Ring of Fire

At the end of March, we reported how the swarm activity about 10 km west of Turangi (near Kuharua lava dome) had restarted with 249 locatable earthquakes occurring in the previous week.

That pulse of activity led to a M4.5 earthquake at 6 km depth the largest event to date in the sequence. This swarm has now moved into its third phase, starting last Friday 25 May. This third phase is like the second phase, just without the larger event. There have been 11 earthquakes over M3 in this phase, however none are over M3.5. To date there have been 2339 earthquakes located, 587 since Friday 25 May.


[link to www.geonet.org.nz]

...and it is June - the Maori elder EQ prophecy month. Shake shake shake baby.