Official Earthquake Thread

[yukoner88]

Any earthquake anywhere, lets have a unified place to talk about them.

If you feel one, or hear of any around the world, post it here.

 

[LadyStanley]

There are quakes about every minute.

6+? 7+? Or 1+?

 

[Richer's Ghost]

There are quakes about every minute.

6+? 7+? Or 1+?

How about any one that you would have made a thread for.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002et4#general_summary

6.8 quake hits northern Honshu island of Japan (north of Sendai)

 

[yukoner88]

yikes, Nepal has been hit with 2 more,

7.3 then 6.3

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002ejl#general_summary

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002ek5#general_summary

 

[LadyStanley]

yikes, Nepal has been hit with 2 more,

7.3 then 6.3

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002ejl#general_summary

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002ek5#general_summary

Added those to the 7.9 thread. Sad to hear 40 folks had died.

 

[Fugu]

Let's just post the major quakes, probably will mean 7+ and loss of life.

 

[Led Zappa]

Let's just post the major quakes, probably will mean 7+ and loss of life.

My usual cutoff for caring is over a 6 depending on where it is. Wiki gives the 1989 Loma Prieta quake a 6.9. We had a 5.5 in the early 80's that shook things pretty good here and caused quite a bit of damage. Having experienced both I would say the Bay Area would suffer significantly from even a low 6.

 

[Fugu]

My usual cutoff for caring is over a 6 depending on where it is. Wiki gives the 1989 Loma Prieta quake a 6.9. We had a 5.5 in the early 80's that shook things pretty good here and caused quite a bit of damage. Having experienced both I would say the Bay Area would suffer significantly from even a low 6.

That's fine.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10002aj3

6.5 quake on the Pacific-Antartica fault. I have never seen one on that fault.

 

[yukoner88]

Solomon Islands - 6.8

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10002b03#general_summary

 

[LadyStanley]

Two more quakes in Solomon Islands today

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10002bnk
6.9

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10002bpw
6.8

 

[yukoner88]

southern Mid-Atlantic range 6.3

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10002bvx#general_summary

 

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...antasy-earthquake-disaster-movie-san-andreas/

Seismologist separates fact from fiction in new earthquake disaster movie San Andreas.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/05/29/6-7-quake-hits-alaska-no-tsunami/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak11610140

6.7 quake off coast of Alaska. No tsunami


Hmmm
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...eports-magnitude-5-1-earthquake-near-redding/

Caused erroneous 5.1 quake to be reported in Redding, CA

 

[flyguy]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/05/29/6-7-quake-hits-alaska-no-tsunami/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak11610140

6.7 quake off coast of Alaska.

Wife felt it here in Anchorage about 400 miles away. I was brushing my teeth and did not feel it.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002ki3#general_summary

7.8 quake off coast of Japan

 

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...ude-earthquake-hits-oregon-coast-in-12-hours/
Third 5+ Magnitude Earthquake Hits Oregon Coast In 12 Hours

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002kxa
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002l01
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002l3n

 

[yukoner88]

Ranau, Malaysia 6.0

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002m5s#general_summary

 

[LadyStanley]

Ranau, Malaysia 6.0

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002m5s#general_summary

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/m...w&hootPostID=962accf3ab3ab3a90ab058e276814e7a

Apparently downgraded to 5.9. 11 climbers dead on 13,435-foot-high Mount Kinabalu; total known dead: 13.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/06/12/6-3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-off-tonga/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002pak

6.3 quake off Tonga

 

[yukoner88]

This one is a shade under our normal threshold, but I decided to post it anyway because it occurred in a strange location on Saturday. Fox Creek, Ab, 4.4, this is an area with no history of quakes until fracking started to be performed in the area and this is the 2nd earthquake of this magnitude in 2015.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Earthquake+detected+near+Creek/11134952/story.html

 

[flyguy]

There was a pretty good one less than 100 miles from Anchorage earlier. Over a 6. Felt it on the 5th floor of my work for a few minutes

 

[LadyStanley]

There was a pretty good one less than 100 miles from Anchorage earlier. Over a 6. Felt it on the 5th floor of my work for a few minutes

Only 5.8.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak11632992

 

[sandman441]

There was a pretty good one less than 100 miles from Anchorage earlier. Over a 6. Felt it on the 5th floor of my work for a few minutes

yeah that was a shaker, usually those are a bit more powerful but it lasted awhile.