Quake Watch 2011

reply to post by remymartin

Strange one here

A masterful understatement!!!!

There is no recorded quake of mag 5+ with 300km in the past 100 years. That makes it totally weird, not just strange .

There is however 1 < mag 5 in the last 100 years and that is almost in the same spot

DateTime,Latitude,Longitude,Depth,Magnitude,MagType,NbStations,Gap,Distance,RMS,Source,EventID
2011/04/01 10:39:56.35,-6.8410,-122.2500,10.00,4.80,Mb,52,,,0.87,NEI,2011040110

www.ncedc.org...

* catalog=ANSS
* start_time=1900/01/01,00:00:00
* end_time=2011/06/10,21:41:53
* minimum_magnitude=0
* maximum_magnitude=10
* event_type=E
* delta=0 km to 300 km from (-6.68,-122.72)

reply to post by remymartin


Yeah, Its not even close to nearest suspects, the French Polynesian Nuclear Test sites.

Interesting detail over 1600km to the east, Wilkes Fracture Zone on Google Earth though, Latitude: 8.27°S, Longitude: 107.9W

The Pacific is such a huge area and we know so little of what is going on there

A massive 15 +/- 4 cu km lava flow field covers about 220 sq km of the East Pacific Rise (EPR) axis crest at about 8 degrees South. The high reflectivity of the lava flow indicates a very youthful age. This, coupled with teleseismically recorded earthquakes in 1964, 1965, and 1969 of an unusual magnitude along this segment of the EPR and the detection of a helium megaplume of a volume consistent with the eruption of a lava flow of this volume detected several years later at a distant location consistent with inferred circulation patterns at mid-ocean depths led Macdonald et al. (1989) to suggest that part or all of this lava field may have been emplaced in the past 25 years, during one or more eruptions coincident with the earthquakes and onset of the helium plume.

www.volcano.si.edu...

Explains the various mystery quakes I have seen on the SNZO LISS over the years that didn't match up with anything on USGS or the other Networks

They located one

I thought this one was a bit unusual as well, to the the EAST of Vanuatu, and very deep too

I didn't pick up the easterly location until I seen it on the Aussies Map

Vanuatu Islands Region, New Hebrides Islands.
Magnitude: 5.1 (Mb)
Depth: 648 km
Tsunamigenic: Not available
Date and Time
UTC: 10 June 2011 @ 14:31:02
Location
Coordinates: -14.873, 171.208

www.ga.gov.au...

Been quite a few quakes along the southern end of the NZ Alpine Fault the last few days
this one near Big Bay today, right on the Faultline

Reference Number 3528322
Universal Time June 12 2011 at 2:28
NZ Standard Time Sunday, June 12 2011 at 2:28 pm
Latitude, Longitude 44.31°S, 168.16°E
Focal Depth 5 km
Richter magnitude 4.8ML
Region Fiordland

and a 4.6 near the Spoon River SW of Jackson Bay yesterday >2km north of the Faultline

Reference Number 3527713
Universal Time June 10 2011 at 19:32
NZ Standard Time Saturday, June 11 2011 at 7:32 am
Latitude, Longitude 44.18°S, 168.36°E
Focal Depth 5 km
Richter magnitude 4.6ML
Region West Coast

www.geonet.org.nz...
that one included in this bunch all within the last 7 days
JacksonBay/ Mt Aspiring Nat Park Area

seem to be heading South, and getting stronger

Another Fiordland Mag 6+ coming

QUAKE HIT ITALY 7.7 1KM DEPTH

earthchanges.ning.com...

FALSE alarm

Italy earthquake report was false

Last update: June 12, 2011 at 5:01 am by By Armand Vervaeck 1 Comment


We are very sorry to have alarmed our readers for an Italian earthquake which did not happen.

Earthquake-Report is informing people as fast as possible on ongoing events. We receive data from many sources and will inform the data immediately to our readers ‘as is’, also stating that if only one source reports the earthquake, it has to be confirmed by other agencies soon thereafter. The current trigger was a GDACS report (see link below) automatically updated by a computer on: 6/12/2011 2:56:57 AM UTC (6 minutes after the event).
Probably this earthquake report was based on a machine generated report which was not revised by a seismologist.

reply to post by HAMO2011


I went to the site the article in your link stated as being where the info was from....I cant find it on the emsc site, the latest one i found within the last hour was a 2.2.

