Quake Watch 2010

reply to post by westcoast


that would be MY BACK YARD LOL

It's really been rolling around

Magnitude 5.9
Date-Time Friday, December 24, 2010 at 05:48:54 UTC
Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 06:48:54 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 63.590°S, 167.427°W
Depth 10.7 km (6.6 miles)
Region PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
Distances 730 km (455 miles) ENE of Scott Island, Antarctica
2745 km (1700 miles) SSE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 24.8 km (15.4 miles); depth +/- 0.4 km (0.2 miles)
Parameters NST= 85, Nph= 90, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.03 sec, Gp= 43°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID usc0000ueu

reply to post by westcoast


Hope it's not Vanuatu or New Caledonia....my kids are there for Xmas.

Merry Christmas Folks!!! A Special Blessing for all of you my friends and a Toast too - for Health, Happiness and Love - May your day be filled with a special joy to last your whole life through - it's there, you just need to find it ;-) . If you are not of the Christian faith (which I was born and raised but have chosen my own path) - I still wish this for you - for any High Holiday regardless of Faith has the same message!!!

I still really think the area to watch for the next larger quake it somewhere between the North American / South American Area.

Magnitude 5.4
Date-Time Friday, December 24, 2010 at 23:43:44 UTC
Friday, December 24, 2010 at 07:43:44 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 18.260°N, 66.135°W
Depth 102 km (63.4 miles)
Region PUERTO RICO
Distances 3 km (2 miles) W (277°) from Aguas Buenas, PR
5 km (3 miles) N (355°) from Santa Clara, PR
7 km (4 miles) W (276°) from Bairoa, PR
9 km (6 miles) NNW (346°) from Bayamon, PR
16 km (10 miles) N (10°) from Cayey, PR
19 km (12 miles) SSW (205°) from San Juan, PR

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 170 km (105.6 miles); depth +/- 0.9 km (0.6 miles)
Parameters NST= 52, Nph= 52, Dmin=42.4 km, Rmss=0.28 sec, Gp=184°,
M-type="moment" magnitude from initial P wave (tsuboi method) (Mi/Mwp), Version=3
Source Puerto Rico Seismic Network, University of Puerto Rico

Event ID pr10358004

reply to post by Anmarie96


An a Merry Christmas to you and yours as well.

My prediction is that there will be a large quake somewhere between the North and South poles sometime between January and December

Earthquake Details

* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 7.6
Date-Time

* Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 13:16:38 UTC
* Sunday, December 26, 2010 at 12:16:38 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 19.759°S, 167.974°E
Depth 24.4 km (15.2 miles)
Region VANUATU REGION
Distances 135 km (85 miles) W of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu
200 km (125 miles) N of Tadine, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
225 km (140 miles) S of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu
1740 km (1090 miles) ENE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 16.3 km (10.1 miles); depth +/- 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Parameters NST= 68, Nph= 68, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.74 sec, Gp= 58°,
M-type="moment" magnitude from initial P wave (tsuboi method) (Mi/Mwp), Version=7
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0000usf

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It is not known if a tsunami has been generated

Originally posted by zenius
reply to post by westcoast

 

Hope it's not Vanuatu or New Caledonia....my kids are there for Xmas.

Talk about putting a curse on the spot

Right on the exact place you described zenius.

reply to post by muzzy


Now reduced to a 7.3 and they are working on getting it down below 7.0 before the end of the year. Can't have another 7 in the figures!

@Zenius: Please don't send your kids on holiday to Ireland!!

I wonder what it is about Boxing Day ( is so here NZDT)

As well as that New Hebrides Trench 7.3 there was a 5.9 in the Bay of Plenty New Zealand as well;

Reference Number 3436930/G
Universal Time December 25 2010 at 11:59
NZ Daylight Time Sunday, December 26 2010 at 0:59 am
Latitude, Longitude 36.80°S, 177.09°E
Focal Depth 230 km
Richter magnitude 5.9ML
Region Raukumara Plain
Location
* 80 km north of White Island
* 120 km north-west of Te Kaha
* 130 km north-east of Tauranga
* 210 km east of Auckland
www.geonet.org.nz...

