EQ activity changing! Attention California!

west coast???

If the quake activity has shifted to California and Alaska, why should people on the East Coast be careful. Just curious,haven't had that third cup of coffee so my brian is still a little fuzzy.

happens every so often. Nothing ever happens during these swarms - maybe someday but I expect not for years

Yeah, I have noticed a swarm of small EQ's around Anchorage in the last 10 hours.
You people take care up there. Won't be pleasant especially as now it's winter up there.

yes a 3rd cup of coffee may work for you figuring the rest of us have brains not Brian's in our heads, so make sure to jiggle Brian out and put the brain back in lol. The poor guy.

But yes quake activity is picking up, however it would take me days to figure out what may or may not happen. However I do have to ask if anyone noticed that Montana had a quake a few days ago? Seems strange.

Also noticing three Mag 3 EQ's almost forming a circle, have happened off the western coast of Rhodes in Greece in the last hour.

No, OP was probably talking about the other California on the east coast.

I see small quakes often in Cali on the map.
Everyday...
Same old.

It's one of the GLP jokes like Moran Instead of moron.

this is normal daily activity OP, welcome to CA.

thanks for pointing that out,but you know how spelltards and grammartards are,there always getting upset when your not using the right word.

Fail on my post above..


Just wake up californians!!

montana, nevada, ohio, virginia....all normal. it's just the craton waking up. it will destroy us all in a week or so. nothing to see here move along.

Sorry, meant west coast of course. =D

Should never write in a hurry, especially when posting here. =D

Exactly, that other one was the one I meant! ;D

Yeah I know you have them there, but what I'm saying it's the big picture that has changed. Now it's shaking basically only in California and Alaska, which is not typical.

The swarms do mean pressure is being released, but I mean I've never seen swarming taking place in these two places for so long. Are you actually saying it's normal you have like hundreds of them within a 24 hour period over there? They are small ones I know, but still. I didn't see this on the map before, especially not combined with the virtual lack of quakes anywhere else around the world.

The first time I did notice something similar was just few days ago, a week or so max. It got quiet everywhere else, it kept swarming in California and Alaska, and then few days later there was that 7.1 (originally 7.2) around Indonesia that passed without any MSM attention.

Now I see the same happening again: it suddenly goes quiet everywhere else while in Alaska and California the swarms get noticeably more intensive.

I only worry when we STOP shaking. Little baby quakes release pressure. I'd be more concerned living anywhere it isn't shaking, the pressure is building up.

I see what you mean OP. Though, I haven't felt anything, for a while.





Oh, and I am in CA. ;)

That's certainly so, although there's also the possibility that an increase in intensity of the swarms may indicate increased tectonic activity. I mean with these amounts of "pressure released", there must be quite a lot happening causing that pressure to exist in the first place. And that's what I think may have increased, so if the swarms stop, then that could be a final warning sing of a the really big one coming.

As far as I can tell, California has had these increased numbers of swarms for at least few weeks now, quakes happening basically between few minutes, half on hour tops. I keep an eye on the last 24 hours statistics basically all the time, and that gives you at least some kind of capability to notice when things change. It would of course be good to have some numbers and long time statistics available too, but I don't and don't have the motivation to dig into them either.

A good friend of mine plotted out a nice chart of all-time EQ statistics, I'll ask if he could kindly come here and post the link himself.

OP needs to study the ring of fire to better understand that this isn't anything special.

I do understand "the ring of fire".

I'm saying, I see something happening here that's not typical even after considering the nature of the area.

Let me ask you something: do you take seriously the so called professional's views that there is a big one heading for California, and that it's actually already quite a bit late? Because if you do, I wonder the lack of interest in the possibility there may be something to what I think I'm seeing here.

May be I'm really just imagining all this, but simply ignoring it when someone who has actually been staring on that quake map for months in a row says he thinks something is not how it used to be - I think that signals lack of interest in self-survival.

You guys have smell of sulfur in the air there these days.

Perhaps it's all just normal and I definitely hope nothing's going to happen. I have many good friends and business partners in the US and am just genuinely worried about what's going on. Don't want anything to happen to them or anyone for that matter.

The USGS site shows no quakes (over 2.5 mag) anywhere in the world for over 4 hours now???

Is that right?

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

There was a 3.0 in Poland 116 minutes (that's less than 2 hours) ago.

[link to quakes.globalincidentmap.com]

Weird...not on the USGS map...???

I would say the next 24 hour period is the most critical period.
If there is going to be a big quake it will be within 24 hours.

Dam you eat dam you.. you suck.. everytime you say something is gonna happen nothing happens.... NOTHING.. all that happens is the GPL EFFECT.. which means NO DOOM

I don't trust the USGS site. Too many quakes disappear off their map.

We'll see. I'd start counting from when the swarms quiet down. On the other hand, it's now so quiet everywhere else (apart from Alaska and California) that this could be a precursor of a single big hit with a bunch of 5+ aftershocks on the other side of the plate some time soon, anywhere from Russia to Japan to Indonesia to Australia. If I had to guess a time frame, I'd say anything from now to three days from now. But, I'm not saying, since I definitely don't think I've (yet) got the data and deep enough understanding of the big picture I could actually be even remotely sure about anything.