Quake Watch 2011

One in the highlands of jolly ol scotland.

Summary

DATE
14/11/2011

ORIGIN TIME
00:33:13.1 UTC

LOCATION
57.507 -5.546

DEPTH
3 km

MAGNITUDE
2.2

LOCALITY
TORRIDON,HIGHLAND


FELT LOCHCARRON

BGS Link

reply to post by PuterMan

see tha Balleny Is quake went up 2 decimal points too.

Do you think its just laziness, in that they can't be bothered changing the Details page during the 7 days
or deliberately putting in a low number on the 7 Days list because they know more people read that (compared to the 8-30 days) and don't want to alarm folks with all the 6's

You got a big task on your hands following all those changes, I started on NZ revisions 4 months ago, but have not progressed beyond the 17th January , I noted that not many people seem interested, have had 41 hits in those 4 months, compared to the Preliminary EQ pages with 1284 hits.
The blog traffic closely follows local earthquake events, Sept 2010 and Feb/March 2011 the most visits after the Christchurch quakes, been a downward slope since.
I'm going to keep going with it though, just when I get inspired and have a few hours to spare, and do a few days revisions, usually when things are quiet quake wise.
Doesn't help my Firefox crashed at the weekend, lost all my links and parameters for building the kmz files on GPS Vis. have to start from scratch using whatever I had saved on Notepad files
Using Chrome now, its a bit different!

reply to post by muzzy

Muzzy,

sorry to hear of your FF problems. Wondering if you might be able to recover your bookmarked links from the backup file under App Data. Take a look at this advice on the FF help forum. Maybe it will help?

Best regards,

Mike

More movement in Turkey:

Magnitude 5.2

Date-Time Monday, November 14, 2011 at 22:08:15 UTC Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 12:08:15AM at epicenter Time of Earthquakein otherTimeZones

Location 38.664°N, 43.099°E

Depth 10 km (6.2 miles)

Region EASTERN TURKEY

Distances 30 km (18 miles) NW of Van, Turkey 117 km (72 miles) S of Agri (Karakose), Turkey 133 km (82 miles) NNW of Hakkari, Turkey 896 km (556 miles) E of ANKARA, Turkey

Location Uncertainty horizontal+/- 13.4 km (8.3miles);depth +/- 2.9km (1.8miles)

Parameters NST= 89, Nph= 89, Dmin=39 km, Rmss=1.29 sec, Gp= 40°, M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=5

Source Magnitude: USGSNEIC (WDCS-D) Location: USGSNEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0006s0d

USGS

reply to post by PuterMan

Text Sorry but this HAS to be deliberate.

I know you've been looking at this (magnitude changes after 7 days) for some time now, do you have any notions as to why such a regular and observabe pattern has emerged?

reply to post by JustMike

Thanks, I had a look through App.Data but theres nothing there now, I took Firefox right off, loaded on a new one but still had problems, so dumped that too.
Chrome is OK, the main thing I keep forgetting is when you click on a 'favourite" tab on the bookmark bar it opens in the same window as the one you are in, unlike Firefox, I guess you can change that somehow, but I haven't used Help yet.
ie I can't even find Help yet

I've got most of the main favs I use up and running, just lost all the quake networks pages, I had quite a few, luckily Putermans QVS has most of them too, so can get from there

Off to read Chrome for Dummies now

that lake in eastern turkye where the eq's occure ..is not an agient caldera with surrounding vents?

reply to post by boo1981


Us Brits missed posting these two on the 12th and 13th

(2011/11/14 00:33:13.1 57.507 -5.546 3 2.2 2 TORRIDON,HIGHLAND FELT LOCHCARRON already posted by your good self!
2011/11/13 05:23:53.5 50.827 -0.759 5 1.7 CHICHESTER,W SUSSEX
2011/11/12 00:28:42.2 52.515 -2.044 7 1.5 DUDLEY,WEST MIDLANDS

Rainbows
Jane

reply to post by jadedANDcynical

I know you've been looking at this (magnitude changes after 7 days) for some time now, do you have any notions as to why such a regular and observabe pattern has emerged?

Basically no. It achieves nothing as far as I am concerned as the figures will be in the listings on an historical basis. Since some go up and some go down I can see the purpose.

