Quake Watch 2010

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They're small but Cali is lit up like a Christmas tree

My mind works in rhythms and patterns. I'd love to see the order of the Alaska/California quakes animated to see if there are any patterns - I can "feel" them but I can't explain them.

Someone said earlier that for the last month they've been quite tense re quakes - me too. I've always felt I'd be around for a global catastrophe - I don't subscribe to 2012 stuff - but I do think we're overdue for something big. Sorry if I sound nuts! Perhaps I am!

[edit on 7-3-2010 by MoorfNZ]

Magnitude 4.8 - OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
2010 March 08 07:06:08 UTC

Location
34.194°S, 72.992°W
Depth
35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program

Distances
180 km (110 miles) SW of Valparaiso, Chile
185 km (115 miles) NW of Talca, Chile
205 km (130 miles) W of Rancagua, Chile
230 km (145 miles) WSW of SANTIAGO, Chile

Has CERN killed the world?

reply to post by aristocrat2

CERN has nothing to do with this thread. I see you are advertising again aristocrat2

Magnitude 5.5 - EASTERN TURKEY
2010 March 08 07:47:40 UTC

Location
38.767°N, 40.239°E
Depth
10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
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Distances
25 km (15 miles) WSW of Bingol, Turkey
90 km (55 miles) E of Elazig, Turkey
95 km (60 miles) N of Diyarbakir, Turkey
650 km (405 miles) E of ANKARA, Turkey


and

Magnitude 5.1 - OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE
2010 March 08 08:07:58 UTC

Location
33.691°S, 71.848°W
Depth
35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program

Distances
75 km (45 miles) SSW of Valparaiso, Chile
115 km (70 miles) WSW of SANTIAGO, Chile
115 km (70 miles) WNW of Rancagua, Chile
195 km (120 miles) N of Talca, Chile

Earthquake hits eastern Turkey; 38 dead

It was centered near the village of Basyurt, and was followed by more than 20 aftershocks, the strongest measuring 4.1., according to Istanbul's Kandilli Observatory seismology center.

www.sott.net...


edit to add

Magnitude 4.8 - EASTERN TURKEY
2010 March 08 09:00:50 UTC

Location
38.611°N, 40.120°E
Depth
10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program

Distances
45 km (25 miles) SW of Bingol, Turkey
80 km (50 miles) E of Elazig, Turkey
80 km (50 miles) N of Diyarbakir, Turkey
645 km (400 miles) E of ANKARA, Turkey

[edit on 8-3-2010 by berkeleygal]

Just had a large one North of Guam Mariners/Caroline islands.

6.0 earthquake.usgs.gov...

More Turkey news here (including video) news.bbc.co.uk...

I have a friend in Ankara visiting at the moment.

Another biggie (6.0) has just struck Mariana Islands (above Guam).

6.0
Date-Time

* Monday, March 08, 2010 at 09:47:10 UTC
* Monday, March 08, 2010 at 07:47:10 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 19.342°N, 144.728°E
Depth 446.5 km (277.5 miles)
Region MAUG ISLANDS REG., NORTHERN MARIANA ISL.
Distances 115 km (75 miles) WNW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands
135 km (85 miles) S of Farallon de Pajaros, N. Mariana Islands
470 km (290 miles) NNW of SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands
650 km (405 miles) N of HAGATNA, Guam
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.8 km (3.6 miles); depth +/- 9.5 km (5.9 miles)
Parameters NST=271, Nph=278, Dmin=636.7 km, Rmss=0.61 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2010tpa6

Another 4.8 in Turkey

4.8
Date-Time

* Monday, March 08, 2010 at 10:14:26 UTC
* Monday, March 08, 2010 at 12:14:26 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 38.751°N, 40.127°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region EASTERN TURKEY
Distances 35 km (20 miles) WSW of Bingol, Turkey
80 km (50 miles) E of Elazig, Turkey
95 km (60 miles) N of Diyarbakir, Turkey
640 km (400 miles) E of ANKARA, Turkey

reply to post by berkeleygal


Really sorry to read that there were deaths in Turkey. I suppose we should be grateful that it was not a heavily populated area.

USGS only has these in the past 7 days - latest first.

Date/Time UTC,Latitude,Longitude,Magnitude,Depth(Km),Location
08/03/2010 10:14:26,38.7514,40.1269,4.80,10.00,eastern Turkey
08/03/2010 09:00:50,38.6114,40.1199,4.80,10.00,eastern Turkey
08/03/2010 07:47:40,38.7668,40.2393,5.50,10.00,eastern Turkey
08/03/2010 02:32:35,38.8522,39.9490,5.90,10.00,eastern Turkey

reply to post by MoorfNZ


Very deep that one. Depth 446.5 km (277.5 miles). Is this a sign that the area is shifting a bit. They seem well spread out - over 1000 kilometers apart.

