Tongan EQ and Volcano Thread

Most people know that a Volcano is forming underwater near the Tongan Islands, that's about 2,900 miles south of Hawaii.

I have the nifty little Addon on my Firefox called "eQuake" that makes my screen shake every time there is a EQ in the world. In the last hour the screen has trembled 5 times, all near the active Volcano.

I thought it prevalent to make a thread about the area, as I know almost nothing about the surrounding area and hope some people here on ATS do know.

Plus: Volcano's are just awesome.

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LATdeg LONdeg DEPTHkm Region

MAP 5.0 2009/03/20 19:16:59 5.733 127.317 67.8 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.1 2009/03/20 16:01:19 -58.655 -25.168 52.9 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.0 2009/03/20 15:54:46 -23.174 -174.679 61.9 TONGA REGION
MAP 5.0 2009/03/20 14:21:50 -18.109 167.365 48.0 VANUATU
MAP 5.4 2009/03/20 12:26:01 -21.456 -179.020 620.6 FIJI REGION
MAP 5.4 2009/03/20 11:23:38 -22.931 -175.295 35.0 TONGA REGION
MAP 5.3 2009/03/19 20:33:59 -23.290 -174.623 35.0 TONGA REGION
MAP 7.6 2009/03/19 18:17:41 -23.050 -174.668 34.0 TONGA REGION

MAP 4.6 2009/03/21 06:07:59 -22.465 -176.520 92.1 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 2009/03/21 03:45:08 37.678 -119.315 20.3 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.5 2009/03/21 03:40:45 -0.466 132.906 35.0 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 2009/03/21 01:27:57 -23.660 -175.298 35.0 TONGA REGION

[edit on 3/21/2009 by Tentickles]

Star & Flag 4 U!

Very interesting stuff indeed!!!

Lots of implications for further Eq activity...

Someone had postulated that a recent ~M7.8 Eq from that area might of been a "Failed Dome" Scenerio???

Admin Error: meant to off topic this post and the finger slipped.

carry on





[edit on 21-3-2009 by Crakeur]

reply to post by Grimnal


Well I dont know what to make of that...

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