Colombia has a 7.3
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Quake Colombia 7.3 30 Sept 2012
Quakes 30Sept2012 N_America
Magnitude 7.3 – COLOMBIA
2012 September 30 16:31:35 UTC
Earthquake Details
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Magnitude 7.3
Date-Time
Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 16:31:35 UTC
Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 11:31:35 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 1.972°N, 76.329°W
Depth 162.1 km (100.7 miles)
Region COLOMBIA
Distances 9 km (5 miles) WNW of Isnos, Colombia
33 km (20 miles) WNW of Pitalito, Colombia
61 km (37 miles) SSE of Popayan, Colombia
66 km (41 miles) SW of La Plata, Colombia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 2.9 km (1.8 miles); depth +/- 6.4 km (4.0 miles)
Parameters NST=800, Nph=800, Dmin=388.7 km, Rmss=0.92 sec, Gp= 14°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=C
Source
USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2012gdap
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Thoughts-
Over time quakes happen, maybe it’s a little like a decent sized stream with a waterfall. During warm phases things move along pretty well and there’s rarely a clog –not saying there isn’t the occassional Big One, just saying things move pretty well and Big Ones are rarer, oodles of minis, averages, and the rare Big . During cold phases more clogs happen and things are real ‘yerky’; not so many oodles of minis, maybe a lot more averages, and much more frequent Bigs. When I speak of cold phases I’m thinking of the last 12-16 million years. What’s the waterfall in the picture for? During warm phases it goes along like a painting (no ice), during the cold phases it clogs up, backs up, freezez, thaws, and roars at breakup (so to speak) as the earth warms and cools during the glacial-interglacial seasons. My analogy to the stream and waterfall has probably fallen apart by now, maybe when things are coldest (and the stream is frozen — 80K year glacial periods) we actually get the worst Big Ones, but maybe we get the worst of it –as with the stream and waterfall in winter/spring– at the beginning of the interglacials (16-14KY BCE).
PS: Originally, I thought to myself that as the earth cooled –in other words, Now– things got more jerky and Big, but I decided to stay with the Spring/Waterfall analogy and guess that the real BIG ONES come when the earth thaws and now, in the Fall so to speak and Freeze Up, we get more but not as many. How’s that for critical scientific thought in the 21st Century? Those “Global Warmers” really left a dent in my head;-)
Think that’s a great question Pascvaks. I posted something similar to that at watts about two years ago. What does the crust of the Earth do if there is a *global* wide cooling in the shallow boreholes of let’s say 0.5C? Does it shrivel up a bit closing some of the soil inter-grain seeps trapping pressure or does the cooling open up these pores a very tiny bit due to the contraction horizontally? Or nothing at all? Never could answer that to myself one way or the other but never gave it any real time searching either..
It would be interesting to plot the temperature that the quakes occur at. In particular it would be nice to know the temperature of all 7 and above quakes. I would like to know the before and after temperatures, it seemed like it got very warm after the Loma Prieta quake.
@Wayne & BobN –
Don’t think there’s much of an issue with temperature below a certain depth (sea or land) as that would/should be fairly constant, and perhaps it’s not so much ‘temperature’ in and of itself as it is something else that ‘happens’ at certain temps; that temps aren’t causal, maybe catalytic, or just an observed ‘points’ at which things start slipping and sliding, or causing goosebumps? Way above my paygrade, but it all makes you wonder, and maybe some geologist Einstein will hear us chatting and think, “That’s funny! It couldn’t be that, it’s probably…” and BINGO! we get anothe EUREKA! moment for All Mankind!
Not to rain on the parade too much… but there’s a problem with the whole ‘temperature change shrink’ idea. The temperature doesn’t change more than a few meters down. Quakes happen far lower than that…
http://www.geo4va.vt.edu/A1/A1.htm
Maybe if you stretch it out to centuries and include change from “summer in the 90 F range” to “summer under glacier in ice age glacial event” you can get 10 F variation down 100 feet, but even that’s a couple of miles short…
But at that scale, I think things like magnetic stirring of the earth core from solar changes or planetary stirring via lunar tides will do a lot more… Heck, just think “piezo-electric”… it works both ways. So not only does squeezing quarts make electricity, but change the electric flow and quartz changes shape. So what happens when a big CME dumps a few zillion charged particles that flow through quartz rich granite?….
Sorry, forgot to mention that my comment was on the lines of very long period volcanic activity instead of earthquakes. That does make a difference.
EM, thanks for the heads up of the new USGS interactive interface. I like it. Changed the dataset to 7 days-all and the lowered the displayed period way down to just 0.2 days so the refresh stayed at one minute and you can now watch the exactly action where it is occurring. Better. We keep getting these small flurries in OK & north TX and that does simplifies the monitoring.
Over very long periods, rocks are plastic…
@E.M.: Over very long periods….How is it the Solar system and what man is?…A neutrino standing on an electron?
