Posted on 01/18/2023 10:48:21 AM PST by BenLurkin
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook eastern Indonesia and southern Philippines on Wednesday, with no damage immediately reported and no tsunami warning issued.
Some residents tried to escape from houses in the Indonesian town of Tobelo in North Maluku province.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred 48 kilometres deep under the sea, centred 154 km northwest of Tobelo.
Resident Pius Ohoiwutun said some people ran from houses when the quake shook. “I felt a little swaying as the lamps also swayed,” Ohoiwutun said.
The undersea quake was also felt in several provinces and cities across the southern Philippines, but there was no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
No tsunami warning was issued by Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.
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Whole lotta shakin’ going on!..................
I really think at some point they are going to have another Krakatoa event, which was triggered by an earthquake.
Which will trigger a big quake in California.
Sounds like a volcano is about to blow somewhere.
A NEW ONE!.................
Is there a Tsunami alert too?
No.
With all that rain California should shake pretty good
Yes, earthquakes in California seem to be associated with heavy rainfall. I guess the aquifer and water table shifts can destabilize a fault zone.
Is the Big One coming to Cali soon?
When there is a quake on the SW pacific plate rim there is usually an equivalent magnitude quake diagonally in the NE region, Alaska to Northern California somewhere.
Like I said earlier though, my casual observation is that heavy rains usually are associated with a sizeable quake in the northern half of the San Andreas somewhere in the bay area.
My guess is that it looks like two strikes for that region.
Good observations.
“When there is a quake on the SW pacific plate rim there is usually an equivalent magnitude quake diagonally in the NE region, Alaska to Northern California somewhere.”
Please feel free to provide a link for a peer-reviewed correlated time series study showing that.
I have a plan to test that. Get all of the population in western California, Oregon and Washington to march in step towards the sea until I tell them to stop.
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