WHAT IS HAPPENING AT WHITE ISLAND VOLCANO??? New Zealand/Kermadec & South Pacific QUAKE/VOLCANO WATCH

Something new from the Alaska volcano Observatory

Volcanic Ash readings for Alaska and Japan?
What's this all about?
Why now? Hmmmm
links
[link to ds.data.jma.go.jp]
[link to vaac.arh.noaa.gov]
[link to vaac.arh.noaa.gov]

White Island

One more vid
White Islands Activity January 2013
[link to youtu.be]

and actual story (link from [link to www.wired.com]

White Island Geology
...POTENTIAL FOR LARGE ERUPTIONS FROM WHITE ISLAND
Although there is no record that White Island eruptions have ever significantly damaged the mainland, recent work has suggested the volcano is potentially capable of producing large eruptions. This potential arises from the size of the magma body at depth beneath the island, as indicated by the long term outputs of sulphur dioxide gas (400 tons/day) and heat (400 MW) from the crater. Maintenance of these large outputs over the more than 16,000 year history of White Island activity requires the degassing and cooling of several tens of cubic kilometres of magma. A large proportion of this magma still remains to provide the heat source for the present activity. If a substantial fraction of this magma were to be erupted (e.g. more than 1 cubic kilometre) it would be far larger than any recognised previous eruption from White Island, and large enough to produce a threat to the Bay of Plenty coast. These threats principally arise from fall out of ash and pumice and from tsunami...
[link to gns.cri.nz]

"T" Phone home....you are loved and missed.

Hey Tauranga, where have you been, FOG is worried about you!!

Still getting lots of quakes at white island, some deep and some around 10k depth..
Keeping me alert.

Seismologist warns of megathrust earthquake threat for New Zealand

Posted on February 4, 2013by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2013 – NEW ZEALAND – Less than 100km off the coast of Hawke’s Bay is a deep-water trench that could be the site of a potential megathrust earthquake similar to the 2011 Japan earthquake, says seismologist Kevin Furlong. Despite the Hikurangi Trench’s potential, he said very little was known about the underwater valley, where the Pacific plate was dragged underneath the Australian plate. Professor Furlong, of Pennsylvania State University, said the worst-case scenario for the East Coast was not yet known. “Many, if not most, scientists working on these megathrust earthquake plate boundaries would argue that, although it is very, very unlikely, until we can demonstrate otherwise we should expect that major segments of these boundaries could rupture simultaneously. Most of the time, as was the case in Japan for the past several hundred years at least, segments rupture individually and so maximum earthquakes are in the mid-to high magnitude 7 range. But on rare occasions, such as in 2011 in Japan, bigger ruptures can occur. We need to decide how best to manage that potential and uncertainty.” The trench will soon be part of a global study into megathrust earthquakes. “Although we understand the general concept and general physics of megathrusts – the big subduction zone earthquakes – we are finding in our data from recent major events such as in Sumatra [Boxing Day 2004], Chile in 2010, and most recently in Japan, that they each have characteristics that differ from each other, and our existing models of how we might think they should behave during the actual earthquake rupture are incomplete,” he said. “So we need to improve our understanding, to understand what is causing this variability and whether we can anticipate it in advance. Part of the reason for this is that, during the main era over which our understanding of subduction zone earthquakes was developed from the mid-1960s until the 1990s, as the theories of plate tectonics were developed, we didn’t have any earthquakes of the size of these recent big ones. So although our understanding worked well for the slightly smaller events, it isn’t adequate for the really big ones.” He said regular quakes felt on the East Coast were related to the Hikurangi subduction zone and plate boundary. “Some are in the upper plate – the North Island – and some are on the boundary between the upper plate and the subducting Pacific plate. They all provide information about how the plate boundary is locked and how the different components are deforming. But unfortunately these earthquakes don’t help release the stress that is building up. That will only be released by big earthquakes but perhaps not for hundreds of years. In our research, one of the things we do investigate is what spatial patterns there are to these smaller earthquakes, as we can use that information to estimate the way in which the plate boundary is locked.” The 2011 Japan megathrust earthquake measured a magnitude 9 and triggered a tsunami that reached heights of up to 40.5 meters in constricted places, travelling up to 10km inland. There were 15,878 deaths and 2713 people reported missing. -HBTNZ [link to theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com]

11 days. Where is she.

T we nead you!!!

Jesus. Really?

Just to update this thread, there was a small ash eruption from White Is yesterday. Around 3pm. Things look quiet ( or normal) this morning.

[link to www.stuff.co.nz]

Click the photos in the article to see the 3.45 picture of the ash. First for many years. I can see the volcano from a nearby hill.. so I will get a good view if it really goes off.

[link to www.geonet.org.nz]

on that webcam link of White Island, click on the 'volcanoes' tab at the top

this is what you get..

[link to www.geonet.org.nz]

notice the two categories?

ACTIVE and REAWAKENING



Taupo, reawakening?

not dormant, REAWAKENING?

Lots of off island earthquakes out bay of plenty ways to east cost. Tga still not back?

Looking at the earthquakes New Zealand had just in march alone, its unbelievable! (Well, up to the 30th of March)
[link to seabreeze.wordpress.com]

Is it unbelievable? What's the historical average?

TGA, ever go to ufo meeting in Tauranga?

Strong earthquakes rock central NZ

Strong earthquakes have hit central New Zealand, with one - a 5.7 - turning Wellington office workers white-knuckled.

A 4.3 quake hit the east coast of New Zealand tonight, following a 4.5 magnitude quake in central New Zealand this afternoon, and a 5.7 earthquake that rattled people in Wellington and Blenheim this morning

[link to www.stuff.co.nz]

Wellington hit by magnitude 5.7 earthquake

[link to www.nzherald.co.nz]

More quakes likely in Wellington(3News Video)

[link to www.3news.co.nz]

LATEST: Central New Zealand has been shaken awake with a swarm of quakes including a large 5.8 event this morning.


The majority of the quakes were centred in the same area off Seddon in Marlborough that was hit on Friday by a 5.7.

This morning's first quake - 4.2 - struck at 7.04, was at a 10km depth and centred 35km east of Seddon.

It was followed 13 minutes later by the 5.8 shake that was centred 30km east of Seddon at a depth of 19km and then at 7.20 by a 4.3km shake at a depth of 14km and 25km east of Seddon, while a fourth - 4.3 - rattled the region from a depth of 22km at 7.30.

There have been over 30 earthquakes in total so far this morning with a 4.5 magnitude aftershock recorded at 9.28am and Geonet duty seismologist Dr Anna Kaiser said it's expected they would continue.

[link to www.stuff.co.nz]

Has this guy got it right? Luna perigee today july 21 watch from 6:05 for 2013 predictions.

from May 2012.