Quake Watch 2013

reply to post by whatnext21


My apologies for the assumption. I think it is automatic to assume in the absence of any information, but actually there is a high proportion of ladies on ATS as far as I can tell by comparison to other sites.

I guess my name/avatar gives the game away, but I could hardly be anything other than a grumpy old man!

Re the " cracks and steam coming out" of "the Santa Cruz Islands"
On the NZ One News last night they were interviewing some guy at Lata, he might have been the Prime Minister for all I know, or perhaps the Disaster Management Co-ordinator, he was a local anyway, and he said something like this "earthquakes, tsunami, volcano erupting ... what next?, we need fresh water, food and shelter .... etc"
That was it, didn't say which volcano or even which island.
Thats the trouble with MSM, they are so busy trying to be FIRST they don't do any research and present the information the consumer really wants.

reply to post by PuterMan


I don't know that I buy the "only 10% of stress released", either. I wish I could find a paper referring to what he stated...still looking.
Thanks for your detailed response.

update of data (GFZ) for Santa Cruz Islands aftershocks graph at 88:42:08hrs after mainshock

15 quakes in 12 hours, largest 5.7, looks like its settling down



based on GFZ's estimate that it was a 7.9Mw and not a 8.0Mw
Total Energy Released= 12,802,623.79 TTNT
mainshock ER= 10,675,994.08 TTNT
aftershocks ER= 2,126,629.71 TTNT

seems to be quite a correlation between recent volcanic/eq activity.




or is this normal?

images from - realtimetools.de...

damn it!

F-E Region: Santa Cruz Islands
Time: 2013-02-09 21:02:25.8 UTC
Magnitude: 6.6 (Mw)
Epicenter: 165.72°E 10.96°S
Depth: 34 km
Status: M - manually revised

geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

F-E Region: Santa Cruz Islands
Time: 2013-02-09 22:14:31.3 UTC
Magnitude: 6.0 (mb?)
Epicenter: 165.87°E 10.90°S
Depth: 10 km
Status: A - automatic

geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

reply to post by muzzy


Muzzy, please explain 'Damn it'. i am wondering why the latest EQ 6.6 Santa Cruz is not registering on the LISS - Live Internet Seismogram?? earthquake.usgs.gov... The 6.9 Columbia one did?

well maybe it is registering now, but a delay of an hour and a half and doesn't seem to come close to the waves generated by the 6.9? can you she some light on this?


one more thing i have both the old usgs and the new up and i see that the old one registers eq's much faster, showing 2 more for the Santa Cruz area pretty good for an obsolete map, i would say.


MAP 5.1 2013/02/09 22:49:06 -10.980 165.750 40.8 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
MAP 5.3 2013/02/09 22:14:35 -10.990 165.782 37.0 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS

reply to post by whatnext21


Add two more to that tally:

5.2 14km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-09 23:13:43 10.843°S 165.864°E 44.0
5.4 22km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-09 23:09:44 10.916°S 165.883°E 28.7

All four in pretty rapid succession following that 6.6.

(the 5.2 literally happened as I was typing this)

reply to post by whatnext21

2 reasons,
1. I had just done a new graph at 18:18 UTC and had closed the file.
2. I wouldn't wish a 6.6 earthquake on anyone, let alone those poor islanders who's lives are now in ruins.
LISS updates every 30 minutes, its not automatically refreshing, so you have to do it yourself if you already had the page opened.
I had the 6.6 on SNZO at 22:18

I also lost the seconds off the end of my "when" column in the meantime, doesn't make much difference to the graphs I have been doing, but not too good on the map popups, but we are looking at 5+ pages of data from GFZ now, I can't be bothered doing it all again.
hh:mm it is from now on.

reply to post by muzzy


Man, muzzy, that graph of yours is starting to look like pulse readings on an EKG.

reply to post by deometer


yes there is definitely a pulse.
Its is said if all the earthquakes that we get suddenly stop then that is the time to get REAL worried, earthquakes create life and energy (and kill people) ie no earthquakes=the planet is dead.

just for the heck of it GFZ (143a/s) versus USGS (172a/s)


I've switched to GIF's, uses up less storage space than PNG's (1/2)

Does anyone know if there is a thread specifically about the recent eq activity in the Solomon islands... as to not clutter this thread??

reply to post by steve95988


here ya go
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Originally posted by PatriotsPride
reply to post by steve95988

 

here ya go
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Thank you!
2nd

reply to post by steve95988

Why? don't you like this thread?, need something more ...................American.........................

geez I just gave ya a USGS graph

justkiddingoffyougo

reply to post by muzzy


Hey hey now...

