Earthquake Magnitude 6.7 - NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA

USGS Earthquake Hazards ^ | July 1, 2005

[bd476]

Magnitude 6.7 - NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
2005 July 2 02:16:46 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver


A strong earthquake occurred at 02:16:46 (UTC) on Saturday, July 2, 2005. The magnitude 6.7 event has been located in NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude 6.7 Date-Time Saturday, July 2, 2005 at 02:16:46 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time
Friday, July 1, 2005 at 8:16:46 PM = local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 11.178°N, 86.401°W
Depth 45.5 km (28.3 miles) set by location program
Region NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA

Distances

70 km (40 miles) WSW of Rivas, Nicaragua
95 km (60 miles) SSW of Granada, Nicaragua
100 km (65 miles) S of MANAGUA, Nicaragua
1650 km (1020 miles) ESE of MEXICO CITY, D.F., Mexico

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.1 km (3.8 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters Nst=150, Nph=150, Dmin=186.2 km, Rmss=1.01 sec, Gp= 90°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6 e Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usaaad

The official magnitude for this earthquake is indicated at the top of this page. This was the best available estimate of the earthquake's size, at the time that this page was created. Other magnitudes associated with web pages linked from here are those determined at various times following the earthquake with different types of seismic data. Although, given the data used, they are legitimate estimates of magnitude, they are not considered the official magnitude.

[oceanperch]

South Global has been quakie the last 10 days I noticed.

All around the outskirts of South America.

[little jeremiah]

I was in LA in 1971 during that big one, lived in Berzerkley for a time and got a lot of jolts, lived in Oakland and had a jolt or two.

Earthqukes have a way of focusing the attention not like many other things.

[bd476]

Quakie is right.

[little jeremiah]

Perchie - you're still awake!

I'm hoping the our area doesn't get that 9 that's predicted any time soon.

[oceanperch]

We have our NOAA radio now I keep it turned off and the alarm went off Wends. and KV and I looked at each other a micro second as I then turned it on to hear the announcement that it was an Emerg. Warning Check that will occur every Wends.

LOL Glad to know it works.

Locals are still talking about the lack of any warning in the last Tsunami.

Esp. those who live on the Beach, literally.

Now it came out that the 3 sirens malfunfuntioned due to sea air erosion and the 4th siren was never put in.

Now how much money was some group paid to put these non working sirens in.

Everyone is buying the NOAA radios now and good we can all be self reliant.

[oceanperch]

I had a long nap from 8p-11p so I will be up for awhile but need to get back to resting for a busy week out and about.

I have my NOAA radio now so it has brought some good peace to us.

I check the USGS list troughout the day as habit.

When IMO I see a build up of quakes in one area it seems a moderate release comes withen a few days.

S. America has been releasing earthly tension this past week or so.

But yes the fact that we are past due for our everey 300 yr big quake on the Oregon coast it is on the mind.

[bd476]

All the quakes in Southern California I can recall have been compared to the 1971 quake "oh this is nothing compared to the 1971 quake!"

And I thought quakes were kinda fun until the first one I felt over 5.7 or so. Then I "got" it.

When you are awakened out of a deep sleep by a loud rumble and then run outside in your night clothes, you know it's serious, well at least that is high on my fright list.

It's best to be prepared for quakes. I wouldn't want to live now in an area where buildings are not earthquake proofed. After the Northridge quake in 1994 I saw some bizarre architectural re-designs, some I couldn't comprehend. A neighbor's floor buckled up; one wall folded in half into an obtuse, convex angle, while the grand piano remained unblemished.

There was the architectural design school located in a three story building. The school's large sign was hanging askew, and on the top floor an office chair was hanging half-way outside the broken window with a desk on its side behind it. The authorities or whoever was "in charge" left it like that for weeks.

A few blocks from where I lived there was an apartment building where a tenant scrawled in big letters "The fat lady has sung."

One building in the next block over from me had the staircase completely unattached from the building. The doors of the apartments were all swung open, some off their hinges. It was simply bizarre.

[bd476]

:-) Nice graphic, Backhoe.

[little jeremiah]

Hmm - since you were in LA for the Northridge quake, I can see why you have an interest in them!

[little jeremiah]

Glad you've got that radio. If I lived near the ocean I'd get one too.

Have you thought of moving just a leetle farther away from the beach?

[bd476]

It's odd that the sirens there are so unreliable.

Last year I was visiting in the Midwest for several months. Every Friday morning around 11:00 a.m. an ear piercing siren went off. It was startling to hear and I had no clue what it meant. (Hit the deck? Abandon ship? Leave the building you're in? Head for higher ground?)

The motel manager said that it was a tornado practice alert set to go off weekly at the same time, to get people used to what a tornado alert sounds like. It was so loud I was surprised we couldn't hear it out here on the West Coast.

[oceanperch]

The benifits of being in a community now for 17yrs and having our home mostly paid off and having a total WC accesible home down to the roll in shower ect.

Nothing could replace what we have now and with the property we own in the rural area we live in.

This is home period.
The last stop in this world before going home to Jesus.
We live at the bottom of a very steep hill so It takes less than a minute once we load up to evacuate.

I have a Emerg plan/supplies.

We are ready to go and the last drill was proof enough for us.

[bd476]

True. And you went through the 1971 quake, and survived. I have met a few people who have said that the 71 quake was much worse than the Northridge quake.

[little jeremiah]

Sounds as though your plan and attitude have got everything covered.

This earthly life is short, eternity is eternal. When one understands the truth of that, one's perspective changes.

[moog]

Looks like Christmas. Where did you get the pic?

[oceanperch]

Amen.

[bd476]

That's the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) earthquake map.

The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology is a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data.

http://www.iris.edu/about/

[oceanperch]

Council ponders Lincoln City's tsunami readiness.

Newport News-Times Online Edition
Address:http://www.newportnewstimes.com/


On-going questions about Lincoln
City's official response - or lack of it - to the June 14 tsunami warning along the Pacific Coast set off a lively discussion during Monday night's city council meeting.


Concerned community members have inundated city leaders with questions about perceived response failures in a city that RECENTLY BASKED in its official designation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
as being tsunami ready.(NOAA)


AND:


Concerns aired in Newport over tsunami response

Concerns over Newport's response to last month's tsunami warning were brought to the Newport City Council at its June 20 meeting.

[moog]

Thanks!! Looks like a neat site.

[dawn53]

Wonderful news (sarcasm), my son and about 20 kids and adults from our church are in Nicaragua on a missions trip.

I don't know their itinerary, but know last Wednesday they were driving to San Juan del Sur, which is very near that quake site.

They may have left that city by now. I'll have to call the church later and check on their itinerary.