Quake Watch 2016

Is this just fear mongering from Fox news??

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a reply to: wasobservingquietly
Seen those Prince Edward Islands Region ones this morning, quite a few.
Gave you 2 stars one from my phone and one from my laptop

a reply to: jhn7537
anything is possible.

every day there is new interesting stuff being discovered after the Hope Fault 7.8, as scientists get to see things closer up.
Waipawa Bay, just south of Clarence, right at the end of the Hope Fault is said to have lifted 6 metres out of the sea.
Australian marine scientist Ceridwen Fraser on Radio NZ audio
6 metres, that is huge 18 feet!

Just did an update on Hope Fault 7.8, was too tired last night.
Kaspersky is having a fit for some reason, and QVS datapro won't work, I haven't got time to reboot this morning so went and got the data direct from geonet right from the start, so may look a little bit different than previously as the area search was a bit bigger.
At this stage the map is getting saturated, you have to zoom in quite close to see what is going on, so I think the thing to follow which is easier to read is the timeline graph.
Bit of an uptick in aftershock size this morning
4.782, Cook Strait Area
4.906, South Marlborough-North Canterbury
nzeq2016.blogspot.co.nz...

You guys are so slow. 6.9M off Japan.

earthquake.usgs.gov...

and there was a 6.4M in Chile. South America is on the once a month 6ish Magnitude track still.

Tsunami warning, especially for the damaged reactor.

a reply to: ericblair4891

Link that I'm listening to just said that it was revised to 7.4 (higher) but it was also deeper than thought.

www3.nhk.or.jp...

a reply to: ericblair4891
@work, the customer I'm working for came out and told me. Everyone is interested in earthquakes now.

a reply to: NiteNGale2
Hopefully our Bureaucrats see that vid you linked and pay attention, that's how you do it, sirens and alerts to the public, evacuate instead of scratching your head (I thought of something else) wondering whether to issue a warning or not (NZ's 7.8), by then it's too late.

I watched the tsunami come up the river, then Yoshihide Suga gave a speech, and an inset of a signing person, hey I wonder if signing is a universal language or they were signing in Japanese???

Also something that is not good at all. a big one on the North Island East Coast, Hikurangi Margin, this is what we all dreaded a transfer of stress to the subduction zone

Public ID 2016p881118
Intensity strong
Universal Time November 22 2016, 0:19:42
NZ Daylight Time Tue, Nov 22 2016, 1:19:42 pm
Depth 30 km
Magnitude 5.4
Location 70 km south-east of Porangahau
Latitude, Longitude -40.68, 177.27
www.geonet.org.nz...

GFZ has it at 5.9 geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

Getting various results from Japan on the magnitude
Aqua 7.0Mw
JMA 7.3ML
NIED 6.9ML (no link, but here is a KMZ file if you have Google Earth of the NIED Preliminary data for the first 4 hours elapsed time) Based on previous jap earthquakes you could quadruple the number there (#45)

edit;
I will update that KMZ every 2 hours of so, just did, another 22 (with 16 minutes remaining to edit this post)

a reply to: muzzy
Whoa
21 & 22 Nov UTC combined

19 mins ago
fairly big aftershock, we have been expecting something like this, or bigger
Public ID 2016p881669
Intensity severe
Universal Time November 22 2016, 5:13:34
NZ Daylight Time Tue, Nov 22 2016, 6:13:34 pm
Depth 7 km
Magnitude 5.7
Location 15 km south-east of Culverden
Latitude, Longitude -42.88, 172.99
www.geonet.org.nz...

just before that
Public ID 2016p881666
Intensity strong
Universal Time November 22 2016, 5:12:11
NZ Daylight Time Tue, Nov 22 2016, 6:12:11 pm
Depth 8 km
Magnitude 4.8
Location 20 km south-east of Culverden
Latitude, Longitude -42.90, 172.99
www.geonet.org.nz...

and before just that
Public ID 2016p881664
Intensity strong
Universal Time November 22 2016, 5:10:59
NZ Daylight Time Tue, Nov 22 2016, 6:10:59 pm
Depth 12 km
Magnitude 4.6
Location 20 km north-east of Cheviot
Latitude, Longitude -42.72, 173.48
www.geonet.org.nz...
that one has disappeared

but these are south of where the 7.8Mw was at, the opposite direction of almost all the other 4400 aftershocks
Didn't feel the 5.7 here

most of the Felt Reports are from Christchurch
Hope it's not going to rip south now!!!


edit: I've added these and further events to the 22.11.2016 page,
you can clearly see this is a different series of faults that's broken
Mt Alexander Fault
Kaiwara Fault
maybe even the Greta Valley Fault
all centered around Scargill

and very shallow

no wonder the seismologists can't predict earthquakes, all the indications were that it was Wellington in the firing line next,
maybe it still is..........

a reply to: muzzy
Geonet are onto it with GPS instruments.

Looks like the Scragill area is having it's own little party, more aftershocks from the 5.7 there overnight, all south of the 5.7 and tending to be between the Mt Alexander and the Greta Valley Fault.
At this stage they are not joined to the main Hope Fault aftershocks, which are continuing on in both Cook and Sth Marlborough.
Not much in Scargill, about a dozen farms/ residences.

This series is about on par with L'Aquilla and Norcia at the 7 day mark as far as number of aftershocks goes
table

originally posted by: muzzy
a reply to: ericblair4891
@work, the customer I'm working for came out and told me. Everyone is interested in earthquakes now.

a reply to: NiteNGale2
Hopefully our Bureaucrats see that vid you linked and pay attention, that's how you do it, sirens and alerts to the public, evacuate instead of scratching your head (I thought of something else) wondering whether to issue a warning or not (NZ's 7.8), by then it's too late.

I watched the tsunami come up the river, then Yoshihide Suga gave a speech, and an inset of a signing person, hey I wonder if signing is a universal language or they were signing in Japanese???

Do the aftershocks look normal for the Japanese quake Muzzy? Let's hope there isn't more coming, there or in NZ.

a reply to: AlexanderM

I am pretty sure that Japan quake was a aftershock from the 2011 monster quake.

a reply to: AlexanderM
It is hard to say what is normal any more with Japan,
The same thing is happening as at the Eastern Tottori Pref 6.6 quake back in October with the NIED data, there is nothing reviewed available for the 22nd yet, so they are already behind a day with the normal scheduled releases.
based on the preliminary (automatic) data
mag1= 54
mag2= 508
mag3= 215
mag4= 50
mag5= 5
mag6= 1
total= 833
total energy released= 346,241.594
based on those numbers it is about what one would expect from a 6.9/7.3 offshore, the ~ mag4's are probably 4 times that number as I said before, but with the 5 mag 5's and 50 mag 4's the other networks are picking those 4.5+'s up too, so fairly indictive of what is happening.
here is the KMZ again

further to: muzzy
the last 15 hours in the Marlborough-Cook area

still a bit concerned about the Inchbonnie area, the junction with the Alpine fault.
The Scargill 5.7 doesn't seem to have kicked off a new track, the aftershocks of that are pretty confined to the immediate area.
A local farmer on the radio yesterday afternoon was saying it was a completely different intensity and action, like a freight train coming under the house, not swaying like the Waiau 7.8.

Thanks Muzzy!! A dear friend of ours lives in Tokyo, so it's always a concern.