:23 -6.776 149.744 67.2 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Just came back in to say that I got to that tool from this page (which is contained in it somewhere) and may be of interest as well.

Lesson plan: Using earthquake depths as evidence for a subduction zone

[Edit to say] I am back again - this page has some interesting stats for example:

About 90% of all earthquakes have depths < 100 km.

Most earthquakes (about 95%) occur in seismic belts along the margins of tectonic plates

And if you click you get to this page and I find these notes often have some very useful stuff in them. Click on 'Lecture Notes' to get at the good stuff!!

[edit on 24/7/2010 by PuterMan]

Oh, I like, I like very much - thanks for that 'find' (REV) Puterman - I can't wait to waste another day each week playing with another toy I love but don't fully understand

Apparently a 6.4 earthquake just hit Iceland at a 1.3 km depth.


Maybe it'll finally wake up Katla for some doom.

[edit on 24-7-2010 by Vitchilo]

reply to post by Vitchilo


I was just about to look. You need to go to this thread www.abovetopsecret.com...

I'm not sure how relevant this is but has anyone noticed the actual closeness of the co-ordinates North and East for these Mindao (? sp) quakes ? they seem just a couple of degrees apart , the last three anyway almost occurring at the exact same spot.

If some form of subduction is occurring which two plates would be involved please anyone ?

reply to post by Vitchilo


It has been removed now but the red dot is still on the map, computer error?

reply to post by coffeesniffer


Yes panic over!

www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by Vitchilo


No war doom Vitch that you have to wish it on Katla!??

[edit on 24/7/2010 by PuterMan]

reply to post by PuterMan


Thanks Puterman, excellent thread you guys have there on the Icelandic volcano situation, one i wasnt aware of but will bookmark for my daily viewing

Still find it a little perplexing how such large errors are made with quake detection and how the data simply vanishes without so much as an explanation from the site displaying it. Oh well guess it never happened lol

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Holy smokes! Theres currently 841 earthquakes on the usgs.earthquake website (for within the last 7 days worldwide), I've never seen so many at the one time on that site. Usually theres around 300 or so on that particular page, ie. worldwide earthquakes within last 7 days. The blue squares are mainly over magnitude 5.

I have no in-depth knowledge of how earthquakes operate really, except basically the tectonic plates of the earth's crust sometimes brush up against each other causing pressure to build until one relents and moves aside, so to speak (real basic knowledge) and then the resulting movement releases the built-up pressure and the earth moves. As I say I have no real knowledge about these things but man that's a lot of earth movements going on at present. Link above to the earthquake.usgs.gov website page.

reply to post by coffeesniffer


I think it was removed because it was a test of the Icelandic Nuclear Weapons Program Oops not supposed to tell you about that one. It was carried out by Julian Assange as part of the Wikileaks program.

Just been back to look at the Icelandic Volcanoes thread again and I notice that spacedman13's post shows a 4.0 at 09:00 which has also been removed. Do they have an instrument problem I wonder??

Forgot to say:

Magnitude 4.8
Date-Time Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 12:34:12 UTC
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 04:04:12 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 26.641°N, 53.812°E
Depth 19.5 km (12.1 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region SOUTHERN IRAN
Distances 105 km (65 miles) W of Bandar-e Lengeh, Iran
125 km (80 miles) SSW of Lar, Iran
205 km (130 miles) S of Jahrom, Iran
1020 km (640 miles) SSE of TEHRAN, Iran

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 15.1 km (9.4 miles); depth +/- 53.8 km (33.4 miles)
Parameters NST= 19, Nph= 20, Dmin=305 km, Rmss=1.17 sec, Gp= 90°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2010zcbf


There have been a few here over that last 7 days.

[edit on 24/7/2010 by PuterMan]

reply to post by kiwitina948


I "think" part of the reason for so many quakes being shown is for the same reason the numbers were swelled after Baja quake - USGS shows quakes in the U.S./AK quakes that are 2.5+ as opposed to only listing larger quakes for the "rest of the world" and the recent Fox Islands activity has boosted numbers.

