It has gotten curiously quite in quake land. Look at the maps below. As of now, very few blue spots, almost no red spots, and a whole lot of yellow spots. We had a flurry, and it’s now fading toward yellow and gone.
We did have one of note, a 6.3 in Molucca Sea:
Magnitude 6.3 – MOLUCCA SEA
2011 November 14 04:05:12 UTCThis event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 6.3
Date-TimeMonday, November 14, 2011 at 04:05:12 UTC
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 01:05:12 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time ZonesLocation 0.954°S, 126.864°E
Depth 19.4 km (12.1 miles)
Region MOLUCCA SEA
Distances 200 km (124 miles) SSW of Ternate, Moluccas, Indonesia
337 km (209 miles) NNW of Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia
853 km (530 miles) N of DILI, Timor-Leste
1347 km (836 miles) NNW of DARWIN, Northern Territory, Australia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13.1 km (8.1 miles); depth +/- 5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Parameters NST=173, Nph=178, Dmin=455.3 km, Rmss=1.19 sec, Gp= 29°,
M-type=centroid moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9
SourceMagnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)Event ID usc0006rlp
Other than that, the biggest news was Turkey getting a 5.2 aftershock that killed some folks as things were such a mess there already. Nothing really big or notable.
There is a swarm near Puerto Rico, but it’s all ‘small stuff’:
Puerto Rico quake swarm
A 4.9 is the largest, and all ‘out to sea’. Maybe we’re getting a new island…
(h/t to Adolfo Giurfa in https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/open-talk-tuesday-2/#comment-25345)
Southern Hemisphere
A view of Earthquakes from the South Pole
Original Image with Clickable Details
Northern Hemisphere
North Polar Earthquake Map
Original Image with Clickable Details
Asia and Russia
Asia Quake Map
Original Image with clickable areas
Australia / New Zealand
This is a map of the Australia / Indonesia / New Zealand area:
Australia / Indonesia / New Zealand Quake Map
Original with clickable regions to zoom in
North America
North America and Mid Atlantic Ridge Quake Map
Original with clickable details
And remember, I have a dedicated CSZ page with closeups
California Map
Action Closer to Me
As I live in California, it makes it easier for me if I keep them in the list where I can see what’s shaking near me.
Here is an alternative view of things with the fault lines highlighted:
California Quakes with fault lines
Original Image
en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2180
Map of Plates
You can see it is where plates collide here:
Plates Of The World
Original Image, and with other language options.
Some Volcano Stuff
This page:
http://pangea.stanford.edu/~dsinnett/Pages/Links.html has a nice collection of links to volcano monitor pages. Just click the pictures for the different volcano observatories.
The Smithsonian page:
Musings from the Chiefio 
If it is happening everywhere, then whatever causes the plates to move must have changed.
We have several new volcanic eruptions currently underway. There are two currently actively erupting in Chile, one in DR Congo which is the largest one there in 100 years (1KM long fissure, magma fountains to 400 meters) and “Bob” in the Canary Islands. Maybe those have taken some of the pressure off of things and the mantle is redistributing itself a bit or something.
Looks like Iceland might be starting up again, too. Katla has been pretty shaky lately.
http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/?p=1771
Check this out LOL
Ref Map of Plates Pic
Funny how the Antarctic Plate only seems to be pushing in one spot, lower West Coast of S.America. And here I thought that our continent of Ice was responsible for all the Oz and Pacific Plate cracking and whatnot that, in turn, made everything else nervous and flee. Ive seen that pic a thousand times; learn something every day. Still think there’s something ‘magnetic’ about it all. ;-)