Cluster 7.0+ Magnitude Earthquakes Hit Vanuatu & Santa Cruz Islands, page 2

Originally posted by grantbeed
i wonder what effects these quakes and the others from last week will have on the other plates around the globe.

Im in New Zealand and we could easily get a big one here.

Apparently the last 8.0 Samoa earthquake has triggered a lava dome collapse at Chaiten volcano in Chile:

volcanism.wordpress.com...

[edit on 2009-10-7 by Shirakawa]

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Holy Cow!!!

S America...Yukon...

It's getting deep fast!

twitter.com...

BULLETIN -- TSUNAMI WARNINGS ISSUED FOR VANUATU, SOLOMON ISLANDS, FIJI, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, AND OTHER ISLANDS.40 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters

A SECOND major earthquake has hit Vanuatu, this time recording a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale.

The US Geological Survey reports the second quake struck 330km north-west of Santo, almost on top of the original 7.8 quake which struck at 22:08 local time (09:08 AEDT).

The second quake struck 10 minutes later at a depth of 35km.

www.news.com.au...

MAGNITUDE 6.7 earthquake has struck south-east of the Sulu archipelago of the Philippines, the US Geological Survey said.

The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 05:41 local time (07.41 AEST) today, was located 297km south-east of Jolo on the Sulu archipelago.

The depth was 582km, the agency said.

Initially, the U.S. Geological Survey registered a 6.9 magnitude quake.

www.news.com.au...

so much activity lately!

mpoppel
twitter.com...

# Such big earthquakes often cause false readings, so they have a lot of data to go through. But there have been aftershocks, they are working4 minutes ago from TweetDeck

# USGS not yet able to confirm the 6.6 magnitude. They are overwhelmed.4 minutes ago from TweetDeck

# The Pacific Tsunami Warning center needs to work on their servers! It's unacceptable that their site is down during alerts.14 minutes ago from TweetDeck

# 3rd quake appears to be a 6.6.15 minutes ago from TweetDeck

# Reports coming in. 3rd earthquake.20 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Tsumani warning in South Pacific

A tsunami warning has been issued for Papua New Guinea and island nations in the south-west Pacific after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake off Vanuatu.

The epicentre was 295km (180 miles) north-northwest of Vanuatu's largest island, Santo, at a depth of 35km (21.7 miles), the US Geological Survey said.

There have so far been no immediate reports of injuries of damage.

More than 170 people died last week when a tsunami triggered by an quake hit Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

Earlier on Wednesday, a 6.7-magnitude quake struck off the Philippines, but no tsunami warning was issued.

Shortly after the earthquake off Vanuatu struck at 2203 GMT, the Pacific Region Headquarters of the US National Weather Service said a tsunami warning was in effect for Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Kiribati, Kosrae, Wallis and Futuna, and the Howland and Baker islands.

I think another big earthquake occurred right now, I don't know about its magnitude though, it has yet to appear on the USGS list.

EDIT
This one
earthquake.usgs.gov...
not as big as I thought, though.

[edit on 2009-10-7 by Shirakawa]

from Iris

07-OCT-2009 22:18:43 -13.68 164.71 7.3 35.0 VANUATU ISLANDS REGION
07-OCT-2009 22:03:15 -13.05 166.19 7.8 35.0 VANUATU ISLANDS


[edit on 7-10-2009 by violet]

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A +154.64 Micron/sec is coming in on GEE right now at UI.AFI.00...

so aftershocks continue...



[edit on 10/7/2009 by Hx3_1963]

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