British Columbia has a 7.7
H/t to P.G. Sharrow for spotting it!
Static captures of image:
Quake 7.7 Mag. 28 Oct 2012 N_America
Quakes 7.7 British Columbia. 28 Oct 2012 230_55
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
Note: The USGS is now putting up a red border box; warning folks to move to their new interactive pages (as these are deprecated). Eventually they will just pull the plug and these postings will all fail to load images that are live.
The interactive stuff is interesting, but you can’t embed images from it the way you can with the old stuff, so I don’t really have a choice (yet). Maybe I’ll figure out how to imbed live versions of the ‘new stuff’ eventually… but don’t be surprised if ‘someday’ the Quake postings just fail.
The saved static images will still exist, but all the live images below will fail.
Live Close up:
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I’d expect some damage in the area.
Also, as I type this, the California map is over 500 count. One can only hope this is not a ‘pre-shock’ of anything else on the Cascadia, or that there be a ‘counterpoint’ any further down the San Andreas system…
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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.
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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:
Thanks for the information, E.M. Smith.
Today, nine days before we elect the next President of the United States, you and P.G. Sharrow are doing the work of our news media, while the news media is peddling government propaganda as news of “settled” science: http://omanuel.wordpress.com/about/#comment-1581
What a sad, sad turn of events for society.
With deep regrets,
- Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
Remember the Alaska earthquake, back in 1950´s?
@Adolfo:
Yup! Wiped out Crecent City California in a tidal wave. For years we’d drive though it on the way to visit Oregon. Some buildings had the high water mark painted on them as a large wide stripe near the roof line… (for those that survived…)
FWIW, the Tsunami Warning for Hawaii has been lifted but the one for Cal. is still up. (though probably not for long). The energy will ‘refocus’ on the other side of the sphere, so look to your local predictions for time / size…)
@Adolfo; I went to Seward,Alaska in 1975. There was a RR locomotive and several cars that had been on the dock, laying on the hillside at the 200ft elevation behind town. Seward was at the focus of the tidal wave generated by the 38 foot uplift of an island 100 miles away. Most of the small towns and villages in and around Prince William Sound were erased and many hundreds of people just disappeared. pg
Is that on the same fault line as the one that threatens Seattle ?
Have you been following the trends here?
http://geonet.org.nz/
It isn’t hard to see why Australians call us the Shaky Isles (one of their less offensive epithets) and get paranoid every time they get off the plane
@ChrisM:
Very similar geography to here in California… subducting plate causing mountain uplift. Just you have ocean in your ‘back yard’ and we have Nevada ;-)
Interesting link…
Oh, and we both have a SuperVolcano site. For us it’s Mammoth “Lakes”… for you folks, it’s the North Island ;-)
Race you to the end of the world as we know it!!!
As I can see the super caldera of Taupo from my lounge window, I am well aware of the vulcanism and its effects. I remember the Ruapehu eruptions in the 90s and Ngaruhoe in the 70s. I also work on a geothermal power station so we get access to a lot of stuff others never see. Taupo is going down about 20mm a year and northwards about the same rate. Much of the land around here has subsided 2-4km in the last 500k years in the forming rift valley. The only reason we are above sea level is it has been overfilled with volcanic debris. The big eruption (not the AD 230 one) was about 22k years ago. It put half a metre of ash on an island about 800km SE of here. To remind us of the activity, we regularly get earthquakes related to the subduction zone movement. Many are deep (100-150km) directly below us which we don’t feel because of the surface pumice, but shake most of the North Island. However, we do get a lot of shallow ones that give the sharp jolt. All the tourists in town panic, while the locals rush to geonet site so they can boast how big the latest one is!
But the next really big earthquake coming won’t be round here, or even Wellington. It will be the Southern Alps of the South Island. Look at that geonet site of deep earthquake locations and you can see where the Alpine Fault is bound up. Last time it moved, it went about 10m sideways so that will be a quake to rival Sumatra. When it does come, the whole earth will rattle!
Haven’t had time to browse your blog for a few days and read this now, and noticed a big red square over the Philippines in your last live map – a 6.4 quake, the reports say.
I’ve got this creepy feeling… like the quakes are creeping up on me… A 7.4 in Guatemala and another 6ish up in B.C. We’re in the middle and things are slowly moving our way…
Magnitude 6.3 – VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION
2012 November 08 02:01:51 UTC
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 6.3
Date-Time
Thursday, November 08, 2012 at 02:01:51 UTC
Wednesday, November 07, 2012 at 06:01:51 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 49.185°N, 128.528°W
Depth 16.6 km (10.3 miles)
Region VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION
Distances 186 km (115 miles) SSW of Port Hardy, Canada
255 km (158 miles) WSW of Campbell River, Canada
262 km (162 miles) W of Courtenay, Canada
271 km (168 miles) W of Port Alberni, Canada
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 18 km (11.2 miles); depth +/- 8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Parameters NST=329, Nph=332, Dmin=128 km, Rmss=0.6 sec, Gp=144°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usc000dnxu
Magnitude 7.4 – OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
2012 November 07 16:35:50 UTC
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude 7.4
Date-Time
Wednesday, November 07, 2012 at 16:35:50 UTC
Wednesday, November 07, 2012 at 10:35:50 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 14.083°N, 91.916°W
Depth 41.6 km (25.9 miles)
Region OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
Distances 24 km (14 miles) S of Champerico, Guatemala
56 km (34 miles) SSW of Retalhuleu, Guatemala
61 km (37 miles) SSW of San Sebastian, Guatemala
61 km (37 miles) SSE of Suchiate, Mexico
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 15 km (9.3 miles); depth +/- 9 km (5.6 miles)
Parameters NST=635, Nph=635, Dmin=244.9 km, Rmss=1.17 sec, Gp= 58°,
M-type=(unknown type), Version=7
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usb000dlwm