7.3 quake in Papau New Guinea

7.3 just struck, off-shore Papau New Guinea

will try and follow up with tsunami info

USGS link

ETA: at least its deep at 50.7 km, hopefully that will help with not generating too large of a tsunami.

link to tsunami monitoring

So far it appears to only be a warning for local to the quake

The seer size of the quake, and the location, low depth, that close to shore, looks like it could create a great wreak of a wave man!!!

Oh boy, I hope that's deep enough to not cause much in the way of problems. i think that island (Bougainville Island) nearest the quake has somewhere around 200,000 residents.

I saw what you wrote there before you axed it, Westcoast, you might be right:

M6.8 - 96km SSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-04-11 08:16:51 UTC

The main quake was downgraded to a 7.1, so if this tiny gap between the main shock and aftershock holds, it fits with the foreshock rule

Aftershocks

Magnitude 6.7
Date-Time
11 Apr 2014 08:16:49 UTC
11 Apr 2014 18:16:50 near epicenter
11 Apr 2014 00:16:49 standard time in your timezone
Location 6.835S 154.967E
Depth 50 km
Distances
81 km (50 mi) SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea
93 km (57 mi) SW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea
406 km (251 mi) SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
552 km (342 mi) ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
619 km (383 mi) WNW of Honiara, Solomon Islands
Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 0.0 km; Vertical 5.8 km
Parameters Nph = 91; Dmin = 426.4 km; Rmss = 1.28 seconds; Gp = 29°
Version = 1
Event ID us c000pfuy
USGS


Magnitude: 5.1
Location: Bougainville region, P.N.G.

Time: Fri, Apr 11, 2014, 1:31:45 AM PDT
GMT: Fri, Apr 11, 2014 08:31:45 GMT

Latitude: 7° 2' 23" S (-7.0400°)
Longitude: 154° 56' 59" E (154.9500°)
Depth: 10.0 km

Map: maps.google.com...@-7.040000,154.949997&z=6

More Information (while available): www.emsc-csem.org...

Data provided by European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. EMSC


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No tsunami
For pacific

NO DESTRUCTIVE WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.

A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

NOAA

I had a dream the other night that the tectonic plates sunk due to the Earths core collapsing when the magnetosphere flipped.

reply to post by Coagula


oh s***t. that kind of seems to make sense. hope ur wrong.

sum fairly big quakes worldwide lately im noticing.....

Still nothing on RT/Reuters

rapunzel222
reply to post by Coagula

 

oh s***t. that kind of seems to make sense. hope ur wrong.

Sorry, I didn't mean to alarm. However, on another thread I posted this, which, I think, is quite apt;

My guess is that the Earth's magnetic field is fluctuating, and these booming noises, which have been heard all over the world, are an artefact of the Earth's magnetic core which is currently slowing down due to the strain caused by the stretching of the magnetosphere. Meaning that it's not far away from flipping. I think you'll find that the places in which these booming noises are heard are where the magnetic forces intersect with the Earths crust.

Sorry, had to go to bed. It was after one am my time.

Looks like there have been a few 'after-shocks', but yeah; I'm not convinced yet that they might not be in for something bigger based the 'rule' of after-shock, foreshock sequences.

The next few days will tell, but hopefully there will be nothing more. I think this was downgraded to a 7.1, and I haven't heard of any damage, etc. but I honestly haven't had much time yet to check too much.