Quake Watch 2011

reply to post by muzzy


Not a lake but on the Mad River, Humboldt County, CA

Some good explanations in these links:

Quakes not increasing but human risk is

Earthquake off the coast of Japan

Global earthquakes over the past five years

Recent ring of fire earthquakes


I really like the 'highly allochthonous' blogs. Very informative!

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reply to post by berkeleygal

na thats just tsunami surge, not a sieche

powerful though

The reason I ask is the guy from Taupo who comments on my blog reports some unusual wave activity on Lake Taupo at the time of the Japan quake. I can't find anything siesmic or volcanic in the area at the time.

I'll get back to him to find out where he heard of it.

heres what he said
"An interesting happening on Lake Taupo at the precise time of the Japan earthquake. Dead calm afternoon. Captain of Barbary Sailing vessel was pouring tea for crew when sudden lurtch of the vessel all tea in cups tipped out. Calm lake suddenly filled with waves. Interesting? One has to ask about connection?"

never mind -
appears usgs was behind schedule and they were late in upgrading

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reply to post by Anmarie96


Just curious which websites you guys think have the most up-to-date information. I use these three, but they seem to be running behind quite often.

www.iris.edu...

hisz.rsoe.hu...

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Thanks!

I don't want to look.
Puterman found the oil/gas fields near the Texas quake.

I bet the Wyoming quake is near this one. Looks to be near the Jonah Fields. Or close to it. I have yet to find the nerve to fly my Google cybership over to the fields. From Apocolypse Now, "the horror."

earthquake.usgs.gov...

reply to post by aorAki


Yes that is a very good blog.

People might be 'amazed' at these pictures
www.abc.net.au...

Also from that site a really plate tectonics map.
www.abc.net.au...

This is also good but dial-up users be aware it takes a long time to load
www.abc.net.au...

3.0 in wyoming today. it was on usgs but was removed from list.

but now I see it on hisz.rsoe.hu...

Where the heck did it go????

Magnitude
2.9
Date-Time
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 20:24:52 UTC
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 02:24:52 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
41.775°N, 108.726°W
Depth
1.9 km (1.2 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region
WYOMING
Distances
12 km (8 miles) NNE (27°) from Point of Rocks, WY
20 km (12 miles) E (86°) from Superior, WY
33 km (20 miles) WNW (301°) from Table Rock, WY
288 km (179 miles) ENE (66°) from Salt Lake City, UT
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 1.5 km (0.9 miles); depth +/- 21.8 km (13.5 miles)
Parameters
NST= 13, Nph= 13, Dmin=130 km, Rmss=0.38 sec, Gp=158°,
M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=1
Source
University of Utah Seismograph Stations
Event ID
uu00006374

I obviously posted to quickly, trying to beat Quick Draw McPuterman.
No honestly I didn't check if it was review because I didn't want to look at it.
I'm glad it doesn't exist anymore.

RSOE has this info- but nothing on USGS?

hisz.rsoe.hu...

EQ-20110314-192045-US
Magnitude: 3.0
Mercalli scale: 1
Date-Time [UTC]: 14 March, 2011 at 20:24:54 UTC
Local Date/Time: Monday, March 14, 2011 at 20:24 in the evening at epicenter
Location: 41° 42.450, 108° 48.768
Depth: 1.90 km (1.18 miles)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Distances: 3.81 km (2.37 miles) S of Point of Rocks, Wyoming
Source: USGS-RSOE
Generated Tsunami: Not or no data!
Damage: Not or not data!

So that Japan quake is now officially a 9.0 then

I looked a couple of hours ago and it had 9.0Mw on the Details page, but still had 8.9 on the 7 days List

now its 9.0 on the 7 days list too. earthquake.usgs.gov...

Damn, thats 4 Mag 9's in my lifetime of 57 years, way to frequent if you ask me.

edit: theres a lot of confusion going on between the lists.
That 6.8 aftershock at 2011-03-11 06:15:38.6 UTC I had listed as 7.8Ms, is also listed on Geofon as 7.9Mw, although it doesn't say so on their main list where it is still saying 6.8 geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...:38:35.6&&nmax=40

7.9Mw Geofon listing

Magnitude 5.0 LAKE ALBERT REGION, UGANDA

Date-Time

* Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 03:25:20 UTC
* Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 06:25:20 AM at epicenter

Location 1.781°N, 31.298°E
Depth 10.1 km (6.3 miles)
Region LAKE ALBERT REGION, UGANDA
Distances

* 48 km (30 miles) WNW (283°) from Masindi, Uganda
* 160 km (100 miles) SW (227°) from Gulu, Uganda
* 215 km (134 miles) NW (318°) from KAMPALA, Uganda

reply to post by MoorfNZ


allafrica.com...
20 January 2009

Kampala — ANOTHER huge oil well has been discovered in the Butiaba region on Lake Albert, Tullow Oil, a UK exploration group, said on Tuesday. The firm, which is exploring oil and gas in western Uganda, said the well was "one of the largest recent onshore oil discoveries in Africa."

Are they fracking Lake Albert?

Ok, here's a strange one!
OFFSHORE INNISFAIL, QUEENSLAND, AUST.
Small earthquake dectected off the coast of Innisfail
Geoscience Australia Link

Date: 15/03/2011
Time (UTC) hh:mm:ss: 06:07:59
Latitude: -17.302
Longitude: 146.311
Depth (km): 0
Magnitude: 4.0
Felt radius: 62 km (approx)

Courier mail is saying it last experienced Mag 4 quakes in 90', 89' & 74'. The only thing that sticks out to me in that sentence is 1974 - which was a very similar type of weather pattern in QLD as it was this year with floods and all that. Being that it was offshore, I doubt it's got nothing to do with the other, I just found it curious.

reply to post by bkaust


Wow, that's amazing, firstly because ..Innisfail??? and because Geoscience actually posted a quake on the same day it occurred! Maybe they're picking up their game with all that's been happening.
Thanks for picking that one up Bkaust. Star for you!

reply to post by zenius


Yeah I hopped onto courier mail and saw it and was like 'what the' - they said they have had 3 other mag 4's in the last 37 years. But it is certainly an unexpected one that's for sure!! Haha it took me a good 3 goes to get the page working on Geoscience Aust. It kept giving me errors - I didn't know they were so unreliable.

It was extra weird because I was lying in bed today (just west of Brisbane) and I thought to myself twice 'wouldn't it be weird if we had an EQ here' - maybe I was tapping into up north ;p. I felt dizzy too when I was lying in bed thinking it - hence my lying down.

wow, just came on to check if the innisfail quake had been logged here.......and of course it has..lol