Nothing big happening yet, more just a ‘proforma’ posting as the last set rolled off the posting list. There is one ‘odd bit’. I only managed to grab 1/2 the picture, though. When I first checked this page there were 4 red squares sort of semi-symmetrically spread around the globe. I only managed to catch one of the hemisphere images before the other (S. H.) turned blue. Red is ‘in this hour’ so those 4 “went” at almost the same time.
Here are the two static images, plus a static view of the Pacific where you can see the red dots there:
Northern Hemisphere 7 May 2012
Southern Hemisphere 7 May 2012
It was the little one in the ‘nook’ of South America and the one near Tonga that were both about 3 ish UTC. Looks like a larger one a bit more north in South America and north of Australia were a few hours earlier.
Indian Ocean View Hemisphere 7 May 2012
At any rate, I’ve noticed that “pattern” in pairs before, where one “goes” in both north and south, or both east and west, at almost the same time. This was the first time I’d seen a ‘quad’ though (though I’ve only recently started looking for that kind of pattern, and you have to catch it within a given hour, so a rigorous search would require checking every 15 minutes or so. Not something I’m going to do.
As this Perigee moon progresses, we’re more at risk of quakes. Hopefully nothing big (and not near me ;-) but just pretty patterns.
30 Day Global View
Recent:
Quakes Last 7 Days Live
Northern Hemisphere
North Polar Earthquake Map
Original Image with Clickable Details
Southern Hemisphere
A view of Earthquakes from the South Pole
Original Image with Clickable Details
Asia and Russia
Asia Quake Map
Original Image with clickable areas
Australia / New Zealand
This is a live map of the Australia / Indonesia / New Zealand area:
Australia / Indonesia / New Zealand Quake Map
Original with clickable regions to zoom in
North America
Quakes North America Live Map
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:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/
USGS Page listing recent major quakes:
Musings from the Chiefio 
Here is a blog written by a Vulcanologist which comments on the latest events. There are a couple of other contributing vulcanologists and knowledgeable geologic types who also comment there.
This site wades through the myths and realities of current and volcanic and geologic activity.
There was a recent very lively discussion regarding the links between solar and astronomical forces and events on the planet
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/eruptions
Oh gravity doesn’t do anything hey. So the moon of Io is different is it lol?
@Panther77: It is not gravity only, it´s the whole electromagnetic spectrum. The dead “pebbles universe” is done.
Something strange is happening along the east coast of the south pacific; some say El Niño is coming, but….along that coast runs a big and long fault….
http://translate.google.com.pe/translate?hl=es&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Flarevista.aqpsoluciones.com%2F2012%2F05%2F02%2Fpelicanos-en-peru-masiva-muerte-de-delfines-y-pelicanos%2F
@Adolfo-
Please keep us posted on any news. Quake? Gas Release? Food Supply? Pollution? Good to know what really happened.
@Pascvaks: As for the reports of the fishermen dolphins seemed disoriented. Hope more details from our fiend M.Vukcevic, as the once called “South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly” has largely reached and surpassed occidental coasts of Peru.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/MF.htm
This is, it seems so, treated a bit secretly, as way back in 1957, during what it was called the “International Geophysical Year” there were two Nike-Hercules rockets launched from the magnetic equator (south of Lima, about 60 kilometers) to study the “equatorial jet” which have had then a sudden change.
This issue was touched, a few days ago, too at NIA (http://daltonsminima.altervista.org/) in a commentary by Michele Casati, referring to other cases of disorientation of several species.
Well, it seems that it is beginning to be noticed by some humans as an increase in the number of cases of labyrinthitis, which may be also caused by small changes in gravity acceleration.
@Pascvaks: It began in the north of Peru (about 500 miles north of Lima), but today has reached Lima beaches, and some of them have been forbidden for the public, in the believe that it could be caused by some bird-flue virus. Biological analysis are in process.
@Bone Idle:
Interesting link, thanks! Like the bit about Yellowstone taking a Very Long Time to have it’s supereruptions and the Moon article per quakes and volcanoes on the moon. Nice list of volcanic changes not noted elsewhere ( I hadn’t noticed that the Sandwich Islands were smoking…)
@Adolfo:
If you could post the original Spanish Language link along with the translated link that would be a good thing. The machine translation is a bit painful some times. ( I sometimes get to translate broken English back to Spanish, see what the idiom is, then translate it back ;-)
So “Experts suspect that the death of animals, especially pelicans, would be starvation due to the remoteness of schools product contamination.” is really:
Experts suspect that the deaths of animals, especially the pelicans, would be from starvation due to the remoteness of schools of fish or contamination of their food.
