Wow...that wake island really is OFF THE CHART. I've never seen a center line seismo go the whole way off its chart (I assumed they capped at the edges).

If this is a quake then there are tsunami racing outward from there right now. I'd say its either a malfunction or some one just kicked a surface level seismo or something.

Gonna look around for more info...

Ok, I just found info that Wake is known to have insane readings that are false.

Apparently some "known artifact". My guess would be it has something to do with the nearby air field, or possibly something military related.

I found the info in another online forums, so i'm not gonna link directly to ATS competition...that makes the mods cry.

Originally posted by Quest
Ok, I just found info that Wake is known to have insane readings that are false.
Apparently some "known artifact". My guess would be it has something to do with the nearby air field, or possibly something military related.
I found the info in another online forums, so i'm not gonna link directly to ATS competition...that makes the mods cry.

Don't worry, it was posted at ATS first.
During the original "World Wide Seismic Event" thread, we noticed Wake & Midway Islands and their anomolous readings.
Doing a bit of searching, I found out both are small islands with big airstrips ... military, of coursse.
Sooooo, generally one should overlook those two seismos on the USGS site.

-B.

6.3 has just occurred in Afghanistan.

EARTHQUAKE on 12/03/2004 at 22:44 (UTC)
AFGHANISTAN-TAJIKISTAN BDR REG 266 km NE Kaboul

MAGNITUDE: mb 6.3

Data provided by: GFZ KAN LED MAD NEIC NEWS ODC RNS SED THE

Latitude = 36.36 N
Longitude = 71.13 E
Origin Time = 22:44:56.4 (UTC)
Depth = 33 Km
RMS = 1.03 sec
Gap = 111 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 15.8 Km
- Semi minor = 5.6 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 171 degrees


[Edited on 12-3-2004 by Valhall]

With these perdections for 2004 , its almost 10,000 earthquakes of 4+ and greater this year. That seems huge. I follow the earthquake site, there are ussally anywhere from 10 to 100 a day. Most are smaller than 4+. good work

Okay, I have just added something the Quake Analysis, so you might refresh that link. I have added an analysis of the monthly count for the past 13 months.

I will update this portion about mid-month every month (mid-month because sometimes the quakes get adjusted in mag or added for a couple of weeks).

We've been having quakes of the coast here like crzy these days. In the last ten days I've seen in the local newspaper that there were at least 4 or 5 earthquakes south of and west of my island, the magnitude of all of them were around 3.2 to 3.8 except for yesterdays quake, which was 4.4. Although I haven't felt not one of them, I'm starting to a little worried about this.

We are 70W & 12.3N the quakes are around the area.

worldwatcher pointed out that there was a 5.5 in Turkey today.

25-MAR-2004 19:30:49 39.93 40.86 5.5 10.0 TURKEY

In fact, there were several 5.0+ quakes today globally. And, there was a 6.0 in the past 24 hours.

There is a big number of quakes happening, but there a large number of BIG quakes happening.

be prepared for the 7+'er about to happen

there seems to be a lot of action today aswell

lots in the us, china and aus. don't know how big they are (cant read the charts properly still learning)