50 minutes ago. Extremely deep.
Looks pretty deep..
M8.0 - 24km SE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2014-06-23 20:53:10 UTC
Event Time
2014-06-23 20:53:10 UTC
2014-06-23 11:53:10 UTC-09:00 at epicenter
2014-06-23 16:53:10 UTC-04:00 system time
Location
51.797°N 178.759°E depth=114.4km (71.1mi)
Nearby Cities
24km (15mi) SE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska
1370km (851mi) E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
1387km (862mi) E of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
1388km (862mi) E of Yelizovo, Russia
2957km (1837mi) W of Whitehorse, Canada
didn’t some guy just recently predict a big earthquake was coming?
BULLETIN
PUBLIC TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 2
NWS NATIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER PALMER AK
113 PM AKDT MON JUN 23 2014
UPDATES IN THIS MESSAGE INCLUDE A REVISED MAGNITUDE.
UPDATES IN THIS MESSAGE INCLUDE MODIFIED ALERT AREAS.
...THE TSUNAMI WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT...
...A TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT...
WARNINGS/ADVISORIES/WATCHES - UPDATED
* THE COASTAL AREAS OF ALASKA FROM NIKOLSKI ALASKA TO ATTU
ALASKA
TSUNAMI ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR...
* THE COASTAL AREAS OF ALASKA FROM UNIMAK PASS ALASKA /WHICH
IS LOCATED 80 MILES NE OF UNALASKA/ TO NIKOLSKI ALASKA
* FOR OTHER US AND CANADIAN PACIFIC COASTS IN NORTH AMERICA -
THE LEVEL OF TSUNAMI DANGER IS BEING EVALUATED. FURTHER
INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED IN SUPPLEMENTARY MESSAGES.
IMPACTS FOR TSUNAMI WARNING AREAS
* THE FIRST WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST.
IMPACTS FOR TSUNAMI ADVISORY AREAS
* CURRENTS MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO SWIMMERS... BOATS... AND COASTAL
STRUCTURES AND MAY CONTINUE FOR MANY HOURS AFTER THE TSUNAMI
ARRIVAL.
* THE FIRST WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST.
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS - UPDATED
* IF YOU ARE IN AN ADVISORY AREA - MOVE OFF THE BEACH AND OUT OF
HARBORS AND MARINAS. WIDESPREAD INUNDATION OF LAND IS NOT
EXPECTED FOR ADVISORY AREAS.
* BE ALERT TO INSTRUCTIONS FROM YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS.
* DO NOT GO TO THE COAST TO OBSERVE THE TSUNAMI.
* DO NOT RETURN TO THE COAST UNTIL LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS
INDICATE IT IS SAFE TO DO SO.
FORECASTS AND/OR OBSERVATIONS OF TSUNAMI ACTIVITY
* ALASKA
SHEMYA 1324 AKDT JUN 23
ADAK 1334 AKDT JUN 23
UNALASKA 1443 AKDT JUN 23
SAINT PAUL 1504 AKDT JUN 23
PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS - UPDATED
NEXT UPDATE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
* REFER TO THE INTERNET SITE NTWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV FOR MORE
INFORMATION.
* PACIFIC COASTAL RESIDENTS OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA... OREGON...
WASHINGTON... BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA SHOULD REFER TO THE
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER MESSAGES AT PTWC.WEATHER.GOV.
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/
Depth changed to 68.4 miles. This was a DEEP one.
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/
Shake-Ping-Shake-Rattle-
Tweet:
NWS Alaska Region 3m
Successful evacuations have occurred in St. Paul, St. George, Adak and Atka. No tsunami reported in Shemya yet.
Godzilla visiting Deadliest catch set?
Who knew LOL!
Earlier today: 7.2 magnitude earthquake rattles New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands.
Obama supporters in Florida are concerned about the upcoming tsunami waves.They will likely start driving south to Cuba in preparation.
All these recently intense and deep earthquakes ... I wonder if there is a connection to the shifting of Earth’s magnetic poles? ...
Swarm satellite (ESA) measurements made the last 6 months show a dramatic decline over North and South America with a strengthening of the Earth’s magnetic field over the southern Indian Ocean. (Below June 2014 image by ESA’s Swarm Satellite.)
IMG = http://i57.tinypic.com/110it6w.jpg/IMG
Magnetic North continues to move towards Siberia where a large magma rise under the crust has been occurring for the past three decades. This new picture reinforces the concept that the Earth’s magnetic poles are building up to a switch. Over the last 200 years, the magnetic field has weakened by about 15%. Over the last 20 million years, the poles have reversed on average about every 200,000 to 300,000 years. But the last pole reversal was 780,000 years ago, so Earth is long overdue for a pole change.
Not far from Japan.
Too bad Congress has not been moved to Rat Island.
Not that I'm complaining. But nothing ever seems to really seems to come from these tsunami alerts. The two big tsumamis I remember were the one in Japan and the one in that Sri Lanka around Christmastime about 10 years ago. And I don't remember any warning about those - they just happened all of a sudden.
