Earthquake Activity Thread

[lfcdude]

a simulor  eq in 30s 40s r something affected Japan? with a wave? if i remember my history right 

[Crepuscular Ray]

Hi JP

 

Yes, and given the shallowness, not nice at all.

Edited April 2, 2014 by Crepuscular Ray

[john pike]

000WEPA40 PHEB 020014TSUPACTSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 002PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWSISSUED AT 0014Z 02 APR 2014THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFICOCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.... A TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH ARE IN EFFECT ...A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FORCHILE / PERU / ECUADORA TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FORCOLOMBIA / PANAMA / COSTA RICA / NICARAGUAFOR ALL OTHER AREAS COVERED BY THIS BULLETIN... IT IS FORINFORMATION ONLY AT THIS TIME.THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. ONLYNATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKEDECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA ANDANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERSORIGIN TIME - 2347Z 01 APR 2014COORDINATES - 19.8 SOUTH 70.8 WESTDEPTH - 10 KMLOCATION - NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN CHILEMAGNITUDE - 8.0MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITYGAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER------------------- ----- ------ ----- --------------- -----PISAGUA CL 19.6S 70.2W 2352Z 1.92M / 6.3FT 44MINIQUIQUE CL 20.2S 70.1W 2351Z 1.70M / 5.6FT 56MINLAT - LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH)LON - LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST)TIME - TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH TIME)AMPL - TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.IT IS ...NOT... CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS(M) AND FEET(FT).PER - PERIOD OF TIME IN MINUTES(MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT.EVALUATIONSEA LEVEL READINGS INDICATE A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. IT MAY HAVEBEEN DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER ANDCOULD ALSO BE A THREAT TO MORE DISTANT COASTS. AUTHORITIES SHOULDTAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS POSSIBILITY. THISCENTER WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR SEA LEVEL DATA TO DETERMINE THEEXTENT AND SEVERITY OF THE THREAT.FOR ALL AREAS - WHEN NO MAJOR WAVES ARE OBSERVED FOR TWO HOURSAFTER THE ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL OR DAMAGING WAVES HAVE NOTOCCURRED FOR AT LEAST TWO HOURS THEN LOCAL AUTHORITIES CAN ASSUMETHE THREAT IS PASSED. DANGER TO BOATS AND COASTAL STRUCTURES CANCONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS DUE TO RAPID CURRENTS. AS LOCALCONDITIONS CAN CAUSE A WIDE VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THEALL CLEAR DETERMINATION MUST BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.ESTIMATED INITIAL TSUNAMI WAVE ARRIVAL TIMES AT FORECAST POINTSWITHIN THE WARNING AND WATCH AREAS ARE GIVEN BELOW. ACTUALARRIVAL TIMES MAY DIFFER AND THE INITIAL WAVE MAY NOT BE THELARGEST. A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF WAVES AND THE TIME BETWEENSUCCESSIVE WAVES CAN BE FIVE MINUTES TO ONE HOUR.LOCATION FORECAST POINT COORDINATES ARRIVAL TIME-------------------------------- ------------ ------------CHILE IQUIQUE 20.2S 289.9E 0002Z 02 APRARICA 18.5S 289.7E 0011Z 02 APRANTOFAGASTA 23.3S 289.6E 0017Z 02 APRCALDERA 27.1S 289.2E 0046Z 02 APRCOQUIMBO 29.9S 288.6E 0111Z 02 APRVALPARAISO 33.0S 288.4E 0135Z 02 APRTALCAHUANO 36.7S 286.9E 0219Z 02 APRCORRAL 39.8S 286.5E 0251Z 02 APRGOLFO_DE_PENAS 47.1S 285.1E 0403Z 02 APREASTER_ISLAND 27.1S 250.6E 0532Z 02 APRPUERTO_MONTT 41.5S 287.0E 0546Z 02 APRPERU MOLLENDO 17.1S 288.0E 0021Z 02 APRSAN_JUAN 15.3S 284.8E 0039Z 02 APRLA_PUNTA 12.1S 282.8E 0131Z 02 APRTALARA 4.6S 278.5E 0218Z 02 APRCHIMBOTE 9.0S 281.2E 0225Z 02 APRPIMENTAL 6.9S 280.0E 0250Z 02 APRECUADOR LA_LIBERTAD 2.2S 278.8E 0239Z 02 APRESMERELDAS 1.2N 280.2E 0327Z 02 APRBALTRA_ISLAND 0.5S 269.7E 0429Z 02 APRCOLOMBIA TUMACO 1.8N 281.1E 0346Z 02 APRBAHIA_SOLANO 6.3N 282.6E 0417Z 02 APRBUENAVENTURA 3.8N 282.8E 0433Z 02 APRPANAMA PUERTO_PINA 7.4N 282.0E 0427Z 02 APRPUNTA_MALA 7.5N 280.0E 0429Z 02 APRPUNTA_BURICA 8.0N 277.1E 0441Z 02 APRCOSTA RICA CABO_MATAPALO 8.4N 276.7E 0441Z 02 APRPUERTO_QUEPOS 9.4N 275.8E 0514Z 02 APRCABO_SAN_ELENA 10.9N 274.0E 0531Z 02 APRNICARAGUA SAN_JUAN_DL_SUR 11.2N 274.1E 0557Z 02 APRPUERTO_SANDINO 12.2N 273.2E 0609Z 02 APRCORINTO 12.5N 272.8E 0609Z 02 APRBULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTILFURTHER NOTICE.THE U.S. NATIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE PRODUCTSFOR ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...WASHINGTON...OREGON...CALIFORNIA. 

