Quake Watch 2012

Originally posted by MamaJ

Originally posted by Olivine
reply to post by PuterMan

 

I couldn't get on USGS about 8 hours ago.
I finally figured out they had changed their DNSKey, but my DNS server didn't have the new one. So I had to switch my DNS server from my ISP provided one to OpenDNS.
Works fine now.

Um... Lol.... So..... How do you do that? How can I change the server name?

What she said times two! Thanks Olivine.

reply to post by MamaJ


Lol, I know, right? Turns out it wasn't difficult at all.

Basically, USGS has "changed" their internet address number and didn't leave a published forwarding address.

If you go here www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com..., you will see that the USGS site is up and running, just not viewable from your compy.

To fix this, I went to www.opendns.com,(there are many other DNS servers you could choose, such as Google's) clicked on 'home solutions', and followed the step-by-step instructions. (and I didn't register my e-mail account) It only took 3-4 minutes.
Then I flushed my dns cache on my hard drive (instructions at the above site) and on my browsers.
(btw: I reset the numbers on my router, but you may need to change them on your compy or server, depending on your personal set-up)
And you can always switch back to the original DNS numbers you were using (such as the numbers from your internet service provider)--In fact, I recommend writing them down before you enter the new ones.

Voila, back in Geological Survey heaven.

If you can live without USGS for a few days, from what I read last night while trying figure out what the heck went wrong, they will eventually publish the new key and it will fix itself on its on.

reply to post by PuterMan


I'm getting on USGS with no problems here. Didn't try earlier as I was rushing around.

Originally posted by PuterMan
reply to post by amcpwoy

 

DOD, U.S. Agencies Help Afghanistan Exploit Mineral Wealth

Am I the only on that sees something wrong with that headline? Shal we try that again?

DOD, U.S. Agencies Exploit Afghanistan Mineral Wealth

Ha, ha! I'd hoped I wasn't the only one to go "WHAT???"!

Also some of the names in the article:

James Bullion
Jack Medlin (Meddling)

...and even the press service person:
Cheryl Pellerin, (Piller, origin of pillage!)

I don't believe that everything is a coincidence, but that is just toooo hilarious to be true!!!
Maybe I just spend too much time on ATS!!!

WOQ

Originally posted by TrueAmerican

Seriously, the situation directly north of New Zealand on the zone does not look good with those quakes. Lookout.

maybe theres a mag 7 lurking there, been 3 months since a "usgs approved" mag 7, although we had one here on the 3rd of July S of Taranaki.
Still not getting many of those on Geonet, just this one on Geonet Rapid

2012-08-02T10:26:37.237Z
Ref: 2012p579554
Lat, Long: -37.1923828, 179.2822266
Magnitude: 4.4
Depth: 25
Location:
FEGL Region: East Cape Ridge Off NI N.Z.
Status: automatic
Source: GeonetRapid

and this one off Latest Quakes

Reference Number 3750091
Universal Time August 2 2012 at 5:17
NZ Standard Time Thursday, August 2 2012 at 5:17 pm
Latitude, Longitude 37.58°S, 179.60°W
Focal Depth 56 km
Richter magnitude 5.2
Region NE of New Zealand

strange, as its not like its outside the GNS coverage area.

Geofon has it covered

2012-08-02 10:26:12 5.2 35.70°S 179.44°W 44 M East of North Island, N.Z.
2012-08-02 05:38:04 4.7 35.52°S 179.40°W 10 M East of North Island, N.Z.
2012-08-02 05:17:12 5.3 37.57°S 179.70°E 10 C Off E. Coast of N. Island, N.Z.
2012-08-02 04:58:03 4.8 37.66°S 179.55°E 10 M Off E. Coast of N. Island, N.Z.
2012-08-01 09:24:52 5.0 35.76°S 179.54°E 80 C Off E. Coast of N. Island, N.Z.

and they are showing on LISS SNZO

rare quake near McMurdo/Scott Base

Scott Base BHE siesmo - Mt Erebus Volcano Observatory

F-E Region: Ross Sea
Time: 2012-08-03 06:06:09.9 UTC
Magnitude: 5.0 (mb)
Epicenter: 164.51°E 76.31°S
Depth: 10 km
Status: M - manually revised
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

the geofon map is pretty useless
usgs shows the location better
earthquake.usgs.gov...

shows up good on LISS SNZO

and snub nosed signal on LISS SBA
and IRIS SBA graph for good measure

all bases covered, looks biggest on LISS SNZO further away.

reply to post by PuterMan


Just replying to myself to say the USGS feed was also down as I said and came back on at approx 14:40 so they were off line totally for just about 3 hours.

