I believe my big earthquake that was waiting to happen has finally arrived.
Magnitude: M6.9
Date-Time:
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 07:15:48 UTC
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 12:15:48 AM at epicenter
Location: 28.790°N, 113.142°W
Depth: 10.3 km (6.4 miles)
Region: GULF OF CALIFORNIA
Distances:
133 km (82 miles) NE of Guerrero Negro, Baja Calif. Sur, Mexico
179 km (111 miles) NNW of Santa Rosalia, Baja Calif. Sur, Mexico
215 km (133 miles) W of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
526 km (326 miles) SSW of PHOENIX, Arizona
Location Uncertainty: horizontal +/- 18.1 km (11.2 miles); depth +/- 4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Parameters:
NST=331, Nph=331, Dmin=216 km, Rmss=1.32 sec, Gp=162°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=D
Source:
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID: usc00091a1
The first M3.2 earthquake was 6 miles W of Cromwell, Oklahoma on December 25th, 2011.
The second M2.5 earthquake was 3 miles NW of Snyder, Texas on December 28th, 2011.
The third M2.8 earthquake was 19 miles SSW of Pecos, Texas on January 15th, 2012.
The final M6.9 earthquake was 133 miles W of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico on April 12th, 2012
The M6.9 earthquake that struck 133 miles W of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico was not on the straight line, but 200 miles NW of the straight line. Since
the earthquake was an M6.9 earthquake, its intensity map and/or isostatic map extends well beyond the 200 miles, thus making "it" our large earthquake
that we have waited for.
This of course was used on all of the other earthquakes in this study also. They did not exist on a perfectly straight line, but all four quakes
would have had earthquake cells and/or intensity maps and or isostatic maps that would have put them all within an exact straight line.
The first three were detected here, but the last one was not detected since I didn't have my equipment out and running, otherwise I believe it would
have been detectable before it struck, just like the other three.
It took a little over 3.5 months for the large earthquake to strike from the detection of the first detected earthquake along the fault.
Actually... what is crazy, but is a scientific fact, is that particular part of Baja California has moved 200 miles to the NNW along with the western
parts of California. Which means, that if those parts hadn't moved 200 miles to the NNW over millions of years as other scientists have discovered,
then the M6.9 earthquake would have been pretty much on a very straight line with all of the other earthquakes.
More than likely, this is another great discovery. How the movement of a fault affects the outcome of earthquake chain movement (in this particular
instance the fault has moved the land 200 miles to the north over millions of years, and because of this the earthquake struck 200 miles to the north
also).
edit on 12-4-2012 by RussianScientists because: (no reason given)