Quake Watch 2014

a reply to: PuterMan
Quite a few Mag 6.8 and 6.9 earthquakes in recent months, but no Mag 7's since 23 June.
2014 significant quakes (according to USGS)
Maybe we are in for a below average year in large earthquakes?

a reply to: Olivine

That is a pretty pointless list (no reflection on you). Why do they bother with it? It is so incomplete as to be worthless.

New swarm in Tjörnes Fracture Zone in Iceland. I feel this belongs to this thread, as there is no volcano located in that exact spot. These are located in Grimsey Lineament.



This shouldn't be connected to Bardarbunga activity. TFZ is often very active, but then the activity suddenly dies off. Some swarms have lasted for 2 weeks or more. The swarm usually starts moving towards northwest along the plate boundary.

Tjörnes Fracture Zone is submarine volcano, series of underwater fissure vents, last erupted in 1868. Its discussed that there is huge amount of stress in TFZ, it even might have capability for magnitude 7 earthquake. That is why its interesting area for observation. There are often huge swarms with hundreds of earthquakes, strongest ones shaking the nearby towns and Grimsey island.

A 4.4 in Kansas & a 3.4 aftershock.

3.4
7km SE of Harper, Kansas
2014-10-02 18:35:43 UTC
5.0 km

4.4
11km ESE of Harper, Kansas
2014-10-02 18:01:24 UTC
5.0 km

SOURCE: USGS
WOQ

a reply to: Olivine
yes it has been quiet lately

any guesses where the next one will be?

I have a feeling it could be Kermadecs, Fiordland or Vanuatu in our region, been too too quiet here, especially Fiordland
it just picked up today with a 4.5 and a 3.8 offshore Puysegur Trench
Been a few Pacific Antarctic Ridge quakes 2 days ago, sometimes an indicator things are moving our way
www.ldeo.columbia.edu...

thing is to pick a place that is NOT there on the list

a reply to: muzzy
It has been relatively quiet along the eastern Himalaya/Tibet/Nepal/Bhutan/south central China region for a while.
But I have a terrible record for guessing coming quake locations.

Now what is one doing down here in my area lol

M3.1 - 16km ESE of Center, Texas
2014-10-03 04:52:33 UTC

Event Time
2014-10-03 04:52:33 UTC
2014-10-02 23:52:33 UTC-05:00 at epicenter
2014-10-02 22:52:33 UTC-06:00 system time

Location
31.721°N 94.026°W depth=5.0km (3.1mi)

Nearby Cities
16km (10mi) ESE of Center, Texas
61km (38mi) ENE of Nacogdoches, Texas
79km (49mi) ENE of Lufkin, Texas
87km (54mi) ESE of Henderson, Texas
308km (191mi) WNW of Baton Rouge, Louisiana

USGS

a reply to: Thebel

70 events in that one so far
closer (interactive) map
yeah its a pretty active area for sure
if you go through the maps and zoom each one in to the spot, its always got 100's per month there (except in Aug/Sept 2014)
Iceland 2014
maybe things are returning to normal for Iceland

originally posted by: muzzy
a reply to: Thebel

70 events in that one so far
closer (interactive) map
yeah its a pretty active area for sure
if you go through the maps and zoom each one in to the spot, its always got 100's per month there (except in Aug/Sept 2014)
Iceland 2014
maybe things are returning to normal for Iceland

Seems like this swarm didn't last long. Just wondering that exact location, the recent swarms have been in Husavik-Flatey Fault (HFF). I guess it was time for Grimsey Lineament to release pressure (or build it). There hasn't been strong earthquakes in TFZ for at least year. The last long swarm was exactly year ago, starting 25th of September and ending 3rd of October. But that was again in HFF. As far as I have found info, last swarm in this exact same location we had this swarm was in 1st of August 2013.

In June 2013 Rúv.is news talked about pressure building in TFZ, that there is expected to be more swarms. TFZ has been building tension at least 200 years, and these small swarms do not release it. Last strong earthquake happened 38 years ago near Kópasker, magnitude 6.5.
www.jonfr.com...

This following shot of Old Faithful won't impress you. So, don't bother thinking about it. However, the top little blue squiggles are something because it shows up else where. Probably nothing much.



I really came on to write about my fear that Turkey is where we may find the next biggish one. It's not just me. I've pulled up some studies in my email box which lay out the argument as to the whys. I have looked this morning to see the general area around Turkey is a little bumpy. Again, probably nothing but scattered thoughts bouncing around in my ole' nut.

www.livescience.com...

