Quake Watch 2013

reply to post by muzzy


There is Hill Air Force Base there hill Air Force Base They have in the past caused folks around their to jump out of there beds.
There is a interesting article regarding the booms and explosions that have come from this place. And according to another article I read they don't like to own up on stuff.

I am having trouble linking the two articles.

Hill Air Force Base
Here this is it

reply to post by PuterMan


Bazinga!!! Maybe!

First a link to more than you ever needed or wanted to know about Utah's weather!
And definitely more than we ever learned eons ago in geography class!!!

utahweather.org...

I thought the Great Salt Lake Desert meant Utah was all hot.
Turns out I was very wrong! They have four different climate zones...and snow!!!
Who Knew? Not me! This is why I love ATS!!! Tangents...LOTS of tangents!!!

But then I found this:
Link to a 'massive' slide at Bingham Canyon Mine.

www.abc4.com...

If Muzzy's link to LDEO uses UTC, this might be it.

Their times listed: 3:31 & 5:05.
Utah's time is UTC -6 if I did it right!
Sooo...that would make it 9:31 & 11:05?
I think the article said it happened at 9:30.
LDEO coordinates: 40.75 & 111.75.
Ones from search of mine info: 40.52 & 112.15.

This one is a link to neat info on the mine, that says they would not be opening
the Visitors Center & overlook plaza on April 1 due to geotechnical movement,
(could they mean geotectonic?) over the winter. REALLY good thing they didn't!!!

www.utahoutdooractivities.com...

The mine is one of only two manmade objects on earth that can be seen from space!
The other one is the Great Wall of china.

Which could explain why we Americans weren't all over it!!!
Nothing to see here folks, move along!
WOQ

Not of any great significance this one but interesting as the name is not one you see in the lists very often, and it is about as far North as quakes occur normally.

2013-04-12 03:47:15, 87.024, 59.136, 4.6, 10.0, North Of Franz Josef Land [Map]

reply to post by wasobservingquietly


Wow. Good sleuthing!!!!

Yup a slide would also produce this signal. I knew it was not an earthquake but it was difficult to find the right seismo to see what it was. After posting some of the others showed a clearer 'slide' (as I now know it to be) on the N and E channels rather than the Z channel. We tend to look at Z most of the time but for an event like this the other channels tell a tale.

I take it then that the great salt lake is not a lake?? Looks like one on Google Earth!

ETA: Just had a thought. This may turn up on the mines listing, but probably not until tomorrow. I will take a look and see.

reply to post by wasobservingquietly

yes the times on LDEO are UTC.
Bazinga indeed, looks like thats it, LDEO's locations are not usually very accurate, within 50km maybe
great work WOQ


wow thats some landslide!, the Korean's Nuke explosions were only mag 4.8

2013-04-12 20:33:00, 34.400, 134.800, 6.0, 10.0, Awajishima Fukin

Just in from JMA. Probably not Mag 6 once the main providers have played with it.

Since I lived in Osaka and my girlfriend lives there, I really hope it was not felt there... but a friend of mine wrote me she is crying and affraid

Magnitude 6.0 - Near The South Coast Of Western Honshu. Japan

Location in Google Maps

• Date-Time: Friday, April 12, 2013 @ 20:33:16 UTC
  
• Earthquake location: 34.413°N, 134.827°E,
  
• Earthquake depth: 5.3 km
  
• Distances:
  9km (5mi) NW of Sumoto, Japan
  20km (12mi) NNE of Fukura, Japan
  28km (17mi) SSW of Akashi, Japan
  32km (19mi) NE of Naruto, Japan
  465km (288mi) WSW of Tokyo, Japan
  
• Event ID: usb000g5yg
  

Derived from Event Data Source: USGS
Powered by QVSData

Reached my girlfriend, she is reporting it was pretty strong in Osaka. They all get shocked since it is not normal to feel earthquakes there. But as far as she knows, there are not reports of injries and accidents so far

edit: and some of my friends are suprised that it was only one quake, they are saying it felt like 2 or more. Seemed very long for them. does somebody have reading of this quake already?

reply to post by aLLeKs


It has been dropped to 5.7/5.8 by the main providers now.

