Quake Watch 2010

Originally posted by muzzy
reply to post by MoorfNZ

 

I had a look on Geonets Shaking Map for this event and there were 2 reports from Auckland .............. and 2 from Wellington

I often wonder about the accuracy of these reports, come on now, felt in Wellington?

The Australians put the Felt range at 458km (approx) , Wellington is 1015km from the epi-centre

Aus report

BTW the Russians had it at 6.2mb
www.ceme.gsras.ru...

Originally posted by muzzy
reply to post by PuterMan

 

Are you going to try and get the full details of each event to show in a popup tag as well?

Yes probably, but that is a slight problem as the data on USGS only stays for a short while so any info has to be what the program collects and all that is missing is number of stations, location and depth. I will add those however

My GE has a hand as a curser when I have your files open, is this something you did when creating the files? I prefer an arrow, but thats just me.

I haven't done anything with that. I guess that must be the default. I will take a look as it would be better to have an arrow, and then a hand when highlighted.

FWIW When I was doing mine I got bored with the circle icons and went 3D earlier this year

Yes these were a rush job. I will either design or find something better.

reply to post by muzzy


I don't get it. Why is this thing showing up so much? It is not particularly large.

[edit on 18/6/2010 by PuterMan]

MAG 6.1 (Preliminary magnitude — update expected within 15 minutes)
Date-Time Friday, June 18, 2010 at 23:09:34 UTC
Saturday, June 19, 2010 at 04:39:34 AM at epicenter

Location 13.056°N, 93.095°E
Depth 22 km (13.7 miles) set by location program
Region ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
Distances 159 km (99 miles) NNE (14°) from Port Blair, Andaman Islands, India
450 km (280 miles) SSW (203°) from Pathein (Bassein), Myanmar
530 km (329 miles) SW (219°) from YANGON (Rangoon), Myanmar

Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available
Parameters NST= 11, Nph= 11, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.64 sec, Gp=166°,
M-type="moment" magnitude from initial P wave (tsuboi method) (Mi/Mwp), Version=0
Source West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS

Event ID at00690257

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Looking for the tri-fecta tonight..... got Indonesia to win, Offshore India to place, and Alaska to show.... course I only got 5-1 odd's but I'm thinking I got a winner

Indonesia- 7.3

India - 5.8

Alaska - 4.9

anyone want in on this? Betting closes in 15 minutes....

reply to post by freetree64


I'm putting all my money on offshore northern/central California - 6.1

Magnitude 4.5 - GALAPAGOS TRIPLE JUNCTION REGION 2010 June 19 07:32:14 UTC

Location
2.061°N, 101.688°W

Depth
10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program

Region
GALAPAGOS TRIPLE JUNCTION REGION
Distances
1230 km (760 miles) WNW of Puerto Villamil, Isabela, Galapagos
1230 km (770 miles) SE of Clipperton Island
1935 km (1200 miles) S of MEXICO CITY, D.F., Mexico
2595 km (1610 miles) W of QUITO, Ecuador


Thought this location looked unique

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/df976de2cb1d.gif[/atsimg]

reply to post by MoorfNZ


I am not a betting man but I will go for between 6.5 and 6.9 in the border area between Afghanistan and Tajikistan (The Hindu Kush).

This within 5 days either side of the 26th June. Now see how wrong I am!! I would lose if I placed a bet that black was black.

looks bad, a simple 4.5 quake in the sea, .. on the microplate could possibly get a strong earthquake (8 +)? Somewhere on the Nazca plate, Cocos plate, or the Pacific plate. But perhaps even directly on the Galapagos plate. There must be strong tensions between the three panels to be ..

what do you think?

OK, final version for a while as I have to get out in the garden this lovely sunny day.

This is the 365 day KMZ file for the Hindu Kush region per USGS data.

The labels work, the balloons work and all that needs to be done is to make the text lines of each element stay on one line!!

Way too much time spent on this but I hope you will think it is worth it.

A tea break gave me the opportunity to sort the text. All is working now.

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/7f40ddccbc2e.png[/atsimg]

I will try and get his version of the program out during the week.

[edit on 19/6/2010 by PuterMan]

Originally posted by Austria
looks bad, a simple 4.5 quake in the sea, .. on the microplate could possibly get a strong earthquake (8 +)? Somewhere on the Nazca plate, Cocos plate, or the Pacific plate. But perhaps even directly on the Galapagos plate. There must be strong tensions between the three panels to be ..

what do you think?