Just to give some idea of how active Turkey is, here is a list of quakes since March 7, up to the time of posting this post. These are sourced from EMSC, which in respect of this region I find more detailed than USGS and more reliable than RSOE (who [ie RSOE] get their data from places like EMSC to begin with):

2010-03-08  11:47:04.538.77 N  40.17 E  15MD2.7 EASTERN TURKEY

2010-03-08  11:35:19.138.77 N  40.14 E  10MD 2.8 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  11:16:53.537.50 N  35.55 E  2ML 4.0 CENTRAL TURKEY
2010-03-08  11:12:13.338.77 N  40.14 E  2mb 4.9 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  10:41:15.638.77 N  40.14 E  5ML 3.3 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  10:37:55.238.76 N  40.03 E  2MD 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  10:33:45.538.73 N  40.15 E  5MD 3.3 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  10:28:37.038.88 N  40.16 E  5MD 3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  10:14:25.638.77 N  40.19 E  2mb 4.9 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  10:07:46.638.76 N  40.12 E  5MD 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  09:55:10.838.67 N  40.05 E  172ML 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY

2010-03-08  09:52:14.038.75 N  40.02 E  2MD 3.4 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  09:47:38.038.74 N  39.97 E  4MD 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  09:45:26.838.72 N  40.11 E  8ML 3.2 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  09:30:06.438.84 N  40.15 E  2MD 3.5 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  09:27:29.038.84 N  40.14 E  7MD 3.4 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  09:21:17.038.73 N  40.00 E  7MD 3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  09:11:07.538.78 N  40.03 E  2MD 3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  09:00:50.238.74 N  40.13 E  15ML 4.8 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  08:58:17.138.82 N  40.12 E  2ML 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  08:52:16.238.75 N  40.03 E  2ML 3.7 EASTERN TURKEY

2010-03-08  08:43:20.838.74 N  39.98 E  2ML 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  08:31:42.738.80 N  40.10 E  2ML 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  08:20:41.038.74 N  40.01 E  7MD 3.2 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  08:16:23.138.73 N  40.05 E  2ML 3.7 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  08:11:22.838.74 N  40.09 E  2ML 4.2 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  08:06:08.138.74 N  40.11 E  5ML 3.8 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  07:47:40.738.73 N  40.20 E  2mb 5.5 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  06:48:41.138.85 N  40.17 E  6MD 2.9 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  06:22:07.438.82 N  40.20 E  8MD 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  06:18:38.638.81 N  40.16 E  5MD 2.7 EASTERN TURKEY

2010-03-08  06:16:28.638.77 N  40.05 E  2ML 3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  05:49:32.038.82 N  40.09 E  3MD 3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  05:42:05.038.76 N  40.05 E  3MD 3.2 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  05:26:19.038.80 N  40.06 E  7MD 3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  04:56:32.038.81 N  39.99 E  4MD 3.3 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  04:36:10.038.77 N  40.01 E  7MD 3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  04:30:20.038.81 N  40.08 E  6MD 3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  04:25:14.037.41 N  35.58 E  5MD 3.5 CENTRAL TURKEY
2010-03-08  04:14:56.038.77 N  40.00 E  6MD 3.4 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  04:06:06.038.84 N  40.13 E  21MD 3.5 EASTERN TURKEY

2010-03-08  03:52:24.038.72 N  39.94 E  12MD 3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  03:32:19.038.80 N  40.09 E  12MD 3.2 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  03:26:51.038.83 N  40.08 E  7MD 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  03:22:52.038.82 N  40.12 E  5MD 3.3 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  03:20:26.538.82 N  40.20 E  2ML 4.2 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  03:12:54.038.81 N  40.07 E  7MD 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  03:10:32.038.78 N  40.06 E  11MD 3.2 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  03:04:56.038.80 N  40.06 E  12MD 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  02:56:44.038.79 N  40.06 E  7MD 3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  02:50:26.038.83 N  40.10 E  8MD 3.2 EASTERN TURKEY

2010-03-08  02:38:14.038.79 N  40.02 E  14MD 3.4 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  02:32:33.538.82 N  40.05 E  2mb 5.9 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-08  01:44:28.036.92 N  36.76 E  7MD 3.1 TURKEY-SYRIA BORDER REGION
2010-03-08  00:43:50.036.58 N  36.32 E  5MD 3.2 TURKEY-SYRIA BORDER REGION
2010-03-07  23:30:18.037.73 N  42.53 E  7MD 3.7 TURKEY-SYRIA-IRAQ BORDER REGION
2010-03-07  23:28:57.336.67 N  36.19 E  2ML 3.9 TURKEY-SYRIA BORDER REGION
2010-03-07  20:58:43.039.47 N  30.05 E  6MD 3.4 WESTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  20:33:20.037.05 N  28.39 E  2ML 2.9 WESTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  17:59:26.039.44 N  33.09 E  5MD 3.2 CENTRAL TURKEY
2010-03-07  17:14:03.037.53 N  35.66 E  3MD 3.1 CENTRAL TURKEY

