Quake Watch 2010

reply to post by quakewatcher


Date/Time UTC,Latitude,Longitude,Magnitude,Depth(Km),Location
2010-12-30T12:55:21.000Z,40.42700,-85.88800,3.8000,4.9000,Indiana
2010-04-24T09:05:33.000Z,38.41940,-87.74270,2.5000,7.9000,Indiana
2009-05-02T08:41:46.000Z,38.21960,-87.75430,1.1000,13.5000,Indiana

I only have 3 in the last 2 years!

Mind they are getting stronger each time. Next one should be 4.5

reply to post by zenius


The map gives me a better understanding of the Madrid fault into the Wabash. Getting a little close to home here, actually it was closer to Ft. Wayne than Indianapolis. Locals on Ham radios today talked about feeling it this morning. I must have really been sound asleep - I did notice later a couple of objects in the window sill were not in place and my cat was bugging me early this morning, he doesn't usually do that.

Magnitude 5.2 - KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
2010 December 30 23:46:59 UTC

Getting closer to you Muzzy

Magnitude 5.2
Date-Time

* Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 23:46:59 UTC
* Friday, December 31, 2010 at 11:46:59 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 31.994°S, 178.047°W
Depth 10.6 km (6.6 miles)
Region KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Distances 100 km (65 miles) SE of L'Esperance Rock, Kermadec Islands
305 km (190 miles) S of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
855 km (530 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand
1215 km (750 miles) NE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 26.9 km (16.7 miles); depth +/- 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Parameters NST= 43, Nph= 45, Dmin=305 km, Rmss=1.32 sec, Gp=119°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0000x7s

Well, we had a 4.1 aftershock today followed one minute later by a 3.6 - so I guess that's today's big one out of the way... they're still going ahead with the New Year celebrations in the Cathedral Square - although I'm not risking it - wish they had moved it to Hagley Park where there's no risk of another aftershock causing masonry to fall.

That Kermadec one earlier today was showing up as ghosting on the main drums down most of the North Island.

reply to post by PuterMan


I know the feeling, I can't even get on top of all the New Zealand quakes (updating a few months ago) let alone get the 7's sorted out. Getting that Centenial list threw a spanner int he works, a lot of cross checking to do.
I've started using a new listing style on the maps themselves, each quake has all the types of magnitudes that are available and the source for each. I've only redone the 1950's so far.The lists just show the largest, regardless of the type.

Re your Alaskan quake, I see the EMSC is Mw and the NEIC ( AEIC source) is ML.
No conversion from USGS in this case, or any phase data either

reply to post by zenius


Yeah and offshore Matata, Bay of Plenty has started twitching again too, been approx 8 quakes there in 24 hrs, mostly 2's to 4.1ML, maybe they are connected to some disturbence along that Kerm ridge.
there was a 7.6 up there a few years ago, we felt it way down here in the middle of NZ, it was like a big slow motion wobble.

My file hosting site (Dropbox.com) has been down for 20 hrs so I can't upload my KMZ Google Earth/Maps maps or .txt lists.

I'm going to set up a 4shared account and get back on with it, I'm 3 days behind with NZ.

Hi folks!

I followed this link from this ATS post and immediately thought of you Quake Watch folks.

The article says that there is an increase in seismic activity the last couple of years in the Gulf area, and I figured you folks here might know if it's true. Says it has to do with all the oil platforms and drilling.

I am checking out some of the other claims in this article with a couple people in the oil business. 25,000 miles of pipe, if the author is right. That is an awful lot of holes punched deep into the earth, could we have a man-made fault line?

What do you folks think? Possible?

Many thanks!

subbcindy

Location 19.080°S, 168.037°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region VANUATU
Distances 140 km (85 miles) WNW of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu
150 km (95 miles) S of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu
275 km (170 miles) N of Tadine, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
1800 km (1110 miles) ENE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 26.5 km (16.5 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 47, Nph= 47, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.55 sec, Gp= 94°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=5
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0000x91

How many to go now?

Several of you have visited and commented in a thread I started regarding some rumbling noises/vibrations I experienced a couple of days ago. (Washington State) I have since made a map of the US marking where others have reported experiencing something very similar at the same time, or month previous.

Now, if you compare that map to an earthquake hazard map and I think you will all appreciate it:

(Red indicates felt on 12/28, within a weeks previous

Though im living in Germany,im getting a little worried about all those Earthquakes i see on usgs...it has to do with the Eclipse on the Dec 21.,right? Because there was a 4.5 in Poland yesterday,less than 150 km from where i live...just getting a tad bit nervous...

reply to post by subbcindy


I will check out the seismicity bit for you later but in the meantime I would just say that since the Gulf and the States above the Gulf are all shale beds for the major part there will be faulting, and multiple small cracks as that is the nature of shale.

As an afterthought, I would have that particular site closed down if I could. They do nothing but spout alarmist rubbish the bulk of which is completely unsubstantiated.

reply to post by westcoast


Have you looked at the thread Cracking an Eggshell

What do you think about Theredneck's theory?

