Quake Watch 2010

My money's on Tana blowing - for no other reason than he's a damn good rugby player

Magnitude 6.9 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 6.9
Date-Time Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 13:04:13 UTC
Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 11:04:13 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 6.116°S, 150.522°E
Depth 57.5 km (35.7 miles)
Region NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Distances 75 km (45 miles) SSE of Kimbe, New Britain, PNG
110 km (65 miles) E of Kandrian, New Britain, PNG
520 km (325 miles) NE of PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea
2385 km (1480 miles) N of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.5 km (4.0 miles); depth +/- 17 km (10.6 miles)
Parameters NST=101, Nph=101, Dmin=519.6 km, Rmss=1.18 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

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ehm... this day is crazy...

Event ID us2010ywbk

the first aftershock..

Magnitude 6.8 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Date-Time Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 13:35:02 UTC
Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 11:35:02 PM at epicenter

Location 6.100°S, 150.640°E
Depth 63 km (39.1 miles) set by location program
Region NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Distances 123 km (77 miles) E (83°) from Kandrian, New Britain, PNG
270 km (168 miles) SW (219°) from Rabaul, New Britain, PNG
393 km (244 miles) S (183°) from Kavieng, New Ireland, PNG
409 km (254 miles) E (80°) from Lae, New Guinea, PNG
533 km (331 miles) NE (46°) from PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea

Location Uncertainty Error estimate not available
Parameters NST= 23, Nph= 23, Dmin=0 km, Rmss=0.71 sec, Gp= 72°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=B
Source NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

Event ID pt10199002

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[edit on 18-7-2010 by Austria]

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Magnitude 5.1 - TAIWAN REGION
2010 July 18 13:03:24 UTC
Magnitude 6.4 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
2010 July 18 13:35:02 UTC

Oh no...

Reuters: Indonesian Quake Agency have issued a tsunami warning for 7.1 earthquake 537KM northwest of Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby.

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7.1? you any links. I dont see any 7.1?

Originally posted by jazz10
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7.1? you any links. I dont see any 7.1?

The tsunami warning, I read it on Twitter and Linked.

Busy, Busy, Busy :-)

MAP 6.8 2010/07/18 13:35:02 -5.994 150.472 50.9 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 6.9 2010/07/18 13:04:13 -6.116 150.522 57.5 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA


I know you posted above Austria - I was just re-iterating :-) - but it is very busy - and I wonder if any of all those volcanoes in alaska will respond - or long valley again - or maybe even Yellowstone - as that has been know to happen

[edit on 18-7-2010 by Anmarie96]

Yellowstone thinks "What's going on out there?" hahah: D

Nothing in Yellowstone at the moment

Magnitude 7.3
Date-Time Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 13:35:02 UTC
Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 11:35:02 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 6.019°S, 150.497°E
Depth 57.6 km (35.8 miles)
Region NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Distances 60 km (40 miles) SE of Kimbe, New Britain, PNG
105 km (65 miles) ENE of Kandrian, New Britain, PNG
525 km (325 miles) NE of PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea
2400 km (1490 miles) N of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.6 km (4.7 miles); depth +/- 14.5 km (9.0 miles)
Parameters NST=223, Nph=223, Dmin=525.6 km, Rmss=1.29 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2010ywbr

Wow missed all that , I was asleep.

3hrs after the events,
Another example of mixed up magnitudes to cause confusion, hows a guy supposed to compile a 100 year Mag7+ list when the various networks are giving out different magnitudes either side of 7.0 for the same event?

Starting with USGS, the first quake looks smaller in Mw but the bigger one in mb,

MAG, UTC TIME, LAT, LONG, DEPTH, (other magnitudes in phase data)
6.9 Mw, 2010/07/18 13:04:13, -6.116, 150.522, 57.5 (6.3 mb)
7.3 Mw,2010/07/18 13:35:03, -6.019, 150.497, 57.6 (6.0 mb), (7.3 MS)

then Geofon has the same "M" magnitude for both, but the station data says something else, Rabaul says the 2nd quake was the bigger one in ML,
MAG, UTC TIME, LAT, LONG, DEPTH, (other magnitudes in phase data)
7.1 M 2010-07-18 13:04:11, -6.01, 150.44, 44 (7.4 ML at Rabaul , 8.1 ML at Port Moresby)
7.1 M 2010-07-18 13:35:03, -6.02, 150.55, 55 (7.5 ML at Rabaul, 7.9 mL at Port Moresby)

EMSC confuses things more by giving two different types of magnitudes, (no alternative magnitude phase data close by), so making the 2nd quake the larger
MAG, UTC TIME, LAT, LONG, DEPTH
7.1 Mw, 2010-07-18 13:04:12.0, -6.05, 150.51, 40
6.2 mb, 2010-07-18 13:35:02.0, -6.04, 150.57, 40

