Quake Watch 2011

Not sure what this is about, SNZO graph off LISS

near the bottom from about 13:00 hrs on.

Its not windy at all, in fact its dead calm and frosty.

Nothing on Geonet lists or graphs that matches up.

Perhaps its Solar Interference
There were some awesome Aurora Australis pictures on last nights TVOne Weather, from Mt. St John and Dunedin, sky was green at the horizon and red above

Originally posted by muzzy


Perhaps its Solar Interference

There were some awesome Aurora Australis pictures on last nights TVOne Weather, from Mt. St John and Dunedin, sky was green at the horizon and red above

edit on 29-5-2011 by muzzy because: (no reason given)

Weren't they stunning shots!

tvnz

It's been a bit quiet in Christchurch the last few days....not that we're complaining, but even so, a number of people have asked if it's the 'calm before the storm'! I don't know (who does?!), but I reckon we need to keep an eye on Lees Valley and Eyrewell Forest.

reply to post by aorAki


Four hours my foot! Can't edit so I'll post here

Oh well, thought this was a useful addition to my previous post: Past earthquakes in Christchurch

reply to post by muzzy


I would have said it was microseisms. I know it is windy here and this is showing on BORG. BORG.II.10.BHZ.2011.149

SNZO looks like this on an IRIS plot. SNZO.IU.00.BHZ.2011.149

The Jetstream map looks as if there may be some weather out there affecting things.



And here

reply to post by kdog1982


That site, especially this page on it www.earthquakesummary.info... is full of carap.

EARTHQUAKE SUMMARY FOR MAY 28, 2011

The strongest geomagnetic storm since the day of the great Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 hit today beginning about 08:00 UT and lasting through about 20:00 UT. This storm which reached a daily AP level of 40 was accompanied by a strong increase in global seismicity. Four moderately strong to strong earthquakes occurred during the 12 hours of this storm including events in Sumatra (M 5.5-6.3); the Kermadec Islands (M 5.5, 5.5-6.0) and the Talaud Islands (M 5.5) and aftershocks in Honshu, Japan (M 5.5, 5.3, 5.1, 4.8). This compares with only two such events of M>=5.5 during the previous week (seven days), that is twice as many events of this magnitude level in half a day as in the previous seven days for an increase in global seismicity during the geomagnetic storm of 1400% over the previous week.

There were 3 mag 5+ on the 29th, 7 on the 28th, 5 on the 27th, 2 on the 26th, 4 on the 25th, 4 on the 24th and 2 on the 23rd

Their data is cherry picked. Yes the statement is correct for mag 5.5, but what if I cherry pick using 5.6? OMG there were no quakes on the 28th, 27th, 1 on the 26th and 1 0n the 24th.

Sorry, just total BS.

They says they have been 'Summarizing global seismicity since 1976' yet

Domain ID37639932-LRMS
Domain Name:EARTHQUAKESUMMARY.INFO
Created On:13-Apr-2011 00:36:53 UTC
Expiration Date:13-Apr-2012 00:36:53 UTC

Mmm.

Originally posted by PuterMan
reply to post by kdog1982

 

That site, especially this page on it www.earthquakesummary.info... is full of carap.

EARTHQUAKE SUMMARY FOR MAY 28, 2011

The strongest geomagnetic storm since the day of the great Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 hit today beginning about 08:00 UT and lasting through about 20:00 UT. This storm which reached a daily AP level of 40 was accompanied by a strong increase in global seismicity. Four moderately strong to strong earthquakes occurred during the 12 hours of this storm including events in Sumatra (M 5.5-6.3); the Kermadec Islands (M 5.5, 5.5-6.0) and the Talaud Islands (M 5.5) and aftershocks in Honshu, Japan (M 5.5, 5.3, 5.1, 4.8). This compares with only two such events of M>=5.5 during the previous week (seven days), that is twice as many events of this magnitude level in half a day as in the previous seven days for an increase in global seismicity during the geomagnetic storm of 1400% over the previous week.

