Quake Watch 2011

Must be a holiday or sumit

heres one just popped up while I opened the map, its 26 minutes old now
4.8 near the coast of honshu
earthquake.usgs.gov...

pretty quiet here in NZ too;
25thNovUTC
2.036
3.659
3.525
2.974
3.866
3.345

Oh, Ohio. I knew it. You tell me it ain't so. But it is. You're in denial.
And denial is not a river in Eygpt.

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Had to edit. Because it's outrageous.

www.vindy.com...

According to the article, a company named D&L Energy is doing the injection. Their address is 2761 Salt Springs Rd. The epicenter is 2km away from the office's front door.

reply to post by ericblair4891


I live in the Ohio Valley region and my uncle is driving truck for those companies who are doing the fracking. There has been advertising about increasing the fracking in the Marcellus Shale in the 5 states or so that is included in the Marcellus Shale. This was advertised to increase the job market. Do they not care about what that will do to the earth? Hasn't it already been shown that fracking causes earthquakes? I know we need jobs, but at what cost?!?!?!

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Here is an interesting tidbit. My sis lives in Tulsa. She feels every quake as they shake her house. She remember when she bought her house they told her that it sat above abandoned coal mines. In the middle of Tulsa there is a large area where coal was mined back in the early 1900's. She found a map online @www.ogs.ou.edu/coalmaps.php. Her house does sit right on top of the mines and I guess the vibrations are coming thru stronger in that area of Tulsa. Wonder what will happen if there is anything bigger than the 5.6 or with these continuing quakes will Tulsa lose half the city? Meanwhile I think she may be getting PTSD along with her birds for the daily shakes.

Mirror, mirror on the wall ,which one will be the greatest quakes of all!

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!



Magnitude ML 4.1
Region SPAIN
Date time 2011-11-26 08:11:56.0 UTC
Location 42.35 N ; 8.50 W
Depth 10 km
Distances 23 km NE Vigo (pop 292,745 ; local time 09:11:56.2 2011-11-26)
11 km NE Redondela (pop 30,000 ; local time 09:11:56.2 2011-11-26)
5 km NW Fornelos de montes (pop 2,063 ; local time 09:11:56.2 2011-11-26)source(www.emsc-csem.org...

We just had an earthquake here in Santa Barbara around 6 minutes ago. Nothing's on USGS yet. It was kind of strange. Sounded like someone running by our front window with heavy feet and it went on for at least 20seconds. Might have been a 3.0 at the most... I have been feeling slightly nauseous with a strong headache all day today. I hoped it wasn't going to start intensifying. Let's hope USGS updates accordingly.

Originally posted by ericblair4891
In the last 24 hours, there have been no earthquakes 4.5+M in the eastern part of the ring of fire. The only quake bigger than 4.5M in the west was Chile 4.9M.

“All things have second birth;

The earthquake is not satisfied at once.”

Originally posted by OneAndCreakily
We just had an earthquake here in Santa Barbara around 6 minutes ago. Nothing's on USGS yet. It was kind of strange. Sounded like someone running by our front window with heavy feet and it went on for at least 20seconds. Might have been a 3.0 at the most... I have been feeling slightly nauseous with a strong headache all day today. I hoped it wasn't going to start intensifying. Let's hope USGS updates accordingly.

well, it's been a few hours since you posted and there is nothing on USGS...did anyone else feel it?

reply to post by OneAndCreakily

Thank you for your post.

This could be highly significant, especially considering the New Madrid quakes in 1811/12. Doesn't have to mean there is any link between the two but on the other hand, it sure can't be exluded that there might be. So, it's well worth further study and I'm sure some of us will be doing that.

Best regards,

Mike

Originally posted by muzzy
Must be a holiday or sumit

heres one just popped up while I opened the map, its 26 minutes old now
4.8 near the coast of honshu
earthquake.usgs.gov...
pretty quiet here in NZ too;
25thNovUTC
2.036
3.659
3.525
2.974
3.866
3.345

Well maybe not
I just did a download of NZ quakes for 2 days (I'm behind, the Rugby World 7's been on at Gold Coast, Au.) and happened to notice the ID numbers taking huge jumps.
I have always assumed the numbers are sequential, and earlier in the year started dong Additions and Revisions, which basically doubled or trebled the number count of earthquakes per day. Most of the additions would be 2's and 1's.
heres the ID list for the last 2 days, with the gap in numbers up to the next number entered beside each one

A lot of unidentified earthquakes

ID number, count to next number (missing)
3616071 20
3616091 2
3616093 1
3616094 101
3616195 42
3616237 55
3616292 56
3616348 4
3616352 6
3616358 13
3616371 165
3616536 32
3616568 31
3616599 34
3616633 51
3616684 145
3616829 235
3617064
Total unidentified earthquakes 993

