Quake Watch 2010

Magnitude 4.5 - OWEN FRACTURE ZONE REGION 2010 June 10 07:38:45 UTC

Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 07:38:45 UTC
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 11:38:45 AM at epicenter

Location
14.597°N, 54.258°E
Depth
10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program

Distances
230 km (140 miles) NNE of Qalansiyah, Socotra Island, Yemen
270 km (165 miles) S of Salalah, Oman
565 km (350 miles) NE of Xaafuun, Somalia
1080 km (670 miles) E of SANA, Yemen

Magnitude 4.7 - LA RIOJA, ARGENTINA 2010 June 10 09:46:53 UTC

Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 09:46:53 UTC
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 06:46:53 AM at epicenter

Location
29.215°S, 68.222°W
Depth
38.2 km (23.7 miles)

Distances
125 km (75 miles) NNE of San Jose de Jachal, San Juan, Argentina
135 km (85 miles) W of La Rioja, La Rioja, Argentina
210 km (130 miles) SSW of Belen, Catamarca, Argentina
1080 km (670 miles) WNW of BUENOS AIRES, D.F., Argentina

Spotted a small swarm in a short space of time north of Grozny, Russia on the Live Earthquakes map yesterday. Data from EMSC

DATE/TIME, LAT, LONG, DEPTH, MAG, LOCATION
2010-06-09 17:25:52.1, 43.47 N, 45.64E, 25, Mw 4.4, CAUCASUS REGION, RUSSIA
2010-06-09 17:29:37.7, 43.55N, 45.55E, 25, mb 4.5, CAUCASUS REGION, RUSSIA
2010-06-09 17:58:37.9, 43.49N, 45.49E, 15, mb 3.9, CAUCASUS REGION, RUSSIA

[edit on 10-6-2010 by muzzy]

While smaller - area of concern :-)

Magnitude 3.0
Date-Time Friday, June 11, 2010 at 11:06:15 UTC
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 05:06:15 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 41.696°N, 111.106°W
Depth 0.5 km (~0.3 mile) (poorly constrained)
Region UTAH
Distances 7 km (5 miles) ENE (61°) from Randolph, UT
20 km (12 miles) NNE (13°) from Woodruff, UT
23 km (14 miles) SE (129°) from Laketown, UT
50 km (31 miles) NNW (346°) from Evanston, WY
124 km (77 miles) NNE (32°) from Salt Lake City, UT

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.6 km (0.4 miles); depth +/- 7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Parameters NST= 32, Nph= 32, Dmin=28 km, Rmss=0.32 sec, Gp= 86°,
M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=1
Source University of Utah Seismograph Stations

Event ID uu00006613

Reference Number 3321605/G
Universal Time June 11 2010 at 14:20
NZ Standard Time Saturday, June 12 2010 at 2:20 am
Latitude, Longitude 40.21°S, 173.56°E
Focal Depth 170 km
Richter magnitude 5.3
Region South Taranaki Bight, New Zealand
Location

* 80 km north of French Pass
* 90 km south of Opunake
* 90 km south-west of Hawera
* 160 km north-west of Wellington

www.geonet.org.nz...

Felt throughout lower North Island and upper South Island, No damage expected.
* 143km NW of muzzy

[edit on 11-6-2010 by muzzy]

This is a bit disturbing:


Friday
11.06.2010 15:36:45 63.642 -19.390 9.2 km -0.4 34.87 5.9 km SE of Básar
Friday
11.06.2010 15:05:27 63.597 -19.079 1.1 km 1.6 43.36 2.2 km NNE of Hábunga
Friday
11.06.2010 14:04:42 63.621 -19.100 1.9 km 0.9 87.82 4.6 km N of Hábunga
Friday
11.06.2010 07:13:45 63.662 -19.055 1.1 km 0.3 33.14 9.4 km NNE of Hábunga
Friday
11.06.2010 07:03:20 63.637 -19.067 1.1 km 1.8 90.01 6.5 km NNE of Hábunga
Friday
11.06.2010 07:03:05 63.578 -18.977 4.7 km 1.0 34.74 6.1 km E of Hábunga
Thursday
10.06.2010 21:47:53 63.658 -19.472 0.9 km 1.2 90.01 2.2 km SSE of Básar
Thursday
10.06.2010 02:11:56 63.635 -19.520 5.0 km 0.6 99.0 5.1 km SSW of Básar


Several of these are centered right in the middle of Katla...hopefully it won't continue.

Magnitude 4.3 - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 2010 June 11 20:51:11 UTC

Location
32.391°N, 115.176°W

Depth
31.4 km (19.5 miles)

Distances
13 km (8 miles) NNW (331°) from Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico
38 km (24 miles) WSW (258°) from San Luis R�o Colorado, Sonora, Mexico
40 km (25 miles) SE (137°) from Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
174 km (108 miles) E (95°) from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Some big shakers down there in that area lately

The world is shaking today isn't it.

3 quakes 5 or greater in the past hour.

1. Magnitude 5.0 - SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS

2. Magnitude 5.0 - MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA

3. Magnitude 5.1 - ATACAMA, CHILE

Solar flares? Planetary alignment?