I'd better drag myself away from the computer before any more events occur - have to succumb to a social life tomorrow *sigh* and it's already 1.30am.. happy watching overnighters....


[edit on 24-7-2010 by MoorfNZ]

Sorry this is mega huge but it needed to be preserved for posterior posterity! (It will change every half hour so this captures it as it is now) Would those new to this thread please note this is NOT serious!

Major panic

OMG The world is falling apart.

MEGA MEGA Earthquakes EVERYWHERE in the world



[edit on 24/7/2010 by PuterMan]

5.0 2010/07/24 19:17:58 -12.623 114.618 27.0 NORTHWEST OF AUSTRALIA
MAP 2.5 2010/07/24 18:54:52 32.860 -116.248 9.3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 2010/07/24 18:15:24 32.179 -115.379 12.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.0 2010/07/24 18:05:24 32.218 -115.353 0.4 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.7 2010/07/24 17:13:26 60.286 -177.622 14.9 BERING SEA
MAP 2.7 2010/07/24 16:33:21 32.220 -115.350 15.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.0 2010/07/24 15:17:49 -1.348 99.486 17.5 KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 4.7 2010/07/24 14:59:22 0.903 99.537 35.0 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 2.6 2010/07/24 14:52:25 61.343 -147.207 17.8 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 2010/07/24 14:05:05 59.734 -150.683 48.4 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2010/07/24 13:14:45 32.145 -115.391 20.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 2010/07/24 12:55:04 32.373 -115.540 4.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.8 2010/07/24 12:34:13 26.641 53.812 19.5 SOUTHERN IRAN

earthquake.usgs.gov...

As I sit am sitting here on pins and needles we finally have a least a breath somewhere

Magnitude 5.0
Date-Time Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 19:17:58 UTC
Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 03:17:58 AM at epicenter

Location 12.623°S, 114.618°E
Depth 27 km (16.8 miles)
Region NORTHWEST OF AUSTRALIA
Distances 445 km (275 miles) S of Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
475 km (295 miles) SSW of Mataram, Lombok, Indonesia
1110 km (690 miles) SE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
2145 km (1330 miles) N of PERTH, Western Australia, Australia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 17.8 km (11.1 miles); depth +/- 7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Parameters NST= 43, Nph= 43, Dmin=688 km, Rmss=0.84 sec, Gp= 68°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2010zccd

Sorry Folk - There is Nothing to Worry About - - Just keep telling yourself that

*runs in and pins a sticky note to the bulletin board and runs back out*

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/9acb008f62e9.jpg[/atsimg]

MAP 3.2 2010/07/24 21:03:51 32.033 -115.176 10.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.4 2010/07/24 20:28:06 -8.185 68.108 14.3 CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO REGION
MAP 2.8 2010/07/24 20:23:15 32.230 -115.369 28.8 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.7 2010/07/24 19:42:26 32.219 -115.346 12.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

Edited to add latest...

MAP 3.1 2010/07/24 22:13:45 32.178 -115.365 0.2 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.2 2010/07/24 21:46:37 -33.953 -72.167 16.0 OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 3.2 2010/07/24 21:03:51 32.033 -115.176 10.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO


[edit on 24-7-2010 by marmitenews]

Europe will be dark... good night. -> and i live in Austria...



[edit on 24-7-2010 by Austria]

[edit on 24-7-2010 by Austria]

I just posted this in my Toba thread, but it perhaps has even more relevance here. It is an article that argues against the accepted model of subduction explaining the seismic activity around Indonesia.

davidpratt.info...

Thrust faults are seen in the lower slope affecting Units III to VII, and are usually attributed to plate subduction. However, since there are no compressional tectonic features in the underlying units, Choi thinks that they are better interpreted as the result of sediment overloading in the middle to upper slope. He argues that the block-faulted units (I and II), which indicate a predominantly tensional stress regime, and the well-layered, little-disturbed Unit III, are unequivocal evidence against plate subduction.