Quake Watch 2013

reply to post by muzzy


Hey i had few to drink last night,forgive my jibes. Those graphs are great. I am a regular visitor to this thread and i
Admits its down to.you guys.
So stop whinging about this whinger.

46000 tonnes,wow .
And congratultions on your groundbreaking first.
What is causing all this release of energy?

radpetey

Bubbles for me........Keep up the good work!!

2nd.

stop sitting on the fence rad!,
it will be bubbles/orbs/icons/balls regardless,
but standard size? ( all mags are the same size bubble but different shades),
or the other option is the bubbles vary in size depending on the magnitude size of the earthquake event?
I think you missed the question.

reply to post by symptomoftheuniverse


thats OK, no harm done, I tried to ignore your comments but couldn't help myself taking a swipe at POMs, was I right?

symptomoftheuniverse
reply to post by muzzy

 

46000 tonnes,wow .
And congratultions on your groundbreaking first.
What is causing all this release of energy?

The Earth is Expanding ............... or whatever other answer you want to hear,
no one really knows.

Minor fix to shape saving and editing in the IRIS IEB URL Builder

Links to details and downloads

Notice! This is a computer-generated report - this event has not reviewed by a seismologist!
EDIS Number: EQ-20131029-363795-AUS Common Alerting Protocol
Magnitude: 6.0
Mercalli scale: 6
Date-Time [UTC]: 29 October, 2013 at 11:37:55 UTC
Local Date/Time: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 11:37 in the moorning at epicenter
Coordinate: 61° 41.670, 154° 43.812
Depth: 9.97 km (6.20 miles)
Hypocentrum: Shallow depth
Class: Strong
Region: Australia - New-Zealand
Country: Australia
Location: 19.14 km (11.89 miles) NW of Port Huon, Tasmania, Australia
Source: USGS
Generated Tsunami: Not or no data!
Damage: Not or no data

hisz.rsoe.hu...

Rainbows
Jane

reply to post by angelchemuel


9.14 km (11.89 miles) NW of Port Huon, Tasmania, Australia ???????????

Notice! This is a computer-generated report - this event has not reviewed by a seismologist!

damn computers!,

2150km (1336mi) S of Hobart, Australia

Balleny islands

RSOE

reply to post by muzzy

EMSC Balleny Islands Region Oct 29 10:38 5.9 1 MAP I Felt It
USGS Balleny Islands Region Oct 29 10:37 6.0 9 MAP I Felt It
GEOFON Balleny Islands Region Oct 29 10:37 5.8 10 MAP I Felt It INFO

earthquake-report.com...

Rainbows
Jane

Here's super deep quake. This deep quakes are very rare, its too deep to be caused by plate tectonics. Actually no one is sure why deep quakes happen. They could be caused by phase-transitions of olivine.

Magnitude mb 5.1
Region JILIN-HEILONGJIANG BDR, CHINA
Date time 2013-10-29 20:17:49.0 UTC
Location 43.27 N ; 130.99 E
Depth 546 km
Distances 711 km NE of Pyongyang, North Korea / pop: 3,222,000 / local time: 05:16:58.0 2013-10-30
59 km N of Vladivostok, Russia / pop: 587,022 / local time: 06:16:58.0 2013-10-30
20 km NW of Razdol’noye, Russia / pop: 7,567 / local time: 06:16:58.0 2013-10-30
www.emsc-csem.org...

I noticed interesting thing when I looked IRIS 3d browser



Does the plate go that deep?

an update to post by PuterMan


Sorry folks. At the request of IRIS a very minor modification ti the parameters being sent.

Link to downloads v1.4 Build 5.3

reply to post by Thebel


must do, the balls don't lie

2013-10-30 02:29:14 5.7 35.41°S 72.84°W 10 A Near Coast of Central Chile
2013-10-30 02:51:52 6.1 35.44°S 73.11°W 10 A Off Coast of Central Chile
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

reply to post by Thebel


they get a few near Fiji deeper than that, I was looking at the deep quakes there today, been a few last couple of days, not big magnitude wise, but all were deep...........
mag, depth, date, time, lat, long, where
4.8 524.8 2013-10-29 18:26:03 -17.41 -178.82 FIJI ISLANDS REGION
5.1 571.2 2013-10-29 11:01:54 -20.02 -178.29 FIJI ISLANDS REGION
4.5 514.0 2013-10-28 11:56:00 -20.53 -177.90 FIJI ISLANDS REGION
4.6 515.1 2013-10-28 01:38:27 -18.23 -177.98 FIJI ISLANDS REGION
4.5 516.2 2013-10-26 13:17:20 -17.81 -178.65 FIJI ISLANDS REGION
IRIS IEB

reply to post by muzzy



INDEED. Noticed the depth there, too.