[john pike]

Hi JP

 

Yes, and given the shallowness, not nice at all. Does it's proximity to the edge of the continental shelf imply it's goign to have more widespread effect?

 

hi cr

 

very likely

 

i would be a shade concerned that that plate may need correcting after that slip

 

argentina area or west coast of usa looking at how the plate runs

 

hope i am wrong with that though

[john pike]

upgraded to 8.2

 

but slightly deeper 20km

 

 

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000nzvd#summary

 

 

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/

 

some hefty aftershocks to contend with now too

Edited April 2, 2014 by john pike

[john pike]

http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=hawaii.TIBHWX.2014.04.02.0035

TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT NUMBER   3NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI235 PM HST TUE APR 01 2014TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAIISUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENTTHIS STATEMENT IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. NO ACTION IS REQUIRED ATTHIS TIME. HOWEVER... THE TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII IS STILLBEING EVALUATED.AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS   ORIGIN TIME - 0147 PM HST 01 APR 2014   COORDINATES - 19.8 SOUTH   70.8 WEST   LOCATION    - OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CHILE   MAGNITUDE   - 8.2  MOMENTEVALUATION THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HAS ISSUED AN EXPANDING REGIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH FOR PARTS OF THE PACIFIC LOCATED CLOSER TO THE EARTHQUAKE. AN EVALUATION OF THE PACIFIC WIDE TSUNAMI THREAT IS UNDERWAY AND THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT HAWAII COULD BE ELEVATED TO A WATCH OR WARNING STATUS. IF TSUNAMI WAVES IMPACT HAWAII THEIR ESTIMATED EARLIEST ARRIVAL TIME IS                     0324 AM HST WED 02 APR 2014FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER AS CONDITIONSWARRANT UNTIL THE THREAT TO HAWAII HAS PASSED.

[lfcdude]

Looks ok now, Thank god, Lets hope no for shoke

[john pike]

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/live-updates-tsunami-after-massive-earthquake-hits-chile-5883293

 

good link for updates

 

heres the link to use for tsunami updates

 

http://ptwc.weather.gov/?region=0

 

looks like they are still assessing hawaii which would take hours to hit if one is generated

 

better go to bed

 

goodnight ifc

[Biggin]

Plenty of v meaty aftershocks http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

[Snowangel-MK]

The magnitude-8.2 megathrust earthquake which struck late on Tuesday off the coast of northern Chile was at a depth of 6 miles and initially rated as a magnitude 8.0, occurred at 4:47 p.m. PDT, according to the United States Geological Survey. Three strong aftershocks, magnitudes 6.2, 5.8 and 5.5, respectively, have been reported since the major quake.