There were 3 mag 5+ on the 29th, 7 on the 28th, 5 on the 27th, 2 on the 26th, 4 on the 25th, 4 on the 24th and 2 on the 23rd

Their data is cherry picked. Yes the statement is correct for mag 5.5, but what if I cherry pick using 5.6? OMG there were no quakes on the 28th, 27th, 1 on the 26th and 1 0n the 24th.

Sorry, just total BS.

They says they have been 'Summarizing global seismicity since 1976' yet

Domain ID

37639932-LRMS
Domain Name:EARTHQUAKESUMMARY.INFO
Created On:13-Apr-2011 00:36:53 UTC
Expiration Date:13-Apr-2012 00:36:53 UTC

Mmm.

edit on 29/5/2011 by PuterMan because: (no reason given)

I'm sorry you feel that way,Puterman
But I'm just offering an opinion on possible links to other causes and maybe a prediction
on upcoming quakes.
I take it with a grain of salt,as should anyone,I'm just noting a possibility,not a fact.
I could say the same about your signature and comet Elenin,but I'm better than that.
It's your theories.I have mine.
No need to attack me with "its a load of crap".
I thought this site was for openminded people.
Besides,why would someone post so much info,and no advertising for monetary gains?
And another thing,websites do have to renew their domain names,so I'm guessing the dates you refer to
are the reason behind it.
All I'm doing is posting some info from a source that I might think could be important

So,with that ,I will no longer intruded on your thread.
I'm sorry,
Peace

reply to post by PuterMan

I dunno, as I said its quite calm here at ground level, unusually calm, Karori is renouned for wind usually.
Its carried on the about 23:00 hrs, and seems to have reduced in intensity from there but still showing.
aslwww.cr.usgs.gov...

reply to post by aorAki

from that link

9 March 1987: Pegasus Bay earthquake

On 9 March 1987, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake centred out in Pegasus Bay about 50 kilometres northwest of New Brighton damaged some chimneys and cracked paving in the New Brighton area.

Hmmm Northwest of New Brighton would put that on land wouldn't it? not out on Pegusus Bay to the north east.

Probably just an editing mistake, I had a look on Geonet Search the location was -43.22079, 173.20132, indeed to the north east of New Brighton.

Interesting though, I hadn't been aware it caused damage.

reply to post by muzzy


Microseisms are deep ocean swell. The source could be thousands of miles from you.

Here especially for you is the sound file from 13:00 to 21:00 - the busy period on the heli, completely unaltered except for speeding up. SNZO BHZ is a 20Hz channel and this is playing back at 4000 Hz (200x speed) because at my normal preferred 1000 Hz you can hear nothing.

Close your eyes and imagine the swell of the ocean and at about 1:40 listen very carefully for the faint sound of the 5.9 south west of Sumatra.

I am really sure what you are seeing is microseisms. I will now start playing with the sounds file and see if I can find that NWO tunnel boring machine that caused this as it passed by.

reply to post by kdog1982

I'm sorry you feel that way,Puterman
But I'm just offering an opinion on possible links to other causes and maybe a prediction
on upcoming quakes.
I take it with a grain of salt,as should anyone,I'm just noting a possibility,not a fact.

No problem there, but the basic premise of what they are displaying is flawed and they are churning out pages of pseudo-scientific listing in an attempt to baffle brains with BS. You cannot cherry pick data like that as I demonstrated. Mag 5.6 + turns the tables completely on their theory as does Mag 5+. It is just arrant nonsense and not even qualified as to why they have chosen those levels.

I could say the same about your signature and comet Elenin,but I'm better than that.

Well you could my friend but you will find if you read that thread that I have never said that comet Elenin is anything other than just that - a comet about 4 Km wide. The title of the thread is AS REQUIRED by ATS rules, and of course comet Elenin IS coming.

It's your theories.I have mine. No need to attack me with "its a load of crap".
I thought this site was for openminded people.

Sorry you are feeling so sensitive and my apologies if I inadvertently offended you but I think you should read what I said. I said that site was full of crap, not you. Nowhere did I say you are full of crap. Now unless you are the owner of that site I cannot see how that is attacking you.