@Olivine: So this was all part of the US plan for INternet Domination and the "Kill Switch" then.

The Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors the "DNSSEC Deployment Initiative". This initiative encourages "all sectors to voluntarily adopt security measures that will improve security of the Internet's naming infrastructure, as part of a global, cooperative effort that involves many nations and organizations in the public and private sectors." DHS also funds efforts to mature DNSSEC and get it deployed inside the U.S. federal government.

It was reported[53] that on March 30, 2007, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security proposed "to have the key to sign the DNS root zone solidly in the hands of the US government." However no U.S. Government officials were present in the meeting room and the comment that sparked the article was made by another party. DHS later commented[54][55] on why they believe others jumped to the false conclusion that the U.S. Government had made such a proposal: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is funding the development of a technical plan for implementing DNSSec, and last October distributed an initial draft of it to a long list of international experts for comments. The draft lays out a series of options for who could be the holder, or "operator," of the Root Zone Key, essentially boiling down to a governmental agency or a contractor. "Nowhere in the document do we make any proposal about the identity of the Root Key Operator," said Maughan, the cyber-security research and development manager for Homeland Security."

Wikpedia: DNS Security

2.3 2012/08/03 06:59:13 35.628 -97.311 5.0 4 km ( 3 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
2.1 2012/08/01 23:35:09 35.590 -97.418 5.0 7 km ( 4 mi) NNE of Lake Aluma, OK
2.9 2012/07/31 16:03:39 35.506 -96.734 2.9 5 km ( 3 mi) WNW of Prague, OK
3.1 2012/07/30 19:35:07 35.470 -96.839 15.1 6 km ( 4 mi) N of Johnson, OK
3.0 2012/07/30 08:43:01 35.427 -96.596 5.0 9 km ( 6 mi) SSW of Paden, OK

When I was in my late teens, I got a word a day vocabulary book thingy. I'm old now, but I still remember a few of them. Altruistic. There's a big one. Aesthetic. Boy, that one was harder to learn how to pronounce. Understanding the word is the easy part. The hard parts are using it in a grammically correct manner. (Was that mangled or not? who the hell knows?- or cares?) Pronounciation and spelling. I bet I misspelled Pro... I could just type this on a page that has automatic spellcheck. But. So. I was really impressed with myself as I learned new and rarely used words. Twenty years on, I still don't get to use them much when I'm talking to regular folk.

Most of the words were merely curious to me. But one word blew my world apart. When I read the word's definition, it was as if the impossible just became possible. I couldn't believe such a word existed.

Misanthropy. Up until that point, I didn't know such a thing was possible. You mean it is possible to hate mankind. Who would do such a thing? The Devil? Satan!!! No. This was too much. Why would anyone hate humans?

Well, I'm much older now. And the manical laugh I'm expressing at this moment, and the tears that come from chuckling a little too much, should tell the story. Anyone remember Clouseau's boss, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus? Well, that's the laugh.

I hate mankind in the same way the Chief hated Clouseau...
www.youtube.com...

I stopped there for a moment to breath and posted. So, now I have to edit because I didn't explain the reason behind my malevolence. That was another word from my word book thing. Thinking about it now, that book may have helped me stay sane. It allowed me ways to express my frustration in a somewhat productive manner.

Right, how does any of my outrage translate to earthquakes? Because I'm freakin' overheating and I can't take this (pure expletive) weather. (puterman, there were those north pole quakes near greenland and there was a low pressure system there. greenland had melted like a dairy queen ice cream alternative on a hot sidewalk because of a heat dome. well the dome got pushed away and then there were some quakes) This weather has melted my brain. The only way I survived the month of July without air conditioning was to use physics. Anyone in the past who has said, "bring it on" when talking about global warming should be forced by law to live a summer without air-conditioning. This hot weather is as a result of us- and we are driving the system faster and we are causing the earthquakes in Oklahoma- etc....

India blackout out because someone turned up the air-condition dial to 11.

We need gas and oil and coal to run our power plants. Because we need A/C. We need more A/C because we humans are burning more stuff and we "may"~ have bumped up the thermostat a bit. It's a vicious cycle. One I tried to escape. But you can't. Not really. Wait until you get the black out. We are drilling and drilling and Oklahoma is shaking.

They are lying to you. We are lying to ourselves. Our insatiable hunger for energy is making us do some not so logical things, and then we're lying to ourselves about the consequences.

Why do I hate mankind?
Because I'm old and cranky and someone keeps touching the damned thermostat thingy.





i thought you were done robin?
no! never!

