Quake Watch 2013

reply to post by PuterMan

Thank you, Puterman.

I shall look into those a little more.

What do you make of 'The Jupiter Effect' and the theory of John Gribbins and Steven Plagemann that the position and activity of Jupiter also affects earthquakes on the Earth?

What do you make of the current 'stream' of small and not so small quakes on the Western Coast of the Americas?

The silence on this is 'deafening'.

Elliot
Hello! Is there anyone out there? Is the West Coast still 'standing'? Anyone? Or has EDIS made a boo boo?

Just like to know if anyone is feeling all those quakes. They appear to be laid out in an odd fashion on EDIS also.

I don't bother with that RSOE, its always got errors.
Same with USGS, because even before the funding stalemate they kept deleting pages of stuff "to be replaced" but has it has never been done so any data collection consistency has been lost.
ANSS are still collecting data as far as I can see, so that is my go to place for US quakes.
There doesn't seem to be any rise in the number of events and from what RSOE were showing on that link they were very small quakes anyway.
To get a perspective on what is "normal", here is the interactive map for the USA for July (I'm working on more recent ones at the moment)
Note the line of quakes that follows the San Andreas Fault

I wonder what is this activity. Smaller quakes in 4 volcanoes: Hekla, Katla(Mýrdalsjökull), Eyjafjallajökull and Torfajökull. These quakes are really small, so could also be weather. The weather there is always awful, precipitation annually is more than 10 meters.


If you wonder what those names mean:
Mýrdalsjökull = Mire valley glacier
Katla = Kettle
Hekla = Cloak
Torfajökull = Torfi's glacier
Eyjafjallajökull = Island mountain glacier

reply to post by Elliot


do u mean this?



i just assumed it was because of the "shhutdown",,

wrong?

I somehow just had the feeling we will see a M7.0+ one withing the next 48 hours. I have no idea why I feel this way, but I hope I am wrong and this is bs.

Thank you to the 13 people who looked at my Scandanavia page, and the 10 who looked at ANSS July
Maybe some looked more than once, and maybe some came from outside ATS, all readers are appreciated though.
I have since added August and Sept maps.
eqarchives.wordpress.com...

I have made a mistake in the numbers count for the Continental USA, I had the formula set at counting to 5000, there were more, thats why both Aug and Sept were 4999, had me confused for a while how they could be the same
I'll fix that.

Elliot
reply to post by PuterMan

 

What do you make of the current 'stream' of small and not so small quakes on the Western Coast of the Americas?

The silence on this is 'deafening'.

First as regards the Western Coast at least as far as California, Washington and Oregon goes I see no increase and even a very slight decrease as evidenced by this chart:

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I regret that I cannot comment on EDIS as I have no faith in that site's ability to report.

What do you make of 'The Jupiter Effect' and the theory of John Gribbins and Steven Plagemann that the position and activity of Jupiter also affects earthquakes on the Earth?

There is no doubt that the planet Jupiter affects the Solar System barycentre - that much is proven, and the Grand Conjunction has been shown by some to coincide with the incidence of Great earthquakes. The next major Grand Conjunction is due I believe in around 2040 and that would seem to fit in loosely with the apparent cycle of great earthquakes that seem clustered around the 55 year grand conjunction cycle. It is something that I am investigating further.

reply to post by Thebel

These quakes are really small, so could also be weather.

It is the onset of the cold season and an increase in the ice on the icecaps of these mountains. Minor activity due to isostatic pressure in autumn and spring is common on all the Icelandic ice-capped volcanoes.

In my opinion the current activity can be attributed to this.

aLLeKs
I somehow just had the feeling we will see a M7.0+ one withing the next 48 hours. I have no idea why I feel this way, but I hope I am wrong and this is bs.

Statistically that would seem to be unlikely but then as the saying goes there are lies, there are damned lies and then there is statistics so who knows? You might be right.

ML 4.0
Region FRANCE
Date time 2013-10-11 12:52:39.0 UTC
Location 48.47 N ; 4.30 W
Depth 8 km
Distances 180 km SW of Saint Helier, Jersey / pop: 28,000 / local time: 13:52:39.0 2013-10-11
54 km N of Quimper, France / pop: 63,849 / local time: 14:52:39.0 2013-10-11
3 km SE of Saint-Thonan, France / pop: 1,238 / local time: 14:52:39.0 2013-10-11

This is at the tip of Brittany, rather strong quake.

reply to post by Thebel


Something appears to have happened, but only EMSC is reporting it which I find a little odd.

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It is possibly out of the BGS area but I would have thought it would be picked up by Potsdam.

It is however confirmed as 3.9ML by CEA

5.0 near eureka california.... cascadia zone

www.data.scec.org...

Pretty strange, been here 14 years and never felt a quake, just felt one in Crescent City Ca and looked, it was near Eureka, Trinidad CA weird to have felt it all the way to here.

Char-Lee
Pretty strange, been here 14 years and never felt a quake, just felt one in Crescent City Ca and looked, it was near Eureka, Trinidad CA weird to have felt it all the way to here.

There is nothing as surreal as feeling a good sized quake. Seeing a parking lot roll is just as unbelievable but I've been there. At least you live in Cali so you automatically know what to do. I worry about people in other regions not so well conditioned.

Can anyone update on this Nevada quake. It alerted on my MacBook at a 3 or 4 and I can't find it now (pops up as just happening and then disappears). Since USGS is so unreliable maybe it is a fluke but if not I'd like more info if possible. Thanks.

reply to post by steve95988

It had to be unusual because at that size I can't see why I felt it so well, gave me a nausea feeling and the room moved, in Crescent City Ca

reply to post by Dianec


I feel a little nervous after that, they tell us here if we feel a quake get to high ground have 12 mins, but this one should be no problem, still i feel all strange.

reply to post by Char-Lee


The moment tensor for this quake shows that it was strike-slip style faulting, so even though it was near the locked portion of the CSZ, it was probably a quake entirely within the Pacific plate; just some flexing.

Nobody has reported feeling this earthquake on the DYFI page. You should report your experience, Char-Lee.

It shows up nicely on the Mount Pierce station:

reply to post by Char-Lee


Oh yes - you live right by wide open ocean. So good to know you have 12 minutes. But...how do you all know "when" your to go? Do you have a town siren there for that? Because if not they need to get one installed and manned. Also a have a go kit ready to grab.

Dianec
reply to post by Char-Lee

 

Oh yes - you live right by wide open ocean. So good to know you have 12 minutes. But...how do you all know "when" your to go? Do you have a town siren there for that? Because if not they need to get one installed and manned. Also a have a go kit ready to grab.

We have the siren but there have been problems with it's function and also we sometimes can't hear it. we are about 1.5 miles from the beach. if we had to leave it would be hard there are rivers in all directions out of town and not much high ground, the small tsunamis would not reach is we are 50ft above sea lvl.

reply to post by Olivine


Thanks I reported it, I hope others will also it is a rare thing. I said earthquake and my husband says huh...he was busy on a video game. I said wow it shook the whole room, then i took his mouse and went to the earthquake page and there it was just happened.