Quake Watch 2014

reply to post by lurksoften


Just saw this and was going to post it.

That's a big one!

************************CONFIRMED-GET WORD OUT********************************

EQ-20140412-399027-SLB Common Alerting Protocol
Magnitude: 8.3
Mercalli scale: 12
Date-Time [UTC]: 12 April, 2014 at 22:14:37 UTC
Local Date/Time: Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 22:14 in the evening at epicenter
Coordinate: 11° 20.340, 162° 20.340
Depth: 10 km (6.21 miles)
Hypocentrum: Shallow depth
Class: Great
Region: Pacific Ocean - Middle
Country: Solomon Islands
Location: 0.98 km (0.61 miles) NW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands

SHALLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just got it on my phone and came straight here how sad lol jokes you guys provide good information

reply to post by lurksoften

000
WEPA40 PHEB 122020
TSUPAC

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 2020Z 12 APR 2014

THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC
OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...
WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

... A TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH ARE IN EFFECT ...

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR

SOLOMON ISLANDS / VANUATU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / NAURU /
NEW CALEDONIA / TUVALU / KOSRAE

A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR

KIRIBATI / FIJI / MARSHALL ISLANDS / WALLIS AND FUTUNA /
HOWLAND AND BAKER / POHNPEI / TOKELAU / AUSTRALIA / SAMOA /
INDONESIA / KERMADEC ISLANDS / NEW ZEALAND / AMERICAN SAMOA /
TONGA / CHUUK / NIUE / COOK ISLANDS / WAKE ISLAND / GUAM /
NORTHERN MARIANAS / YAP / PALAU / JARVIS ISLAND /
MINAMITORISHIMA / PALMYRA ISLAND / JOHNSTON ISLAND

FOR ALL OTHER AREAS COVERED BY THIS BULLETIN... IT IS FOR
INFORMATION ONLY AT THIS TIME.

THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 2015Z 12 APR 2014
COORDINATES - 11.3 SOUTH 162.3 EAST
DEPTH - 10 KM
LOCATION - SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAGNITUDE - 8.3

Source


GFZ 7.5

THE MAGNITUDE HAS BEEN REVISED FROM 8.3 DOWN TO 7.8 IN THIS
MESSAGE AND THE WARNING AREA HAS BEEN REDUCED.

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR

SOLOMON ISLANDS / VANUATU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA

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BobAthome
************************CONFIRMED-GET WORD OUT********************************

EQ-20140412-399027-SLB Common Alerting Protocol
Magnitude: 8.3
Mercalli scale: 12
Date-Time [UTC]: 12 April, 2014 at 22:14:37 UTC
Local Date/Time: Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 22:14 in the evening at epicenter
Coordinate: 11° 20.340, 162° 20.340
Depth: 10 km (6.21 miles)
Hypocentrum: Shallow depth
Class: Great
Region: Pacific Ocean - Middle
Country: Solomon Islands
Location: 0.98 km (0.61 miles) NW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands

SHALLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to sound like a total nutter, and it's probably more appropriate for the Alternative Methods thread, but I had a gnawing need to check the EQ lists 15 minutes ago or so (I was busy with the kids, so I couldn't) Man, my blood ran cold seeing this listed. This is scary shallow, scary.

Weird, GFZ-Potsdam show 2 Mag 7+ quakes--I'm sure this will be revised.

M 7.3 2014-04-12 20:24:45
Solomon Islands
M 7.5 2014-04-12 20:14:38
Solomon Islands

EMSC have it as Mag 8.2 Mw.

Magnitude Mw 8.2
Region SOLOMON ISLANDS
Date time 2014-04-12 20:14:37.0 UTC
Location 11.29 S ; 162.24 E
Depth 10 km
Distances 324 km SE of Honiara, Solomon Islands / pop: 56,298 / local time: 07:14:37.0 2014-04-13
99 km S of Kirakira, Solomon Islands / pop: 1,122 / local time: 07:14:37.0 2014-04-13

reply to post by Nyiah





if these boats hit dirt,, those people will need too run,, fast too other side of island.

reply to post by BobAthome


Looks like there are some swells rolling in now, but I am unfamiliar with this area.

I would be driving my boat way out as fast as I could go......

reply to post by Doodle19815




a crowd is starting to gather on the dock, the word must be getting out,,

scary pplace to be i would think,, but hey its an island and i dont know wich side quake was on,,??

It's fascinating how these large quakes can be recorded thousands of kilometers away - 11,660 km to be precise!

This is the seismic station closest to my house - GS.OK029. That big earthquake has already registered on this seismograph. It was just installed not more than a couple of months ago, so maybe it has great sensitivity.

You might also notice these short-duration spikes - we usually feel those. They frequently don't show up as an earthquake anywhere, though they sure feel like earthquakes to me!

Where's muzzy????Surely this would have got him out of bed to check out the tsunami???

Rainbows
Jane

reply to post by BobAthome


Downgraded to 7.6 so I guess it can't be to bad now.

Equador is now where near The Solomons .......... whats the deal?

