Posted on 09/25/2005 7:50:55 PM PDT by Revel
A major earthquake occurred at 01:55:34 (UTC) on Monday, September 26, 2005. The magnitude 7.5 event has been located in NORTHERN PERU. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 85 km (53 miles). (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)
Magnitude 7.5 Date-Time Monday, September 26, 2005 at 01:55:34 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 8:55:34 PM = local time at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 5.657°S, 76.366°W Depth 85.4 km (53.1 miles) Region NORTHERN PERU Distances 75 km (50 miles) NE of Moyobamba, Peru 175 km (110 miles) ENE of Chachapoyas, Peru 645 km (400 miles) SSE of QUITO, Ecuador 715 km (445 miles) N of LIMA, Peru Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.4 km (4.6 miles); depth +/- 14.2 km (8.8 miles) Parameters Nst=186, Nph=186, Dmin=701.4 km, Rmss=0.97 sec, Gp= 40°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6 Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Event ID usdlad
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usdlad.htm
Fortunately it's East of the Andes in the Jungle, in a less populated area. It was deep but typically quakes there are deeper than that...I have to look at this one.
Some guy... somewhere... right now... is swearing to a woman that HE shook the world.
Please let us know what you find out and any observations you might have.
Thanks.
Somewhere, right now... Some gal is swearing to a man that he shook her world... all the while she's referring to his deep pockets and large bank account.
Beautiful city
Eh, looking at the historical sesimicity, it's a normal depth quake for the area, and there was a similar quake just north of it in the last 15 years. I was thinking of Bolivia where they have these insanely deep 500 km+ earthquakes.
Brings the total of M 7+ quakes in 2005 so far to 9; we'd need to have another 9 of these in the last three months of the year just to reach the normal average of 18 a year.
yikes!!! Pretty impressive graph!
In doing some looking around this is the third largest quake of the year. The worst being the Christmas quake in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
yes, and it looks so peaceful.
And since the moon phase moonbats never take note of this, this quake was, of course, almost as far from a full or new moon as you can get.
That is one big earthquake! Thank God if it was in an unpopulated area.
f n FLASH-NWS_WCA-THIS_TSUNA 09/25 209
THIS TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN IS FOR ALASKA - BRITISH
FROM - WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN
BULLETIN NUMBER 1
ISSUED 09/26/2005 AT 0211 UTC
...THIS TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN IS FOR ALASKA - BRITISH
COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON AND CALIFORNIA ONLY...
NO - REPEAT NO - WATCH OR WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE STATES
AND PROVINCES LISTED ABOVE.
EARTHQUAKE DATA
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE - 7.5
LOCATION - 5.7S 76.2W - NORTHERN PERU
TIME - 1756 ADT 09/25/2005
1856 PDT 09/25/2005
0156 UTC 09/26/2005
EVALUATION
BASED ON LOCATION THE EARTHQUAKE WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO GENERATE A
TSUNAMI DAMAGING TO CALIFORNIA - OREGON - WASHINGTON - BRITISH
COLUMBIA OR ALASKA. IN COASTAL AREAS OF INTENSE SHAKING LOCALLY
GENERATED TSUNAMIS CAN BE TRIGGERED BY SLUMPING.
THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE TSUNAMI BULLETINS
FOR HAWAII AND OTHER AREAS OF THE PACIFIC.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT BY THE
WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER UNLESS ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE. REFER TO THE INTERNET SITE
WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV FOR MORE INFORMATION.
$$
Here come da "Big One". Art Bell alert!
LOL, that was the first thing I looked at, wondering if they were going to post.
Where was BUSH when the earthquake hit? Where's FEMA? What about the Peruvian levees?!!
Are we going to be paying for this too?
Thank you for the heads-up - and prayers for all those who may be affected by this...
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