@Adolfo –
I don’t know, there’s some pretty D-branes and stringy strings, and funny looking quarks, on my 26 spacetime dimensions microscope slide; are you sure you have your lab book on the right page?;-)
@Pascvaks: Yes, “As Above so Below”.
@Adolfo –
We are not the smallest things in the universe, but we’re so damn far down on the scale that it doesn’t make much difference at all, does it? That quote you gave, how do you say that in Spanish? Have a feeling that it is a good one to remember, and better to remember in the native tongue of the man who made it stick in my brain;-)
@Adolfo: A quark on a hydrogen…
@Pascvaks:
I’m pretty sure “as above so below” was first in something like Sumerian or ancient Greek… It’s been around a very long time…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet
Though it looks like the Greek has been washed through Arabic…
So my advice would be to just stick with the English: As above, so below.
Much more compact, easily understood, and not nearly so cryptic…
@E.M.: Here a magnificent work on Alchemy, published many years ago in a Californian magazine:
http://www.giurfa.com/alchemy.html
BTW:
Ηερμε χοσμοχρατορ, ενχαρδιε, χιχλε σελενεσ, στρογγυλε χαι τετραγονε, λογον αρχεγετα
γλοσσεσ, πειτοδιχαιοσινε, χλαμιδεφορε, πτενοπεδιλε, παμφονου γλοσσεσ μεδεον, τνετοισι προφετα.
(Without accents-symbol characters in word lack these)-
Hermes, Lord of the World, who lives in our hearts , orbit of the moon , round and square , the inventor of words, language, he who obeys justice, wearing the chlamidę , winged feet, lord of issuing all the sounds of language , prophet of mortals …
EM-
;-)Thanks, that reply helped too. I know I’d heard it a thousand times. It was just on reading Adolfo’s use of it –at that moment– it said something so much more and I thought, “How do the Spanish speakers say it?”. Sometimes we get one of those moments(-;
Well, we’ve got a 5.x in the Gulf of California and the California count is headed toward 400. Guess it’s time to start watching again ;-)
Magnitude 5.0 – GULF OF CALIFORNIA
Earthquake Details
* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 5.0
Date-Time
* Friday, October 05, 2012 at 20:02:08 UTC
* Friday, October 05, 2012 at 02:02:08 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 23.502°N, 108.680°W
Depth 1 km (~0.6 mile) (poorly constrained)
Region GULF OF CALIFORNIA
Distances 115 km (71 miles) ENE of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
143 km (88 miles) ENE of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
162 km (100 miles) SW of El Dorado, Mexico
172 km (106 miles) SW of Navolato, Mexico
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 20.7 km (12.9 miles); depth +/- 7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Parameters NST=223, Nph=223, Dmin=130.2 km, Rmss=1.63 sec, Gp=130°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=9
Source
* Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usc000d2jc
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Well, the “pattern” to me says rising probability of a 6+ to 7 in the LA Basin in the next couple of months / year+. Hayward / Calaveras / Rogers fault system showing a lot of consistent ‘action’ too, so maybe a Berkeley Buster… We’ve had consistent movement of the “energy” or “action” up from deep South America, through Columbia, and now in to the Gulf of California.
Hope I’m very wrong and my “visioning” is just seeing faces in clouds…
The California count is now well over 400 and that Gulf of California quake was a ‘pre-shock’ as 4 days ago we had:
Magnitude 6.0 – GULF OF CALIFORNIA
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2012 October 08 06:26:22 UTC
Earthquake Details
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Magnitude 6.0
Date-Time
Monday, October 08, 2012 at 06:26:22 UTC
Monday, October 08, 2012 at 12:26:22 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 25.125°N, 109.698°W
Depth 9.9 km (6.2 miles)
Region GULF OF CALIFORNIA
Distances 73 km (45 miles) SW of Topolobampo, Mexico
92 km (57 miles) SW of Los Mochis, Mexico
92 km (57 miles) SSW of Ahome, Mexico
101 km (62 miles) SW of General Juan Jose Rios, Mexico
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13.1 km (8.1 miles); depth +/- 3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Parameters NST=544, Nph=544, Dmin=161.4 km, Rmss=1.15 sec, Gp= 68°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=D
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usc000d3ne
Nice set of quakes up by Prince Rupert,BC. Full moon Monday and peak stress relief 24 hours after. pg
@P.G.: Nice catch! A 7.7 (!)
Magnitude 7.7 – QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS REGION
2012 October 28 03:04:10 UTC
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 7.7
Date-Time
Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 03:04:10 UTC
Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 08:04:10 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 52.769°N, 131.927°W
Depth 17.5 km (10.9 miles)
Region QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS REGION
Distances 139 km (86 miles) S of Masset, Canada
202 km (125 miles) SSW of Prince Rupert, Canada
293 km (182 miles) SW of Terrace, Canada
556 km (345 miles) NW of Campbell River, Canada
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 14 km (8.7 miles); depth +/- 4 km (2.5 miles)
Parameters NST=716, Nph=716, Dmin=267.2 km, Rmss=0.95 sec, Gp= 58°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=A
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usb000df7n