Quake Watch 2010

I have looked at the USGS map and then called the area up on Google maps. The recent Russian quake shows up on USGS as being on an island. Google show that lat/long as being on the mainland. It's happened before too. Is there a reason for the descrepency?

small quake in LA a few minutes ago, enough to wake people up

Magnitude 4.4 - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
2010 March 16 11:04:00 UTC

Magnitude
4.4
Date-Time
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 11:04:00 UTC
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 04:04:00 AM at epicenter
Location
33.998°N, 118.072°W
Depth
18 km (11.2 miles)
Region
GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
Distances
2 km (1 miles) ENE (58°) from Pico Rivera, CA
4 km (3 miles) ESE (115°) from Montebello, CA
4 km (3 miles) SSW (207°) from Whittier Narrows Rec. Area, CA
9 km (5 miles) NE (39°) from Downey, CA
17 km (11 miles) ESE (112°) from Los Angeles Civic Center, CA

earthquake.usgs.gov...

[edit on 16-3-2010 by berkeleygal]

reply to post by blayze


Just as a matter of interest, my QuakeData program has a calculator for comparing Moment of Magnitude built into it, in addition to being able to download USGS data (automatically if required) and links to loads of web-cams and more such as the cumulative graphing I have shown and webicorder downloads.

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/70aaefb5d7c8.png[/atsimg]

It is free and at present is ONLY available to ATS members in that no one really comes across my website except from here.

Forgot to say (in case people did not notice) that is a comparison between Haiti and Chile big ones.

[edit on 16/3/2010 by PuterMan]

4.7 - Russia

Date-Time

* Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 11:07:15 UTC
* Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 09:07:15 PM at epicenter

Location 53.759°N, 142.362°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
Distances 50 km (30 miles) WNW of Okha, Russia
510 km (315 miles) N of Poronaysk, Russia
2025 km (1260 miles) N of TOKYO, Japan
6075 km (3770 miles) NE of MOSCOW, Russia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 12.3 km (7.6 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST= 21, Nph= 21, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.49 sec, Gp= 90°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2010txaz

reply to post by PuterMan


Fantastic - thank you!

Wonder if this is why the recorders went out there

Region: SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
Geographic coordinates: 52.208N, 142.147E
Magnitude: 5.9 Mw
Depth: 10 km
Universal Time (UTC): 16 Mar 2010 09:44:16
Time near the Epicenter: 16 Mar 2010 19:44:16
Local standard time in your area: 16 Mar 2010 04:44:16

Location with respect to nearby cities:
164 km (102 miles) SSW (201 degrees) of Okha, Russia
339 km (211 miles) N (349 degrees) of Poronaysk, Russia
404 km (251 miles) ENE (61 degrees) of Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Russia
1849 km (1149 miles) N (5 degrees) of TOKYO, Japan


ADDITIONAL EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
________________________________
event ID : US 2010txaw

Further to the SMNR debate I am now convinced that this is man made noise.

Take a look at 6 days of the plots. I think this pretty much shows the 'noise' to be man made as it appears about in the same time bands each day.



I would also direct your attention to this post by True American which shows the location of this particular station.

Case closed???

reply to post by PuterMan


LOL - spiders -- Found the station a little while ago and notice the daily pattern. Listened to the audio - which, is pretty funny as, as I was listinging to it a truck was backing up outside my office window - sounded just like what was recorded for the most part - I did chuckle. Thought I heard a fog horn in there a few times as well as engines. - Now the question is - Why would they put such an instrument in such a location? Great Search Work!!!!!! :-)

[edit on 16-3-2010 by Anmarie96]

Magnitude 5.4
Date-Time

* Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 12:25:26 UTC
* Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 12:25:26 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 17.668°S, 178.827°W
Depth 566.1 km (351.8 miles)
Region FIJI REGION
Distances 235 km (145 miles) SE of Lambasa, Vanua Levu, Fiji
295 km (185 miles) E of SUVA, Viti Levu, Fiji
330 km (205 miles) N of Ndoi Island, Fiji
2220 km (1380 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 9.1 km (5.7 miles); depth +/- 6.4 km (4.0 miles)
Parameters NST=193, Nph=211, Dmin=330.6 km, Rmss=0.66 sec, Gp=119°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2010txa3

At the time of this post according to the USGS data, it has been approximately 5 1/2 hours since the last quake with a magnitude between 2.5 - 4.5 has occurred and 8 1/2 hours since the last magnitude 5+ quake has occurred. Is this data correct??? If so - IMO, this is a very long time!

Originally posted by Anmarie96
At the time of this post according to the USGS data, it has been approximately 5 1/2 hours since the last quake with a magnitude between 2.5 - 4.5 has occurred and 8 1/2 hours since the last magnitude 5+ quake has occurred. Is this data correct??? If so - IMO, this is a very long time!

Just woken up here in the Southern Hemisphere and logged on to ATS exactly because there are very little quakes for me to update on my Facebook Group this morning - very quiet - very worrying...

EDIT: Typical, as soon as I hit reply a small 2.6 in California shook my screen

[edit on 16-3-2010 by MoorfNZ]

Good morning from Berkeley!

Man it is really quiet out there. Wonderfully warm here and I slept a little later because my bedroom over looks my garden and I was awoken to the beautiful smell of green rising from all the plants.

No quakes to report.

Peace and love to all!

Originally posted by berkeleygal
Good morning from Berkeley!

Man it is really quiet out there. Wonderfully warm here and I slept a little later because my bedroom over looks my garden and I was awoken to the beautiful smell of green rising from all the plants.

No quakes to report.

Peace and love to all!

Morning? Where are you?! Morning here in New Zealand...

reply to post by MoorfNZ

I am in Berkeley California LOL! I stay up waaaay late, dont go to bed til 3 or 4 a.m. thusly I sleep really late!

Just realized that 4.4 Cali quake hit at 4:04 am.

Now that is totally weird and cool.

Still quiet, no quakes to report!

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 2.5
Date-Time

* Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 21:46:33 UTC
* Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 04:46:33 PM at epicenter

Location 35.455°N, 92.837°W
Depth 5.7 km (3.5 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region ARKANSAS
Distances

* 13 km (8 miles) E (94°) from Hector, AR
* 25 km (16 miles) NNE (21°) from Atkins, AR
* 26 km (16 miles) ENE (76°) from Dover, AR
* 92 km (57 miles) NNW (330°) from Little Rock, AR
* 421 km (262 miles) SW (214°) from St. Louis, MO

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 2.2 km (1.4 miles); depth +/- 7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Parameters NST= 6, Nph= 8, Dmin=53 km, Rmss=0.16 sec, Gp=104°,
M-type=duration magnitude (Md), Version=A
Source

* Cooperative New Madrid Seismic Network

Event ID nmhnw0316a

reply to post by Jomina


A small one, sure, but thought it rather weird to be in Arkansas hehe

I really miss eQuake Firefox add-on which no longer works with the latest version of Firefox (3.6). This is driving me crazy - it was important for me and I really liked being seismically in touch with its near real time alerts. I feel a little lost now!

I hope the author or Firefox makes it functional again. I'm thinking of uninstalling the update and going back to an older version of FF.

Originally posted by ChrisCrikey
I really miss eQuake Firefox add-on which no longer works with the latest version of Firefox (3.6). This is driving me crazy - it was important for me and I really liked being seismically in touch with its near real time alerts. I feel a little lost now!

I hope the author or Firefox makes it functional again. I'm thinking of uninstalling the update and going back to an older version of FF.

That's exactly why I haven't updated my FF yet lol


I would miss eQuake WAY too much