I am not in the habit of shooting the messenger and I am one of the most open minded people you could want to meet as is evidenced by all the theories which have been put forward on my Elenin thread and which I have entertained as is is interesting to hear other points of view.

But there is a BIG difference between a point of view and a twisting of the facts and since we are talking of observable facts here then twisting on purpose is not permissible.

Besides,why would someone post so much info,and no advertising for monetary gains?

I often wonder but many do - including myself and other members of ATS.

And another thing,websites do have to renew their domain names,so I'm guessing the dates you refer to
are the reason behind it.

That was not a renewal that was new registration.

All I'm doing is posting some info from a source that I might think could be important

And fair play to you. That is what we are here for, but I am also entitled to pick the source to pieces.

That is not a personal attack on you.

So,with that ,I will no longer intruded on your thread.
I'm sorry,
Peace

And I am sorry that you feel that way. Please do not consider that you are intruding. You offered a source, I ragged it. End of story. No need for any hard feelings.

Far worse destructions happen on other threads on ATS so you had better get desensitised. I realise you are a relatively new member. If you want to see other peoples ideas, and other people themselves, being pulled to pieces visit one of the global warming threads (that seem to have ceased? curious) or some of the religious ones.

reply to post by kdog1982


Purely as a matter of interest, that site quoted a 1400% increase based on mag 5.5+ quakes and nowhere made any statement as to why they chose these. As I pointed out @5.6 the value is 0%

To suggest (and by suggesting infer that a Japan sized quake could happen) that the index is the same as when the Tohoku quake went off, and then only manage to reference 5.5 Magnitude quakes and add some wow factor by cherry picking, would suggest that in fact there is no correlation between Solar activity and earthquakes.

This exercise has been carried out by muzzy and his findings were that there was no match. I respect his work and probably agree with him, but I still reserve final judgement.

My point is that there is a right way and a scaremongering way of presenting information and I believe that site gets off on trying to scare people. I have no idea why people get something out of this but they do.

I am not perfect and I am not saying that this reporting style is perfect, but at least I try to set out what I am attempting to do and giving reasons why I am picking data, or not picking data.

You might even find the subject interesting, but feel free to pull it to pieces (That won't offend me provided you can back up your destruction.)

Of interest to readers here?

03:14 29/05/2011 ALL NEWS
Solar activity in 2012 not to impact electromagnetic devices in Russia.

www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/153018.html

(...) said Lev Zeleny, the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Space Research.

(...)

The problem however will be topical for northern areas of the United States and Canada covered by the so-called geomagnetic Polar cap. By the end of the century, he believes, the Earth’s magnetic pole shift will change the situation. “In 50 to 60 years, the geomagnetic cap will shift to Russia’s Siberia, and then our electromagnetic devices will be sensitive to the solar activity,” he said.

(...)

Hey guys, I just posted a bunch of info on my washington state thread regarding Rainier. Some odd stuff going on and around there right now. I am going to post it here too, to make sure my most knowing friends see it!

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Okay, I don't bring activity on Rainier to question very often, because of the magnetude of ANY event there would have. Since watching a show a couple of days ago regarding the risks and likelyhood of a major event happening there any time, I have been watching a little more closely than usual.

Something began near there around 1300hrs UTC. THIS seismo (so far) in my search is showing it the best. No, it does not appear to be a very well working station...BUT this action is showing up on numerous stations and this one seems to be the strongest.

HERE is the link to the main map I pulled it from. That station is RVC. The first link to the actual seismo won't last long so you will need to go to the main map and either click on the list, or on the sation on the map. It is located just NW of Rainier.
(select the 12hr)

It is also showing on:

RVCX (right next to RVC)
FMW (NE of Rainier)
RCM (on the south face of the volcano)
STAR (on the top of the volcano...not showing same sig, but more of a 'wave'...odd)
RERX (south base of the mountain...same thing. Odd wave and broken line)
RER (same location as rerx, same thing showing)
LO2 (south of the mountain...showing clearer seismic activity starting at the same time)
LON (next to LO2....info starts at about the same time)
B941 (quite a few miles to the west....showing increased seismic activity at the same time)
GHW (also a ways to the west...even more action at the same time)


Okay....THIS is a really good one. It's way over in Puyallup. Showing activity at the same time. (PAYL) This is not far from the town of Orting...the one that will be buried in the Lahar from Rainier.

