Quake Watch 2010

5.6 XIZANG-QINGHAI BORDER REGION

Date-Time

* Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 02:44:50 UTC
* Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 10:44:50 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 32.509°N, 92.830°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region XIZANG-QINGHAI BORDER REGION

Distances 355 km (220 miles) NNE of Lhasa, Xizang (Tibet)
440 km (275 miles) WNW of Qamdo, Xizang (Tibet)
470 km (290 miles) SSW of Golmud, Qinghai, China
2265 km (1410 miles) WSW of BEIJING, Beijing, China

4.3 SEA OF OKHOTSK

Date-Time

* Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 05:22:21 UTC
* Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 03:22:21 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 47.536°N, 145.613°E
Depth 416.7 km (258.9 miles)
Region SEA OF OKHOTSK

Distances 225 km (140 miles) ENE of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
265 km (165 miles) SE of Poronaysk, Russia
1410 km (870 miles) NNE of TOKYO, Japan
6750 km (4190 miles) NE of MOSCOW, Russia

4.4 OFF WEST COAST OF THE SOUTH ISLAND, N.Z.

Date-Time

* Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 07:21:48 UTC
* Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 06:21:48 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 45.128°S, 165.941°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region OFF WEST COAST OF THE SOUTH ISLAND, N.Z.

Distances 215 km (135 miles) W of Queenstown, New Zealand
235 km (145 miles) NW of Invercargill, New Zealand
365 km (225 miles) WNW of Dunedin, New Zealand
840 km (520 miles) WSW of WELLINGTON, New Zealand

Originally posted by bkaust
I'm sorry, but ET_MAN you have your own massive thread for 'those' posts you make, so maybe don't clog up the thread that's just for EQ data and observation.

Definitely 100% behind you on that one, in fact I would like to see this pollutant removed.

But then again....

reply to post by TrueAmerican


We do also need some humour - or even humor.

reply to post by westcoast


I will get back to you on that one and put any results back in to this post.

Made a new post - too long and several other after this. See later.

[edit on 24/3/2010 by PuterMan]

Magnitude 4.8 - SUNDA STRAIT, INDONESIA 2010 March 24 09:29:43 UTC

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 09:29:43 UTC
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 04:29:43 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
6.598°S, 104.621°E
Depth
77.8 km (48.3 miles)
Region
SUNDA STRAIT, INDONESIA
Distances
145 km (90 miles) SSW of T.-Telukbetung, Sumatra, Indonesia
240 km (150 miles) WSW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
245 km (155 miles) W of Sukabumi, Java, Indonesia
330 km (205 miles) W of Bandung, Java, Indonesia

Magnitude 5.1 - TONGA 2010 March 24 09:11:49 UTC

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 09:11:49 UTC
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 10:11:49 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
15.035°S, 174.190°W
Depth
8.8 km (5.5 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region
TONGA
Distances
110 km (70 miles) NNW of Hihifo, Tonga
285 km (175 miles) SE of MATA'UTU, Ile Uvea, Wallis and Futuna
685 km (425 miles) N of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga
2655 km (1650 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand

reply to post by whoshotJR


I live just SW of the micro quake in NY. This area is not new to these events. Mini swarms usually occur in or near Altamont which is near the current quake. I follow quakes and volcanoes in case you Folks didn't know. I have yet to figure out the cause of these mini swarms as there are no fault lines or volcanoes in the area. If any of you Folks can figure it out, please do share as I am most curious.

I have the feeling that there will soon come to an 9.0 in Sunda Strait, Indonesia. : /

Magnitude 5.0 - OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE 2010 March 24 11:30:13 UTC

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 11:30:13 UTC
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 07:30:13 AM at epicenter
Location
36.522°S, 73.504°W
Depth
35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program
Region
OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE
Distances
53 km (33 miles) NW (310°) from Concepcion, Chile
203 km (126 miles) SW (234°) from Talca, Chile
258 km (161 miles) NNW (343°) from Temuco, Chile
424 km (263 miles) SW (217°) from SANTIAGO, Chile

reply to post by westcoast

The two I am talking about are at 1413 and 1531....give or take a minute or so. (not any of the larger micro quakes) They are both on the 'red' lines.

Looking at your animation, those two look like they happen within less than a minute on most of the stations...some exactly. I think by looking at those, you can pin-point where it was closest to, and resinated out....ya think??

First let's get rid of Mt Baker out of the equation.

The event at about 15:31:16 is exclusive to Mt Baker and the earlier event does not show at all as far as I can see

So - Map of the relative locations of the siesmos (Location kmls produced by Quake Data - shameless plug)



Mt St Helens next

14:13:15 Cedar Flats Local event? Probably.
14:13:15 South Ridge The event above but weaker
14:13:15 West The event above - weaker still

This seems to indicate a small local event in the region of Cedar Flats which was echoed seconds later, getting progressively weaker, on two of the other St Helens recorders. Old Dome was unavailable at the time of this event. You would need the actual trace file to de definite since it is not possible to determine how many seconds are between these.

Mount Hood TDH appears to have this same event - but comparing the two traces - Mt Hood / St Helens you can see that the Mt Hood one was first.



St Helens is the inner one of the two superimposed on each other. Ah you say then that one Mt Hood caused the ones at St Helens. I would have said yes as the Mt Hood one is 'bigger' on the seismo, but we don't know the sensitivity of these. So nope, don't think so since you can see the same event at Flag Point which is close by, and the event has weakened. I don't think there is any way that this signal would have made it to St Helens at the strength it is showing up, if at all. (About 58 miles)

To cut a long story short as this is taking up a lot of time and space, we seem to have disparate events that happen to have been close to each other, i.e. seconds apart, but which are all local to the area in which they occurred.

