What's going on with the USGS heliplots? Seismic activity everywhere? Broken systems?

USGS heliplots looks crazy today. But I'm a newbie at this. Is this normal? Link below is live but the activity might be gone by the time you see this.


earthquake.usgs.gov...

That's not normal at all.

Going to check some other sources now.

a reply to: joemoe

That looks nuts!!!

I know there was a magnitude 7.5 quake hit today near New Caledonia at a shallow depth.
I
wouldn't think that would cause all that.

a reply to: joemoe

there are a few tsunami warnings going out at this time.

late December is tsunami and earthquake season

These readings are global! Seems almost every charts are off the charts!

All the charts are going crazy except for one in Russia and one in florida. Weird?

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM PORN!

Too soon?

originally posted by: LtFluffyCakes96
All the charts are going crazy except for one in Russia and one in florida. Weird?

Putin is sparing Mara Lago...

Lol /s

"systems broke"

or planet broke lol

Considering a normal reading looks like the one below, this looks like a global malfunction or something else.

originally posted by: JFA13
a reply to: joemoe

That looks nuts!!!

I know there was a magnitude 7.5 quake hit today near New Caledonia at a shallow depth.
I
wouldn't think that would cause all that.

Surprised noone posted that yet..
www.aljazeera.com...

The US Geological Survey said the new earthquake measured 6.6, downgrading it from an initial measurement of 7.0.

Earlier on Wednesday, a shallow and powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the east coast of New Caledonia, with the epicentre reported some 300 kilometres east of Noumea.

The undersea quake was only 10km deep and about 155km east-southeast of the Loyalty Islands off New Caledonia's east coast. Earthquakes are generally more destructive when the epicentre is near the surface.

Timestamp on all of them seems to be from yesterday (Dec 4) 18:00 UTC.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

Maybe he wants to play some golf afterwards? Lol

originally posted by: MindBodySpiritComplex
Timestamp on all of them seems to be from yesterday (Dec 4) 18:00 UTC.

Good catch. Perhaps they took the system off line once they saw what we are seeing.

a reply to: joemoe

You're saying the gubment discovered things are going to get nuts and took the system offline to supress the information?

I'm kidding.

But really, if it's a malfunction of the system and they took it off there should be a note on their site saying so.

originally posted by: joemoe
Good catch. Perhaps they took the system off line once they saw what we are seeing.

Weird but why would the charts still be there for us to see? Strange how its supposed to refresh every 30 mins and no notice or update as to why it has not.

a reply to: Dae

It's say's Dec 5th now and they still look crazy

a reply to: joemoe

I'm one hour from Blacksburg, VA right now.... nothing odd here.

Scale changes?

Yellowstone looks the most active, out of all of them. Maybe the earthquake from yesterday?

If it was a glitch, it would have been a uniform error, but these reading are all over the map. No pun intended.

Strange.