Magnitude 6.3 - NORTH OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA (Earthquake near the top of the world)

USGS Earthquake Hazards ^ | March 5, 2005

[bd476]

Magnitude 6.3 - NORTH OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
2005 March 6 05:21:43 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

A strong earthquake occurred at 05:21:43 (UTC) on Sunday, March 6, 2005. The magnitude 6.3 event has been located NORTH OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude	6.3
Date-Time	Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 05:21:43 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 12:21:43 PM = local time at epicenter
Location	84.940°N, 99.150°E
Depth	10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region	NORTH OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
Distances	1575 km (980 miles) N of Tiksi, Russia
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 5.2 km (3.2 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst=191, Nph=191, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.06 sec, Gp= 36°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usvhak

[bd476]

Please let me know when you follow up on the researcher's ship off your coast.

Also there has been another quake near the Pole - that's 3 in less than 24 hours, same spot all at 6.2 miles depth.

[Strategerist]

Have any of the usual clowns showed up to tell us this is nothing unusual?

Seems the usual idiots have shown up to wet their panties over normal activity, though. :-)

It's getting a bit tiring. I have something like 4 articles bookmarked that say quake activity is at an unusual level.

And how many of them are from apocalyptikook sites? Religious apocalyptic types have a little problem with flat out lying, I've noticed.

On a positive note, it is unlikely that we will have anything near the 9.2 soon. But the fact that there have been many quakes in diverse regions (hell, they had one in Scotland) which are normally not seismically active

There are very few parts of the world that are totally seismically inactive.

The St. Lawrence Valley in Canada is quite seismically active and if you examine worldwide seismic hazard maps it's an area with high hazard, similar to the New Madrid area.

There have been several historical Magnitude 6+ quakes, quite damaging ones, in the St. Lawrence Valley.

And if you look at the Severnaya Zemlya maps on NEIC for the recent quake, it's right on top of a spreading ridge, a place where seismicity is routine, that has been quite seismically active since 1990.

The fact remains that there is an average of 18 Magnitude 7+ quakes a year, on average there's a magnitude 6-7 earthquake somewhere in the world every 2 to 3 days, and EVERY day there's an average of 3 to4 magnitude 5-6 earthquakes in the world.

We're over two months into the year and there's only been two M7+ quakes in the world this year....only a pace to have 12 of those when 18 is normal.

If we have, say, 2 M9+ quakes this year, or 4-5 M8-9 quakes (normally there's 1 of these a year) or something like 30 M7+ quakes, feel free to start screaming about unusual earthquake activity.

It's a weird egotistical desire of the simple-minded to believe they live in unique and unusual times. Hate to break it to you, but geologically, we don't. In the grand scheme of things even the M9.3 Sumatran Quake is perfectly routine and normal.

[Darksheare]

Hmm.
That's another rift zone isn't it?

[Strategerist]

That's another rift zone isn't it?

Yep, the Mid-Artic Ridge. Spreading center. Normal place for seismicity.

[Darksheare]

Yes.
Wouldn't this also mean a chance to observe an ocean floor eruption as well?
Hmm.

[Paul_Denton]

There were two, a 5.7 followed by a 5.4 in Taiwan on March 6, 2005, local time.

Earthquakes in Taiwan seem to be more common than even in Japan. The two at the pole. Now that's news to me.

[Lockbar]

Call Art Bell!! Get ready for that "pole shift" they have been predicting.

[Paul_Denton]

A third quake in the same area: North of Severnaya Zemlya (near North Pole) 5.0 Magnitude.

That is a lot of quakes for such a short amount of time.

[Darksheare]

Since that's a rift zone, that would mean an eruption in all likelyhood.
Better there than elsewhere.
*chuckle*

[Lijahsbubbe]

Post #53 very interesting. Can I get a link for that?

[Lijahsbubbe]

Getting a little active for just a quarter moon

Just wait until a couple of days before the full moon. Bet it'll be a doozy! (betcha haven't heard that word in awhile ;)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I follow the threads that can only be labeled as Global Warming Hoax ....but this Web Site :

Not by Fire but by Ice

has a VERY INTERESTING article:

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Underwater volcanic activity in the Arctic Ocean far stronger than anyone imagined!
 (This strongly confirms my belief that underwater volcanic activity – not human activity -- is heating the seas.)

See It's not global warming, it's ocean warming.

[Darksheare]

Pretty cool.
Been wondering what kind of cycle massive eruptions follow.

[Strategerist]

One appears to be a foreshock and the third appears to be an aftershock.

[Nowhere Man]

Hopefully not.

Maybe I should have used a smiley after that, but IIRC, that was the place where they tested their 57 (some sources say 61) megaton "Tsar Bomba" in 1961. I remember back in the early 1980's, there was talk of atomic bomb tests possibly opening up old fault lines, making new ones and/or stirring up already existing but active ones. I know it was over 40 years ago, but when I heard the location, I thought of the Tsar Bomba right off the bat but I think they've tested others up there throughout the years.

[bd476]

The fault line for this quake:

Seismicity of the North Pole:

[Domestic Church]

Have you read anything recently about the plate Australia and India are on...anything about it breaking into 2 distinct plates?