Quake Watch 2013

Common magnitude, but stand-out in location and depth

comcat.cr.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000euqx



earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/data/Seismic_Data/telemetry_data/SNZO_24hr.html



www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ekstrom/Research/SWD/current/RADB_SWD_grd.html

2013 1 24 14 3 12.0 -63.25 -160.75 33.0 5.1 PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE

Another one in TX for the week:
4.1 3km WNW of Timpson, Texas 2013-01-25 02:01:19 31.913°N 94.426°W 5.0
earthquake.usgs.gov...

reply to post by Nyiah


When I saw this pop up, the hairs on the back of my neck went up.

Linked to the May 17 2012 - 4.8 Mw?

Second earthquake rattles ETX, one injury reported
Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:44 AM EST Updated: Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:58 PM EST

kltv.com/story/18467573/earthquake-confirmed-in-east-texas

M4.8 - 5km E of Timpson, Texas 2012-05-17 08:12:00 UTC

comcat.cr.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pde20120517081200990_5

This is quite a bit larger than the as-of-late average for up there, isn't it?
M3.3 - 10km SSE of Anacortes, Washington
earthquake.usgs.gov...

Just getting ready to head out for a busy day, but I want to ask those of you who have followed and/or studied the quake activity in the Texas area; is this way off the scale or is it just not frequent but has happened before?

2013-01-25 14:48:18.007min ago 44.23 N 10.46 E 10 5.0 NORTHERN ITALY

Magnitude M 5.0
Region NORTHERN ITALY
Date time 2013-01-25 14:48:18.0 UTC
Location 44.23 N ; 10.46 E
Depth 10 km
Distances 171 km SE Milan (pop 1,306,661 ; local time 15:48:18.5 2013-01-25)
55 km S Reggio nell'emilia (pop 158,820 ; local time 15:48:18.5 2013-01-25)
18 km NW Barga (pop 10,010 ; local time 15:48:18.5 2013-01-25)
10 km NE Castiglione di garfagnana (pop 1,861 ; local time 15:48:18.5 2013-01-25)

www.emsc-csem.org...

reply to post by MariaLida


GFZ M 5.1, USGS M 5.0 and 4.8 km depth very shallow one ..

geofon.gfz-potsdam.de... earthquake.usgs.gov...

The U.S. Geological Survey said it was magnitude 5, and struck at a depth of 3 miles, 37 miles south-southeast of Parma.There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

www.reuters.com...






Also we had a M 5.0 Iran before 2 hrs ..

2013-01-25 12:11:24.0 2hr 57min ago 31.76 N 50.92 E 10 5.0 WESTERN IRAN

www.emsc-csem.org...

reply to post by MariaLida


You are fast.

Two thoughts regarding this quake... I hope that no one got hurt..and second, I hope the government does not fire more seismologists.

Peace

The Texas quake was a frackquake. In the following article, the fact that there are injection wells operating in the area enables the geologist to link the activity with the brine water disposal.

Thank you Dr. Wesley Brown, SFA Geology Department Associate Professor. You won't be one of the geologist hanged after the big one hits. I come down on both sides of the Italtian Earthquake Case. Yes, I think the court went to far in handing out jail terms.
BUT. And it's a but bigger than my expanding derriere. ( I quit smoking last Feb, and I'm packing it on)
The geologists in Texas, Oklahoma, and etc, whom have claimed these quakes are organic and natural, should be found criminally responsible if there's ever a disaster . (are the recent texas quakes coming in a three patter? hmm)

From the article.
"
As these earthquakes have continued, The Light and Champion has been in contact with Dr. Wesley Brown, SFA Geology Department Associate Professor, who has been able to shed light on the incidents and offer a possible explanation as to their origins.
“At the moment we are actually linking them to injection wells that are located close to where the earthquakes are in the Timpson area. We have one a little bit to the north, and [the wells] are north and south of each other,” said Dr. Brown.
It seems that earthquakes in Shelby County may be here to stay, as injection wells are not likely to stop being used anytime soon with the disposal of high volumes of saltwater being done constantly."

lightandchampion.com...

There's three kinds of geologists.

1. Those on the take. They love the money and will say and do anything the oil and gas companies ask.

2. Those that know the injection and fracking are causing the earthquakes, and still they stay quiet and hide behind statistics and the uncertainty of prediction and causality.

3. Finally, we have those like Wesley Brown who are brave enough to speak the plain truth when asked.

To John Law, the Okie fella who stated that the activity is natural, you'd better get out of Dodge when the mob wants vengence.
Or rather- "frontier justice". (i heard it's popular in- ' the wild west', or, them there parts)

reply to post by MariaLida

a quake that size in Italy is never good.
[color=9E7BFF ]4.8 according to the Italians
INGV
40km from Pisa, I wonder how the leaning tower withstood that one.
INGV map from that page shows quite a few historic 5+ in the area but not much in that particular mountain range itself.

Aftershocks are never shy in coming forward in Italy, 37 in the first 2 hrs, heading NE.

[color=lime ](click image for interactive map, opens in new tab/window)
Each map icon tag has elapsed time from the mainshock.
I'll do another map later in the day, this will likely run into the 100's.

There is always the possibility of a bigger or equal sized quake in the next days/ weeks in the same area, that is the nature of Italy.


oh, data from INSIDe BTW

stateimpact.npr.org...

update texas

no injures,
i take this seriously, and i do so with terrible humour...

no injures, but sadly
one antique chiminy bit the dust
ashes to ashes
dust to bust
bust and boom

reply to post by ericblair4891

thanks for the link, made my browser freeze up

The one in Texas is really uncommon... so just fracking? hopefully.... better than new madrid fault line quake

reply to post by happykat39


See my post in TAs thread. I believe it is a helicopter. No it is not as it is showing on the borehole seismo and I don't think it would do that.

PS sorry about not replying to things. My puter crashed and destroyed some files. I have not had time to rebuild them.

Originally posted by PuterMan
reply to post by happykat39

 

See my post in TAs thread. I believe it is a helicopter. No it is not as it is showing on the borehole seismo and I don't think it would do that.

PS sorry about not replying to things. My puter crashed and destroyed some files. I have not had time to rebuild them.

edit on 25/1/2013 by PuterMan because: (no reason given)

edit on 25/1/2013 by PuterMan because: (no reason given)

That's quite alright, I have been having a couple of busy days myself. And to me busy days translate to more pain killer days. And that translates to less clarity and more sleep. Maybe by tomorrow we can both get back on track and continue our discourse.

Originally posted by aLLeKs
The one in Texas is really uncommon... so just fracking? hopefully.... better than new madrid fault line quake

Would a 4.1 be considered pretty big for a fracking quake? I know it's not a real big quake, but for an East Texas fracking quake?

reply to post by MariaLida


BBC is the only msm source I could find regarding the Italian quake today.

No injuries reported, yay! Power and phone lines are down however.

www.bbc.co.uk...

Peace

I don't think I've ever seen one here before o.O
M5.3 - 9km W of Anakao, Madagascar
earthquake.usgs.gov...

Looking forward to the area history, if they add it. Until then, are there any sites that have a seismic history for Madagascar that anyone knows of?

Edit: Never mind, rewording my google search terms shows me that Madagascar is actually very seismically active. Fascinating to know that so many plate fragments are in the make-up of the region!

If you look up the activity in this area, it shows nothing... so first the one in Texas and now this one... at least usgs shows no history in this area.