Quake Watch 2010

Mexico
Magnitude: 4.6
Mercalli scale: 4
Date-Time [UTC]: 04 May, 2010 at 11:26:31 UTC
Local Date/Time: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 at 11:26 in the moorning at epicenter
Location: 32° 16.710, 115° 16.578
Depth: 32.10 km (19.95 miles)
Region: Middle America
Country: Mexico
Distances: 11.52 km (7.16 miles) S of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Estado de Baja California
Source: USGS-RSOE

US
Magnitude: 3.4
Mercalli scale: 1
Date-Time [UTC]: 04 May, 2010 at 11:38:20 UTC
Local Date/Time: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 at 11:38 in the moorning at epicenter
Location: 33° 46.788, 120° 16.878
Depth: 0.00 km (0.00 miles)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Distances: 80.44 km (49.98 miles) S of Isla Vista, California
Source: USGS-RSOE

Originally posted by MoorfNZ
Bit of a release, perhaps...

Reference Number 3301357/G
Universal Time May 4 2010 at 8:42
NZ Standard Time Tuesday, May 4 2010 at 8:42 pm
Latitude, Longitude 38.07°S, 176.50°E
Focal Depth 2 km
Richter magnitude 2.5
Region Rotorua
Location

* 20 km west of Kawerau
* 20 km east of Rotorua
* 200 km south-east of Auckland

Thats in the same spot as the swarm on the 2nd May at Rotoiti.

This is the weidest thing I have seen in 4 years of watching the New Zealand earthquake patterns on a daily basis.
There have been 24 hr periods in the past when there were NO quakes at all, probably 3 times in that time period, so its pretty rare.
I kept thinking maybe there was a breakdown at GNS, the drums are flat lining generally, there is some activity down the bottom of the South Is. at Wether Hill Road, close to Ohai, in Southland that they haven't listed, and the Urewera drum has more than that 2.5 on it.
NZ Seismo Drums

Heres another one at Rotoiti, just happened while I was typing
Reference Number 3301548/G
Universal Time May 4 2010 at 17:44
NZ Standard Time Wednesday, May 5 2010 at 5:44 am
Latitude, Longitude 38.07°S, 176.49°E
Focal Depth 2 km
Richter magnitude 3.0
Region Rotorua
Location

* 20 km west of Kawerau
* 20 km east of Rotorua
* 200 km south-east of Auckland

Edited to add event


[edit on 4-5-2010 by muzzy]

And here it is, the expected 5+, but not where I thought it might be, its south of that swarm a few days ago, I was expecting a 6+ off shore in the Bay of Plenty.

Reference Number 3301698/G
Universal Time May 5 2010 at 0:46
NZ Standard Time Wednesday, May 5 2010 at 12:46 pm
Latitude, Longitude 39.09°S, 176.24°E
Focal Depth 60 km
Richter magnitude 5.1
Region Hawke's Bay
Location

* 40 km east of Turangi
* 50 km south of Taupo
* 270 km north-east of Wellington

Felt widely in the central North Island and Hawke's Bay, 272 reports
My partner felt it at home Raumati Beach, she said it was just one single sudden jolt, made her jump. She didn't fill in a report yet.
I was in Wellington, 50km south of there, didn't feel a thing.

There has been only the one aftershock so far
3301699, -39.10331, 176.22833, 2010/5/5 0:52:32.2, 62, 2.586ML

[edit on 5-5-2010 by muzzy]

[edit on 5-5-2010 by muzzy]

reply to post by muzzy


Several of our friends in Napier felt it - as you say, quick jolt...

