Quake Watch 2010

Magnitude 6.4 SOUTHERN PERU
Date-Time

* Thursday, May 06, 2010 at 02:42:44 UTC
* Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 09:42:44 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 17.995°S, 70.489°W
Depth 11 km (6.8 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region SOUTHERN PERU

Distances 25 km (15 miles) W of Tacna, Peru
55 km (35 miles) NNW of Arica, Tarapaca, Chile
100 km (60 miles) SSE of Moquegua, Peru


Some reports coming in already:

www.digitaljournal.com...

[edit on 5-5-2010 by MoorfNZ]

ca.news.yahoo.com...



32 minutes ago

LIMA (Reuters) - A 6.4 magnitude earthquake rattled southern Peru and northern Chile on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

Chile/Peru border quake now downgraded to 6.2

MAP 6.2 2010/05/06 02:42:48 -18.023 -70.533 35.0 OFFSHORE TARAPACA, CHILE

NZ 3+ mag 05/05/2010 UTC

3301791, -39.53836, 174.30824, 2010/5/5 5:10:59.6, 210, 3.624, NW of Hawera, Taranaki
3301800, -47.90786, 165.63742, 2010/5/5 5:46:51.3, 131, 3.904, o/s Solander Trough, W of Broughton Island
3301978, -45.21654, 166.99309, 2010/5/5 13:44:55.6, 12, 3.514, N of Thompson Sound, Fiordland
3301989, -37.58923, 177.69958, 2010/5/5 14:6:23.0, 98, 3.087, o/s N ofTe Kopua, East Cape/BOP
3302060, -37.36479, 178.34438, 2010/5/5 17:29:46.7, 46, 3.172, o/s N of Hicks Bay, East Cape
3302132, -44.3317, 168.10558, 2010/5/5 20:46:5.8, 5, 3.193, SE of Big Bay, Fiordland
3302137, -45.11537, 166.77864, 2010/5/5 17:32:40.2, 23, 4.662, o/s W of Secretary Island, Fiordland
3302141, -38.34117, 177.21573, 2010/5/5 19:16:35.7, 54, 3.416, SW of Wairata, BOP

MAG 5.5 2010/05/06 11:35:31 -55.546 -127.935 10.0 PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE

MAG 5.0 2010/05/06 11:24:29 -18.802 168.435 66.6 VANUATU

MAG 4.3 2010/05/06 10:29:11 33.416 71.152 69.6 PAKISTAN

MAG 5.4 2010/05/06 09:13:09 -3.946 100.959 31.5 KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA

[edit on 6-5-2010 by MoorfNZ]

Can someone recommend me a good earthquake software, beside GEE or that BOINC thing? (the first one is very "buggy" and the last one is heating too much my laptop).

Thank you!

reply to post by sandri_90


Check out Puterman's QuakeData program..

www.dasoftware.com...

It's quiet - particularly after today's activity - 2 hrs since last reported 2.5+


EDIT: Now three hours!! *tap tap tap* these seismo thingies working??

[edit on 6-5-2010 by MoorfNZ]

reply to post by MoorfNZ


2.7 in Baja finally..

I was beginning to wonder the same thing.

I don't have enough posts to start a thread, so I figured I would post this here: Here's a link to a blog that postulates an interesting "theory" - it says 2010's record number of earthquakes is caused by the Large Hadron Collider... www.cerntruth.com...

reply to post by noomy


Hello and Welcome! IMO :-) I do not see where smaller quakes would trigger larger quakes halfway around the globe. On the other hand, you would expect to see a larger quake bounce the plates and trigger smaller quakes around the plate boundaries. As for Telsa and Haarp, I see no reason why they would not be able to trigger quakes if they wanted to. Smaller agencies are capable of triggering quakes - Take CA/Mx swarms and then take a look at what is going on in Alaska Here.

reply to post by Anmarie96


Hasn't Tesla been dead for decades? How would he be able to even breathe, much less affect EQ's?

Is there an organization called Tesla?

reply to post by Chamberf=6


Yes, Telsa is long deceased - but the theory's survived and matured.

reply to post by Anmarie96

First of all, thanks for the welcome

Originally posted by Anmarie96
I do not see where smaller quakes would trigger larger quakes halfway around the globe.

That's not what I'm getting at...

Let's for one minute assume someone out there has some device that allows them to trigger or control quakes (I know assuming is bad practice but for the sake of my argument lets give it a try). Now lets assume said device was in....Alaska.

Could it be possible that turning on this device, pointed through the center of the earth (Tesla's apparent invention worked this way) would cause an initial quake in close proximity, possibly deeper under the crust to its source?

And to pose a possible answer to the difference in time between initial quake and secondary quakes across the globe, I've read articles about harmonics (which i cant seem to find right now....convenient huh?) that suggest it could take hours to get a response out of an object (such as massive vibrations or "wobbles") by synchronizing waves of audio.

Again i know very little on the actual sciences involved in theories like this so I'm taking a lot of blind leaps here.