“The holder of the First Prosecution of Crime Prevention of Lambayeque sent samples of dolphins and pelicans died in Lima to be subjected to a study that will determine the cause of death. The result shall be 30 days.”
The ‘First Prosecutor of Crime Prevention’ of Lanbayeque sent samples of dolphins and pelicans, which had died in Lima, to be studied to determine the cause of death. The results are due in 30 days.
I like to look at the Spanish and the machine translation to “fix up” the odd bits more accurately…
FWIW I get a “dizzy feeling” just about the time significant quakes are happening. I also have an excellent sense of direction ( I can usually point at magnetic north on request). When I was a small child, my Dad trained me to have a ‘sense of direction’. IMHO this was calibrating the magnetic sense. Humans have the same magnetite granules as other species, just many folks never learned to listen to it.
When I visited Australia, it took me the better part of a week to get used to the ‘disconnect’ between solar orientation and magnetic orientation and I was a bit ‘dizzy’ for a couple of days. (Slower travel doesn’t have that problem as I adjust a bit day by day. Part of why I like driving and trains more than flying, or only flying 3 time zones at a time. At 8 time zones I’m just too out of sync and it takes a week to get “normal” anyway, so what’s the point? Might as well have gone slower and enjoyed the extra days…)
Seconding the notion: Please keep us posted….
I suspect that we’re headed into a Geomagnetic Excursion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_excursion
Lots of folks get excited about magnetic pole reversals and forget that excursions are much more common.
This is likely to cause a lot of issues for animals that have become dependent on their magnetic sense (instead of just using it when it works well and ignoring it when it’s a bit off).
I also suspect that the cold spike of southern ocean water running up the coast of South America will have disrupted some species ranges. If I were a warm tropical fish and had a cold spike move in, I’d head out more toward French Polynesia ;-)
@E.M.: Here it is:
http://larevista.aqpsoluciones.com/2012/05/02/pelicanos-en-peru-masiva-muerte-de-delfines-y-pelicanos/
http://www.rpp.com.pe/2012-05-06-muerte-de-delfines-y-pelicanos-poca-informacion-y-muchas-especulaciones-noticia_479170.html
Según el Instituto del Mar del Perú (Imarpe), hasta el 29 de abril se registraron 592 aves marinas muertas, entre ellas pelícanos y piqueros; así como unos 900 delfines, cinco ejemplares de lobos marinos y una tortuga marina muerta en 70 kilómetros de playa, al norte de la caleta de San José, en Lambayeque.
According to the Peruvian Institute of the Sea (www.imarpe.gob.pe) until April 29th were found 592 dead birds, among them pelicans and “piqueros”(boobies?); and about 900 dolphins, five sea wolfs and one dead turtle along 70 kilometers of beach, at the north of small port of San Jose, at Lambayeque. (my translation).
http://www.andina.com.pe/Espanol/noticia-muerte-pelicanos-y-delfines-no-afecta-venta-pescado-terminal-ventanilla-411195.aspx
As a reminder, the USGS is discontinuing the maps that I use to make these postings. They are being replaced with an interactive map that doesn’t do much for me. ( I’ve not figured out how to get an image from it that I can use in a posting). So at some point these postings will stop as there won’t be any material I can use to make them. See:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
for the replacement widget thingy…
@Adofo:
Thanks! The Spanish just reads better as Spanish rather than Spanglish ;-)
Well, not much came of the SuperMoon… though I notice that California is down to 357 on that map in this “post-super” time.
Also, for this hour only, the N.Hemisphere and S.H. maps have another of those curious symmetries. A quake near the Strait of Hormuz / Qatar and one just north of Australia. Almost exactly opposite sides of the world again. I’ve seen that often enough to think something is going on….
