Magnitude 5.3 - EAST OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA (Another quake near the top of the world)

USGS Earthquake Hazards ^ | March 6, 2005

[bd476]

Magnitude 5.3 - EAST OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
2005 March 7 03:44:30 UTC

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

A moderate earthquake occurred at 03:44:30 (UTC) on Monday, March 7, 2005. The magnitude 5.3 event has been located EAST OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude	5.3
Date-Time	Monday, March 7, 2005 at 03:44:30 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Monday, March 7, 2005 at 11:44:30 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	81.507°N, 119.671°E
Depth	10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region	EAST OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
Distances	1567 km (974 miles) NNE (18°) from Noril'sk, Russia 2984 km (1854 miles) NNW (341°) from Fairbanks, AK
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 7.1 km (4.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst=100, Nph=100, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1 sec, Gp= 32°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source	U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Event ID	usviag

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[One Proud Son]

"This hasn't happened since the Tunguska blast of 1916!"
-Ray

[bd476]

[One Proud Son]

"This hasn't happened since the Tunguska blast of 1916!"
-Ray

[bd476]

Another quake near the North Pole Ping.

[Brilliant]

Looks like the rapture is near.

[bd476]

Plate boundaries in yellow.

[Strategerist]

It's not all that near the North Pole. Look at a map, or at the latitude.

[bd476]

[beaver fever]

Well the Rupture anyway.

Every major tectonic boundary in the Western Hemisphere is getting multiple swarms in the 4 to 5 range. Including Gaspe which is on the border of the Superior Province, the oldest Archean Craton in the world.

You'ld think after three some odd billion years that neighborhood would have settled down by now.

[bd476]

Over here.

[bd476]

Another one near the North Pole.

[COEXERJ145]

Looks like the rapture is near.

Oh please. Saying that every time there is an earthquake just makes Christians look dumb. There have been earthquakes since time immemorial and if one wants to get into statistics, the number of magnitude 7+ quakes worldwide has actually been below average the last few years.

[teeman8r]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

hehehe i crack myself up...

but series, this could be hugh. the earth could split in have and women and minorities will be hardest hit.

teeman

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yeppers. It looks like that to me, too.

[rintense]

I think its all the deep core seed pods getting ready to hatch- they were left here by aliens you know.

[bd476]

Heh, maybe you've been watching too many disaster movies, then again maybe not. ?

[Graymatter]

What sort of blast did Tunguska get in 1916?

[NYFreeper]

Hey, isn't this the place where the doomsday machine was kept in Dr. Strangelove?

[cinnathepoet]

Some mighty strong winds in Greenaway, SD, too.