About 5:25 in the morning here in Berkeley. I am looking at Venus and the crescent Moon right out the window in front of me. A beautiful sight this last day of 2010.

USGS says nothing over 2.5 since the Nevada 2.6 about 6 hours go. Eerily Quiet.

Happy New Year my Friends!

reply to post by subbcindy


Herewith the figures for the Gulf Of Mexico



A graph of those

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/ee98311a2c14.png[/atsimg]

Had to scale to Terajoules to be able to see the counts at all! Just to give you an idea of the scale in energy terms of the middle years here is an elongated version of the energy graph.

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/e43eafb1094b.png[/atsimg]

Whilst looking at that graph I will leave you to ponder whether the seismicity has increased bearing in mind that 2010 energy is so small it does not even show on the graph!

Edit to say: To be fair you were only talking about the last three years so I decided to do a final graph to make it easier for people to try determine the trend of the quakes and quake energy.

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/ee47e91c556a.png[/atsimg]

By the way, virtually no quakes are recorded in the GOM itself so the box includes quakes that are pretty much all on land, but all around the Gulf so should be reasonably representative.

The data is all from the ANSS data catalogue except 2010 which is from USGS daily data. I chose to go from Latitude 20 upwards for the simple reason that below 20 degrees of latitude would have included the Cayman trench which would completely smother the figures and render them meaningless.

Quakes in this area frighten me

Magnitude 5.2
Date-Time Friday, December 31, 2010 at 16:30:55 UTC
Friday, December 31, 2010 at 02:30:55 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 0.665°N, 26.039°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
Distances 870 km (540 miles) NE of Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil
1245 km (770 miles) NE of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
1305 km (810 miles) NE of Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil
3015 km (1870 miles) NE of BRASILIA, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.8 km (4.8 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST=112, Nph=112, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.01 sec, Gp= 47°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=5
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2010fmal

Thanks for the graphs and maps, very informative! Its not on the map but we have rumblings in Indiana at times - not sure if they are earthquake related but the house has shook pretty good at times.

further to post by muzzy

Matata offshore Swarm, so far, 21 events



Reference, Latitude, Longitude, UTC Date/Time, Depth, Magnitude, Location, Felt
3437805, -37.77309, 176.76556, 2010/12/27 10:0:8, 2, 2.482, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3437902, -37.75715, 176.76476, 2010/12/27 14:29:31, 5, 2.623, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438539, -37.75586, 176.72795, 2010/12/28 19:57:10, 7, 4.397, o/s, N of Matata, BOP, Felt
3438543, -37.77993, 176.74852, 2010/12/28 20:4:32, 3, 2.396, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438547, -37.79752, 176.73871, 2010/12/28 20:13:55, 2, 2.205, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438557, -37.76659, 176.74271, 2010/12/28 20:49:32, 3, 2.355, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438568, -37.75436, 176.77116, 2010/12/28 21:21:11, 4, 2.871, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438583, -37.78465, 176.75162, 2010/12/28 22:4:50, 5, 2.244, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438658, -37.78391, 176.7403, 2010/12/29 2:14:43, 5, 3.311, o/s, N of Matata, BOP, Felt
3438812, -37.78728, 176.73743, 2010/12/29 9:35:23, 5, 2.413, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438835, -37.78142, 176.74353, 2010/12/29 9:36:47, 5, 2.323, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438881, -37.78639, 176.7327, 2010/12/29 13:21:52, 5, 2.154, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438919, -37.78259, 176.74222, 2010/12/29 15:41:18, 5, 2.458, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438921, -37.76986, 176.75072, 2010/12/29 15:44:49, 2, 2.584, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438933, -37.79076, 176.74168, 2010/12/29 16:20:58, 2, 1.97, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3438949, -37.77494, 176.74255, 2010/12/29 17:10:53, 2, 2.772, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3439149, -37.78542, 176.73743, 2010/12/30 4:7:54, 5, 2.591, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3439170, -37.76239, 176.74872, 2010/12/30 5:15:53, 5, 2.604, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3439488, -37.75957, 176.85477, 2010/12/30 6:36:27, 138, 3.369, o/s, N of Thornton, BOP
3439255, -37.7852, 176.7424, 2010/12/30 9:36:35, 5, 2.428, o/s, N of Matata, BOP
3439475, -37.77804, 176.74731, 2010/12/30 20:49:21, 5, 2.813, o/s, N of Matata, BOP

reply to post by PuterMan

Wasn't there a Mag 6 in the GOM last year or was it the year before?
Don't tell me ......... usgs downgraded it to a 5.9

reply to post by crazydaisy


Crazydaisy, were you talking to me? I can add you to my map if so....

Happy New Years too....2010 has been an interesting year. I have good feelings about 2011 though. I think there will be a lot to learn.....

reply to post by westcoast


Yes an add would be great - thank you! Happy New Year!