Quake Watch 2015

a reply to: crappiekat
Am up early again, to see who we will play in the Final next week
Australia vs Argentina

Go Argentina!!
We have more chance of beating them in the Final.
Australia can beat us on a good day, but not very often.

Those photos are cool

a reply to: crappiekat
No I haven't seen that.
Thanks I'll have a look into it.

I'm getting alerts about a 7.7 mag quake in Aghanistan or Pakistan. Anyone have any details about what has happened?

Mag 7+ Hindu Kush

2015-10-26 09:09:31, 36.480, 70.820, 7.4, 197.0 Hindu Kush Region. Afghanistan

a reply to: NiteNGale2

You were posting as I was. Only on GFZ Potsdam so far that I can see-------------

Now on EMSC

www.emsc-csem.org...

a reply to: Olivine

Well hello indeed. Summer must be over!

I guess Oregon is about to sink?

All of the vents in the 15 km north trending line are believed to be formed from a single deep fissure.

Maybe happening again???

Update for Mt. Rainier:

She continues to shake in this unusually long sequence.

Mag Time (Local) Depth (Km)
1.3 2015/10/25 16:31:43 PDT 3.7
0.4 2015/10/24 03:20:50 PDT 4.4

Source

Bishop

Here is an updated cross-section of Mt. Rainier activity of the last 20 events since October 2, 2015.



Bishop

originally posted by: PuterMan

Well hello indeed. Summer must be over!

Hehehe. Summer is indeed over; I tried to extend it as long as possible.
Now, I am finishing packing for my 4375 km relocation to the Pacific Northwest...6 days to go. Once settled, I plan on spending a bit more time on the earthquake study.
How have you been, PM?

All of the vents in the 15 km north trending line are believed to be formed from a single deep fissure.

Maybe happening again???

I'm wondering. It seemed the swarm was fizzling out, but then a Mag 3.0 popped. That is the largest event to date in the area.
The focal mechanism data page is a bit screwy for that quake. The diagram shows shallow dipping oblique-thrust faulting, or strike-slip with a slight upward component (depending on the fault plane), while the strike/dip/rake figures below the diagram report normal faulting on strikes oriented almost 90º different? Weird.
(unless I'm reading the data incorrectly--help a girl out)

pretty strong one according to reports yet 215Km deep...

That's tragic, the loss of life from the 7.5 Hindu Kush
damn buildings!


Closer to home,
Leaping Burn, west of Wanaka, SI, NZ is at it again.........

ID: 2015p807910 Network: geonet
Status: confirmed
Date/Time NZST: 27/10/2015 10:14:56
Date/Time UTC: 26/10/2015 22:14:56
Latitude, Longitude: -44.5322, 168.867
Magnitude: 4.348M
Depth: 2.96 km
Energy Released: 50.2179 tonnes of TNT

also some aftershocks
2.49-26/10/2015 22:21:10
2.63-26/10/2015 22:48:28
page that's on

earlier in the year

My summary for 2015/10/26 9:9:32 UTC Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan on Significant EQ
Magnitude: 7.5Mww [neic]; 7.5 [geofon]; 7Ms [gsras]; 7.4mb [gsras]; 7.85Me_bb [iris]; 7.95Me_hf [iris]
Depth: 212.5 km
Deaths: 336+;
Injuries: 2000+

Energy released figure is more in line with the duration of the shaking, felt reports, damage and death toll.
More fatalities are expected as they get to more remote areas.

M3.2 - 1km ESE of San Ramon, California

Time

2015-10-28 00:07:33 (UTC)

Nearby Cities

1km (1mi) ESE of San Ramon, California
5km (3mi) SSE of Danville, California
8km (5mi) NNW of Dublin, California
10km (6mi) SE of Alamo, California
98km (61mi) SSW of Sacramento, California
earthquake.usgs.gov...

Not all that big, but the fault it is on is one they expect to kick out a big quake sometime in the next 15 or so years.

The 2003 Working Group for California Earthquake Probability assigned an 11% probability that the Calaveras Fault would produce a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years.

a reply to: Darkblade71

LOL!!

I was just reading about this area.

What confused me at first was that it seemed to me that most of these earthquakes are closer to the Pleasanton fault zone.

So why do they talk about the Calavervas fault zone.

The link has good information regarding Calavervas fault zone.
earthquake.usgs.gov...

It's alittle long. I just started skimming it, but plan to go back and read it in length.

Mt. Rainier continues to shake slightly.

Mag Time (Local) Depth (Km)
0.7 2015/10/26 15:25:05 PDT 4.0
0.5 2015/10/26 14:25:48 PDT 0.0

Source

The most recent activity is near the surface.

Bishop

Here is the updated activity cross-section for Mt. Rainier.



Source

Bishop

News article on San Ramon, California quakes.
408 in 2 weeks.

www.msn.com...

SOURCE: MSN

WOQ

Mt. Rainier continues to shake today.

Mag Time (Local) Depth (Km)
1.2 2015/10/28 05:17:15 PDT 2.4

Source

Bishop

Here is another updated cross-section of Mt. Rainier activity in the last 20 days:



Source

Bishop

rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat...... x 19 times
ironically the station name is RATZ =-Rangitukua

Swarm at Lake Rotoaira, near Turangi, NI, NZ
just happening in the last 4 hrs, still going on
largest so far 3.4 (2 of)
www.geonet.org.nz...
I counted 13 on the map, but (edit; my mistake didn't have the un-noticeable box clicked, there are over 30 on the map) 19 on the list, but the list is only back 3 hours

I'll keep an eye on it, and report back, it's bucketing down with rain here