[edit on 11/6/2010 by who-me?]

Originally posted by who-me?
The world is shaking today isn't it.

3 quakes 5 or greater in the past hour.


Solar flares? Planetary alignment?

[edit on 11/6/2010 by who-me?]

None of the above, its a New Moon

www.moonconnection.com...

and Lunar Perigee (closest distance to earth) in 3 days as well (Jun 15 14:55 365936 km)
www.fourmilab.ch...

reply to post by muzzy


Planetary alignment was sort of on the money then lol.

2nd line.

reply to post by who-me?


june 26 approaches and its a special eclipse of the moon. which allows for a particular large earthquake around that time. cant say where and cant remember the authors name, sorry.

reply to post by muzzy

and Lunar Perigee (closest distance to earth) in 3 days as well (Jun 15 14:55 365936 km)

And a solar flare due to hit on the 16th. Catastrophe forecast for the 26th - don't believe it - something along the line of political or stock market. 'spose that is to do with the moon/eclipse.

Tell me why is 3 x 5.0 significant when the lack of them over that past days was not? Based on the 'average' of 1319 based on observations since 1990 that makes 3.6 per day where as the last 8 days we have only averaged 3 a day, with the 7th having 1 and the 8th having none! That means we are 'missing' 0.6 x 8 amounts of energy release. Stand up and demand your rights. Give us back our energy release.

On the 5th there were 3 within 2 hours, on the 10th there were 3 within 1 hour.

Statistics eh!

I was only teasing about the New Moon
I did a survey last year for 3 months keeping track of the phases of the Moon and the Perigee/Apogee compared to quakes here in New Zealand, there was absolutely no connection.
There seems to be 50-60 earthquakes every day here despite the Moons position.
It had no effect on the magnitudes or on swarms either.

You would think something that size would effect the earths tectonic plates eh?, and I'm not completely discounting it.

The thing is you can make stastistics fit whatever you are trying to prove.

OK so there were 3 quakes in a hour and its almost New Moon, but like Puterman is alluding to, what about the days when there were more 5+'s and bigger and it wasn't a New Moon or Full Moon?

reply to post by muzzy


Ah but now there have been 2 x 5+ inside 12 minutes (real data) so there is absolutely no doubt that boiling my kettle causes 5+ quakes since it was boiled just about those times, in fact they pretty much coincide with 4+ as well but the problem is that the earlier times in the day did not appear to cause a quake. This can of course be explained by global warming since it was sunnier this morning. Note that the larger quakes today all occurred in the Pacific areas (real data), so this proves that during the warmer period over the Atlantic this morning the expansion of the water in the Atlantic due to the heat offset the imbalance caused by the Moon.

And now for something completely stupid - oh wait that was!

(PS, Just going to boil it again so expect a 4+ in the next 15 minutes or so.)

Just looking at the numbers today it seems we have 6 @ 5+ so far on the 12th.

reply to post by berkeleygal


I thought this makes an interesting graph. Bit on the large size but it needs to be as it covers 365 days of Baja quakes as a cumulative.



Note that the daily 'rate' is slowly getting back to normal, but it is taking quite some time. The magnitudes seem to be all pretty much the same range and only very slightly higher than before the 'big one'



Forgot to say - the 'big one' on the magnitude is just at the figure 6 (6000 quakes). Note that there are just over 15,500 quakes of 1.0+ in the area over the 12 month period.

Edit:

Just a quick note to say that the expected quake of 4+ did not happen within 15 minutes of boiling the kettle so i am off to see if I can fiddle the figures a bit to make the hypothesis work. The science is proven (just needs a few fiddles) Just take a look at the Pogo Stick graph and try denying it.

[edit on 12/6/2010 by PuterMan]

further to post by muzzy


I wondered if there was any relationship between this quake and the swarm up at Cape Egmont I posted about in the week prior?
reference to post by muzzy

100km apart which is quite a distance, but the faults tend to blend together at this point in the Taranaki Basin.
I did a post on my swarm blog, with a bit of background research too, there have been some bigger quakes (6's) to the east and south in the past, but Cape Egmont doesn't look too high of a earthquake hazard risk area.
Interesting how there are not many events at the volcano itself.
Probably only of interest to NZ or Taranaki readers

Cape Egmont Swarm

7.7 just went off on radarwatch...

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Heya, didn't know quite where to post this because there is so many damn katla/eyja dead threads, here you go anyway, pretty intense, any experts here care to comment?




en.vedur.is...

reply to post by faceoff85


Damn dude, 7.7, and judging from what the mod below said, nasty wave inc.

[edit on 12-6-2010 by Mr Zeropoint]

reply to post by faceoff85


Very shallow. Expect a tsunami from this one

reply to post by PuterMan




re. the baja graphs, geez I wonder how the baja gophers are getting any sleep these days?

Not so shallow anymore. It ws 1 km, but now it says 35. Still a tsunami risk



Magnitude 7.7 - NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
2010 June 12 19:26:50 UTC

Depth: 35 km (21.7 miles)



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