Quake Watch 2009, page 3

Man! Any of you seeing how many BIG aftershocks are occurring after that 7.2 in Indonesia??? what in the heck is going on over there? This is starting to get a bit worrisome. There's just too many, too soon. Is the sea floor coming apart or what? New volcano forming?

earthquake.usgs.gov...

[edit on Wed Feb 11th 2009 by TrueAmerican]

Originally posted by TrueAmerican
Man! Any of you seeing how many BIG aftershocks are occurring after that 7.2 in Indonesia??? what in the heck is going on over there? This is starting to get a bit worrisome. There's just too many, too soon. Is the sea floor coming apart or what? New volcano forming?

earthquake.usgs.gov...

[edit on Wed Feb 11th 2009 by TrueAmerican]

I came here to ask the EXACT same question. That's crazy and they're still happening - within the past 20 minutes a 6.3 (in Indonesia) Experts???

reply to post by lel1111

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That's like 20 pretty good size quakes in 11 hours or so! In the same close area. And they keep coming! I know aftershocks are routine after a big quake of 7.2, but THIS MUCH THIS FAST? How can that be normal?

us,2009czax,6,"Thursday, February 12, 2009 04:27:06 UTC",4.1474,126.9050,5.2,35.00,29,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009czar,7,"Thursday, February 12, 2009 03:49:41 UTC",3.8823,126.4749,6.0,42.00,52,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009czas,6,"Thursday, February 12, 2009 03:19:17 UTC",3.7609,127.0619,5.1,61.60,28,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009czaq,6,"Thursday, February 12, 2009 03:01:16 UTC",3.9185,126.8036,5.1,51.20,32,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009czap,6,"Thursday, February 12, 2009 02:36:39 UTC",4.1057,127.0659,5.0,35.00,21,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009czam,6,"Thursday, February 12, 2009 02:15:07 UTC",4.1537,126.9746,5.0,51.00,31,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009czai,6,"Thursday, February 12, 2009 01:42:08 UTC",4.0426,126.7509,5.4,35.00,28,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009czad,7,"Thursday, February 12, 2009 00:03:00 UTC",3.9873,126.6583,5.5,35.00,45,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cycp,6,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 23:40:59 UTC",3.9108,126.8864,4.8,35.00,18,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cycn,6,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 22:53:35 UTC",4.1351,126.8132,4.9,35.00,24,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cycj,6,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 22:51:26 UTC",4.0256,127.0751,4.9,35.00,18,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cych,6,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 22:32:50 UTC",3.8360,127.0804,5.0,35.00,16,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cycf,8,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 22:14:26 UTC",3.7019,126.5616,5.7,20.00,142,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cycs,6,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 21:45:06 UTC",3.7816,126.4910,4.9,35.00,16,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
UTC",3.8824,126.5182,5.5,35.00,60,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cybn,6,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 18:54:03 UTC",3.9822,126.7213,5.1,35.00,23,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cybm,6,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 18:47:26 UTC",3.8312,126.5507,5.1,35.00,34,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cybj,6,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 18:25:11 UTC",4.0331,126.7818,5.7,35.00,102,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cybf,7,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 17:49:18 UTC",3.9823,126.5047,5.6,35.00,59,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"
us,2009cybb,9,"Wednesday, February 11, 2009 17:34:50 UTC",3.9023,126.4003,7.2,20.00,221,"Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia"

I missed one edit, but I think you get the point. I pulled out all others.

Originally posted by TrueAmerican
reply to post by lel1111

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That's like 20 pretty good size quakes in 11 hours or so! In the same close area. And they keep coming! I know aftershocks are routine after a big quake of 7.2, but THIS MUCH THIS FAST? How can that be normal?

I missed one edit, but I think you get the point. I pulled out all others.

Okay, I'm not a gloom and doomer, but there has to be something going on with this. Very, very scary!

reply to post by Shirakawa

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If I did this correctly:

hisz.rsoe.hu...

Scroll down and you'll se a listing.

reply to post by pyrytyes

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Unfortunately it only lists relatively big events and only from the last 12 hours.
I was looking for a more complete database of world events.

There has been over 55 earthquakes since the 7.1 occured and these earthquakes are all around 5 or more!

What is going on here.
Link


[edit on 13/2/09 by Rhain]

[edit on 13/2/09 by Rhain]

reply to post by Rhain

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yes, bit odd - but this is still "normal" for this region. I remember last year - a very similar situation. However, if the quakes over 6 would go that frequent then I would be seriously worried. Just not yet..

reply to post by sty

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Yea it was the Loyalty Islands where there was clusters last year. It still is a bit unusual for so many medium size quakes to be so concentrated but it has happened before.

Good graphic from the USGS site.

reply to post by GAOTU789

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wow, it is great you still have that screen-print. I remember this one indeed. I remember it was something like 22 earthquakes over 4 within the first 12 hours .
Going back to our times - it looks like the Indonesia qukes are calming down now . The last few weeks were unussualy calm. I still hope to find a connection between Solar sun-spot activity and earthquakes, but I never had the time to find the data and make the programs to compare the strings.. i will do it one day for curiosity !

[edit on 14-2-2009 by sty]

reply to post by pigwithoutawig

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I just saw that quake pop up for my mozilla add on. I'm in Vancouver Washington so I would hope nothing happens also

Clear sky for a nice show though.

reply to post by whoshotJR

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Yea a 7.3 mag in the Kermadec Islands region. I'm not sure where that is but I hope it's not in the water.

reply to post by whoshotJR

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Yea they were saying no tsunami but they just had another 7.0. in the same place.

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 6.9
Date-Time

* Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 21:53:45 UTC
* Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 09:53:45 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 27.415°S, 176.419°W
Depth 25 km (15.5 miles) set by location program
Region KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Distances 250 km (155 miles) NE of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
505 km (315 miles) NNE of L'Esperance Rock, Kermadec Islands
1335 km (830 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand
1740 km (1080 miles) NNE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.1 km (4.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST=221, Nph=221, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.95 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2009dfb4

* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

USGS

Indonesia certainly looks to be building to something again.

not good.

Infact as well the Supervolcano there is much more likely to blow than any others in the world.

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