WOW....check out LMW this is to the SW
and LMWX

So basically it seems that if you get on that map and click on any station whithin about a 40 mile radius of the mountain and you are going to find it.

I just checked the weather down south there and it is much like my own: Overcast, with some sun breaks. occasional light showers. Not windy or stormy.

Also, the recent quakes near there earlier this week concern me. (I experienced one of them):

MAP 2.2 2011/05/29 13:25:46 46.193 -122.205 2.5 2 km ( 1 mi) WSW of Mount St. Helens Volcano, WA
MAP 1.4 2011/05/29 12:24:47 46.329 -122.222 8.8 15 km ( 9 mi) NNW of Mount St. Helens Volcano, WA
MAP 1.6 2011/05/28 15:23:08 47.048 -121.266 1.5 22 km ( 14 mi) SSW of Easton, WA
MAP 2.8 2011/05/27 22:02:51 47.428 -122.891 51.6 8 km ( 5 mi) NNW of Allyn-Grapeview, WA
MAP 2.4 2011/05/27 21:05:06 46.981 -122.208 0.0 8 km ( 5 mi) SE of Graham, WA
MAP 1.9 2011/05/27 20:57:20 46.035 -122.409 13.9 15 km ( 10 mi) NNE of Amboy, WA
MAP 2.1 2011/05/27 10:28:51 47.587 -122.195 25.0 1 km ( 0 mi) E of Beaux Arts Village, WA
MAP 1.1 2011/05/27 06:15:21 46.852 -121.756 3.3 23 km ( 14 mi) ENE of Ashford, WA
MAP 1.2 2011/05/26 11:50:54 47.988 -122.759 22.1 5 km ( 3 mi) SSE of Port Hadlock-Irondale, WA
MAP 1.0 2011/05/26 05:09:53 46.690 -122.662 28.4 20 km ( 12 mi) SE of Bucoda, WA
MAP 1.5 2011/05/25 16:29:53 46.659 -121.888 6.5 15 km ( 9 mi) SE of Ashford, WA
MAP 2.4 2011/05/24 23:31:32 46.275 -122.225 3.2 9 km ( 6 mi) NNW of Mount St. Helens Volcano, WA
MAP 1.1 2011/05/24 03:39:33 47.861 -122.455 14.4 8 km ( 5 mi) NNE of Kingston, WA


The above quakes have all been in and around Rainier and Helens in the past week, source



I want to stress that I am NOT trying to raise the alarm. If I thought this was a sign of something really occuring I would start a seperate thread. However, I think that it is unusuall and possibly seismic in nature and warrants close observation. I also want to stress that it started earlier this morning and still on-going. Perhaps I am mistaken and it is weather....but the fact that it is showing up differently on SO many stations so widespread...as noise on some and small seismic events on others...it has me a bit concerned.

Some thoughts??

Just after lunch yesterday NZST

Reference Number 3521672 [View event in Google Maps] [View Felt Reports in Google Maps]
Universal Time May 30 2011 at 0:42
NZ Standard Time Monday, May 30 2011 at 12:42 pm
Latitude, Longitude 38.04°S, 178.07°E
Focal Depth 70 km
Richter magnitude 5.5 (5.487ML)
Region Gisborne
Location
20 km north-west of Tokomaru Bay
30 km south-west of Ruatoria
70 km north of Gisborne
320 km south-east of Auckland

www.geonet.org.nz...

