Official Earthquake Thread

[Riseonfire]

Not exactly and EQ but......http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...and-Tri-State-Shaking-NY-CT-NJ-366886661.html

 

[LadyStanley]

Reminds me of the Mythbusters episode where they looked at the damage that could happen from a sonic boom.

(Jet fighter flew about 100' at supersonic speed above test cabin in the middle of no where.)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20004vvx

7.2 Russia (way east - nearer Alaska than Moscow)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20004w6c

6.0 Balleny Islands region

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20004y6h

6.4 Taiwan


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35508475

Pancaked houses. No casualty count (yet).

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20004yr0

6.4 PNG

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20004z5b

6.3 Chile

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20004zp9

6.3 Indonesia

 

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...-develop-smartphone-app-quake-warning-system/

Seismologists working on app using smart phone's accelerometers to help measure quakes.



http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us200050ei

6.2 New Zealand

 

[Bluelines]

Earthquake 'swarm' rattles New Brunswick village, breaks windows

Not a common place here in NB but interesting story...

A swarm of small earthquakes is again rattling residents in the southwestern New Brunswick village of McAdam.

Officially, nine earthquakes hit the area on Monday night alone, coming on the heels of more than 23 temblors recorded since Feb. 1.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mcadam-earthquake-swarm-new-brunswick-1.3441895

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10004u1y

7.8 off coast of Sumatra, Indonesia

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10004x1w

6.3 Alaska (Aleutian Islands)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...gger-larger-earthquakes-stanford-study-finds/

One of the strongest earthquakes in California history was likely caused when one fault line slipped and triggered another slippage along the San Andreas fault, according to new research.

The 7.5 magnitude Wrightwood earthquake in San Bernardino County killed 40 Native Americans inside Mission San Juan Capistrano when the structure collapsed on them on December 8, 1812.

Up to now, researchers had attributed a slip along the San Andreas fault for the earthquake.

According to a study by Stanford scientists, the much lesser-known San Jacinto fault provoked the movement on the San Andreas fault, leading to a more powerful temblor.

So, it's not just the big/known fault lines one needs to be concerned with, but the ones "nearby" that might start a chain reaction.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005axu

6.0 Alaska (Aleutian Islands)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005azy

6.0 Barbuda (Caribbean/Barbados)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005bbh

6.4 Russia (far east; peninsula near Aleutian Islands)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/28/damaging-earthquake-risk-oklahoma-california-usgs/

Federal scientists say the chance of damaging earthquakes hitting east of the Rockies has increased significantly, much of it a man-made byproduct of drilling for energy. Oklahoma now has a 1 in 8 chance of damaging quakes in 2016, surpassing California as the state with the highest probability.

Makes you go hmmmm.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005du0

6.0 Japan

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005e01

6.1 PNG

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak13226799

6.2 Alaska (Aleutians)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005e8t

6.9 Vanuatu

 

[LadyStanley]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/USGS-finds-long-obscured-fault-in-downtown-Santa-7230186.php

USGS finds "long obscured" fault in downtown Santa Rosa (California). Estimates 31% of 6.7 quake in the next 30 years.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005fsi

6.9 Vanuatu

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005fv5

6.0 Indonesia (island of Java)

 

[LadyStanley]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005gsg

6.6 Afghanistan