Magnitude 8.0 - SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS (Incredible quake activity above Australia)

USGS ^ | 2013 February 06 01:12:27 UTC

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Depth 28.7 km (17.8 miles)

>81 km (50 miles) W of Lata, Solomon Islands

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

[mylife]

Are they fracking down under?!!!

[The Cajun]

Wasn't there a mag 8 at 3.6 miles depth just the other day in the same general area?
Lots of shaking going on.

[onyx]

WHOA!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Link to :

Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

[null and void]

Nothing new on the USGS site, I think this is the same one.

[P.O.E.]

Mag Where When

8.0 76km W of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-06
7.0 27km NNW of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-06
6.9 15km SW of Obihiro, Japan 2013-02-02
6.4 67km SW of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-01
6.4 114km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-06
6.3 47km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-01
6.3 70km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-06
6.3 144km W of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-06
6.2 141km SW of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-02-07

(abridged data)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

[Stonewall Jackson]

Go to the link and check out the time zone chart. This is the same quake that hit last night.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

SEE LINK AT #6.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Site of the last of the big 1942 carrier battles between Japan and the USA.

[The Cajun]

OK, thought that one was originally determined to be at a depth of 3.6 miles according to what I read then, will have to check latest.
3.6 miles seemed a little shallow.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well I went back in Time looking for the biggest I could find....point is that there are some power after shocks,....and still going.

See the link at post #6,

[batterycommander]

This happened last nite

[TADSLOS]

That’s a biggie.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Click here for Global View

[The Cajun]

Looks like they had a mag 8 at 17.8 miles depth and a mag 7 at 5.5 miles depth.
Still a heck of a lot shaking.
Wonder if that mag 7 was an aftershock?

[Stonewall Jackson]

The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands was a Pyrrhic victory for the Japanese. While they succeeded in sinking the Hornet and mauling the Enterprise, they not only suffered damage to two carriers themselves, but they lost 99 aircraft and 148 invaluable airmen. Among the pilots lost were five group/squadron leaders and eighteen section/flight leaders.

The only battle where they lost more airmen was the Battle of the Philippine Sea, almost two years later, although they did suffer heavy losses at Coral Sea (90 airmen), Midway (110), and Eastern Solomons (61).

[pollywog]

I’ve been watching this for the past 24 hours and that is one active spot right now. I think there was something like 9 or 10 quakes over 5.0 in one hour yesterday near Santa Cruz Island! INCREDIBLY active!!

[Stonewall Jackson]

Huge number of aftershocks in the 5-6 range. Can you imagine the devastation if this had hit the New Madrid Fault?