USGS have it at 4.9Mw, 5.2ML, but we all know they often get it wrong.

EMSC same

Geofonhave 5.3

GeoAu have 5.1

Merry Christmas

I was waiting for a big quake close to us yesterday morning, the birds are usually making a racket at dawn all around our place, there are quite a few trees, but YM it was dead still, cloudless sky and not a sound, it lasted well into mid morning before we heard any birds at all. But no quake. Weird.

I'm away back to bed, its only 4:30am here

reply to post by muzzy

USGS have it at 4.9Mw, 5.2ML, but we all know they often get it wrong.

No, No, No. They don't get it wrong, they get it right!

Looks like a 7.6 to me

reply to post by PuterMan

Yeah that looks bigger than the Bonin Islands waveform doesn't it

Another subduction quake

Geofon at 7.7 Manual, we should be able to see the true size from the size and number of aftershocks, I just can't believe that the Bonin quake was a 7.4, look at all those +5 aftershocks on the USGS list, and still going on +5, wasn't that 7.9 initially www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by PuterMan


the real reason they downgrade quakes over 7 is to make it less frighting to the rest of the world ...

merry christmas to you all//
hopefully zenius's kids are okay on vanuatu

Originally posted by zenius
reply to post by westcoast

 

Hope it's not Vanuatu or New Caledonia....my kids are there for Xmas.

I hope you have heard from your kids and that all is okay! Scary....

Puterman, don't worry I have a feeling that 2010 isn't quite done with us yet. Something bigger may still be lurking.

Merry Christmas to all - thanks for the great work you do to help keep us informed and safe. Peace on Earth

BTW..epicenters of bonin and vanuatu makes a nearly perfect triangular with hawai........measured with google earth... round 6000 km.......

We are being hit by a new raft of aftershocks here in Canterbury, New Zealand this morning - after a relatively long period of frequency and mag decrease, too...

This one, a 4.9, happened about an hour ago - my friends were petrified as they were in a large shopping mall when it hit and things flying everywhere - struck right under Christchurch itself this time.

* Power out to some friend's in town

I was lying in bed and rocked and hubby came running in...

December 25 2010 at 21:30
NZ Daylight Time Sunday, December 26 2010 at 10:30 am
Latitude, Longitude 43.55°S, 172.66°E
Focal Depth 12 km
Richter magnitude 4.9
Region Canterbury
Location

* Within 5 km of Christchurch


www.geonet.org.nz...

reply to post by MoorfNZ

I was lying in bed and rocked and hubby came running in...

And? You can't stop the story there just as it was getting interesting!

Actually what I came on to post was the Vanuatu stuff. Latest list from oldest to newest.

Date/Time UTC,Latitude,Longitude,Magnitude,Depth(Km),Location
2010-12-19T00:02:22.000Z,-18.42000,168.61640,4.9000,145.2000,Vanuatu
2010-12-23T16:01:34.000Z,-19.70440,168.46280,5.3000,59.0000,Vanuatu
2010-12-23T16:28:13.000Z,-19.91590,168.50910,5.7000,37.7000,Vanuatu
2010-12-24T00:05:39.000Z,-19.86620,168.56900,5.0000,36.0000,Vanuatu
2010-12-25T13:16:37.000Z,-19.77510,167.89460,7.3000,12.3000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T13:59:10.000Z,-19.39490,167.91520,5.5000,74.5000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T14:44:34.000Z,-19.13630,168.20960,5.6000,10.0000,Vanuatu
2010-12-25T15:04:19.000Z,-19.24440,167.83650,5.1000,26.0000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T15:26:21.000Z,-19.42740,168.02920,5.4000,25.4000,Vanuatu
2010-12-25T15:28:37.000Z,-19.67620,167.94080,5.2000,26.4000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T16:22:14.000Z,-19.32330,167.90760,5.0000,24.8000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T16:47:43.000Z,-19.85930,168.08170,5.2000,69.8000,Vanuatu
2010-12-25T16:54:00.000Z,-19.32290,167.95810,5.2000,31.5000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T17:02:27.000Z,-19.34530,167.88720,5.2000,10.2000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T17:11:44.000Z,-19.44800,167.93840,5.2000,28.3000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T18:28:31.200Z,-19.19000,168.01000,4.8000,40.0000,VANUATU
2010-12-25T18:38:49.000Z,-19.68320,168.18350,5.4000,12.1000,Vanuatu
2010-12-25T18:52:31.000Z,-19.24540,167.94600,5.3000,10.3000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T22:26:02.000Z,-19.83910,168.10820,5.2000,10.4000,Vanuatu
2010-12-25T22:41:29.000Z,-19.32190,167.89900,5.1000,9.0000,Vanuatu region
2010-12-25T23:20:23.000Z,-19.57090,168.00820,5.1000,10.0000,Vanuatu