Um, Oklahoma. Oh my. Kansas. Oh my. nuf said.

Had to add. Man, that Yellowstone shot came out so small. Whatever. Here's a link to the actual page.

www.isthisthingon.org...

a reply to: ericblair4891
The Princes Island segment has been mentioned before in articles about Turkey, but I think it already slipped for that western part of the North Anatolian Fault
Samothraki, Aegean Sea 6.8Mw, 24/05/2014

but I could be wrong
so could they
funny I was thinking about downloading a bunch of data for Turkey earlier this morning, haven't got around to it yet.

further to comment by: me

Did that;
from May the rest of 2014 up to end of September
all of 2012 (only had Dec.)
the rest of 2011 (Oct-Dec)
Finally got the Van series on there!
its still shaking after 3 years (23/10/2011), 48 earthquakes in Sept, maybe it will never return to normal.
2011/2012 was quite a rough couple of years for the Greeks and Turks

I'm just going through each month and creating the links to the M5's where applicable, 100-140km winds and rain here.

Tjörnes Fracture Zone activity is up again. After the first swarm, it was quiet for 7 hours, then there was 3 quakes within 3 hours, then again quiet for 4 hours, until new swarm started. This new swarm released much more energy, as the overall magnitude was higher, even with fewer quakes. There was even one 3.4 magnitude quake. Lets see if we see another swarm during tomorrow.

Too bad NICE network is down, last GPS datapoints are from February. Would be interesting to see Kópasker GPS. Nearest working GPS shows something crazy, but it started in May:

Just had a good shakeup here, a long way from me but it sure felt strong, cat took off, it was strong enough I was waiting for the "real" shaking, but it died away.

Public ID 2014p751490
Universal Time October 6 2014, 1:14:32
NZ Daylight Time Mon, Oct 6 2014, 2:14:32 pm
Depth 117 km
Magnitude 5.2
Location 25 km west of Murupara (between Taupo and Rotorua, NI)
Latitude, Longitude -38.43, 176.40

www.geonet.org.nz...

edit: down to 5.1




over 2000 felt reports in,
MM8 Destructive: Wainuiomata [28]
MM6 Strong [461]: Hastings [53], Mahora [7], Mangaroa, Opotiki [40], Tawa [22], Te Aro [91], Thorndon [46], Wellington Cbd [194], Woodville [7]


Now we are getting Hail!! On top of 100+km winds for 2 days.
Cats are scared out of their wits! One of them is AWOL since 7am, the other one currently hiding under my Van.

a reply to: muzzy
only 2 hours and 20 minutes but "You have exceeded the maximum window of 4 hours allowed to edit your post."
I'm really glad these Forum creation guys aren't in charge of anything serious.

It seems like ages since the last 5, but its only been 14 days!!
M5+NZ map

further and further to: muzzy
just one aftershock

ID: 2014p751831 Network: geonet
Status: automatic
Date/Time NZDT: 06/10/2014 17:16:25
Date/Time UTC: 06/10/2014 04:16:25
Latitude, Longitude: -38.3635, 176.3461
Magnitude: 3.67M
Depth: 190.63 km
Energy Released: 4.8074 tonnes of TNT

to be expected ........... due to depth of the 5.08

A Magnitude 6.0 has hit southern China according to USGS. (originally listed as mag 5.8)

Also reported as a Mag 5.8 Mag 6.1 by www.emsc-csem.org... and Mag 5.8 Mag 6.1 by geofon.gfz-potsdam.de....

It looks to be a fairly low population at risk of strong shaking--that's good.

M6.2 - 121km WSW of El Dorado, Mexico

Event Time

2014-10-08 02:40:54 UTC
2014-10-07 19:40:54 UTC-07:00 at epicenter
2014-10-07 21:40:54 UTC-05:00 system time

Location

23.817°N 108.423°W depth=10.0km (6.2mi)
Nearby Cities

121km (75mi) WSW of El Dorado, Mexico
128km (80mi) SW of Navolato, Mexico
128km (80mi) SW of Campo Gobierno, Mexico
135km (84mi) SW of Costa Rica, Mexico
1077km (669mi) WNW of Mexico City, Mexico

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Just alerted,

6.2, El dorado, Mexico.

I'm sure another will be along with the details shortly..

Edit: sorry darkblade, nevermind, I was just surprised not to see it here yet. I hope all are ok

a reply to: GoShredAK

Looks like it was centered in the water, so I think it shouldn't be to bad.
Unless a bigger one hits......

*twitch*