 

 

 

The 8.2 quake was the result of a megathrust between the Nacza and South America plates near the Chilean coast, the USGS said on its website. The website also showed more than two dozen aftershocks ranging from magnitudes of 4.7 to 6.2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. officials were analyzing the possible tsunami threat to Hawaii and the West Coast. This is a energy map showing the forecast of tsunami waves throughout the Pacific Basin. (Photo/NOAA National Tsunami Warning Center)

 

 

 

 

[john pike]

http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=hawaii.TSUHWX.2014.04.02.0857

[john pike]

M 6.0 - SOUTH OF PANAMA - 2014-04-02 16:13:29 UTC

40km deep

 

 

Seismotectonics of the Caribbean Region and Vicinity

Extensive diversity and complexity of tectonic regimes characterizes the perimeter of the Caribbean plate, involving no fewer than four major plates (North America, South America, Nazca, and Cocos). Inclined zones of deep earthquakes (Wadati-Benioff zones), ocean trenches, and arcs of volcanoes clearly indicate subduction of oceanic lithosphere along the Central American and Atlantic Ocean margins of the Caribbean plate, while crustal seismicity in Guatemala, northern Venezuela, and the Cayman Ridge and Cayman Trench indicate transform fault and pull-apart basin tectonics.

Along the northern margin of the Caribbean plate, the North America plate moves westwards with respect to the Caribbean plate at a velocity of approximately 20 mm/yr. Motion is accommodated along several major transform faults that extend eastward from Isla de Roatan to Haiti, including the Swan Island Fault and the Oriente Fault. These faults represent the southern and northern boundaries of the Cayman Trench. Further east, from the Dominican Republic to the Island of Barbuda, relative motion between the North America plate and the Caribbean plate becomes increasingly complex and is partially accommodated by nearly arc-parallel subduction of the North America plate beneath the Caribbean plate. This results in the formation of the deep Puerto Rico Trench and a zone of intermediate focus earthquakes (70-300 km depth) within the subducted slab. Although the Puerto Rico subduction zone is thought to be capable of generating a megathrust earthquake, there have been no such events in the past century. The last probable interplate (thrust fault) event here occurred on May 2, 1787 and was widely felt throughout the island with documented destruction across the entire northern coast, including Arecibo and San Juan. Since 1900, the two largest earthquakes to occur in this region were the August 4, 1946 mate.0 Samana earthquake in northeastern Hispaniola and the July 29, 1943 M7.6 Mona Passage earthquake, both of which were shallow thrust fault earthquakes. A significant portion of the motion between the North America plate and the Caribbean plate in this region is accommodated by a series of left-lateral strike-slip faults that bisect the island of Hispaniola, notably the Septentrional Fault in the north and the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault in the south. Activity adjacent to the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault system is best documented by the devastating January 12, 2010 M7.0 Haiti strike-slip earthquake, its associated aftershocks and a comparable earthquake in 1770.

Moving east and south, the plate boundary curves around Puerto Rico and the northern Lesser Antilles where the plate motion vector of the Caribbean plate relative to the North and South America plates is less oblique, resulting in active island-arc tectonics. Here, the North and South America plates subduct towards the west beneath the Caribbean plate along the Lesser Antilles Trench at rates of approximately 20 mm/yr. As a result of this subduction, there exists both intermediate focus earthquakes within the subducted plates and a chain of active volcanoes along the island arc. Although the Lesser Antilles is considered one of the most seismically active regions in the Caribbean, few of these events have been greater than M7.0 over the past century. The island of Guadeloupe was the site of one of the largest megathrust earthquakes to occur in this region on February 8, 1843, with a suggested magnitude greater than 8.0. The largest recent intermediate-depth earthquake to occur along the Lesser Antilles arc was the November 29, 2007 M7.4 Martinique earthquake northwest of Fort-De-France.

 

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000p11f#summary

 

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=369190#summary

 

reading 5.8 on one and 6 on the other

 

will update should any further reports come in

[john pike]