I appears earthquake clusters are random. Well, at least the question proves the fact that there are clusters. But don't believe for a second that any of the earthquakes in the United States of America are related in any way to each other. It's random. For shi shake. Random!? That's an answer and a catchy phrase used by school child humans these days. Random

www.upi.com...

like totally random...

You frackers. No, I know they're talking about the bigger clusters. And Blah blah blah.
I just think it isn't true. And it's a big thing to say for sure.
Hell, I could be wrong about the reason for the frackquakes. (copyrite TM 2012- crap ATS will own it- oh well, actually ATS is just the CIA anyway. Right? Whatever.




sorry, not done arguing with myself.
of course it's random. i love randomness.
scattered seeds and drifting snowflakes are distributed at random
but the design of the creation of such things is not

Did I just advocate for God?
Intelligent design?
no
but



This is only because I got in under the edit window wire. Um.

www.collegehumor.com...

This is my brain on drugs.
This is my brain melting in the heat.
I know the studies about clusters are the big ones over the last few decades.
But I think all the reports that these "random" events, and the noteable increase in earthquakes in the U.S. is not random. They try to say there is no evidence that fracking is causing frackquakes and the clusters are unrelated and random. Or natural. This is 1984.

Listen to the language.
Orwell was a genius.



six minutes remaining to edit this post

www.livescience.com...

I never exborated on Lousiana. They are storing natural gas underground in salt domes. These are formations that have already been tapping and have been drained of the fossil fuel. Now there is space and air pockets to force natural gas back underground to store it for another day. There are bubbles and earth- scratch that- there are frackquakes in the swamps. Coincidence. Yup. Another random thing that happens all the time at regular intervals when you apply forces to somethinge else. You get something. But that something is related only to nothing.

Gobbly guck

reply to post by ericblair4891

I think you give humankind to much credit, for causing all this weather change and geological disruption.
Don't want to debate Climate Change here but isn't it more likely caused by;

1. 2012 Japan 9,0 quake, 16.5cm planet axis change due to a redistribution of its mass
2. 2004 Sumatra 9.0 earthquake, shifted Earth's "mean North Pole" by about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in the direction of 145 degrees east longitude link
3. Mt Pinatabo eruption 1991, The ash entered the stratosphere and covered the whole earth within 12 months. Global temperatures were reduced by 0.5 degree C the year after the eruption.link,
Tephra Volume: 1.1 ± 0.5 x 10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10 cubic metres released link
4. Eyjafjallajökull eruption 2010, Tephra Volume: > 1.4 x 10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10 cubic metres released link

cheer up man, turn the frown upside down

This is the coldest Winter we have had where I live that I can remember.

Originally posted by muzzy
rare quake near McMurdo/Scott Base

looks biggest on LISS SNZO further away.

actually that was the 5.6 at Fiji an hour later 07:22:33 that I was looking at on the SNZO graph

smaller but similar sized signal just on SNZO
probably just a >5.1, Kermies, Tonga or Fiji
none of the networks have it yet
end of 19:00 line

Anyone noticing an UPTICK in 4's and 5's all over the place lately, especially active over last 12 hours?

Seems like all the regular hotspots are rumbling at the same time.

Just seems a bit unusual to me.

ADD: Just need Japan to chime in now...

Originally posted by SpaceJockey1
Anyone noticing an UPTICK in 4's and 5's all over the place lately, especially active over last 12 hours?

Seems like all the regular hotspots are rumbling at the same time.

Just seems a bit unusual to me.

ADD: Just need Japan to chime in now...

edit on 3-8-2012 by SpaceJockey1 because: added line

So far I count around 17 x mag 4 to 5+ quakes in the last 10 hours!

If there's any 'good' news about this, is that all this activity might be helping to release tension, which might have resulted in a mightily overdue 7+ quake

reply to post by ericblair4891

greenland had melted like a dairy queen ice cream

Greenland did not melt. Don't believe the lies you read in the press. My Mrs collects the data from the research station on the Greenland icecap every single day and has been doing so for over a year now.

Generally the temperature at the station is around -20°C or so. On that occasion when NASA and media lied through their teeth about 95% of the Greenland icecap melting the temperature was -16°C. She got really excited because the temperature at the station reached 0°C one day, but it is summer so what the heck and it only lasted for one day.

See another take on it: Scientists shoot holes in latest NASA Greenland hysteria

NASA have an agenda and one cannot believe anything they say. They are just about the most discredited scientific organisation around these days.

Climate by the way is controlled by the Sun, as it has been since for ever and provably so. Global climate warming change disruption is NOT caused by CO2 despite what those suffering from Dioxycarbophobia may try and tell you.

