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If so ,then in energy release should be higher ,therefore this can mean a big one is due,for such a massive displacement.
absolutely right, the bottom of the North Island has been uplifted something like 3cm in the last year or so according to GPS readings, so that shelf is coming up along with it. Maybe that what happened, press the Pacific Plate under enough and get a buckle going, then eventually it slips, giving us the 5.7, 5.8 and 6.5 earthquakes.
If so then we have a new plate which is not yet discovered,to have a shear mechanism,which I doubt.
The only problem with that theory is the 3 big quakes were running NE to SW in magnitude order over just 9km and that is not the motion/direction of the subduction which is the opposite direction SE to NW.
Public Id: 2013p546702
NZST: Monday, July 22 2013 at 6:43:08 pm
Intensity: strong
Depth: 16 km
Magnitude: 4.6
Location: 15 km east of Seddon
www.geonet.org.nz...
GEE will be updated with a new version that is able to receive the data in the new format.
Originally posted by muzzy
reply to post by piequal3because14
as well as subduction we have deformation going on too, the deformation matches the sequence of current quakes location wise NE to SW
Magnitude Mw 6.3
Region PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS REGION
Date time 2013-07-22 07:01:42.0 UTC
Location 46.16 S ; 34.85 E
Depth 2 km
Distances 1976 km S of Maseru, Lesotho / pop: 118,355 / local time: 09:01:42.0 2013-07-22
2226 km S of Mbabane, Swaziland / pop: 76,218 / local time: 09:01:42.0 2013-07-22
2249 km S of Maputo, Mozambique / pop: 1,191,613 / local time: 09:01:42.0 2013-07-22
Right.
Tsk. How did we get so complacent that another one on the bottom of the world does not register?
Originally posted by BO XIAN
Originally posted by muzzy
reply to post by piequal3because14
as well as subduction we have deformation going on too, the deformation matches the sequence of current quakes location wise NE to SW
Sorry . . . but reading that, I'm a bit more confuzzzzed than usual about such things.
It seems to me that your map and quakes depicted here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
show a progression in time from
NW TO SE???
Aren't the LATER spheres the ones on top of the earlier spheres?
What am I not seeing or not understanding?