I think I would not be worrying myself about that too much Austria. There have only been 4 quakes there in the last 365 days (above 4.5)

Date/Time UTC,Latitude,Longitude,Magnitude,Depth(Km),Location
19/06/2010 07:32:14,2.0606,-101.6879,4.50,10.00,Galapagos Triple Junction
12/12/2009 11:00:26,3.1794,-103.7995,4.70,10.00,Galapagos Triple Junction
26/10/2009 23:01:18,3.4375,-103.5163,4.90,10.00,Galapagos Triple Junction
15/10/2009 17:48:22,3.2490,-103.8307,6.00,10.00,Galapagos Triple Junction

I think we might need to see a bit more action before considering 8+ mag quakes there or on connected plates. After all there was no event there before Chile.

But then of course.................maybe I am wrong

Did central Alabama have an earthquake this morning? I haven't been able to find anything on it.


It happened between 10 and 10:30 am cst. I was sitting on my veranda when I felt this weird vibration. I called a friend 2 miles away and she said she felt it too.

Earthquake?

Date/Time UTC,Latitude,Longitude,Magnitude,Depth(Km),Location
19/06/2010 12:58:36,37.2443,71.4780,4.70,52.70,Hindu Kush region. Afghanistan

It is getting ready to obey my prediction!

Originally posted by BooBoo46
Did central Alabama have an earthquake this morning? I haven't been able to find anything on it.

It happened between 10 and 10:30 am cst. I was sitting on my veranda when I felt this weird vibration. I called a friend 2 miles away and she said she felt it too.

Earthquake?

I can't see anything arount 15:00 UTC that would be large enough fro you to feel it in Alabama.

I guess it was just a local quake. Maybe a little settlement in the oil layer due to lessening pressure? ( )

reply to post by PuterMan




Excellent work.

You even have a Legend/Key on there

How do you get it to stay in the same spot while the Earth moves around?

Reference Number 3325689/G
Universal Time June 19 2010 at 6:04
NZ Standard Time Saturday, June 19 2010 at 6:04 pm
Latitude, Longitude 38.13°S, 178.72°E
Focal Depth 50 km
Richter magnitude 4.0
Region Hikurangi Trough, New Zealand
Location

* 40 km east of Tokomaru Bay
* 40 km south-east of Ruatoria
* 90 km north-east of Gisborne
* 380 km east of Auckland

reply to post by muzzy


It is a screen overlay. Here is the KML reference for it.

I have now managed to 'fix' the width using a table in the description. Actually it has been a very interesting exercise! I discovered you use () with nothing in it to suppress the description - a trick I picked up from looking at the USGS files. (Sorry brackets to stop it functioning in this thread)

[edit on 19/6/2010 by PuterMan]

LINK

This map is great for observing quakes and other disasters real time...thought you guys may enjoy it.

reply to post by bvproductions

Seen this before.
OK I'll add it to my Speed Dial Grid.
Nothing much happening down my way .................... thats why I live here by choice

Oh theres something, 3363km to the north west

There have been more reports of another locust plague in Queensland's west, this time in the Barcaldine area. Earlier this year, Longreach residents experienced that town's biggest plague of spur-throated locusts in three decades. Authorities have been working to control swarms in the state's central-west, but researcher Chris Temp says they are around Barcaldine in huge numbers. "When we looked up in the sky, there are absolutely billions of grasshoppers," he said. "It's been going on for about seven days off or on and the State Government has been out here with the helicopter trying to contain the problem, but now they're absolutely exponential. "As far as the eye can see, these grasshoppers are filling the sky - it's a noise that you don't usually hear - it's like a hum up in the sky. "It's a bit disconcerting when you work out where that hum is coming from - like it's the hum of the wings. "All of a sudden you see billions of these grasshoppers going overhead and then it's like you start to realise the staggering size of what's going on." Graziers around Barcaldine say they have never seen so many grasshoppers. Barcaldine grazier John Chandler says insect pests are damaging trees and invading pasture in that region. He says authorities have been spraying concentrated swarms but controlling large areas is difficult. "They've been down here in the desert country east and south of Barcaldine for a few weeks now roosting in the trees," he said. "They've done enormous damage to mostly eucalypts but haven't done a lot of damage to grass. "I've never seen grasshoppers or locusts or whatever they are like this - they are like a dust storm rolling towards you." "You just have to slow right down on a bike because they fly up out of the grass and are quite incredible actually. "There are billions of them - we were just looking at them trying to work out how many there are."

reply to post by PuterMan


Thanks
Too much information for me

reply to post by bvproductions


Welcome to the thread, and thanks for the reminder on that one.

Here is one you might like. It is called Earthquake Mashup.

Originally posted by muzzy
reply to post by PuterMan

 

Thanks

Too much information for me

[edit on 19/6/2010 by PuterMan]