That one I posted on the 3rd UTc remains the only quake on the catalogue at this stage.
There was a build up to the 5.1 though, scattered quakes throughout the North Island and just one off Fiordland

I have put a few 2's in the list, relevant to the Rotoiti Swarm, there were 24 quakes total on the 4th UTC, back to normal levels.
3301233, -36.85816, 177.21083, 2010/5/4 3:17:51.0, 175,o/s 3.543, W of Whakatane Seamount, BOP
3301252, -40.07912, 174.33653, 2010/5/4 4:7:3.2, 104, 3.659, o/s SSW of Patea, Taranaki Basin
3301357, -38.0741, 176.50339, 2010/5/4 8:42:1.9, 2, 2.512, SE of Rotoiti, BOP
3301522, -36.63009, 176.77182, 2010/5/4 16:27:26.5, 233, 3.538, o/s o/s SW of Ohena Ridge, BOP
3301525, -38.0677, 176.50253, 2010/5/4 16:40:5.4, 1, 2.283, SE of Rotoiti, BOP
3301548, -38.07051, 176.49414, 2010/5/4 17:44:51.8, 2, 3.013, SE of Rotoiti, BOP
3301572, -45.6165, 165.45772, 2010/5/4 18:53:51.2, 33, 3.415, o/s W of Resolution Island, Fiordland
3301597, -38.77662, 175.95222, 2010/5/4 19:58:39.9, 118, 3.041, SW of Taupo, in Lake Taupo
3301604, -39.23045, 174.88083, 2010/5/4 16:38:44.7, 215, 3.206, SE of Marco, Whanganui National Park area
3301607, -38.06643, 176.49097, 2010/5/4 17:52:4.4, 1, 1.583, SE of Rotoiti, BOP
3301650, -38.54544, 178.51846, 2010/5/4 22:46:48.7, 29, 3.012, o/s E of Pakarae, Gisborne
3301689, -38.54939, 178.53584, 2010/5/5 0:21:36.2, 28, 3.188, o/s E of Pakarae, Gisborne
3301698, -39.09409, 176.23735, 2010/5/5 0:46:57.7, 65, 5.066, Mohaka River, Western Hawkes Bay
3301699, -39.10331, 176.22833, 2010/5/5 0:52:32.2, 62, 2.586, a/s Mohaka River, Western Hawkes Bay
3301720, -40.69359, 174.11626, 2010/5/5 1:47:13.8, 85, 3.758, o/s E of Stephens Island, Cook Strait

Excellent thread! so much information. However there's absolutely no way i can get through it all, so what I'm going to do is just post my 0.02 AUD and hope i'm not repeating something someone else has already covered.

I have been monitoring global earthquakes via this particular web page recently :

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Essentially the data means very little to me as I'm no geologist, however the concept was to search for trends. Basically I'm hoping to see some form of indication or proof that earthquakes are being caused by someone in particular.

I did some research recently about Tesla's quake generators and realised the technology is probably readily available to some of the more ... powerful nations.

It was also suggested that a facility similar to HAARP could be used to generate the appropriate wavelengths required to trigger an earthquake.

I want to point out some of my observations, and hopefully either recieve some form of dismissive (yet kind) response to put an end to my fears, or recieve some form of scientific explanation.

First i noticed quakes like these :

mag= richter
date= yyyy/mm/dd
lat/lon= degrees
depth= KM

| MAG | UTC DATE-TIME | LAT | LON | DEPTH | Region |


3.2 | 2010/05/04 14:44:46 | 59.516 | -152.376 | 56.5 | SOUTHERN ALASKA

2.9 | 2010/05/04 04:07:05 | 63.193 | -149.715 | 110.1 | CENTRAL ALASKA

(plus many more like them)

As you can see the magnitude is fairly low, but what caught my attention was the relatively large depth, which seemed to stand out on the list.

Now the information that really stuck out to me is what's occurring after these low mag deep quakes....almost consistently two hours after each of these anomalous quakes in Alaska is a responding quake with a much higher magnitude and normal depth e.g :

4.7 | 2010/05/04 22:58:24 | -33.229 | -71.859 | 7.8 | OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE

5.4 | 2010/05/04 16:12:55 | -21.867 | -68.235 | 92.3 | ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE

Has anyone else noticed similar trends?
Can you see the trends i'm talking about when you visit the website i linked?
Am i talking about an extremely improbable/irrational conspiracy?
Are these quakes normal and nothing to worry about?
Could this possibly be mere coincidence?

All of these questions are well out of my grasp, and really all i can do is flounder in this ocean of overwhelming information. Thus i hand it over to you good people of ATS.

Enjoy!