I participate here and you don't even make a showing... !

I'm sicking the Lake Taupo monster on you!

Originally posted by muzzy
just for the heck of it GFZ (143a/s) versus USGS (172a/s)

I've switched to GIF's, uses up less storage space than PNG's (1/2)

Just like when you get any work done, you should always get 3 quotes.

Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) (106a/s)


edit: ha i didn't change the titles on those two other graphs, should be 8.0Mww for the USGS one and 7.2Ms for the GSRAS one, but you guys get the drift.
What the heck is Mww anyway? MomentWhat?What?

[color=A0CFEC]each bold text/title below is the link to the page

USGS Centroid Moment Solution
SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
13/02/06 01:12:26.96
Epicenter: -10.736 165.144
MW 7.9

USGS WPhase Moment Solution
SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
13/ 2/ 6 1:12:23.00
Epicenter: -10.751 165.088
MW 8.0

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 8.0
Date-Time Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 01:12:27 UTC
Parameters NST=347, Nph=351, Dmin=586.7 km, Rmss=1.28 sec, Gp= 18°,
M-type=(unknown type), Version=B

so when was it and how big

reply to post by TrueAmerican

just having a laugh, I didn't even know you started a topic on it, I usually go straight to this (last page) without even looking at the ATS or Fragile Earth Menu.
Some good posts on there about the "gas" and "Villagers on nearby islands have been reporting increased activity at Tinakula volcano"

I know its not a competition, but one wonders why/how you got 41 stars
and I only got 2 stars
for spotting what was happening quite early on 31-1-2013 @ 05:32 PM
It was just luck I had the afternoon off that day, otherwise I'd have never seen it till later.

and why is that steve95988 asking if there is another thread on Santa Cruz?, when he/she was the 2nd person to post on that thread? at 2-2-2013 @ 12:01 PM page one of what is currently at 10 pages long.

I see a Conspiracy

Really? So it's only a coincidence that the plate moved on the opposites side as Puterman noted also? Okay not exactly evidence but it only makes sense that if one plate moves another will have to move and make way somehow.

2013-02-09 14:16:09 UTC
2013-02-09 09:16:09 UTC-05:00 at epicenter
2013-02-09 06:16:09 UTC-08:00 system time

Location

1.167°N 77.384°W depth=153.8km (95.6mi)
Nearby Cities

5km (3mi) NNE of Yacuanquer, Colombia
12km (7mi) WSW of Pasto, Colombia
17km (11mi) SE of Sandona, Colombia
27km (17mi) ENE of Tuquerres, Colombia
199km (124mi) NE of Quito, Ecuador

Originally posted by PuterMan
reply to post by slidingdoor

 

Yup it is the nearest.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Twisting and turning. Now Colombia - opposite Santa Cruz. Round and round goes the Pacific Plate.

Geofon have 6.9 by the way: geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

Columbia and then California - slip the San Andreas a little and then Cascadia? Well I hope not, but the way things are going 21 December 2012 looks like it is happening slowly - it was the start of the end of the world after all.

edit on 9/2/2013 by PuterMan because: (no reason given)

Originally posted by muzzy
reply to post by favouriteslave

 

Is there any evidence that this can happen?
No

Originally posted by favouriteslave

Originally posted by MamaJ

Originally posted by Olivine
reply to post by MariaLida

 

MariaLida you were correct. Nice work.

I second that! Nice work!

ETA: Is there a bigger one lurking? Or is this it? Predict away!

edit on 5-2-2013 by MamaJ because: (no reason given)

If not in the same place then across the Pacific either S. America or Central America.