USGS and EMSC ( who use NEIC data) didn't pick it up

GEOFON and GEOAU did

GEOFON have it offshore

F-E Region: Off E. Coast of N. Island, N.Z.
Time: 2011-05-30 00:42:26.6 UTC
Magnitude: 5.0 (mb)
Epicenter: 178.39°E 38.18°S
Depth: 51 km
Status: M - manually revised

geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

and GEOAU have it 28.28km SE of where Geonet put it.

E. Coast of N. Island, New Zealand.
Magnitude: 5.2 (Mb)
Depth: 30 km
Tsunamigenic: Not available
Date and Time
UTC: 30 May 2011 @ 00:42:26
AEST: 30 May 2011 @ 10:42:26
Location
Coordinates: -38.260, 178.233

www.ga.gov.au...

This quake was located 17.3km WNW of the 5.281ML quake of 2011/3/25.
There has only been one aftershock so far, a 2.974ML 2km to the SE of the Main Quake.

I was reading on ANSS that;

Since no two networks will locate an earthquake at the exact same location and time, we use the following critera to decide whether any 2 solutions represent the same earthquake:
* The two solutions must be submitted by different networks. We assume that each network has eliminated duplicate solutions to the same event within their own catalog.
* The two solutions must be within 100 km and within 16 seconds of each other.

www.ncedc.org...-events

Soooooooo differences in this case of 28km, and 32km are therefore considered "accurate"

www.bbc.co.uk...

reply to post by PuterMan

That background noise sounds like we are zooming through space at Warp Speed 5

Oh we are aren't we!

I heard the click at 1:39, not much to it.
There was another one at 00:25 too, smaller

Spooky

reply to post by Robin Marks


See what they say and let us know will you? I don't get BBC here.

Lets hope they start rebuilding soon, there is a lot of talk on the News and Talkback Radio about how nothing is heppening yet apart from clean up and the sewage rebuild.
MoorfNZ and AoRaki being there might know more, but its sounding like the Govt. is dragging the chain, and REDTAPE causing heartache.

Tradesmen are saying they still haven't been paid out for work they did after the Darfield Sept 2010 quake yet by EQC . 25 EQC staff to handle 70,000 invoices, come on wake up EQC.
As a Tradesman myself I would be VERY angry to have to wait more than 4 weeks to get paid, by anyone.
Some Plumbers and Builders who did emergency repairs are saying they are going to have to lay off staff, or worse still will go bankrupt.
Then there are the Retail people who can't get into the Red Zone yet to assess what their future holds.

Is Christchurch going to end up like Port o'Prince (Haiti) with rubble still strewn across the streets 2 years later

reply to post by westcoast


Before I rush off an pull the wave form this link RVC.UW..EHZ.2011.150 is good for about 14 days.

I have to say at this stage that the lower area looks like tree root activity and the big stuff like interference, but I will have a listen.

reply to post by westcoast


OK, I am pretty convinced that what you are seeing here is caused by the solar activity. I doubt if the seismo is picking this up but i think it is happening during transmission.

Take a look at the magnetometer at HAARP (I did not want to say that!) - the magnetometer OK not the HF array. I have uploaded it as it will change and I wanted you to see this.



Now have a look at the spectrum of the waveform I downloaded.



See any similarities? I really do think what you are seing is interference from solar activity being picked up - probably during transmission.

Now have a listen UW_RVC _EHZ_20110530-124000_4000Hz.mp3

Definitely NOT seismological or volcanic. Sounds electrical. Great beat at the end. I need to loop that.

Edit to add Canadian stackplot

Look at Baker Lake (Close to you no?) The orange and yellow bands match the disturbance signals on the seismo almost perfectly.

reply to post by PuterMan


EXCELLENT!!

Funny, I just came back in and took a look at GEE. I noticed the same odd spikes across almost all the seismos and thought perhaps it was solar interference and then opened up your post.

That byte could be the soundtrack to any good sci fi space movie! First thing I thought of was SETI. Anyone know how to interpret alien morris code????

Thank you!!!


ETA....saw YOUR eta. What do you think about this? I find it very curious, all this correlation. Don't know if it means anything of any signifigance, but it is tickling something at the back of my brain.