South California sure is bouncing today:

MAP 2.6 2010/05/05 09:00:46 32.710 -115.901 0.0 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

MAP 3.7 2010/05/05 08:55:40 32.690 -115.887 4.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

MAP 2.6 2010/05/05 08:32:55 32.145 -115.379 16.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

MAP 4.9 2010/05/05 07:10:10 -40.361 -91.922 10.0 WEST CHILE RISE

MAP 3.9 2010/05/05 06:58:35 32.711 -115.892 1.0 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

MAP 3.0 2010/05/05 06:52:02 32.691 -115.893 1.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

MAP 3.0 2010/05/05 06:51:34 32.665 -115.825 5.3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Magnitude 5.3 SOUTHEAST OF EASTER ISLAND

Date-Time

* Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 09:38:23 UTC
* Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 02:38:23 AM at epicenter

Location 35.876°S, 102.998°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region SOUTHEAST OF EASTER ISLAND

Distances

* 2638 km (1639 miles) W (270°) from Valdivia, Chile
* 2848 km (1770 miles) ESE (121°) from ADAMSTOWN, Pitcairn Islands

[edit on 5-5-2010 by MoorfNZ]

reply to post by noomy


First I would say to you don't be worrying! One of the things you cannot do is second guess Mother Nature so whilst trends may seem apparent she will then throw something, or not throw something, that will buck the trend.

You mentioned low magnitude quakes in Alaska, and then seeing quakes in Chile. If anything it would possibly be the other way round and the larger quakes are in Chile. The fact is that there are still so many quakes in Chile that you could probably say that there was a quake in Oz immediately followed by one in Chile, or NZ of course.

after each of these anomalous quakes in Alaska

What makes you think that these are anomalous? Whilst they cannot be called shallow, they are not exactly very deep. You can get quakes very much deeper than that! Bear in mind also that Alaska is a volcanic region and thus you would expect deeper quakes that are associated with deep magma movements.

You can of course get earthquakes without volcanoes, but not very likely the other way round. In fact all of the most active earthquake regions on this planet are also the most volcanic regions. The "Ring Of Fire" is also a "Ring Of Earthquakes" for very good reasons. Subduction zones create quakes and volcanoes.

As to HAARP and Tesla, well yes HAARP can generate ELF waves which can be bounced off the ionosphere and in theory could produce an harmonic that might have some effect on an earthquake zone, but frankly suggestions that it is being used as a weapon to create earthquakes are somewhat fanciful.

Tesla machines have again not been proven. The fact that you can destroy something by vibrations is not new. At school we had a very large church organ in the chapel. Internally the chapel was 90ft high so a very large space. One note in particular on the organ (very low), if held down for a few minutes, started the stained glass rattling, and after about an hour you could feel a tremor in the walls. Needless to say we never took it beyond that! Most things have an harmonic which can be hit - the opera singer and the wine glass - but creating an earthquake?? Don't know about that but I am not saying it is not possible, just unlikely.

You would need some very large equipment to set off an earthquake I would imagine so not exactly something the Russians could put in their pockets and take to Yellowstone, as has been suggested!

Absolutely no denigration of your efforts and observations intended, but have you considered that if there were such obvious patterns, would they not have been noted already by the experts?

Keep up the good work, and don't give up looking for connections. The experts are not always right!

reply to post by PuterMan


First of all, thank you SO much for your kind and informative response

now...onto business

You mentioned low magnitude quakes in Alaska, and then seeing quakes in Chile. If anything it would possibly be the other way round and the larger quakes are in Chile.

Well from the website i'm looking at it's showing me a list of recorded earthquakes in the order they occured, so i was seeing a low mag quake in alaska and then two hours later (with no quakes in between) another one in chile.

These were just examples though, i was seeing this trend A LOT, e.g low mag quake in alaska followed by one somewhere different, then the same pattern but with the responding quake in chile etc etc

I guess what i would really love is to have you take a look at this page and tell me what you see with your ...*ahem* deeper (no pun intended) understanding of the subject :

7 Day Report

What makes you think that these are anomalous? Whilst they cannot be called shallow, they are not exactly very deep.

I'm using a very small collection of data, only 7 days worth, so you're probably right, 100km's may not even be that deep, but from the information i have the average 100km depth on all these "initial" quakes in Alaska seemed (relatively) deep.