Oxygen dihydride in vapour form has much more effect than the essential trace gas CO2.

That out of the way here is a not particularly significant quake which will interest 'Rainbows Jane' if no one else.

Quake ID: 20120614060500
Event Date: 2012-06-14T06:06:28.000Z
Latitude: 56.65400
Longitude: -5.17100
Magnitude: 1.4 ML
Depth 5.0km
Location: Ballachulish Highland

Source: BGS except that you won't find the quake there - at least it has not appeared yet.

This one popped out of the woodwork today when I was processing the RSS feed from BGS.

I wonder how much else gets missed in this way?

reply to post by SpaceJockey1


Whilst it is high, it is not significantly higher statistically. Here is the global Mag 4.5+ to 5.9 for the last month.

reply to post by RELDDIR


Could I have photos and a sauce with that please.

Thank you kindly

P

reply to post by PuterMan

Haaa!
You went off topic. (jk- who can be worse than myself) I know NASA overreacted and there is a 150 year cycle of warming. I didn't jump on the story and believe it on one source. Fox news had a bunch of glaciologists explaining it. Nonetheless, Greenland is melting. Since I'm not a scientist I can use metaphor and exaggerate. However, I was really talking about was the weather and how it's relating to the earthquakes near Norway/Greenland. So, my specific point wasn't so much about the warming. It was about the weather, and whether or not, weather causes earthquakes. As we've observed, there have been earthquakes near Greenland when low pressure systems pass over the fault. This year should really highlight the correlation between weather and the fault because Greenland has been dominated by a dome of high pressure and warmer than normal temps. So, when the stubborn high pressure is displaced by the low, the stark contrast between high and low pressure should make it easy to see if there's a pattern. Knowing you are keeping an eye on it, I am now wondering if there is indeed a relationship between low pressure and earthquakes. I can't discuss global warming's cause with you anymore- I can't detach my emotions from the issue anymore. Let's just both agree the earth is warming and leave it at that. So, to stay on topic and talk about earthquakes, there is a question which arises from the rising temperatures and changing climate.

If weather can cause earthquakes, does a warming planet- one which will see more storms and energetic weather due to the heat and increased moisture in the atmosphere- does a hotter world lead to more earthquakes?

Or alternatively, if weather can cause earthquakes, does hotter climate and shifting weather patterns mean we may see earthquakes in areas that have been long quiet?



And Puterman, have you ever had a Diary Queen "Ice Cream"? I think my joke got lost in translation. It's a soft serve ice cream so to anyone have eaten this alternative to ice cream would know that nothing melts faster than a Diary Queen Ice Cream. Even if Greenland was sucked into the sun, it still wouldn't melt faster than a serve cone in your kid's hands. Half the ice cream goes on the kid's clothes and elsewhere. I just researched soft serve and found much of the ice cream is air. So, you are paying for something that is basically half nothing.





www.sciencecodex.com...




yes the- shut up robin- yes the sun is a big factor- but - nothing is in isolation- but-
shut up- we're all ruled by bacteria so your philosiphising is futile
bacteria makes it rain

What be this strange activity????


quakes.globalincidentmap.com...

Sunday August 5 2012, 03:37:44 UTC 4 minutes ago Central California 1.4 4.9 USGS Feed Detail
Sunday August 5 2012, 03:24:01 UTC 18 minutes ago Northern California 1.2 2.1 USGS Feed Detail
Sunday August 5 2012, 03:06:15 UTC 35 minutes ago Northern California 1.0 3.0 USGS Feed Detail
Sunday August 5 2012, 03:01:51 UTC 40 minutes ago Southern California 1.6 9.0 USGS Feed Detail
Sunday August 5 2012, 02:58:49 UTC 43 minutes ago Southern California 1.6 1.7 USGS Feed Detail
Sunday August 5 2012, 02:58:49 UTC 43 minutes ago Southern California 1.6 1.7 USGS Feed Detail
Sunday August 5 2012, 02:56:09 UTC 46 minutes ago Southern California 1.5 16.8 USGS Feed Detail

Sudden stress relief or something brewing ???

reply to post by dreamfox1


Nice link...made me realize how insensitive USGS is...with everything needing 2.5 or higher magnitude to register.
Would never have noticed, thanks.

reply to post by davidmann

Thats because you are probably only looking at the face of usgs
you need to look inside the head
earthquake.usgs.gov...

that page is from earthquake.usgs.gov... the same place globalincidentmap gets them

GIM is just presenting the same info in a map format, they get feeds from all over, unfortunately New Zealand isn't one of them so I don't go there myself