Quake Watch 2011

I think that something is building up there in Nevada. Really the Nevada/California border. Note the proximity to the Mammath lakes. Talk about a hot bed.

These are some decent sized quakes and have been building in intensity since yesterday.

Here is a list of the recent cluster and Mammoth lakes for just the past two days:


MAP 1.2 2011/04/11 01:35:31 38.384 -118.736 4.9 19 km ( 12 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 1.2 2011/04/11 01:31:01 38.391 -118.734 4.6 18 km ( 11 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 1.4 2011/04/11 01:29:49 38.398 -118.719 0.3 16 km ( 10 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 1.2 2011/04/11 01:27:12 38.385 -118.740 3.9 19 km ( 12 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 1.5 2011/04/11 01:11:30 38.343 -118.895 0.0 18 km ( 11 mi) NE of Bodie, CA
MAP 3.3 2011/04/11 01:05:00 38.375 -118.739 6.0 20 km ( 12 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 2.2 2011/04/11 01:03:46 37.520 -118.857 9.3 16 km ( 10 mi) WSW of Toms Place, CA
MAP 1.4 2011/04/11 00:52:10 38.390 -118.739 4.5 18 km ( 11 mi) SW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 2.6 2011/04/11 00:31:09 38.305 -118.873 0.0 16 km ( 10 mi) NE of Bodie, CA
MAP 2.4 2011/04/11 00:27:00 38.305 -118.895 0.0 15 km ( 9 mi) NE of Bodie, CA
MAP 4.2 2011/04/11 00:22:21 38.379 -118.735 13.8 19 km ( 12 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 4.0 2011/04/11 00:21:16 38.374 -118.739 15.3 20 km ( 12 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 3.5 2011/04/11 00:20:17 38.363 -118.741 9.4 20 km ( 12 mi) WNW of Qualeys Camp, NV
MAP 3.3 2011/04/11 00:13:11 38.337 -118.746 10.2 19 km ( 12 mi) W of Qualeys Camp, NV
MAP 1.2 2011/04/11 00:05:09 38.394 -118.741 0.9 18 km ( 11 mi) SW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 2.3 2011/04/11 00:01:09 38.343 -118.895 0.0 18 km ( 11 mi) NE of Bodie, CA
MAP 2.4 2011/04/10 23:59:36 38.373 -118.737 13.7 20 km ( 12 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 1.3 2011/04/10 23:51:50 38.392 -118.711 0.2 17 km ( 10 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 1.9 2011/04/10 23:45:26 38.367 -118.769 0.4 22 km ( 13 mi) SW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 1.2 2011/04/10 23:42:04 38.343 -118.873 0.0 19 km ( 12 mi) NE of Bodie, CA
MAP 3.5 2011/04/10 23:06:00 38.374 -118.741 9.7 20 km ( 12 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 3.0 2011/04/10 23:02:16 38.373 -118.738 10.1 20 km ( 12 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 1.1 2011/04/10 22:57:34 38.368 -118.807 1.7 24 km ( 15 mi) SW of Hawthorne, NV
MAP 1.3 2011/04/10 17:01:42 37.397 -118.587 13.8 2 km ( 1 mi) SSE of Round Valley, CA
MAP 1.8 2011/04/10 11:53:46 37.478 -118.841 5.2 17 km ( 11 mi) WSW of Toms Place, CA




THIS is the map I got the list from.


Yes....something is brewing.

reply to post by westcoast
You sure about that?
nearly every quake is in the same spot
Seems allot like the same of what is goin on in Arkansas.

just an update.. nevada has had seven quakes in the last couple of hours...
3.0/ 3.5/ 3.3/ 3.5/ 4.0/ 4.2/ 3.3
all located in the same spot near hawthorne
interesting.

reply to post by westcoast


Yes, I agree with you completely! And way too close to the Long Valley Caldera, for comfort!!!

reply to post by Lil Drummerboy


I agree there are some similarities. I am not going to pretend that I am familiar with the area though, because I am not. All I know is that its near Mammoth Hot springs, which has been quite active this past year, but not with sizeable quakes. I think there has been talk about drilling there? But I don't know...haven't kept up on that.

Regardless of what kind of human activity there is in the area, it is pretty darn hard for us to cause a 4.0+ mag quake....at least, not without public knowledge. (ie., detonations)

I don't know what is up with Bodie, california....but all the quakes near there have been at 0.0 km deep. Five of them in the past two days. three of them over 2.0. hmmmmm.....

Been watching the Cal Nev border all afternoon, was going to post, got distracted for a few hours, glad you guys are watching this too.

I'm glad i thought to check this first. i was just going to start a thread on this. I think its all connected. Cali has been having more then norm lately and mexico just had one that was i think 5.0 or something. I could be wrong but it was big like that. it will be fun to watch in the coming months.

reply to post by westcoast
I was just throwin that out there,.
there has been allot of similar activity all over the western part of the country,.
so, without actually goin out there,.. it is just a guess,.
Although,. I will be in Arkansas( Bella Vista) in a couple of weeks
and am still trying to work out a drive the the area of the fracking.

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Now, the last time I looked at this map (about 5 pm my time) there were only 27 quakes reported, now there are 42...

anybody have a topography of this area?
like what would be a cause?

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Can someone look at that and tell me if this is normal

Mag. 5.2
334.8 miles deep in Fiji

Sorry, have not figured out how to post the page from U.S.G.S. yet

Source:
USGS

Found this great website for monitoring this cluster. They have already issued a statement about it.

HERE

Seven earthquakes of Magnitude 3.0 and larger have been located about 12 miles south of Hawthorne, Nevada over the past few hours. The first of these occurred at 4:02 PM PDT and the latest at 6:05 PM PDT. The preliminary magnitude for the largest event is M 4.2. The three largest events took place in about a two minute time window from 5:20 to about 5:22

Check out the map there....it shows very clearly what I was already seeing on other maps; that there is a nice flat looking area among a bunch of mountains. I would guess they are volcanic (unknown if active or not) based on the names of them.

Could this be magmatic in nature?? Just guessing here.

Another good source

reply to post by MoorfNZ


Didn't feel it, was outside on a roof 5 stores up, couldn't have been too severe or would have felt the wobble.

Home now, very windy out there.

Been 3 aftershocks, about 5-6km to the NW

mag, Ref. Lat, Long, DateTimeUTC, Depth
5.059, 3495132, -40.27901, 176.38124, 2011/4/11 0:33:60, 34

2.304, 3495137, -40.24166, 176.34416, 2011/4/11 0:44:33, 27
2.162, 3495160, -40.24142, 176.32388, 2011/4/11 1:31:38, 28
2.574, 3495163, -40.2375, 176.3414, 2011/4/11 1:40:30, 29

magma.geonet.org.nz...

reply to post by Smurfgt801


No that does not look normal but you'd have to ask someone in the know. To me from the crash course I've had the past few months I'd say it looks harmonic. But someone that knows the seismo's and the errors with them would have to answer. Do the other stations look like that?

reply to post by Lil Drummerboy

Try this, I have to fix dinner

www.yellowmaps.com...

reply to post by SusanFrey


No not that extreme. Just weird that's all. Just concerns me a bit with all the earthquakes I'm on vacation in Oregon for a few days so I guess I will be keeping my eye out

This is a better page to watch Nevada than USGS

www.seismo.unr.edu...

well according to one topography map,.
there is an army munitions facility in the area.
thanks to Berkeleygal for the link

yep, I saw that Army Ammunition Plant there too.

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www.seismo.unr.edu...

There's Aurora Crater there, never heard of it.