If Vuk is correct the greatest movements take place just after the new moon, so that would be after the 20th. pg
@P.G.: O boy!, that day…! If you use this java applet:
http://www.jgiesen.de/planets/index.html
Set it at California, then play from 7 am to 14 pm, you will see a gathering of Sun + Mercury + Moon and Jupiter. An annular eclipse plus Mercury and Jupiter.
@Adolfo:
Maybe I’ll take a short vacation to Reno then… (one state inland and about 5000 feet higher elevation ;-)
@E.M. : A nice trip….just in case, while reading E.Cayce “readings”…
Chile picks up a 6.2 quake:
Magnitude 6.2 – TARAPACA, CHILE
2012 May 14 10:00:39 UTC
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 6.2
Date-Time
Monday, May 14, 2012 at 10:00:39 UTC
Monday, May 14, 2012 at 06:00:39 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 17.816°S, 69.749°W
Depth 98.3 km (61.1 miles)
Region TARAPACA, CHILE
Distances 66 km (41 miles) ENE of Tacna, Peru
107 km (66 miles) NE of Arica, Tarapaca, Chile
143 km (88 miles) ESE of Moquegua, Peru
1745 km (1084 miles) N of SANTIAGO, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 12.4 km (7.7 miles); depth +/- 3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Parameters NST=606, Nph=638, Dmin=146.9 km, Rmss=1.17 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=E
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usb0009pcc
(-;Inter/Intra Galactic Gravity Waves shake everything up, mark my words, there’s more a’commin;-)
@Pascvaks: That´s improbable due to Coulomb´s Barrier.
Looks like a “4” off the California end of the Cascadia… Nothing particularly to worry about, but a reminder to watch for patterns and any ‘higher highs’…
Magnitude 4.0 – OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
2012 May 15 10:19:32 UTC
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 4.0
Date-Time
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 10:19:32 UTC
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 03:19:32 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 40.453°N, 125.307°W
Depth 5 km (3.1 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances
88 km (54 miles) W (280°) from Petrolia, CA
89 km (56 miles) W (261°) from Ferndale, CA
98 km (61 miles) WSW (252°) from Humboldt Hill, CA
104 km (64 miles) WSW (249°) from Eureka, CA
388 km (241 miles) NW (321°) from San Francisco City Hall, CA
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 2.4 km (1.5 miles); depth +/- 22.9 km (14.2 miles)
Parameters Nph= 76, Dmin=88 km, Rmss=0.49 sec, Gp=245°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=5
Source
California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR
Event ID nc71785981
Just a bit shy of 5.x at 4.8 in East Texas!?
Magnitude 4.8 – EASTERN TEXAS
2012 May 17 08:12:01 UTC
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 4.8
Date-Time
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 08:12:01 UTC
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 03:12:01 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 31.908°N, 94.385°W
Depth 4.9 km (3.0 miles)
Region EASTERN TEXAS
Distances 45 km (27 miles) NE of Nacogdoches, Texas
71 km (44 miles) S of Marshall, Texas
252 km (156 miles) ESE of Dallas, Texas
373 km (231 miles) ENE of AUSTIN, Texas
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 10.5 km (6.5 miles); depth +/- 2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Parameters NST=261, Nph=264, Dmin=31.2 km, Rmss=1.36 sec, Gp= 18°,
M-type=centroid moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source
Magnitude: St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usb0009rtk
And another 6.2 off of Chile yesterday:
Magnitude 6.2 – OFF THE COAST OF AISEN, CHILE
2012 May 18 02:00:41 UTC
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 6.2
Date-Time
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 02:00:41 UTC
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 09:00:41 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 44.594°S, 80.073°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles)
Region OFF THE COAST OF AISEN, CHILE
Distances
675 km (420 miles) WSW (237°) from Puerto Montt, Chile
1475 km (916 miles) SSW (210°) from SANTIAGO, Chile
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 24.8 km (15.4 miles); depth +/- 2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Parameters NST=169, Nph=169, Dmin=891.7 km, Rmss=1.06 sec, Gp=205°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=E
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usb0009sgu
Overall, it looks a bit ‘light’ on quakes post super-moon. Still, a couple of interest happened.
Well, the global frequency of M6 quakes is about 2 quakes every 3 days or so. So M6 are rather frequent things. So over a period of 30 days you should see about 15 to 20 M6 quakes.
