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Category Archives: earthquakes
Queen Charlotte quake Oct 28
A 7.7 magnitude quake in the islands along the coast of Canada caused a small tsunami and rattled some nerves. This was not on the Cascadia quake zone but a strike slip quake that could not cause the large tsunami that the Cascadia zone … Continue reading
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Tagged British Columbia, Canada, Haida Gwaii, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Tsunami
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Huge Costa Rica Quake
Today there was a huge 7.6 quake in Costa Rica. The area it hit was not heavily populated and rural which is the only saving grace they had as if that had hit one of their cities there would have … Continue reading
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Tagged Costa Rica, Tsunami, United States Geological Survey
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Active few days
OK we had a couple of good quakes recently. There was that 7+ off of El Salvador that actually caused a small tsunami. Small the operative word here. There have been hundreds of aftershocks and a sizable crust movement but no … Continue reading
KURIL ISLANDS
I have been watching this earthquake cluster for a few weeks and it’s interesting. Normally you get a bunch of quakes like this they are after shocks from a larger quake but looking at thedata for this area and there … Continue reading
Italy Earthquake, Modena
A 6.0 is not big news in Peru or Indonesia or japan but a 6.0 only 5 km deep in the fertile deltas in northern Italy is a disaster. Buildings are collapsed, people killed, major damage to all infrastructure. The … Continue reading
Not much, u?
OK there was a 6.2 mag earthquake in Chile but so far not one aftershock. Nada, zilch, zip, nuthin’. OK the last 2 times we saw something like this was in Japan and Indonesia. Just sayin’. I have this theory … Continue reading
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Nothin
OK for 2 weeks now the highest mag quake we have had has been a 6.0 over the whole of the planet. And some days have had only one quake over 5 in a single day. Statistically times like this … Continue reading
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Quite the earthquake week
In the last 3 days there have been some huge quakes in Indonesia. And there have been some big quakes in Mexico. Lets look at the Indonesia quakes first. The quakes started with a massive 8.9 quake south west of the … Continue reading
Posted in Earth Science, Earthquake, earthquakes
Tagged Acapulco, Fault (geology), Indian Plate, Indonesia, Mexico, San Andreas Fault, Subduction, Transform fault
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Mexico the only quakes today
OK there was a big quake in Mexico yesterday and guess what, no quakes of size anywhere else today. None, the only blue marks on the map, Mexico. Sure there were some 4’s and 3’s in other places but it is like … Continue reading
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Japan quake 2011 – again.
I wasn’t going to do a 1 year what did we learn post for the Japan Quake, mostly because I did a what did we learn for this quake already. Seismology is like any other science a never ending learning … Continue reading
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