Just as an aside you might be interested in the difference in location between a 2 decimal place and 4 decimal place reference as I now have the reference for B941 to 4 places. The upper one is the new 4 decimal place reference. (About 0.44 miles)



[edit on 24/3/2010 by PuterMan]

Originally posted by Anmarie96
reply to post by whoshotJR

 

I follow quakes and volcanoes in case you Folks didn't know.

My gob is just totally smacked. Never in a million years would I have guessed that you follow quakes and volcanoes

So, how about the earth is floating on a sea of molten rocks, tides can occur in this mass and in any event gravity and atmospheric pressure all have an effect on the land. I don't recall the exact details now but someone on the Yellowstone thread was talking about a difference in pressure only being so much and when I calculated it out to the whole of the Yellowstone caldera it came to millions and millions of tons of additional pressure on the surface. I think that sometimes we tend to forget that all of that column of air above our heads does have weight and mass. If a far distance quake in Japan can move the earth by 4 mm in Kansas - over a period of a few seconds - then I am sure that pressure on the surface can affect deeper down. Remember also that just the mere fact of wind blowing on the surface of the earth makes a measurable difference on a seismo.

So on a nice windy day, with the earth bobbing up and down on it's sea of molten rock, being bashed on all sides by the movement of the plates and the neighbours having noisy sex, not to mention CMEs and galactic gravitation, solar winds and HAARP I am sometimes surprised that there are not more earthquakes.

Originally posted by Austria
I have the feeling that there will soon come to an 9.0 in Sunda Strait, Indonesia. : /

Some indication of what leads you to this not inconsequential conclusion would be appreciated.

[edit on 24/3/2010 by PuterMan]

@ Puterman
Es war nur ein Traum von mir schien greifbar. Nichts Besonderes. Deshalb nur ein "Gefühl".

I had a dream too late November 2009 from a 9.3 in Chile. The name "Chiguayante" appeared in my dream. Now that there was a 8.8 quake. Maybe it's just a coincidence.

[edit on 24-3-2010 by Austria]

Originally posted by Austria
@ Puterman
Es war nur ein Traum von mir schien greifbar. Nichts Besonderes. Deshalb nur ein "Gefühl".

(It was only a dream of mine seemed real. Nothing special. Therefore, only a "feeling")

Well I don't go in for dreams myself. It is a rare occasion that I can remember having been dreaming, and a very very rare occasion remembering the dream.

That is not to say that there are not those who can foresee events such as earthquakes I believe, and it has been often shown to be so in the past, but I am afraid my dreaming is relegated to day dreaming about winning the lottery!!

MAGNITUDE 5.0 - EASTERN TURKEY
Date-Time Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 14:11:33 UTC
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 04:11:33 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 38.642°N, 40.227°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region EASTERN TURKEY
Distances 35 km (20 miles) SW of Bingol, Turkey
80 km (50 miles) N of Diyarbakir, Turkey
85 km (55 miles) E of Elazig, Turkey
655 km (405 miles) E of ANKARA, Turkey

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 10.6 km (6.6 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 34, Nph= 34, Dmin=423.9 km, Rmss=1.35 sec, Gp= 43°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6

earthquake.usgs.gov...

oh #...

reply to post by PuterMan


LOL, Your on a roll today I see. Very, Very Funny! Now to stay on topice 3.6 2010/03/24 14:13:00 31.901 -117.581 34.9 70 km ( 44 mi) SW of Rosarito, Mexico

Laugh, Laugh, Laugh!

And - 4.8 2010/03/23 18:50:27 34.773 -36.613 10.0 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

[edit on 24-3-2010 by Anmarie96]

4.9 2010/03/24 17:08:31 14.077 -91.407 73.0 GUATEMALA

[edit on 24-3-2010 by Anmarie96]

reply to post by PuterMan


Wow you're fast! I could have never put that together no matter how much time I took! Thanks for all the info.

I am posting this response to:

reply to post by jumpingbeanz


Here as it really belongs in Quake Watch rather than Volcano Watch (my response that is rather than the post)

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/6a5df458c8e0.png[/atsimg]

Could this pattern that is slowly emerging be considered to be the quakes moving North as some hoped they would not?

Very cool article about the seafloor spreading in Galapagos....



Scientists know that the GSC is an area of extension—meaning that in between the two separating plates, lava flows are slowly creating new sea floor. They also know that the rugged terrain to the west, filled with seamounts and other topographical highs, is different than the flatter, more homogenous landscape found in the east. But they're unsure how the GSC's varied features have occurred and how they relate to each other.

www.scientificamerican.com...



[edit on 24-3-2010 by freetree64]

Small burp on Ranier here....




www.pnsn.org...

Magnitude 5.1
Date-Time Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 19:50:16 UTC
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 08:50:16 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 17.510°S, 171.923°W
Depth 35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program
Region TONGA REGION
Distances 250 km (155 miles) ENE of Neiafu, Tonga
260 km (160 miles) SE of Hihifo, Tonga
530 km (330 miles) NE of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga
2505 km (1560 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 9.3 km (5.8 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 62, Nph= 62, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.85 sec, Gp= 65°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2010ufbp

and 4.9 2010/03/24 19:54:37 46.511 151.064 147.7 KURIL ISLANDS

[edit on 24-3-2010 by Anmarie96]