Quake Watch 2010

Earthquake Details

* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 5.0
Date-Time

* Wednesday, November 03, 2010 at 10:45:22 UTC
* Wednesday, November 03, 2010 at 05:45:22 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 13.624°S, 76.017°W
Depth 34.8 km (21.6 miles)
Region NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU
Distances 25 km (15 miles) SSE of Chincha Alta, Peru
60 km (35 miles) NNW of Ica, Peru
190 km (120 miles) SSW of Huancayo, Peru
205 km (130 miles) SE of LIMA, Peru
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 26.7 km (16.6 miles); depth +/- 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Parameters NST=147, Nph=176, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.72 sec, Gp=130°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=1
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usb00009vz

reply to post by zenius


My you were quick off the mark. That only just popped up on my screen and by the time I had closed the screen I was in and got the details you were there already.

I suppose I will just have to wait now until it shows on all the webicorders and then start a thread about it saying the sky is falling in.

We just had another wee aftershock - but was v. shallow so felt by many - woke up my friend who was within 5km of epicentre.

4.2 nr Christchurch, New Zealand

NZ Daylight Time Thursday, November 4 2010 at 0:03 am
Latitude, Longitude 43.58°S, 172.38°E
Focal Depth 3 km
Richter magnitude 4.2
Region Canterbury

www.geonet.org.nz...

Sorry - already posted - time for a large cup of coffee -

reply to post by muzzy


Hi,
here is a videolink from the Serbian quake.
Sorry, but comments and subtitles are in Norwegian.
At least 2 persons were killed when the roof collapsed.

Link: www.abcnyheter.no...

Puterman I see you're West of Ireland or western Ireland - wondering if you felt that weird rumble around 11.30pm last night...I'm in the UK and it felt like a train ran under my house for about 30secs. Lived here 8 years and in the area for 10. Never felt it before. Looked for something on seismographs but - nada...
?

With repect for all the info you provide,
5

reply to post by 5senses


i live in the midlands of ireland,i didn't hear anything last night but i woke up at 5:45 on monday morning to a rumbling noise! sounded exactly like what you described! like a rumbling noise, i am a deep sleeper and woke up to this, there were no planes flying overhead, no one else in my house woke up to this tho!

strange as this has bien reported here on ats a few times lately!!

reply to post by zenius

Update

GFZ Potsdam - Earthquake Bulletin
Region: Irian Jaya Region, Indonesia
Time: 2010-11-03 11:18:15.3 UTC
Magnitude: 5.9
Epicenter: 134.06°E 4.71°S
Depth: 10 km
Status: manually revised
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...
USGS & EMSC have it at 6.0Mw
earthquake.usgs.gov...
earthquake.usgs.gov...

Nice trace on SNZO, which is actually bigger than Port Moresby PNG
aslwww.cr.usgs.gov...
aslwww.cr.usgs.gov...

reply to post by hico


cheers for the link.
The pictures tell the story, despite the language you can see the pain they are going through.

I seen the orange bricks in the rubble, unreinforced hollow brick, which is quite common construction in Europe, prone to collapse when there is earth movement
It just shows how you don't need a Mag 7+ to kill people and cause devastation.

reply to post by 5senses


No definitely did not hear/feel anything last night at that time, and the dogs did not twitch.

Nothing on the UK listing either as you say but I do not that the one in France has been confirmed as an explosion. See my signature.

reply to post by hico


Thanks for that hico.

I regret to have to say that I had ignored that quake as being a tiddler, but as muzzy says it just shows you don't need a 7+ for loss of life.

* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 5.4
Date-Time

* Wednesday, November 03, 2010 at 14:10:26 UTC
* Wednesday, November 03, 2010 at 10:10:26 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 2.601°N, 126.330°E
Depth 70.9 km (44.1 miles)
Region MOLUCCA SEA
Distances 205 km (125 miles) NE of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia
235 km (145 miles) NNW of Ternate, Moluccas, Indonesia
1455 km (900 miles) SSE of MANILA, Philippines
2370 km (1470 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 10.4 km (6.5 miles); depth +/- 17.5 km (10.9 miles)
Parameters NST= 39, Nph= 39, Dmin=232.9 km, Rmss=1.51 sec, Gp= 61°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2010debj

There is definitely something about PNG. Here again the 6.0 earlier today has made all the US helicorders ring (with for the OMG Earthquakes simultaneously across the US threads)

Again this one was not deep. I am I remembering this incorrectly. Shallow 6es do not normally do this do they?

reply to post by PuterMan


Thanks. Puterman. Weird about France.

You too scoobyrob! I'll try and find other threads re unexplained rumblings...

Magnitude Mw 4.6
Region TYRRHENIAN SEA
Date time 2010-11-03 18:13:11.5 UTC
Location 40.07 N ; 13.25 E
Depth 455 km
Distances 122 km SW Naples (pop 988,972 ; local time 19:13:11.5 2010-11-03)
90 km SW Forio (pop 16,103 ; local time 19:13:11.5 2010-11-03)

Not a big one, but near Campi Flegri. I have seen a few rumblings in the area.

Originally posted by muzzy

Nice trace on SNZO, which is actually bigger than Port Moresby PNG aslwww.cr.usgs.gov... aslwww.cr.usgs.gov...

Scrub that last bit, the Port Moresby heli I looked at then was out of date

Originally posted by PuterMan
There is definitely something about PNG. Here again the 6.0 earlier today has made all the US helicorders ring (with for the OMG Earthquakes simultaneously across the US threads)

Again this one was not deep. I am I remembering this incorrectly. Shallow 6es do not normally do this do they?

From memory ( not the best these days) 6's generally do show all around the globe on LISS, but the signal reduces with distance from the epi centre. Unlike 7's which tend to look the same everywhere.

reply to post by PuterMan


Puterman, I am with ya on this one. I have been watching quakes for over a decade now, but only started on the world live seismos less than two years ago. I agree with Muzzy about the 7s showing strong no matter how deep, and I know there are some 6's that will register in the states....but this EVERY server thing with a 5.8 and 6.0 at that shallow depth, showing up THAT strong...just doesn't seem right,

Don't get me wrong, I still stand by the belief that these quakes ARE causing it, I just don't get WHY. Is there a way to get into archives on those servers and compare?

I just don't like this whole PNG thing...I want it to go away now. I can't help but think that if the largest caldera in the world sits right next (geologically speaking) to this activity, perhaps there IS something else unique about this plate and what is happening right now with all these volcanos. They obviously seem to be connected to each other, and to the plate tectonic activitiy.

What if there is a rupture feeding Toba? I mean, some sort of geological 'chimney' feature yet to be discovered, so that whenever there is a 'twang' next to it, it resonates deeper and further? I'm just thinking out loud now..scary.

reply to post by westcoast

That 5.8 was on the other side of PNG than this latest one, some 1800km apart and at different plate junctions, the only connection I see is that they are at the edge of the Australian Plate which is heading north all the time.

Just an observation, and nothing to do with the question at hand but, if you prescribe to the "expanding earth" theory, PNG used to fit nicely into the Gulf of Carpentaria, look on google earth (with your glasses off works better) and you can see it.
The Aru Islands where that last 6 was at used to be near where Darwin is now and the 5.8 at New Britain used to be where the Great Barrier Reef is now off Queensland.
Maybe

Magnitude
6.0
Date-Time
Wednesday, November 03, 2010 at 23:34:44 UTC
Thursday, November 04, 2010 at 12:34:44 PM at epicenter
Location
20.440°S, 174.290°W
Depth
33.2 km (20.6 miles)
Region
TONGA
Distances
120 km (75 miles) NE of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga
200 km (125 miles) S of Neiafu, Tonga
460 km (285 miles) E of Ndoi Island, Fiji
2100 km (1310 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 20.3 km (12.6 miles); depth +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Parameters
NST=309, Nph=311, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.7 sec, Gp= 40°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9
Source
USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID
usb0000abs