Chile has declared two northern regions hit by a 8.2 magnitude earthquake to be disaster areas. At least six people are known to have died and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. The quake struck at 20:46 local time (23:46 GMT) about 86km (52 miles) north-west of the mining area of Iquique, the US Geological Survey said. Waves of up to 2.1m (6ft) have hit some areas and there have been power cuts, fires and landslides. Tens of aftershocks have been reported throughout the night, including a 6.2 tremor. The government said the declaration of a disaster in the regions of Tarapaca, Arica and Parinacota was aimed at "avoiding instances of looting and disorder". President Michelle Bachelet said the country had "faced the emergency well" and called on those in affected regions "to keep calm and follow instructions from the authorities". She is due to visit the affected areas later on Wednesday. Chilean TV broadcast pictures of traffic jams as people tried to head for safer areas. Officials said the dead included people who were crushed by collapsing walls or died of heart attacks. The interior minister also told Chilean TV that some 300 women inmates had escaped from a prison in Iquique. Officials later said that 26 of them had been recaptured. Authorities say they have re-established electricity supply in 50% of the affected areas. Iquique Governor Gonzalo Prieto told local media that in addition to those killed, several people had been seriously injured. While the government said it had no reports of significant damage to coastal areas, a number of homes were reported destroyed in Arica.Further damage may not be known until dawn. The quake shook modern buildings in Peru and in Bolivia's high altitude capital of La Paz - more than 470km (290 miles) from Iquique. The Chilean interior ministry told the BBC that one of the main roads outside Iquique was cut off because of hillside debris. Partial landslides have also taken place between the towns of Putre and General Lagos. The authorities are reported to have deployed a planeload of special forces to guard against looting. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (TWC) issued an initial warning for Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama. However, all warnings, watches and alerts were later lifted except for Chile and Peru. Tsunami watches - in which the danger of large waves is deemed to be less serious - had been in place for Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. "We have asked citizens to evacuate the entire coast," Chilean home office minister Mahmud Aleuy said. Evacuations were also ordered in Peru, where waves 2m (6.5ft) above normal forced about 200 people to leave the seaside town of Boca del Rio near the Chilean border, police said.

 

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_update_read&edis_id=EQ-20140402-43216-CHL&uid=14790

[john pike]

Magnitude mb 5.6 Region EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN Date time 2014-04-02 23:22:49.0 UTC Location 39.25 N ; 141.79 E Depth 60 km ..

 

Distances 135 km NE of Sendai-shi, Japan / pop: 1,037,562 / local time: 08:22:49.0 2014-04-03..

 

 

74 km SE of Morioka-shi, Japan / pop: 295,172 / local time: 08:22:49.0 2014-04-03..

 

8 km W of Kamaishi, Japan / pop: 43,107 / local time: 08:22:49.0 2014-04-03..

 

Seismotectonics of Japan and Vicinity

Japan and the surrounding islands straddle four major tectonic plates: Pacific plate; North America plate; Eurasia plate; and Philippine Sea plate. The Pacific plate is subducted into the mantle, beneath Hokkaido and northern Honshu, along the eastern margin of the Okhotsk microplate, a proposed subdivision of the North America plate. Farther south, the Pacific plate is subducted beneath volcanic islands along the eastern margin of the Philippine Sea plate. This 2,200 km-long zone of subduction of the Pacific plate is responsible for the creation of the deep offshore Ogasawara and Japan trenches as well as parallel chains of islands and volcanoes, typical of Circumpacific island arcs. Similarly, the Philippine Sea plate is itself subducting under the Eurasia plate along a zone, extending from Taiwan to southern Honshu that comprises the Ryukyu Islands and the Nansei-Shoto trench.

Subduction zones at the Japanese island arcs are geologically complex and produce numerous earthquakes from multiple sources. Deformation of the overriding plates generates shallow crustal earthquakes, whereas slip at the interface of the plates generates interplate earthquakes that extend from near the base of the trench to depths of 40 to 60 km. At greater depths, Japanese arc earthquakes occur within the subducting Pacific and Philippine Sea plates and can reach depths of nearly 700 km. Since 1900, three great earthquakes occurred off Japan and three north of Hokkaido. They are the mate,4 1933 Sanriku-oki earthquake, the  m 8.3 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake, the M9.0 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the m 8,41958 Etorofu earthquake, the m 8.5 1963 Kuril earthquake, and the m 8.3 1994 Shikotan earthquake.

More information on regional seismicity and tectonics

 

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000p20r#summary

 

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=seism_volcano&rid=396311

 

 

posted as very close to quite high population

 

also lets hope we dont see this area pick up activity

 

will update if any damage reports come in

Edited April 3, 2014 by john pike

[john pike]

M7.6 - 19km S of Iquique, Chile

40km deep

 

tectonic Summary

The April 3, 2014 M 7.6 earthquake off the west coast of northern Chile occurred as a result of thrust motion at a depth of approximately 40 km, 23 km south of the city Iquique. The location and mechanism of the earthquake are consistent with slip on the plate boundary interface, or megathrust, between the Nazca and South America plates. At the latitude of the event, the Nazca plate is subducting beneath South America at a rate of ~73 mm/yr. 