@E.M.: That´s in the southern part of the Nazca plate. A Big one is expected where it happened the last 6.2 earthquake, at the frontier between Peru and Chile, as it happened during the Maunder Minimum.
Nice set of quakes in northern Italy;
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/10_45_eqs.php
4s and 5s. pg
@E.M.: The party has begun!…are you going to Reno?
Hmmm….. That’s a pretty big one in Italy… Also there’s a similar size in Japan and just north of Australia. Sort of like quasi equal spacing around an arc through them…
@Adolfo: Well, as of right now I have no working wheels. That will likely change inside 2 days ( I have a couple of cars at the mechanic and he’s said he’ll knock one out quickly); but for now, I’m not going to Reno; or much of anywhere else…
@George:
I typically have my “cutoff” for “interesting” in quakes at at least a 6.5 to 7; unless there is something interesting about the pattern Oh, and quakes on the fault in my back yard or on the Cascadia may get comment just as a “time to watch a bit” basis… I only really get excited about them at 7+, with significant concern at 8+ (depending a bit on location, as some folks take a 7 and don’t notice while others have 100,000 dead from crummy buildings.)
Quakes in volcano land get a bit more interest, too, to see if they are on a volcano. So this one in Italy is interesting just because it means “Check quakes near Italian Volcanoes”.
Magnitude 6.0 – NORTHERN ITALY
2012 May 20 02:03:52 UTC
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 6.0
Date-Time
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 02:03:52 UTC
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 04:03:52 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 44.800°N, 11.192°E
Depth 5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Region NORTHERN ITALY
Distances 36 km (22 miles) NNW of Bologna, Italy
69 km (42 miles) E of Parma, Italy
72 km (44 miles) SSE of Verona, Italy
339 km (210 miles) NNW of ROME, Italy
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 10.7 km (6.6 miles); depth +/- 2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Parameters NST=573, Nph=574, Dmin=95.7 km, Rmss=0.98 sec, Gp= 14°,
M-type=(unknown type), Version=E
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usb0009tk0
The eclipse has started here in northern California. Using arc welder lenses. pg
@E.M. Sort of like quasi equal spacing around an arc through them….Your intuition is OK:
http://translate.google.com.pe/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdaltonsminima.altervista.org%2F%3Fp%3D18814
Full annular now. pg
Andes Indians claim earthquakes and volcanic eruptions follow the path of an eclipse within 3 days. pg
We watched it via a pinhole in a cardboard sheet. Nice image projected on almost any flat surface.
@Adolfo:
Very Interesting….
@P.G.Sharrow:
So time to watch Cascadia and N. California / Nevada for quakes? (And they have volcanoes there too ;-)
Oh, and ought to note that California is at 415 quakes now… up from 385 a week or two back…
@EMSmith; I see you had a nice little 3.5 bump today. We also had a 3 up at Lake Almanor. pg.
@P.G.Sharrow:
Yeah, and count is headed back up toward 400 after a big drop down to 375 or so. Looks like a 4 off the Channel Islands.
There there’s that 6.4 off of Panama… I think I’ve seen a pattern of activity moving from south to north. If true, watch the L.A. basin for a while… (Probably gulf of California first…)
Magnitude 6.4 – SOUTH OF PANAMA
2012 June 04 03:15:24 UTC
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 6.4
Date-Time
Monday, June 04, 2012 at 03:15:24 UTC
Sunday, June 03, 2012 at 10:15:24 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 5.507°N, 82.457°W
Depth 5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Region SOUTH OF PANAMA
Distances 323 km (200 miles) S of David, Panama
330 km (205 miles) SSW of Santiago, Panama
347 km (215 miles) SW of Las Tablas, Panama
501 km (311 miles) SW of PANAMA CITY, Panama
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13.1 km (8.1 miles); depth +/- 2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Parameters NST=538, Nph=552, Dmin=497.6 km, Rmss=1.03 sec, Gp= 40°,
M-type=(unknown type), Version=A
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usb000a66u
M 6.2, south of Panama
Date: Monday, June 4, 2012 00:45:15 UTC
Sunday, June 3, 2012 06:45:15 PM at epicenter
Depth: 9.70 km (6.03 mi)
M 4.6, south of Panama
Date: Monday, June 4, 2012 08:33:16 UTC
Monday, June 4, 2012 03:33:16 AM at epicenter
Depth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)