The only think i can think of is that different 'departments' deal with the two lists, but that does not exaplin the 8th day change really.

I am going to start saving the QED text file daily. If the data changes long before the 8th day i shall know, and that will definitely indicate a deliberate policy.

Mag 6.3 Indonesia EMSC details only so far

Magnitude mb 6.3
Region SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Date time 2011-11-15 10:43:51.7 UTC
Location 0.20 S ; 121.98 E
Depth 260 km
Distances 147 km SW Gorontalo (pop 144,195 ; local time 18:43:51.7 2011-11-15)
122 km NW Luwuk (pop 47,778 ; local time 18:43:51.7 2011-11-15)

www.abovetopsecret.com...

That is Mb so the Mw value could be bigger.

Deep so hopefully not a problem

reply to post by PuterMan
WOW that's big but deep,hope I can post some EMSC data!

reply to post by diamondsmith


You can post EMSC data but just not from that seismologists only area!

USGS have just come in at 5.5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Magnitude 5.5
Date-Time

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:43:50 UTC
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 06:43:50 PM at epicenter

Location 0.146°S, 121.919°E
Depth 262.3 km (163.0 miles)
Region SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Distances

151 km (94 miles) WSW (239°) from Gorontalo, Sulawesi, Indonesia
243 km (151 miles) ENE (70°) from Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia
373 km (232 miles) WSW (241°) from Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia
957 km (594 miles) SE (126°) from BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 14.4 km (8.9 miles); depth +/- 9.3 km (5.8 miles)
Parameters NST=193, Nph=197, Dmin=136.9 km, Rmss=1.32 sec, Gp= 32°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=5
Source

Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0006s8t

Eh??? We will have to give it some time to settle. One of them is wrong.

The lap dogs have capitulated:

Magnitude Mw 5.5
Region SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Date time 2011-11-15 10:43:50.0 UTC
Location 0.05 S ; 121.98 E
Depth 262 km
Distances 138 km SW Gorontalo (pop 144,195 ; local time 18:43:50.6 2011-11-15)
133 km SE Baolan (pop 44,088 ; local time 18:43:50.6 2011-11-15)

www.emsc-csem.org...

where in the world this one came from..


Latitude 49.9010
Longitude -118.1871
Magnitude 5.3 mb
Depth 15 km
UTC Time 11:00:21 UTC Tuesday November 15th, 2011
Location British Columbia, Canada, Eastern Alaska To Vancouver Island
Author teleMb

source(anf.ucsd.edu...

Someone,someplace in another life?

And now we're starting to get mass whale strandings/deaths here in NZ & OZ, over the last couple of days...don't like the sound of that, given that similar events preceded the Feb Christchurch & March Japan quakes!

Haven't had any noticeable quake activity for some weeks in Canterbury, so praying the above doesn't mean anything.

Here in Newfoundland we had many "strange" and unknown sea creatures wash ashore to the NE, amongst them was the sun fish.

When unusual events begin
happening with the animals
I have a tendency to pay close
attention.

reply to post by crazydaisy


Westcoast's little one is actting up. It seemed to me around the Japan quake. Now we've got that Tonga quake. I'm paying attention alittle more myself.

Sonic Boom report with zeroed depth&magnitude listed at Did You Feel It?

An archive search with keyword 'sonic' retrieves 11 events...

USGS lists 3 sonic booms for 2011.

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/archives.php?query=sonic&search_archives=Search+Archives

Virginia :

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2011_005/us/index.html

M0.0 – Virginia (sonic Boom?)
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 02:02:00 UTC
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 21:02:00 Local

reply to post by SpaceJockey1


Happens every year November to March, nothing out of the ordinary.
Try stuff.co.nz and search whale strandings, there are pages and pages of entries,a few coincide with major earthquakes but more don't.

Wonder why USGS are sticking with mb for this 5.8 Papua quake
perhaps converting to Mw takes it over the threshold, can't have too many 6's can we
5.8 Papua
RAS have 5.9mb (no Ms reading)

reply to post by muzzy

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake hit Indonesia's eastern province of Papua on Wednesday, causing panic among residents, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2, struck at 8:42 a.m. local time Wednesday (11:42 p.m. GMT Tuesday), said Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.

Panic as strong earthquake ...

Guess Indonesia is reporting it as a 6.2!