Quake Watch 2012

The pressure seems to me to be coming off in Alaska, bit early to call though. This could signal an end to the counter clockwise rotational moment and this could be the start of the rebound. I hope not!

P

There was just a fairly big quake somewhere...any idea on location? Mexico? It seems to show up in Georgia and Alabama first, then southern California.


Ah, I see it was a Mag 5.7 only 32 km SSE of Santiago, Peru.
I think we felt 2 quick jolts here in VA at about 23.40 utc--that's why I hopped on the compy and started looking around.

Anybody watching the seismos over on El hierro?
I just posted this on volcano thread

This just posted within the last half hour by Jon Friman over on Erik Klemmetis website

"Jón Frímann Jónsson 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
It is just matter of hours to days at the longest before a fissure type of eruption starts in El Hierro volcano. Magma is now clearly forming a path to the surface. How long that is going to take depends on the crust. Something that is hard to impossible to predict. "

www.wired.com...

Rainbows
Jane

reply to post by angelchemuel


Just a little you could say

quakewatch.wordpress.com...

The earth quakes at El Hierro have certainly begun again in ernest over the past few hours. But the listed depth s are still 19-20 kms down.

I wonder what makes Mr. Frimann Jonsson believe an eruption in imminent (hours to days)?

reply to post by Olivine


I used to have Jon's website/blogg in my fav's...but lost it due to 'blue screen of death', and had to do a complete recovery on my laptop. I'll go google and see if I can find it again...if I don't fall asleep first!

Rainbows
Jane

reply to post by PuterMan


Interesting how apart from one lonely quake out at Lon: -18.34340 all the quakes are east of the western tip of the island, I wonder if that is the western wall of the lava chamber.
Need to look back on the maps from 2011 to check......
volcanictremor.wordpress.com...

Its about time they got a new satellite image from 2km+, those clouds spoil the whole experience of viewing Google Maps when it comes to El Hierro

Nice Map BTW, you can click on and off each day o see where they are headed.
The 9 x July 2 icons not showing for me though

Greece - June 2012
- 1872 earthquakes on this interactive map
* File that loads the icons is 1.5MB in size, it may take some time to load or you may need to click refresh/ reload current page to see them if they don't load right away, especially if you have not got Broadband.

Turkey tomorrow

6.5 South Taranaki Bight New Zealand

whoo hoo what a ride

had been asleep probably for an hour, woke up hot as, heard a rumbling then a slight shaking, bit of a 4. something I thought, then it eased for a few seconds then the shaking got quite strong house was making a heck of a racket, creaking and stuff started falling off shelves, then eased off real quick.Cats went leaping off the bed
No damage, just small things fallen over.
Geonet Rapid has;
beta.geonet.org.nz...

Update
7.0

Reference Number 3732830
Universal Time July 3 2012 at 10:36
NZ Standard Time Tuesday, July 3 2012 at 10:36 pm
Latitude, Longitude 40.00°S, 173.75°E
Focal Depth 230 km
Richter magnitude 7.0
Region South Taranaki Bight
Location
60 km south of Opunake
70 km south-west of Hawera
170 km north-west of Wellington
www.geonet.org.nz...

Widely felt from Bay of Plenty to Canterbury


Just thinking of the intensity if it had been shallower, 230km is pretty deep.
Felt as strong as the 2005 6.3 quake at 143km and the 2006 6.0 (5.989) at 172km quake similar area

reply to post by muzzy


Felt that one in Wairarapa...side to side big time!

Originally posted by muzzy
6.5 South Taranaki Bight NewZealand

whoo hoo what a ride

Geonet Rapid has;
beta.geonet.org.nz...

Are you okay?? Hopefully no damage with it being 257 km deep.

Kia Kaha

Addit, dogs where barking about the time of this quake.

reply to post by muzzy


Here is the data from the National Geographic Institute up to 10:00 UTC today. 1437 events on El Hierro



Blog has been updated - see if that works for you today if not let me know. I am finding that turning a set off turns them all off even though they show as on. You need to turn off and on to get them showing again.