GE file showing them if you would like it.
Google Earth group KMZ file




Just found they added one more in the 25th. File updated to show this and the 1st on the 26th.

reply to post by MoorfNZ


Yeah seen that when the 4.2 came on earlier, been 22 quakes this morning, all but 5 right under the city area from the look of it. I'll have a closer look later.

Reference, Latitude, Longitude, UTC Date/Time, Depth, Magnitude,
3436844, -43.58792, 172.38579, 2010/12/25 7:41:22, 1, 3.718,
3436850, -43.35941, 172.5677, 2010/12/25 8:2:8, 9, 3.134,
3437085, -43.53735, 172.6377, 2010/12/25 13:7:4, 5, 4.207,
3436949, -43.53391, 172.63316, 2010/12/25 13:8:34, 8, 3.756,
3436956, -43.53146, 172.64995, 2010/12/25 13:32:10, 6, 3.741,
3437014, -43.57077, 172.47076, 2010/12/25 16:24:16, 12, 2.758,
3437016, -43.51685, 172.69968, 2010/12/25 16:34:5, 3, 2.691,
3437026, -43.58006, 172.43468, 2010/12/25 17:3:0, 14, 3.023,
3437061, -43.5377, 172.63081, 2010/12/25 19:3:42, 4, 3.834,
3437070, -43.57824, 172.43958, 2010/12/25 19:41:28, 12, 2.851,
3437091, -43.501, 172.68564, 2010/12/25 20:51:45, 6, 2.747,
3437105, -43.55441, 172.66148, 2010/12/25 21:30:16, 12, 4.893,
3437106, -43.53178, 172.61937, 2010/12/25 21:32:20, 0, 3.695,
3437107, -43.50067, 172.65366, 2010/12/25 21:35:54, 5, 3.55,
3437112, -43.54394, 172.68207, 2010/12/25 21:49:34, 14, 2.879,
3437115, -43.69859, 172.7552, 2010/12/25 21:57:35, 0, 2.855,
3437117, -43.52748, 172.66386, 2010/12/25 22:3:12, 3, 2.926,
3437122, -43.5093, 172.65671, 2010/12/25 22:22:23, 5, 3.17,
3437123, -43.52282, 172.64764, 2010/12/25 22:26:47, 6, 3.067,
3437133, -43.54797, 172.67891, 2010/12/25 22:53:7, 6, 3.503,
3437141, -43.51545, 172.68184, 2010/12/25 23:14:52, 5, 2.925,
3437148, -43.52974, 172.61183, 2010/12/25 23:34:32, 2, 3.73,
3437153, -43.52993, 172.65536, 2010/12/25 23:52:40, 5, 2.95,

Haven't been able to get onto the kids, but assume they were all partying and didn't even f eel it! I was worried about them going before they left and my daughter kept saying stuff like "what if I die?' so I was sort of expecting some big movement there.
But I'm not worried about them as news reports have come up with no casualties or damage. Actually I'm really jealous that they've seen a volcano, experienced a big earthquake and tsunami.
Sorry about the curse, Muzzy. Don't worry Puterman, they won't be going to Ireland. Thanks Ressiv & Westcoast for your concern.