This earthquake is an aftershock of the M 8.2 subduction zone earthquake that occurred April 1, 2014. The M 8.2 event triggered a tsunami with measured heights near 2 meters along the northern Chile and southern Peru coasts. Since the mate.2 event, 47 aftershocks ranging from M 4.2 to this M 7.8 event have occurred, including a M 6.4 on April 2. The current seismic sequence was preceeded by a foreshock sequence that began on March 16, 2014, with a M 6.7 earthquake close to the epicenter of the April 1 M 8.2 event. This segment of the subduction zone, known as the Iquique or Northern Chile seismic gap, last ruptured during the 1877 mate.8 Iquique earthquake. Other recent large plate boundary ruptures bound the possible rupture area of the April 1 event, including the 2001 M 8.4 Peru earthquake adjacent to the south coast of Peru to the north, and the 2007 M 7.7 Tocopilla, Chile and 1995 M 8.1 Antofagasta, Chile earthquakes to the south.

 

http://www.tsunami.gov/

 

alert was raised but now dropped

 

also

 

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

 

still plenty of aftershocks ongoing

 

 

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/chile-hit-by-massive-aftershock-as-it-happened_921996.html

Edited April 3, 2014 by john pike

[Snowangel-MK]

That was quite some aftershock !!

[john pike]

M6.0 - 28km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands

 

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000p4ty#summary

[john pike]

M5.7 - 26km ESE of Ydra, Greece

110km deep

 

The Mediterranean region is seismically active due to the northward convergence (4-10 mm/yr) of the African plate with respect to the Eurasian plate along a complex plate boundary. This convergence began approximately 50 Ma and was associated with the closure of the Tethys Sea. The modern day remnant of the Tethys Sea is the Mediterranean Sea. The highest rates of seismicity in the Mediterranean region are found along the Hellenic subduction zone of southern Greece, along the North Anatolian Fault Zone of western Turkey and the Calabrian subduction zone of southern Italy. Local high rates of convergence at the Hellenic subduction zone (35mm/yr) are associated with back-arc spreading throughout Greece and western Turkey above the subducting Mediterranean oceanic crust. Crustal normal faulting throughout this region is a manifestation of extensional tectonics associated with the back-arc spreading. The region of the Marmara Sea is a transition zone between this extensional regime, to the west, and the strike-slip regime of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, to the east. The North Anatolian Fault accommodates much of the right-lateral horizontal motion (23-24 mm/yr) between the Anatolian micro-plate and Eurasian plate as the Anatolian micro-plate is being pushed westward to further accommodate closure of the Mediterranean basin caused by the collision of the African and Arabian plates in southeastern Turkey. Subduction of the Mediterranean Sea floor beneath the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Calabrian subduction zone causes a significant zone of seismicity around Sicily and southern Italy. Active volcanoes are located above intermediate depth earthquakes in the Cyclades of the Aegean Sea and in southern Italy.

 

In the Mediterranean region there is a written record, several centuries long, documenting pre-instrumental seismicity (pre-20th century). Earthquakes have historically caused widespread damage across central and southern Greece, Cyprus, Sicily, Crete, the Nile Delta, Northern Libya, the Atlas Mountains of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. The 1903 mate.2 Kythera earthquake and the 1926 M7.8 Rhodes earthquakes are the largest instrumentally recorded Mediterranean earthquakes, both of which are associated with subduction zone tectonics. Between 1939 and 1999 a series of devastating M7+ strike-slip earthquakes propagated westward along the North Anatolian Fault Zone, beginning with the 1939 M7.8 Erzincan earthquake on the eastern end of the North Anatolian Fault system. The 1999 M7.6 Izmit earthquake, located on the westward end of the fault, struck one of Turkey's most densely populated and industrialized urban areas killing, more than 17,000 people. Although seismicity rates are comparatively low along the northern margin of the African continent, large destructive earthquakes have been recorded and reported from Morocco in the western Mediterranean, to the Dead Sea in the eastern Mediterranean. The 1980 M7.3 El Asnam earthquake was one of Africa's largest and most destructive earthquakes within the 20th century.

