Looks like there could possibly be a giant undersea volcano ready to blow at any minute. Doesn't this look like a build up to an eruption? Or is it just me?

Another strong aftershock 6.1 Santa Cruz Island, will give specifics when the are posted

Uh yep, equake is a rocking every couple of minutes.

Seeing lot of 5.x's and 6.x's rolling by.

I love equake only thing is that I have to re-maximize my window every time, kinda annoying but worth it for the instant info.

Awesome addon.

[edit on 7-10-2009 by mkross1983]

This is fascinating, and scary at the same time. I've been watching the magnitudes and areas of quakes for months, just out of curiosity, and this seems unusual to me. But then I have no education in this area.

I wonder what will it take for the folks who say that this is normal to say that things aren't normal? I guess time will tell.

Sorry, double post - freakin' computer.



[edit on 7-10-2009 by lel1111]

The high energy particles that make it through the sun's and then earth's magnetic field represent very small mass going at a high rate of speed. To those particles you look like a very loosely organized bunch of atoms. The single largest thing you contain by far is empty space. Even it they hit you, which they do, you don't even feel it though it may kill a cell on rare occasion or perhaps distort it in someway causing a cancer cell. More than likely, however, they just pass through without hitting anything.

When it comes to the planet, there is no effect on plate tectonics from this type of radiation with regard to a physics point of view that I could see. I would put your mind at ease over this one and chalk it up to accumulated stresses as the most likely cause.