But . . . WHAT's . . . uhhhh squeezing them thar balls that deep?

And aren't those islands among the Pacific's South Pacific group of islands that don't have all that much elevation to survive a significant rise in sea level . . .

or . . . a significant subsidence?

BTW, How'd you put "Tonga" and "Suva" and their dot locations on the 3D?
.

BO XIAN
reply to post by muzzy

 

And aren't those islands among the Pacific's South Pacific group of islands that don't have all that much elevation to survive a significant rise in sea level . . . or . . . a significant subsidence?

No both Viti Levu Is. and Tongatapu Is. are volcanic, there ARE hills to run to in a Tsunami.
Some of the smaller outlaying islands of both countries are nothing more than coral reefs a few feet above the sea level though. its the islands further north in the Pacific that may have to be abandoned.

BO XIAN
reply to post by muzzy

 

BTW, How'd you put "Tonga" and "Suva" and their dot locations on the 3D?

I used my image editing program to add those before loading the images to ATS

BO XIAN
reply to post by muzzy

 

INDEED. Noticed the depth there, too.

But . . . WHAT's . . . uhhhh squeezing them thar balls that deep?

Dunno, but if you look on the IEB map (linked in previous poast) in Satellite view, you will note that the deep (red) quakes line up with the 2nd ridge in from the Kermadec Trench, the Coleville Ridge, Subduction theorists speculate that this ridge was the old Waditi-Benioff subduction zone millions of years ago, so the Pacific Plate may still be hanging down into the core that deep. if it was molten down there there wouldn't be earthquakes. Same with the South American deep quakes east of the Andes.
500km isn't very deep when you consider the Pacific Plate is 10,000km wide between Chile and Fiji.

reply to post by muzzy


I see.

Such a clever Quake Rider you are!

Thx thx.

reply to post by muzzy



Great points.

But aren't things supposed to be at least fairly molten at those depths?

Are they saying it uhhhh . . . shakes like Jell-O or what? LOL.

reply to post by muzzy


" if it was molten down there there wouldn't be earthquakes.",,not necessarily true,,waves are in essence ,,quakes,,
because of course its molten,,,right?,,so what can transfer enough ENERGY ,,,using a liquid, for the transfer of said Energy,,,anyone?,,its heating 101.
only molten lava is,,,your medium ,,,of heat/Energy in Jules,, ,,transference/molten/water/air,,too a specified area,, in a controlled manner.,,"waves are in essence ,,quakes",,ever heard a pipe knock,,steam/water,,etc,,in a closed system,, that is theoreticall impossable.

BO XIAN

 

But aren't things supposed to be at least fairly molten at those depths?

Are they saying it uhhhh . . . shakes like Jell-O or what? LOL.

I'll jump in here.

Mainstream geophysics hypothesizes that the mantle is hot and solid. Yes temperatures increase as you go deeper, but so does the pressure--generated by all of the earth's mass above, being squeezed by gravity.

Think of the mantle like old glass. It can flow over very long (geologic) time periods , but it is not a liquid. Molten rock occurs closer to the earth's surface, where pressures are much lower, allowing gases in the rock to expand.

It is supposed that it takes millions of years for the cold oceanic slabs to heat to the same temperature as the surrounding mantle. The very deep quakes, 400-700 kms deep are thought to be caused by mineral phase changes of pockets of olivine. The quakes that are a bit more shallow, say 70-399 km down (rough figures, for example only) are believed to be "cracking" internal to the subducting slabs; that they may still be just cold/brittle enough in their centers to generate an earthquake.

At least, that is how I understand the current geophysics model.

Man,I have been away to long. Where did you all find all the pretty pictures?