Any idea where the info is coming from?

reply to post by topherman420


They reported it on this site and now they saying its a false alarm

w3.gdacs.org...

reply to post by HAMO2011


Thanks for the added link.......the disclaimer from that site is a bit dodgy:

Disclaimer While we try everything to ensure accuracy, this information is purely indicative and should not be used for any decision making without alternate sources of information. The JRC is not responsible for any damage or loss resulting from the use of the information presented on this website.

w3.gdacs.org...

reply to post by topherman420

the disclaimer from that site is a bit dodgy

Not in the least bit dodgy. That is pretty much standard wording that I use myself.

If you don't say it you could be liable if someone did something stupid on that basis of what was on your web-page.

reply to post by PuterMan


That was my point as a reference to the reliability of that one source being used as a primary source of info and would hope people would scroll all the way to the bottom (maybe dodgy wasnt the best word, I know its connotation is inclined towards tricky or chancy but i attribute it to weird for some reason lol). It might of been plain as day down there to some, how many could most likely jump to conclusions that this was happening and real based on a want or belief of it to be true for whatever reason.
And I think its just scary all round that people actually need to use that disclaimer at all for those types of people.

Kinda active here in Ethiopia today:

earthquake.usgs.gov...

reply to post by lasertaglover


I assume that is the Afar rift?

There sure is a notable amount of activity this afternoon.

Today's EQ list

Magnitude 5.0 - ETHIOPIA

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/92e12ea61ddb.jpg[/atsimg]

Depth 10 km (6.2 miles)

clusters of medium big eq\s 22km from dubbi volcano in etheopia...hmmm again............

Any of our resident SME's care to comment?

earthquake.usgs.gov...

looking at google earth the etheopian quakes are centerd on an round ground deformation... caldera ore meteorite impact????

And Another!

Magnitude 5.4 - ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/9266de22f481.jpg[/atsimg]

10 km (6.2 miles)

a few quakes on the north east cost of africa but its not on the news anywhere and id like to know why?


earthquake.usgs.gov...

MAG UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s LAT deg LON deg DEPTH km Region MAP 5.4 2011/06/12 20:32:40 13.441 41.692 10.0 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION MAP 4.8 2011/06/12 19:44:16 13.369 41.644 9.9 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION MAP 4.7 2011/06/12 19:37:42 13.316 41.611 10.1 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION MAP 5.0 2011/06/12 19:21:45 12.476 41.748 10.0 ETHIOPIA MAP 4.5 2011/06/12 18:01:19 12.817 41.933 10.1 ETHIOPIA MAP 4.7 2011/06/12 17:47:20 13.538 41.588 10.0 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION MAP 4.8 2011/06/12 17:18:09 13.381 41.764 9.9 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION MAP 4.3 2011/06/12 16:33:11 13.507 41.722 10.0 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION MAP 4.8 2011/06/12 16:24:44 13.436 41.682 10.0 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION MAP 4.7 2011/06/12 16:12:02 13.397 41.734 10.0 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION MAP 4.5 2011/06/12 16:09:30 13.443 41.696 2.9 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION MAP 5.1 2011/06/12 15:37:05 13.458 41.684 10.0 ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION

Okay not sure if this is normal or not but there has just been another quake, 5.7 this time. Same depth as the above quakes. All different ones though. Just emailed Sky News asking why no mention on the News of these quakes. If I understand it correctly, Depth and not Magnitude are the key ingredients for a Bad quake, baring in mind these in Ethiopia are of roughly the same depth and size of those that hit NZ a while ago yet nothing mentioned anywhere in the MSM

From what i know its not typical for a series of quakes to hit this area in such a swarm,
14 light to moderate quakes have hit the region since earlier today, Its a rare area to get moderate quakes the last majorish one being in 1984 at that was a 6.2.

This evenings ones do have the potential to have caused some damage but as of yet no reports on injuries or damage, so lets keep our fingers crossed for them that this is just a lil shake to release some strain.
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