Now in response to the previous post about Tesla being dead, yes he is...however why cant the inventions i mentioned earlier still be in use or under development today? I mean we're still using electricity aren't we?

Anyways I've just realized I'm starting a discussion that's irrelevant to the OP so i apologize for my accidental derailment and will look into starting my own thread to bring up this theory of mine. However i want to thank everyone for their opinions and information

reply to post by noomy



Please read the links in both posts, I provided
- they will help you to understand

Mostly offshore [o/s] quakes today for New Zealand, bit of a swarm at the southern end of Ngatoro Basin, thats a depression between the Colville Ridge and Kermadec Ridge 210km east of Auckland.

3302252, -38.5595, 178.52419, 2010/5/6 1:53:13.5, 33, 3.245, o/s W of Pakarae, Gisborne
3302261, -45.04866, 167.54768, 2010/5/6 2:15:52.8, 126, 3.789, SE of Lake Thompson, Fiordland
3302265, -36.62166, 177.71347, 2010/5/6 2:29:55.4, 111, 3.297, o/s SW of Clark Submarine Volcano, Kermadec Ridge
3302459, -36.57703, 177.10449, 2010/5/6 12:14:32.7, 5, 4.128, o/s SE of Ohena Ridge, Ngatoro Basin
3302461, -36.74393, 177.10332, 2010/5/6 12:20:2.9, 5, 4.331, o/s SE of Ohena Ridge, Ngatoro Basin
3302464, -36.67856, 177.10599, 2010/5/6 12:24:0.9, 5, 3.809, o/s SE of Ohena Ridge, Ngatoro Basin
3302465, -36.74897, 177.09975, 2010/5/6 12:26:38.7, 5, 4.236, o/s SE of Ohena Ridge, Ngatoro Basin
3302645, -36.57548, 177.08585, 2010/5/6 12:38:54.0, 5, 3.706, o/s SE of Ohena Ridge, Ngatoro Basin
3302680, -41.70863, 174.1685, 2010/5/6 22:16:44.7, 16, 3.213, Lake Grassmere, Marlborough

Swarms are common there, especially 4 mags

A very large swarm occurred at the south end of the Ngatoro Basin at the end of December 1984 and continued into January 1985.
The swarm commenced on Boxing Day 1984. Activity increased over the next few days and reached its maximum on 28 December. However, the largest event did not occur until 30 December. It had local magnitude ML 6.3 and, like the other events in the swarm, was listed in the New Zealand catalogue as a shallow event with nominal depth 12 km. Following the magnitude 6.3 event, activity decreased in a manner similar to that of a regular aftershock sequence. Altogether, the New Zealand catalogue lists some 1000 events with ML > 3 associated with the swarm, making it the largest seismic episode recorded anywhere in New Zealand up to that time.
Ref.New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1999, Vol. 42: 237-253

For those who use Google Earth for their Quake watching I did a kmz file for that swarm a while back.
1984/5 Ngatoro Swarm kmz file

You will have to rotate around to NZ to see it, because of the Plate Boundries in the kmz it goes to default start centre of Burkina Fuso in Africa

[edit on 7-5-2010 by muzzy]

The Urewera seismograph clearly shows the 24 minute swarm [I marked tha magnitude tags]

Urewera Seismograph 07/05/2010

[edit on 7-5-2010 by muzzy]

GFZ Potsdam - Earthquake Bulletin
Region: Talaud Islands, Indonesia
Time: 2010-05-07 07:39:30.6 UTC
Magnitude: 5.9
Epicenter: 127.81°E 3.41°N
Depth: 67 km
Status: automatic


Mag: 6.0
07-May-10 14:39:30 WIB
3.40 LU - 127.81 BT
65 Km
Pusat gempa berada pada
246 km Tenggara MELONGUANE-SULUT ,
260 km Tenggara TAHUNA-SULUT ,
295 km TimurLaut TERNATE-MALUKUUTARA ,
362 km TimurLaut BITUNG-SULUT ,
2562 km TimurLaut JAKARTA-DKIJAKARTA

Indonesian Quake Site

Magnitude 5.7 - OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
earthquake.usgs.gov...

Magnitude 5.7 (Preliminary magnitude — update expected within 15 minutes)
Date-Time

* Friday, May 07, 2010 at 17:46:04 UTC
* Friday, May 07, 2010 at 08:46:04 AM at epicenter

Location 44.640°N, 131.030°W
Depth 40 km (24.9 miles) set by location program
Region OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
Distances

* 632 km (393 miles) W (270°) from Salem, OR
* 666 km (414 miles) W (265°) from Portland, OR

Magnitude 5.1 - OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
earthquake.usgs.gov...

Magnitude 4.5 - VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION
earthquake.usgs.gov...


Yer slipping guys & gals

[edit on 5/7/2010 by Hx3_1963]

Originally posted by Hx3_1963

Yer slipping guys & gals

Hey Hx! I was trying like mad to get this on the earthquake thread -
But I couldn't remember that it was called quake watch... A senior moment indeed.
This is significant for off the coast of Oregon.