Posted on 01/03/2005 7:22:59 AM PST by topher
At about 15:00 UTC Jan 2, 2005 was the last aftershock. It is now almost 15:00 UTC Jan 3, 2005.
No aftershocks posted -- this sites sometimes posts aftershocks/earthquakes hours after they occur because of the nature of the site.
This is good news for those in the areas affected by the tsunamis -- no aftershocks to rattle their nerves.
It is expected the aftershocks to die down with time.
Something the MSM will not report, but I consider to be such good news it should be posted.
Should have been:
I consider this worth reporting that the aftershocks are disappearing
It never stops for a long time.
NEIC doesn't update continuously. The advantage of NEIC is the magnitudes and locations are very accurate.
Red Puma (Swiss network) updates faster but the magnitudes and locations are often in error.
They show three aftershocks this morning.
Both sites are only reporting aftershocks above about mag 4-5; there are thousands and aftershocks in the M 2-3 range neitheri s reporting.
Aftershocks for this quake will continue for many, many months. possibly years.
Bump.
But in the past week, they have been posting relative aftershocks. [Aftershocks with 4 magnitude less than the orignal M9.0 and aftershocks greater than this -- M5.0 quakes and greater].
Suppose Southern California or Northern California had a M7.3 quake. Now an equilavent relative aftershock would be a M3.0 and greater. In other words a magnitude 4 less than the original [M3.0] and aftershocks greater than this.
Subtract 4 from 9.0, and you get M5.0 quakes and greater.
In another post, I posted the quakes from Dec 24 to Dec 30 from this site. The aftershocks fell in the 4 less than the original magnitude and into the 3 less than the original magnitude -- with the exception of one M7.1 almost immediately after M9.0 [about 3 hours].
A 3.0 quake relative to a 9.0 quake is like a 1.3 quake relative to a 7.3 quake -- both being relative 6 magnitude less than the original.
This is also a fairly active area, as I believe there was a 7.5 in the area back in November 2004 -- but it didn't get much notice worldwide -- no major death tolls [if any], disaster.
So I think it is fair to find it encouraging that the big aftershocks have disappeared for a 24 hour period.
Much easier on the survivors for the moment...
But this site has been posting the big fish and ignoring any little fish.
My real point in posting is to boost morale -- and let other people know that the survivors have fewer big quakes hammering them -- which has got to scare the daylights of them when a 6.5 hits -- like it did the other day.
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