6.9 Quake just hit Gulf of Cali/Mexico

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* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 6.9
Date-Time

* Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 17:53:14 UTC
* Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 11:53:14 AM at epicenter

Location 24.843°N, 109.171°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region GULF OF CALIFORNIA
Distances

* 105 km (65 miles) S (191°) from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
* 106 km (66 miles) SSW (210°) from Gabriel Leyva Solano, Sinaloa, Mexico
* 107 km (66 miles) SSW (199°) from Juan Jos� R�os, Sinaloa, Mexico
* 1147 km (713 miles) SE (136°) from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.1 km (3.8 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST=187, Nph=187, Dmin=843.1 km, Rmss=1.17 sec, Gp=133°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source

* U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Event ID us2010crbl

plus this, just now, wow the west coast is shaking!!!!!



Magnitude 4.0 - CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
2010 October 21 17:56:58 UTC
DetailsMapsScientific & TechnicalEarthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 4.0
Date-Time Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 17:56:58 UTC
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 10:56:58 AM at epicenter

Location 38.451°N, 119.250°W
Depth 4.9 km (3.0 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Distances 22 km (13 miles) N (355°) from Bridgeport, CA
27 km (17 miles) WSW (242°) from Wichman, NV
34 km (21 miles) NW (322°) from Bodie, CA
55 km (34 miles) W (262°) from Hawthorne, NV
193 km (120 miles) E (93°) from Sacramento, CA

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.9 km (3.7 miles); depth +/- 31.8 km (19.8 miles)
Parameters Nph= 5, Dmin=15 km, Rmss=0.39 sec, Gp=155°,
M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=2
Source California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR

Event ID nc71477151

reply to post by TrueAmerican


Wow...thanks for posting....anything on the news on this one? Any damage? casualties???please keep us posted...got a lotta good friends in that side of the world......hope its not the big one yet.....

regards,

ringht_n_wrong

wow yea cheers for the heads up on this....just found some info here :

hisz.rsoe.hu...

reply to post by ringht_n_wrong



Just this so far, still looking for info, S&F's true American...thanks





www.weather.gov...

The timing of this drill couldn't have been better.....or was it timing????





www.scpr.org...

Originally posted by freetree64

The timing of this drill couldn't have been better.....or was it timing????





www.scpr.org...

Well that is hell of a timing coincidence , I wonder how they explain that lucky operation hehe

lmao damn you beat me to it . oh well maybe the next big one huh

SNF for you .

reply to post by freetree64


In OC and our company just finished the ShakeOut drill when my phone app. notified me of the quake...





That is indeed trippy...didn't feel it, thought the epicenter is a ways away.

reply to post by facelift


what app lets you know about quakes? i might be interested in checking that out.

Panama Seismo recording here....




aslwww.cr.usgs.gov...

reply to post by Alaskan Man


It's for my Droid - so it may have another name for the others, but - Earthquake! And yes, the exclamation mark is a part of the official name...


It's awesome - it lets you set the minimum magnitude, distance, or only for earthquakes close enough to be felt (Rumble Range ). Not only does it list the quakes, but it will show you on a google satellite map where exactly it happened...

Would this be considered a "Foreshock"? with all the other 4.0 and 5.9 that have happened these past few days?

I can't see them being aftershocks, but then again I don't know much about this area.

There's been solar activity this week too!

I know that the correlation may be non existent but I er on the side of everything is connected.

Originally posted by JJBB22
Would this be considered a "Foreshock"? with all the other 4.0 and 5.9 that have happened these past few days?

I can't see them being aftershocks, but then again I don't know much about this area.

Heh, I was just about to raise that possibility after thinking along those lines. What has happened here is that all the others we have been having in the Cali Gulf are now considered foreshocks of this bigger one.

But what is crazy is that this 6.9 could become another foreshock to an even BIGGER one. It probably won't though, with the release of all that massive amount of energy over the last days. Never can tell what she's gonna do though. Stay tuned.

reply to post by TrueAmerican


On the 13th and 20th of October there was a heck of a lot of energy released so I am doubtful that anything bigger might be coming their way. But you never know!

reply to post by JJBB22


yeah, I saw PuterMan post that in the QW thread. Mega-Thingy's!

That doesn't include this quake though does it?

reply to post by freetree64

(Leira7 speaks on behalf of The Illuminaiti, Dark Order Division):

"California will PAY for even thinking we'd let them get away with even proposing to legalize Marijuana. Fools! mwhahahah, send 'em some more HAARP rays of seismic calamity!!! We NOW, have waged war on the state of california, this is just a warning. Now their precious governator is urging the lawmakers to not pass this bill, because if they do (and they will) we are going to cut sweet sweet Cali off of our Map, LITERALLY! Get ready for The Big One, because there is no coming Back!"

I wonder if they heard that loud and clear on the hologram transmission this morning.

Funny how the Great California Shakeout drills are going on this week as well:

www.shakeout.org...

reply to post by TrueAmerican


lol nope, don't think it does

2nd verse, same as the first.