Posted on 02/06/2013 9:57:41 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Depth 28.7 km (17.8 miles)
>81 km (50 miles) W of Lata, Solomon Islands
(Excerpt) Read more at earthquake.usgs.gov ...
No way even an amateur concerning this, but wonder with all the varying depths, if magma could be pushing up from a weakness caused at plate boundary *crunching* and a new island fixing to be made sometime in the future?
:Seismotectonics of the Eastern Margin of the Australia Plate
Signing off here.
Something a lot of people don't realize is that a young Abraham Lincoln lived just 250 miles from the quakes' epicenters and Jefferson Davis had lived less than 150 miles away, but his family had moved to Louisiana just a few months earlier. What would history be like if one, or both, of those young children (Lincoln was 2 and Davis was 3 at the time) had been killed in the quake?
That seems plausible. The whole area is a huge volcano chain. The earthquake storm activity is incredible. One after another 5 mag or higher nonstop.
Just received notice of another earthquake in the same region.
They have been popping all day .
For those interested, subscribe to the USGS earthquake
notification service.. ens@usgs.gov
Better link to USGS ENS...
https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
Historian John Prados covers this pretty well in his new book, “Islands of Destiny.” The Solomons campaign went on for years.
Both the Japanese and US lost 40 destroyers each. The US replaced these with two hundred new ships. Japan had no replacements.
Oh yeah! lol
Plates all over the world seem to be falling off the shelves (pun intended). I still think it has something to do with the core's annual migration north! ;)
yep, some big-time gurgling going on down there at pretty shallow depth.
great link Alex. I receive notices locally for our Southern Calif quakes but will check this out.
are there comparable earthquake patterns in the past to measure this one against?
Here is a note from someone on our earthquake forum that is pretty learned in earthquake science...
There is a good amount of variation in aftershock sequences for quakes of a given size and this rather vigorous in this case but not out of the norm as far as I can determine.... the main shock was really big... what stands out about this quick is the vigor of the foreshock sequence.
It is amazing. Understand that an 8+ New Madrid quake caused bells to ring in Boston in the 1810's.
well boo hoo!! I HOPE that they haven’t done away with the USGS old maps yet. I have been watching them regularly throughout the day and do NOT like the new “REAL TIME MAP” and refuse to watch that. Far too complicated. The “ phase out warning” has been up for a long time and I have been holding my breath...
The 7.0 quake at 4am is still in red and no new records of quakes since then. I know there must have been some more aftershocks since then...sigh.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
just changed so it must have been my browser. I do NOT LIKE the REAL TIME map.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc000f4ij.html
7.0 in Columbia about 15 minutes ago!
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