Quake Watch 2010

Here's the Quake Watch thread for 2010. Quakes can be reported in this thread. Significant or particularly destructive quakes can of course also be reported as individual threads.

Previous Threads:

Quake Watch 2009

Quake Watch 2008

Quake Watch 2007

Quake Watch 2006

Quake Watch 2004

Some Resources:

USGS - U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program

EMSC - European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

IRIS Seismic Monitor

Recent earthquakes measured by Geoscience Australia

Last month of events located by Earthquakes Canada

ASL DCC TELEMETRY STATIONS

Global Hazards - Earthquakes

 

I have no quakes to add just now, but only wanted to have this thread ready.

USGS: Magnitude 6.6 - SOLOMON ISLANDS
2010 January 03 21:48:09 UTC

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Click here for updated map

Another quake. Stronger.


USGS: Magnitude 7.2 - SOLOMON ISLANDS
2010 January 03 22:36:30 UTC

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You beat me by seconds! Good Looking out!



[edit on 1/3/2010 by Hx3_1963]

Here's a map from EMSC: EMSC map. The quake was deep, 33 km. 109 km from Gizo (population 6,154).

hisz.rsoe.hu...


acording to this map there have been two over mag 7s in the area and there has been a tsumani detected . hope this helps a bit .

reply to post by alysha.angel


Both USGS and EMSC now says that the 1st quake was a 6.5 and the 2nd quake was a 7.2, less than an hour later.

Here's one i keep an eye on two big one's
03-JAN-2010 22:36:30 -8.91 157.31 7.2 30.5 SOLOMON ISLANDS
03-JAN-2010 21:48:06 -8.81 157.21 6.5 10.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
Hope this dose not get worse seems to be a lot of shaking over there.
www.iris.edu...
Edit to add thanks for starting this thread better than having multiple threads on the subject S+F

THANKYOU

[edit on 063131p://2010-01-03T18:21:09-06:00031 by mars1]

reply to post by mars1
where is OZ I am wondering about any tsunamis
He might be closest
there have been more quakes already

My my just what is going on in the Solomon Islands it is realy rocking over there.
03-JAN-2010 23:04:08 -8.24 157.46 4.9 35.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
04-JAN-2010 01:47:19 -8.95 157.75 5.3 28.3 SOLOMON ISLANDS
04-JAN-2010 02:08:12 -8.94 157.60 5.2 43.2 SOLOMON ISLANDS
04-JAN-2010 04:17:51 -8.93 157.59 5.8 35.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
04-JAN-2010 05:41:20 -8.77 157.44 5.1 35.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
04-JAN-2010 07:39:04 -8.65 157.12 5.3 35.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
04-JAN-2010 07:58:42 -8.80 157.57 4.8 35.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
04-JAN-2010 11:28:23 -8.35 157.07 6.1 35.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
LINK www.iris.edu...
Thats not counting the two big ones yesterday.

THANKYOU

6.8 Prelim EAST OF THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS

DISTANCES: 2789 km (1733 miles) ESE (122°) from STANLEY, Falkland Islands
3453 km (2146 miles) ESE (122°) from Punta Arenas, Chile

LOCATION: 58.355°S, 14.805°W

DEPTH: 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program

USGS: Magnitude 6.8 - EAST OF THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
2010 January 05 04:55:39 UTC

Depth: 10 km

Click here for updated map.

reply to post by Hellmutt


Hahaha we posted it at the same minute! Equake?

reply to post by bkaust


equake plugin for Firefox.

Btw, USGS downgraded it to a 6.7

Solomon Islands still rumbling!

earthquake.usgs.gov...

reply to post by logicalview


Tsunami generated after today's earthquake off Solomon Islands. one to keep an eye on,

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says small tsunami generated following 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the Solomon Islands.

www.prh.noaa.gov...

[edit on 5-1-2010 by asala]

reply to post by asala


Crikey! Must be some nervous people over there at this time.

Thanks for the info. Will be keeping an eye on this.

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific Ocean near the Solomon Islands Tuesday night, one day after a string of earthquakes rattled the same area and another quake hit the Philippines

www.cnn.com...

A moderate, 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao early on Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.There was no immediate tsunami warning

news.smh.com.au...

Apparently the 7.2 quake generated a local 10ft tsunami that left 1000 people homeless but, luckily, everyone had headed for the hills before it struck.

USA Today Link

There are some interesting things going on in the Intermountain West and California. In particular, take a look at this map:

earthquake.usgs.gov...

and this one:

www.seis.utah.edu...

Nothing huge, but just a lot of activity.