TextNovember 26, 2011 – SAN SALVADOR (Reuters): More than 700 slight to moderate earthquakes hit an area in eastern El Salvador in a 24-hour period, damaging dozens of homes but hurting no one. The brief quakes, which started Thursday and ranged from 1.8 to 4.6 in magnitude, have occurred in the municipality of El Carmen, some 163 km (101 miles) east of the capital of San Salvador, the country’s National Territory agency said. Jorge Melendez, in charge of civil protection, said on Friday that 80 homes were damaged by the tremors, known as an earthquake swarm. A hospital in the area showed cracks on the walls but no structural damage so far, he said. Army troops were sent in to monitor the damaged areas. While authorities have not ordered evacuations yet, many residents of El Carmen chose to sleep in the open and the army was handing out tents. El Salvador suffered two powerful earthquakes 10 any ten years ago: one of 7.6 magnitude in January 2001 and another of 6.6 magnitude a month later. The quakes killed more than 1,150 people and left about one million others homeless. El Savador is a region on the turbulent subduction border where the Cocos Plate interfaces with the ever-growing more dangerous Caribbean plate. As can be seen from the map, El Salvador is lined with volcanoes. –The Star

link(theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com...

reply to post by OneAndCreakily

That is a good description of the fracking quakes I felt earlier this year. Ans since I live in an area with sink holes, I bet I feel quakes stronger due to all the earth cavities nearby.

reply to post by diamondsmith


Interesting, however a map would have been handy

hereyago (thanks to QVS links)

El Salvador 7 days earthquake map

cluster in bottom left corner

finding a list beyond last 10 events is a bit harder

Originally posted by muzzy
reply to post by diamondsmith

 

Interesting, however a map would have been handy

hereyago (thanks to QVS links)

El Salvador 7 days earthquake map

cluster in bottom left corner

edit on 26-11-2011 by muzzy because: (no reason given)

I wonder if this is normal!

reply to post by diamondsmith


looks like earthquakes are part of life there
mapas.snet.gob.sv...

The original report from El Salvador?
translated from www.snet.gob.sv...

Special Report No. 8

Continued seismic swarm in the municipalities of El Carmen and La Union, Department of La Union.

Saturday November 26, 2011, 8:30 am

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources reported on the continuity of the seismic swarm located in the municipality of El Carmen and surrounding province of La Union. The seismic network of El Salvador has registered, between 4:00 in the afternoon on Friday 25 and 7:00 am on Saturday November 26, 2011, a total of 198 microearthquakes , of which eight have been reported felt. The epicentral area of these micro is located around the municipalities of El Carmen and La Union, in the Department of La Union. Since the revival of the swarm on Wednesday 23 at 2:00 pm, have recorded a total of 978 buses*, 27 of which have been perceived by the population. The magnitudes of felt earthquakes have ranged between 2.6 and 4.6 in the Richter Scale. The earthquake of greatest magnitude occurred remains the Thursday November 24 at 3:13 pm, with 4.6, at a depth of 3.6 km and with an intensity of V in La Union, Department of the Union. The seismic swarm began with A first set on Sunday 20 November at the 11:00 pm, recording 12:00 noon on Monday 21, a total of 33 microearthquakes with epicenter near the town of El Carmen. Only one event was reported as felt by residents of the municipality. From Monday 21 to Wednesday November 23 was not generated seismicity, indicating that the swarm had ended. According to the characteristics of the recorded signals, the origin of the microseismic activity is attributed to the movement of faults in the zone and has not been linked to volcanic activity. The last swarm occurred in the area occurred in the month of July of this year and generated a total of 1896 microearthquakes, centered around the volcano Conchagua. The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources will continue to monitor seismic activity of this inform the public about the evolution of this phenomenon. It recommends addressing the instruction issued by the Civil Protection authorities and not pay attention to rumors or unofficial information about this situation.

*not sure how buses is translated from "microsismos"

reply to post by muzzy
Thanks muzzy for that info. I don't think that is a life, looks worse than Japan!

reply to post by diamondsmith

looks like this Felt Map is for 2010 till now
I had to upgrade my Javascript to use the map

have a look back 10 Years , its not too bad really, if that was New Zealand or California you wouldn't be able to see half of the background map for dots

Originally posted by muzzy
reply to post by diamondsmith

 

looks like this Felt Map is for 2010 till now
I had to upgrade my Javascript to use the map

have a look back a few years more, its not too bad really, if that was New Zealand or California you wouldn't be able to see half of the background map for dots

Yeah Cali I wonder some day.......

107 minutes and no EQ on USGS..

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On the map page click on Parametros

Gives you the list of the ones on the map.

looks like this Felt Map is for 2010 till now

No, not just a felt map I think, although most seem to have a MMI value. Seismicity map with Mercalli Intensity values in the Parametros. Goes back as far as Jan 2002.

Various things you can turn including faults.

Now that I think about it, it could have been the beginning of a sinkhole... The walls were rumbling in an odd way, but my bed didn't start shaking until after all the noise died down. So maybe it wasn't an earthquake after all...