In response to your comments regarding HAARP and other ULF stations, i was informed that the ionospheric heating was only a portion of the tests and abilities these stations have. I recall reading an interview with Tesla himself stating he wielded the power to make the surface of the earth move on a whim "to throw rivers from their beds and reduce entire cities to rubble". This is not specifically Tesla's "coil" or "generator" but referring to some other device he invented while working for the KGB (i believe the facility was nicknamed the woodpecker later on and was also a ULF facility). Also there are many many of these stations in use today scattered all over the planet, under the control of (at least) 3 of the major global economic powerhouses.

And yes i agree entirely that if these patterns were obvious enough to stand out to a complete amateur then surely the "pros" would have noticed this long ago, i guess I'm seeing monsters in my own shadow
Between you and me though, this is well within the grasp of our corrupt leadership and i wouldn't hesitate to believe this little conspiracy of mine if someone presented me with hard scientific evidence.

I guess this is the reason why i posted it in this thread, seems lots of people in the know how here, and could maybe help bring a bit of clarity to my "findings". As i like to say "so far so good!"

Again thank you so much for your response, i hope my lack of true knowledge in the field hasn't made me look too foolish

Originally posted by MoorfNZ
South California sure is bouncing today:

I just had a look and Ocotillo, while activity has been constant, it was doing some good shaking.

3.0 - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 at 11:51:34 PM at epicenter
3.0 - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 at 11:52:02 PM at epicenter
3.9 - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 at 11:58:35 PM at epicenter
3.7 - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 01:55:40 AM at epicenter

[edit on 5/5/2010 by SMR]

6.6 mag off the coast of Indonesia


map.......


earthquake.usgs.gov...

Indonesia is an area to watch out for theres been 3 6 mag eqs just off the coast.

Date 05/05/2010 11:24:05
Latitud -35.56
Longitud -73.445
Profundidad 27.9
Magnitud 6.1
Localización 86 km al NO de Cobquecura CHILE

activity the last 3 days in Chile

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reply to post by Patto


Patto, where from did you get this 6.1 in Chile. It's been more than an hour ago and it's still not in the usgs or in the EMSC sites.

reply to post by nanbei


Magnitude
4.9
Date-Time
Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 15:24:10 UTC
Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 11:24:10 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
35.513°S, 72.838°W
Depth
30.1 km (18.7 miles) set by location program
Region
OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
Distances
65 km (40 miles) NW of Cauquenes, Maule, Chile
105 km (65 miles) W of Talca, Maule, Chile
135 km (85 miles) NNW of Chillan, Bio-Bio, Chile
305 km (190 miles) SW of SANTIAGO, Region Metropolitana, Chile


My guess is it was downgraded before being reported by USGS as a 4.9..
Notice the lat./long. and time of this, it's not the same as the 4.9 on Patto's chart and is more in line with what is showing on that chart as a 6.1

[edit on 5-5-2010 by broahes]

reply to post by loner007


Good call Loner....

6.3
Date-Time

* Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 16:29:02 UTC
* Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 11:29:02 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 4.081°S, 101.069°E
Depth 18.1 km (11.2 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Distances 135 km (85 miles) WSW of Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia
215 km (135 miles) WSW of Lubuklinggau, Sumatra, Indonesia
355 km (220 miles) SSE of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia
680 km (420 miles) WNW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 9 km (5.6 miles); depth +/- 30.6 km (19.0 miles)
Parameters NST= 77, Nph= 77, Dmin=211.8 km, Rmss=1.26 sec, Gp= 50°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2010vxbk

reply to post by nanbei



From the Universidad de Chile - Depto. de Geofísica

www.sismologia.cl...

some earthquakes in Chile ar not publish in usgs page, even some 5 point events

Originally posted by Patto
reply to post by nanbei

 

From the Universidad de Chile - Depto. de Geofísica

www.sismologia.cl...

some earthquakes in Chile ar not publish in usgs page, even some 5 point events

Thanks for that link Patto, I will have to bookmark that source, as I thought USGS showed all events in that region over a 5.0

Perhaps it has to do with the way USGS measures a full point different now?

Regardless, thanks for the link.. I will bookmark that for future reference.