2010-03-07  15:17:32.739.43 N  30.05 E  6MD 2.8 WESTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  14:52:46.339.34 N  38.44 E  19MD 2.9 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  13:17:12.540.59 N  30.30 E  5MD 2.6 WESTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  12:31:58.139.24 N  38.52 E  17MD 2.7 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  12:25:38.237.24 N  28.16 E  10MD 2.7 WESTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  10:01:57.840.20 N  30.02 E  8MD 2.8 WESTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  09:51:33.737.36 N  28.31 E  15MD 2.8 WESTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  09:48:14.137.26 N  28.09 E  9MD 2.8 WESTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  09:41:25.939.32 N  27.81 E  2ML 3.2 WESTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  07:19:09.739.10 N  28.01 E  5MD 2.7 WESTERN TURKEY

2010-03-07  06:29:53.940.00 N  39.16 E  9MD 2.8 EASTERN TURKEY
2010-03-07  01:57:42.038.45 N  30.52 E  20MD 3.2 WESTERN TURKEY

Mike.


[edit on 8/3/10 by JustMike]

reply to post by PuterMan

Yes, that is an exceptionally deep quake, and it has to make me wonder if it could lead to some upcoming (pun!) sea-floor volcanics in that region. Only wondering, though, not stating it as a likelihood.

Mike

[edit on 8/3/10 by JustMike]

Good Thread Guys,

will be watching this one for a while to come, I live in the ACT so im guessing there is no way one of these could get to me ....

here is a link for the firefox plugin - I use it at work and it is always shaking and by the end of the day i can see usally about 5-10 listings of earth quakes around the world and some are getting closer to home.
So I get to work and my screen just shakes most the time like a bomb has hit it gota love how our techtonic plates just move around and crash into eachother.

I did geography when I was doing my schooling and found it very interesting, did well and enjoyed studying society and enviornments also.

addons.mozilla.org...
Link is secure and encrypted with certification.

reply to post by UnReAl2010

G'day UnRealAl,

thanks for your comments and welcome to ATS. As I'm possibly the only one on this thread right now who actually knows where the ACT is, I can reassure you that it's a pretty quiet area seismically speaking. About the only big shake-ups you're likely to get there will be political ones. Bigger quakes in Oz are incredibly rare.

The last quake of any appreciable size in Australia was a mag. 5.6 in Newcastle on 28/12/89, which killed 13 people and caused about 4 billion (Aussie) dollars in damage. I remember it well; in S.A. where I used to live it was a state holiday and this event pushed our usual boring "Proclamation Day" items off the news. Terrible tragedy -- came right out of the blue in a region where such quakes have never been known before and even smaller tremors are rather unusual. I don't think even now scientists have determined its precise cause. There are no significant fault lines in the region and it's very unlikely that coal mining was a contributing factor, as the quake occurred too deep for that.

I hope I haven't put the knockers on poor old Oz by saying they almost never get large quakes...

Mike

reply to post by berkeleygal

Got it. Sorry for that.

"Tomographists have found that this planet is divided into six regions: the inner core, the outer core, the lower mantle, the upper mantle, the transition region, and the crust (oceanic and continental).

Here is a brief synopsis of the depths of each layer (in kilometers):

1. 0- 40 Crust
2. 40- 400 Upper mantle
3. 400- 650 Transition region
4. 650-2700 Lower mantle
5. 2700-2890 D'' layer
6. 2890-5150 Outer core
7. 5150-6378 Inner core"

library.thinkquest.org...
How often do quakes at this depth occur?
"The Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench) is the deepest known part of the world's oceans, and the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth's crust.
It reaches a maximum depth of about 11,033 metres (36,200 ft)" The Western Pacific plate is being subducted but still, that is very deep for a quake isn't it?
en.wikipedia.org...

reply to post by JustMike


ACT - That would this I presume.

Isn't the Internet wonderful!!

reply to post by zenius

Hi zenius and thanks for posting that info, which will doubtless be very useful for some members who are perhaps not so immersed in Earth Science (so to speak). Regarding your comment about that quake, yes it's a very deep one. The deepest I can recall anywhere have been 700 km and in fact that's the limit for almost any search on a database like NEIC's.

This is why I mused on possibility of volcanic activity, as this quake was so deep.


reply to post by PuterMan

Yes, that's "the ACT". To be technically correct it should be written "A.C.T.", but frankly very few Aussies can be bothered doing that and even officially it's no longer written that way, as far as I know. Of course, we do pronounce it by its individual letters, although non-Aussies might not recognize the sounds.

Mike

[edit on 8/3/10 by JustMike]