Amazing what a magnitude difference of 0.6 makes for the Tsunami warning,
at 8.3 we were alerted on the radio on the 9am News
ETA NEW ZEALAND
NORTH_CAPE 34.4S 173.3E 0021Z 13 APR
AUCKLAND_WEST 37.1S 174.2E 0122Z 13 APR
EAST_CAPE 37.7S 178.5E 0131Z 13 APR
GISBORNE 38.7S 178.0E 0155Z 13 APR
AUCKLAND_EAST 36.7S 175.0E 0203Z 13 APR
NEW_PLYMOUTH 39.1S 174.1E 0207Z 13 APR
WELLINGTON 41.3S 174.8E 0219Z 13 APR
ptwc.weather.gov...
@ 7.6 na, don't worry.
looks like just the Solomons, Vanuatu and PNG will get something
ptwc.weather.gov...

poor Solomonians, first those floods, now a couple of M7 earthquakes to deal with
I use PMG (Port Moresby, PNG) station for this part of the Pacific, it is quite sensitive
this is the graph just now set at the same settings as these earlier ones which are showing 4s and 5's
www.iris.edu...

reply to post by muzzy


Morning muzzy!
Rainbows
Jane

muzzy
Equador is now where near The Solomons .......... whats the deal?

I just got around to googling that location, it's apparently in the Galapagos. Still a huge distance away, I assumed this was some small port nearby the Solomons. Bob, unless you have good reason to include it, this is very misleading for people.

I'm relieved it's been downgraded, but a 7.6 is still a pretty big quake. And considering the region, it could be all there is, or a foreshock like the Santa Cruz sequence was. Hopefully there's nothing more, the islanders over there have dealt with enough recently.

reply to post by Nyiah

942.2 km between the 7.6 now and the 7.1 on 11/04, there is the potential of a M8 along that distance for sure

5.0 aftershock earthquake.usgs.gov...

geofon are reporting a 6.1mb 10 minutes after their 7.5 geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

not sure who to believe, up till now USGS were being USEFULL for a change and had better coverage (more aftershocks of the 7.1 than the rest) but are now lagging behind

Maybe this is a dumb question...but why are so many of recent quakes immediately downgraded from the original assessment. Is this normal or a new trend?

further to post by muzzy

I didn't realize how slowly we got the News, it was 3/4hr before announced on our local radio.
Plenty of time if it had been a 8.3 or bigger, but still that is pretty poor response time, something like that should be breaking news worth interrupting the music for.
Maybe I should get that damned smart phone after all and an eq app.
If that had been at the Kermadecs .............

reply to post by Rezlooper

I think the networks are depending too much on automatic readings from their instrument for the first postings, the settings must be too high or something.

This is how EMSC got their 7.8Mw

2014-04-12 20:15:00.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, Mw, 8.3, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PTWC
2014-04-12 20:15:00.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, Mw, 8.3, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PTWC
2014-04-12 20:15:00.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, Mw, 7.8, M:, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PTWC
2014-04-12 20:15:00.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, Mw, 7.8, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PTWC
2014-04-12 20:15:00.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, Mw, 7.6, M:, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PTWC
2014-04-12 20:15:00.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, Mw, 7.6, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PTWC
2014-04-12 20:15:00.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, Mw, 7.6, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PTWC
2014-04-12 20:15:00.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, Mw, 7.6, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PTWC
2014-04-12 20:15:00.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, Mw, 7.6, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, JMA
2014-04-12 20:14:49.6, 9.90S, 162.10E, 72, Mw, 7.5, A, SOLOMON ISLANDS, BGSG
2014-04-12 20:14:45.9, 11.30S, 162.27E, 15, mb, 8.0, A, SOLOMON ISLANDS, MAD
2014-04-12 20:14:43.1, 11.17S, 162.25E, 16, mb, 7.8, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, MAD
2014-04-12 20:14:42.6, 11.12S, 162.15E, 33, Mw, 7.8, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, KAN
2014-04-12 20:14:39.6, 11.31S, 162.21E, 29, Mw, 7.6, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, NEIC
2014-04-12 20:14:39.1, 11.28S, 162.25E, 20, Mw, 7.8, M+, SOLOMON ISLANDS, INFO
2014-04-12 20:14:39.0, 11.31S, 162.21E, 29, Mw, 7.6, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, INGV
2014-04-12 20:14:39.0, 10.99S, 162.26E, 10, Mw, 8.1, A, SOLOMON ISLANDS, BUD
2014-04-12 20:14:38.9, 11.38S, 162.33E, 10, M , 7.6, A, SOLOMON ISLANDS, MLT
2014-04-12 20:14:38.9, 11.37S, 162.27E, 10, mb, 6.7, A, SOLOMON ISLANDS, SC3
2014-04-12 20:14:38.6, 11.29S, 162.27E, 10, M , 7.7, A, SOLOMON ISLANDS, GFZ
2014-04-12 20:14:37.0, 11.34S, 162.34E, 10, Mi, 8.3, M!, SOLOMON ISLANDS, PT
2014-04-12 20:14:37.0, 11.30S, 162.30E, 10, Mi, 8.3, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, AT
2014-04-12 20:14:34.6, 11.25S, 162.29E, 10, Ms, 7.7, M, SOLOMON ISLANDS, GSRC

Alaska Tsunami Warning Seismic System, West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center -- , USA (AT)
British Geological Survey (Global Network) -- Edinburgh, United Kingdom (BGSG)
MTA CSFK GGI Kövesligethy Radó Seismological Observatory -- Budapest, Hungary (BUD)
GeoForschungsZentrum (GEOFON) -- Potsdam, Germany (GFZ)
Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences -- Obninsk, Russia (GSRC)
Japan Meteorological Agency -- Tokyo, Japan (JMA)
Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute -- Istanbul, Turkey (KAN)
Instituto Geografico Nacional -- Madrid, Spain (MAD)
Malta Seismic Network, Seismic Monitoring and Research Unit (SMRU), University of Malta -- Msida, Malta (MLT)
National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey -- Golden, USA (NEIR)
Pacific Tsunami Warning Seismic System, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Ewa Beach, Hawaii -- , USA (PT)
Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre -- Hawai, USA (PTWC)