Not sure if this is a KML problem. The file is GE compatible as well so you could load it into GE. It works just fine there. Maybe I will do 2 versions.

Sorry - I see it was posted. The USGS version below only just came through.

Magnitude 6.2 Mw - Off The West Coast Of The North Island Of New Zealand

Location in Google Maps

• Date-Time: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 @ 10:36:16 UTC
  
• Earthquake location: 39.963°S, 173.705°E,
  
• Earthquake depth: 236.1 km
  
• Distances:
  57km (35mi) SSW of Opunake, New Zealand
  64km (39mi) SW of Hawera, New Zealand
  104km (64mi) SSW of New Plymouth, New Zealand
  114km (70mi) W of Wanganui, New Zealand
  172km (106mi) NNW of Wellington, New Zealand
  
• Event ID: usb000awz5
  

Derived from Event Data Source: USGS
Powered by QVSData

And the EMSC version

Magnitude 5.9 mb - Cook Strait New Zealand

Location map by EMSC (Google Map)

• Date-Time: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 @ 10:36:15 UTC
  
• Earthquake location: 40.048°S, 173.757°E,
  
• Earthquake depth: 219.0 km
  
• Distances:
  2111 km SE Sydney (pop 4,394,576 ; local time 20:36:15.1 2012-07-03)
  162 km NW Lower hutt (pop 101,194 ; local time 22:36:15.1 2012-07-03)
  68 km SW Hawera (pop 11,068 ; local time 22:36:15.1 2012-07-03)
  63 km SW Manaia (pop 902 ; local time 22:36:15.1 2012-07-03)
  
• Event ID: 276533
  

Derived from Event Data Source: EMSC
Powered by QVSData

reply to post by muzzy


Freak - it's gone up to a 7!

reply to post by DonaldD


Richter 7.0 = ~6.65 Mw so larger than USGS

5.9 mb (EMSC) = ~6.13 Mw so much lower than NZ but about the same as USGS.

reply to post by muzzy


Whoo Hoo!

Felt it down here in Christchurch too!

Hope it's not the start of something bigger to come.

Must have stirred things up as we got a 3.8 just a few minutes ago.

Originally posted by muzzy
6.5 South Taranaki Bight New Zealand

whoo hoo what a ride

had been asleep probably for an hour, woke up hot as, heard a rumbling then a slight shaking, bit of a 4. something I thought, then it eased for a few seconds then the shaking got quite strong house was making a heck of a racket, creaking and stuff started falling off shelves, then eased off real quick.Cats went leaping off the bed
No damage, just small things fallen over.


Geonet Rapid has;
beta.geonet.org.nz...

Update
7.0

Reference Number 3732830
Universal Time July 3 2012 at 10:36
NZ Standard Time Tuesday, July 3 2012 at 10:36 pm
Latitude, Longitude 40.00°S, 173.75°E
Focal Depth 230 km
Richter magnitude 7.0
Region South Taranaki Bight
Location
60 km south of Opunake
70 km south-west of Hawera
170 km north-west of Wellington
www.geonet.org.nz...

Widely felt from Bay of Plenty to Canterbury


Just thinking of the intensity if it had been shallower, 230km is pretty deep.
Felt as strong as the 2005 6.3 quake at 143km and the 2006 6.0 (5.989) at 172km quake similar area

edit on 3-7-2012 by muzzy because: (no reason given)

I was chatting on FB to my friend who lives in New Zealand when it happened (which was a weird earthquake by proxy experience) ... but I said the exact same thing to her when I checked to see how deep it was.

Woody

7.0 might be a bit high even if ML

The Geonet Rapid estimate after 3minutes is pretty close to USGS's 6.6ML
neic.usgs.gov...

Big tick for GRapid, it was up on the web as fast as the time it took me to gather my thoughts check for damage and open Firefox on my laptop.

Around half nine I did hear an unusual boom that lasted for just over a minute. Kinda made my eardrums vibrate. Went out side because I thought someone had their sounds/bass up. It wasn't music. Not sure what I heard - not heard that sound before. Wonder if it was related to this earthquake - geo-tension?

breaking news here is that they have raised the alert level on a volcano there to level 1