6.9 Earthquake - 109km W of Sola, Vanuatu

USGS SITE ^ | 4/6/2016 | USGS

[Loud Mime]

Note: Other earthquakes in the area today: 6.9/6.7 6.9 two days ago

Seismotectonics of the Eastern Margin of the Australia Plate The eastern margin of the Australia plate is one of the most sesimically active areas of the world due to high rates of convergence between the Australia and Pacific plates. In the region of New Zealand, the 3000 km long Australia-Pacific plate boundary extends from south of Macquarie Island to the southern Kermadec Island chain. It includes an oceanic transform (the Macquarie Ridge), two oppositely verging subduction zones (Puysegur and Hikurangi), and a transpressive continental transform, the Alpine Fault through South Island, New Zealand.

Since 1900 there have been 15 M7.5+ earthquakes recorded near New Zealand. Nine of these, and the four largest, occurred along or near the Macquarie Ridge, including the 1989 M8.2 event on the ridge itself, and the 2004 M8.1 event 200 km to the west of the plate boundary, reflecting intraplate deformation. The largest recorded earthquake in New Zealand itself was the 1931 M7.8 Hawke's Bay earthquake, which killed 256 people. The last M7.5+ earthquake along the Alpine Fault was 170 years ago; studies of the faults' strain accumulation suggest that similar events are likely to occur again.

[Loud Mime]

Correction: Only one 6.9 quake there today - so far.

[Beowulf9]

The world is really quaking up.

[Duchess47]

Wow.

[Innovative]

May God help those poor people!

Link to map w the quake:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22feed%22%3A%221day_all%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22terrain%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-80.05804956215623%2C-346.64062499999994%5D%2C%5B87.18468168462615%2C109.6875%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%7B%22plates%22%3Afalse%2C%22faults%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%7B%22map%22%3Atrue%2C%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Afalse%2C%22help%22%3Afalse%7D%7D

[LeoWindhorse]

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 0533 PM HST 06 APR 2016
COORDINATES - 13.9 SOUTH 166.6 EAST
LOCATION - VANUATU
MAGNITUDE - 6.9 MOMENT

EVALUATION

BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS
NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. A
DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

[SubMareener]

Here is another one.

M 6.7 - 106km W of Sola, Vanuatu

Time
2016-04-06 20:32:53 UTC-07:00
Location
13.994°S 166.571°E
Depth
26.8 km

[Lazamataz]

Nonsense. Earthquakes never happen at night.

[Pelham]

Northridge and Sylmar were both early in the morning. Both were around 6.7. I used to think quakes were kind of fun until I got to ride those two.

[Publius]

I rode Northridge from my place on the hill just below the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. I was on granite, so I took little damage. The clubhouse at the Wood Ranch Golf Course was in the liquefaction zone and took a hit.

[Pelham]

I knew of a family in the Fullerton hills.. must be a good 50 miles from the epicenter... Northridge shook their pool so hard that most of the water rose out of the pool and went through the house via what had been their sliding glass door. If anyone had been in their kitchen they would have been cut to shreds. They filled in the pool.

[doorgunner69]

Yep, learned decades ago to never live on alluvial soil (valley fill dirt) and stay on slopes with as little soil between you and bedrock as possible.

Northridge quake woke us up in Ventura county, no damage other than a large plate window slight crack and small stuff toppled over.

Friends in SF valley had horror stories of bookcases falling over, etc.

Flooding and quakes: never live on low land, stay on hillsides well up and away from drainage.

[SatinDoll]

LOL!

I was awakened at 2:30 am by an earthquake on the Monterrey Peninsula in California. I had been sleeping in the Navy barracks high up on the Presidio, when my padlock on the locker started banging in rhythm to the shocks.

I went downstairs to the quarterdeck and the Watch, who was from New Jersey, hadn’t felt a thing.

[John W]

Reminds me how much I miss old John HK/Strategerist. Not.

[ETL]

[SueRae]

Thank you for the link. Freepers always think of everything.

Prayers for anyone in harm’s way..

[skams19]

Unless they are man-made earthquakes. I’m sure there is a lot of fracking in this part of the world.

[rdl6989]

Agreed. The troll was obvious.

[SaveFerris]

[Nonsense. Earthquakes never happen at night.]

That’s true. Since Global Warming, which causes Earthquakes, only occurs when the Sun is up, they cannot happen at night.

Now, this woman appears to weigh more than a duck .... or very small rocks ........