Just looking up a seismo for you.

Here you are: INU.G.00.BHZ.2013.102

Looks like only one quake.

And another one: JNU.JP..BHZ.2013.102

Still only looks like one.

There are several smaller aftershocks however

Prov,Date/Time UTC,Latitude,Longitude,Magnitude,Depth(Km),Location
jma,2013-04-12 20:33:00, 34.400, 134.800, 6.0, 10.0, Awajishima Fukin
jma,2013-04-12 20:41:00, 34.400, 134.900, 3.8, 10.0, Osaka-Wan
jma,2013-04-12 21:05:00, 34.400, 134.800, 2.7, 10.0, Awajishima Fukin
jma,2013-04-12 21:09:00, 34.500, 134.800, 3.2, 10.0, Harima-Nada
jma,2013-04-12 21:17:00, 34.400, 134.800, 3.2, 10.0, Awajishima Fukin
jma,2013-04-12 21:23:00, 34.400, 134.800, 3.0, 10.0, Awajishima Fukin
jma,2013-04-12 21:31:00, 34.400, 134.800, 3.4, 10.0, Awajishima Fukin

My friend in Osaka just emailed me, said they are ok, said don't panic when you hear about quake, everythings ok.

reply to post by muzzy


Some landslide indeed!!



There are 37 photos including some of it happening

reply to post by PuterMan


Thanks for the linking to the photos. The scale of the images is awe-inspiring. Seeing those dump trucks half-buried in the dirt was nearly incomprehensible for my brain which kept trying to compare them to Tonka toy trucks.

reply to post by PuterMan


yowzers! look at all that copper ore ripe for picking up now

6.3ML, Awaji Island, Osaka Bay, Near S. Coast Of Western Honshu, Japan

interactive aftershocks map, data from NIED

[color=lime](click image for interactive map, opens in new tab/window)

Aqua showing 5.7Mw
status at 5:11 hours after the main shock
mag6= 1
mag5= 0
mag4= 1
mag3= 5
mag2= 26
mag1= 76
total= 109
TTNT= 42,526.867

reply to post by aLLeKs

is that island some kind of holiday resort?
looks like it with all the lakes and roads running everywhere
are you still in Osaka? you have your address on your profile as there

here is a World map I created using P'mans QVS Data Pro program for all the quakes it can gather together at the moment.
as it says, 12/04/2013 UTC

[color=lime](click image for interactive map, opens in new tab/window)

of course these are just some of the networks, at the moment coverage is by
USGS
EMSC
GEONET
GEOAU
GFZ
NOA
CAN
JMA
BGS

I heard a whisper that
CHILE
IRAN
ICELAND
SPAIN
are soon to be added


when you play around with the interactive version you may see that some icons are darker than others, this is where there are a few versions of the same event, just click through using the "next"

ach its already better than that globalincidentmap and that other usgsinteractivemapthingy as it is

Originally posted by muzzy
reply to post by aLLeKs

 

is that island some kind of holiday resort?
looks like it with all the lakes and roads running everywhere
are you still in Osaka? you have your address on your profile as there

At the moment I am in Germany, but my heart is still in Osaka and I will move back there as soon as possible.

I don't know about this island as a holiday resort I only know it as the way to Shikoku which in fact is a place of rest for many people from the Kansai region since it is really green and not like the Kansai area.

reply to post by aLLeKs

oh OK then.
cheers

This one is odd!

Magnitude 5.8 - Vanuatu

Locat ion in Google Maps

• Date-Time: Saturday, April 13, 2013 @ 22:49:49 UTC
  
• Earthquake location: 19.110°S, 169.621°E,
  
• Earthquake depth: 265.9 km
  
• Distances:
  61km (37mi) NE of Isangel, Vanuatu
  205km (127mi) SE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu
  317km (196mi) NE of We, New Caledonia
  471km (292mi) NE of Dumbea, New Caledonia
  472km (293mi) NE of Mont-Dore, New Caledonia
  
• Event ID: usb000g6it
  

Derived from Event Data Source: USGS
Powered by QVSData

GFZ say 5.5, EMSC say 6.0 and the two USGS moment tensors say 6.0