What about the Russians?, more confuseski, MS and mb, but using the mb from Rabaul the first quake was bigger
MAG, UTC TIME, LAT, LONG, DEPTH, (other magnitudes in phase data)
7.1 MS, 2010-07-18 13:04:09.2, -6.00, 150.59, 40 (6.7 mb at 10 stations)( 7.2MS and 7.3 mb at Rabaul)
6.4 mb, 2010-07-18 13:34:59.5, -5.98, 150.44, 40 (6.7 mb at Rabaul) -

looking like the first quake makes the list using the 3 European networks, and the 2nd one doesn't, or I could go the other way and just use USGS data and only the 2nd one makes it

aaaaaaaargh!

These and the Fox Is. quake kind of blow the Lunar effect out of the water, the Moon is at a halfway phase right now. Enough big quakes happen outside the Full or New Moon, Lunar Perigee or Apogee that it can be discounted as a reliable prediction source.

I had a look at Geoscience Australia but their site is down, maybe I'm not the only one confused.

Now check this out, a recent update at EMSC has 3 big quakes at New Britian

MAG, UTC TIME, LAT, LONG, DEPTH
7.1 Mw 2010-07-18 13:04:12.0, -6.05, 150.51, 40
7.2 Mw 2010-07-18 13:35:01.4, -6.00, 150.59, 40
6.2 mb 2010-07-18 13:35:02.0, -6.04, 150.57, 40

and this which wasn't there before and isn't on the Russian site either

Magnitude mb 6.0
Region KHABAROVSKIY KRAY, RUSSIA
Date time 2010-07-18 13:42:35.8 UTC
Location 49.12 N ; 139.72 E
Depth 33 km
Distances 252 km SE Komsomolsk-na-amure (pop 275,164 ; local time 00:42 2010-07-19)
39 km W Vanino (pop 18,618 ; local time 00:42 2010-07-19)
37 km W Mayskiy (pop 2,883 ; local time 00:42 2010-07-19)

heres the EMSC page, I took a screenshot just in case it changes again.

www.emsc-csem.org...


[edit on 18-7-2010 by muzzy] maybe I'll wait later in the day (when the fat lady has finished singing) to add these to my 7+ blog Major Earthquakes, how many and where ...


[edit on 18-7-2010 by muzzy]

6.2 2010/07/18 19:48:08 52.640 -169.350 33.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

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Just downgraded to 5.8

5.8 2010/07/18 19:48:09 52.853 -169.662 41.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

[edit on 18-7-2010 by marmitenews]

Pacific Plate is a rocking for the past 2 days !!! - Started with those weird ones in Eastern US - I don't think it's done - Anyone want to place a bet on the next location - I'm going with the CA/MX area - I am hoping it bypasses the Washington Coast

Could these quakes be due to sunpost 1087?
It's been active all this week.
It did erupt yesterday also, although, I don't think we would see the effects so early, but what do I know? Nothing....oh, but I wonder if the fact that the effects of the CME will be seen in the southern hemisphere, effect where an earhquake would occur also? Just speculatiing.

SOLAR FLARE: Sunspot 1087 erupted on July 17th (1800 UT) producing a long-duration C2-class solar flare. Click on the arrow to view a 2.5 hour movie from the Solar Dynamics Observatory:

The leisurely but powerful eruption hurled a faint coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. Minor geomagnetic storms are possible on or about July 20th when the cloud reaches Earth. Arctic sky watchers won't likely see auroras because of the midnight sun; Antarctic sky watchers, on the other hand, should be alert for Southern Lights

Originally posted by Anmarie96
Pacific Plate is a rocking for the past 2 days !!! - Started with those weird ones in Eastern US - I don't think it's done - Anyone want to place a bet on the next location - I'm going with the CA/MX area - I am hoping it bypasses the Washington Coast

Ha, I was just getting on here to say pretty much the same thing. So I guess that means I agree with you! I had mentioned recently that there wasn't much 'red' lately...well, here we go. If you look at a recent map of the world from USGS HERE, you might notice how the 'ring of fire' has a nice cirlce of recent (whithin a week) of 6.0+, EXCEPT for along the continental US/Mexico border.

I look at cause/affect and I definately believe in all the raw power/energy balancing out. (side note---my ears have been ringing a LOT for the past two days, and is doing so now as we speak. Coincidence??? )

Another?
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3.5 2010/07/18 22:44:04 60.644 -152.655 122.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA

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I'm still watching offshore Northern Cali closely.. that's where I think action will be..