 

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000p5r9#summary

 

 

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=369829#map

 

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=seism_volcano&rid=396946

 

not a good place to have one

 

only good thing was the depth

 

will update if needed

Edited April 4, 2014 by john pike

[john pike]

from earlier

 

http://www.euronews.com/2014/04/04/double-disaster-as-solomon-islands-hit-by-tropical-storm-and-earthquake/

 

Double disaster as Solomon Islands hit by tropical storm and earthquake

[john pike]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000nb9b?#summary

 

have a read of the above

 

i found that interesting

[john pike]

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck southwest China on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, with authorities checking for damage. The tremor in Yunnan province, near the border with Sichuan, was at a depth of 26 kilometres (16 miles) and hit early Saturday morning, USGS said. It struck seven kilometres (four miles) from the town of Xiluodu in Yongshan County, which is home to the Xiluodu Dam - one of the tallest in the world. The China Earthquake Networks Center put the depth of the quake at 13 kilometres with a magnitude of 5.3, according to state news agency Xinhua. Residents ran out of their houses after they were woken up by the quake at 6.40 am (2240 GMT on Friday). "We strongly felt the quake, but it did not last long," said a local resident. Authorities are checking the losses caused by the tremor, a Yongshan publicity official reported. Southwest China is prone to earthquakes, with a quake in the Yunnan tourist area of Shangri-La killing three people in September last year and leaving 55,000 homes damaged.

 

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EQ-20140405-43261-CHN

[john pike]

2nd update from china quake

 

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake in rural southwest China has injured at least 21 people and damaged over 2,000 houses. The tremors in seismically unstable Yongshan County in Yunnan Province began at 6.40 am local time on Saturday. Authorities say the epicenter of the quake was 13 km below the ground surface. "We felt the quake strongly, but it did not last long," a local resident recounted to Xinhua news agency. Authorities say that 2,731 houses have been damaged and 75 have collapsed – mostly shacks made from stamped soil. 21,000 people have been evacuated to tent camps, but electricity and communications are continuing to function normally. Larger casualties were avoided this time due to the low population density in the affected area, and the unusually deep epicenter, in a place where tremors usually originate less than 5 km from the surface. According to Chinese media, some locals have linked the event to the Xiluodu hydropower plant - the second biggest in China - located less than 15 km away. While huge amounts of water stored in rivers above the plants have been known to trigger seismic activity, the government has denied that the latest incident has any connection to the Xiluodu facility, which remains undamaged.

 

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_update_read&edis_id=EQ-20140405-43261-CHN&uid=14796

[john pike]

M 5.0 - FRANCE - 2014-04-07 19:26:59 UTC

5km deep

 

 

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=370538#summary

 

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/Testimonies/comments.php?id=370538

Edited April 7, 2014 by john pike

[john pike]

Parts of north-east Italy trembled last night after an earthquake, measuring 5.19 in magnitude and with its epicentre in southern France, struck the area. Tremors were felt at about 9.30pm in Turin and others parts of Piedmont as well as in the alpine area of Aosta and the Ligurian coast, sparking panic among residents. Around 100 calls were made to Italian emergency services, the newspaper said, while ‘Earthquake in Turin!" was soon trending widely on Twitter. "There's a sofa that's moving and a chandelier dancing…it's like being at a disco, my heart's racing," one person tweeted. The epicentre of the earthquake was said to be in the Alps-des-Hautes-Provence at a point around 7km from the French town of Châteauroux, 8km from d'Embrun and 10km from the village Barcelonnette, according to France's National Earthquake Surveillance Network (Renass). Tremors were also felt in towns and cities from Marseille to Nice and Aix-en-Provence to Grenoble. Although there were no reports of an injuries or serious damage, many were left in shock at the unexpected tremor. "I had a hollow feeling in the stomach, which lasted quite a long time. I felt jerky and tiny when faced with such a phenomenon," one witness from Nice told Europe1 radio. Scientist François Thouvenot from an earthquake surveillance network in Grenoble told the French newspaper, Le Parisien, that a quake on this scale in the south east of France occurs once every 30 years.

 

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EQ-20140409-43300-FRA

[john pike]

M6.1 - 18km SE of Larreynaga, Nicaragua 2014-04-10 23:27:46 UTC

10km deep

 

 

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usd0003cqx#summary

 

not a good place to get this

 

expect updates

 

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=seism_volcano&rid=398497

 

near these volcanoes

Edited April 11, 2014 by john pike