5.7 MAG earthquake POUNDS Western Turkey!! No deaths, no damage so far ...

Turkey could very well get hit with a big earthquake tonight.

It was followed by another undersea tremor with a magnitude of 5.9.

A 5.7 doesn´t "pound" anything...

Hope the Turks prepare for the big one.

first of all it was two quakes 5.7 and 5.9 ...and they were probably larger ..the USGS likes to shade off points ...They like to dumb it down too much as to not worry the sheeple. The sheeple might crapt themselves with worry.

[link to abcnews.go.com]

ANKARA, Turkey Oct 17, 2005 — Two strong undersea earthquakes shook a major port city in western Turkey on Monday, damaging buildings, prompting terrified residents to run from their homes and jump from windows, and injuring at least six people, officials and news reports said.

The quakes, which registered preliminary magnitudes of 5.7 and 5.9, struck at 8:45 a.m. and 12:47 p.m., said Gulay Barbarasoglu, head of the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory. Both were centered in the bay of Sigacik, about 30 miles southwest of the Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey´s third-largest city with a population of about 3 million.

Three people were injured in Izmir when they jumped from windows or balconies in panic, local officials said. Another three people were injured in nearby Urla, the Anatolia news agency reported.

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There were no immediate reports of damage in the ancient city of Ephesus, about 60 miles south of Izmir.

The first quake collapsed the walls of some houses and shattered windows in Urla, west of Izmir, private NTV television said. Mayor Selcuk Karaosmanoglu told Anatolia the quake toppled some chimneys in the village of Bademler and cracked some buildings in the town center.

The second quake caused further damage, smashing windows, witnesses said.

Authorities evacuated schools and in some areas broadcast music through loudspeakers to calm panicking students. Authorities later decided to close schools for two days.

Scientists warned there could be more quakes and aftershocks during the next few days and urged residents to stay away from damaged buildings.

The quakes also shook the Greek islands of Chios, Samos and Ikaria, but no damages or injuries were reported. The Athens Geodynamic Institute gave a different measurement of the first quake´s strength, saying it had a magnitude of 6.

Quakes are frequent in Turkey, which lies on the active North Anatolian fault. Ruptures in the fault caused two quakes in 1999 that killed some 18,000 people and devastated large parts of northwestern Turkey.

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I cant believe this is not at top of the list somewhere ....I wonder whats going to happen when earthquakes keep shaking the world causing people "to jump from windows" and "run out in the streets in panic" ....i wonder what will happen if that happens say on Wall Street ? hhhhmmm

this aint normal folks....and you can expect more and more and more ....anyone who says the bigger ones arent increasing is just not too bright.

[link to abcnews.go.com]

"ounces" more appropriate.

7214 dont worry it shouldnt be any more than a few days then the next major earthquake will give you that high body count that your looking for. people only notice when there is a high body count.

[link to www.terradaily.com]

TERRA.WIRE
Three violent quakes injure 30 in Turkey

ANKARA (AFP) Oct 17, 2005
Three violent earthquakes shook western Turkey on Monday, cracking walls, collapsing chimneys and sending 30 people to hospital including a man who reportedly threw himself from the fifth floor of a building in panic.

Fear gripped many people who refused to enter buildings, preferring to wait in parks in case of aftershocks, witnesses told AFP.

Anatolia news agency said about 30 people were hospitalized, mostly for treatment of fractures, after they jumped off balconies or windows. One man who had hurled himself off the fifth floor of a building was in a critical condition, it said.

The first quake ocurred beneath the Aegean Sea at 8:45 am (0545 GMT).

Measured at 5.7 points on the Richter scale by the Kandilli observatory and 6.0 by the Athens observatory, it was felt in several Turkish towns on the Aegean coast and on the nearby Greek islands of Chios and Samos.

A second earthquake, measuring 5.9, struck at 12:47 p.m. (0947 GMT) with its epicentre beneath the Aegean Sea off the town of Seferihisar, which lies 40 kilometres (about 25 miles) southwest of Izmir, Turkey´s third-largest city, a spokeswoman for Kandilli observatory told AFP.

A third tremblor, with an intensity of 5.6 on the Richter scale, followed eight minutes later, the Kandilli observatory said.

Officials said the quakes did not cause extensive structural damage.

But schools were closed for the rest of the day and Tuesday in Izmir and the surrounding Izmir province.

In the coastal resort of Urla, several house chimneys collapsed and cracks opened up in the walls of buildings after the first tremblor, said the town mayor Selcuk Karaosmanoglu.

"The second quake was extremely strong. It shook the area quite violently," said an accountant from Izmir, Umut Taskin.

Turkey´s top seismologist warned of the threat of more earthquakes in a region, which is crossed by several seismological faultlines.

"These earthquakes can continue over a few days," Gulay Barbarosoglu, the head of the Kandilli observatory, told the NTV news channel.

Some 20,000 people died in two massive tremors in the country´s heavily industrialized northwest in August and November 1999.

From Red Puma list

www.seismo.ethz.ch ´global´

Signals recorded in Switzerland
17Oct2005 09:47:04.3 39.9N 26.8E 1 mb=7.0 M*SED TURKEY 1209
17Oct2005 09:46:56.5 38.2N 26.6E 20 MS=5.7 M*GSR AEGEAN SEA 1111
17Oct2005 09:46:55.5 38.2N 26.7E 10 mb=5.6 M*EMS AEGEAN SEA 1025
17Oct2005 09:46:57.8 38.1N 26.7E 10 M =5.7 M*NEI AEGEAN SEA 1012


The mb was 7.0

Red Puma? That is a totally unreliable quake site,
if you will notice, three different "mbs" from
the same quake reported from different locations.
Do you seriously think a 7+ would have resulted
in few, or no deaths?

"Do you seriously think a 7+ would have resulted
in few, or no deaths?"

Depends on the location and depth.

mb wave is only part of the total richter value.

As for what is a reliable earthquake list, there are none. All are massaged.

A few more, some more recent, from USGS
5.6 2005/10/17 LA PAZ, BOLIVIA
2.7 2005/10/17 17:03:20 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
2.7 2005/10/17 100.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
5.2 2005/10/17 NEAR THE WEST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2.6 2005/10/17 SOUTHERN ALASKA
2.9 2005/10/17 1.0 FOX ISLANDS,
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
2.5 2005/10/17
1.0 CENTRAL ALASKA
2.7 2005/10/17 10:48:21 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
5.1 2005/10/17 PAKISTAN
5.0 2005/10/17 NEAR THE COAST OF WESTERN TURKEY
5.8 2005/10/17 NEAR THE COAST OF WESTERN TURKEY
MAP 5.7 2005/10/17 07:12:47 AUCKLAND ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND REGION
2.9 2005/10/17 06:09:53
5.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
5.5 2005/10/17 05:45:20 NEAR THE COAST OF WESTERN TURKEY
2.8 2005/10/17 04:55:16 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
5.1 2005/10/17 03:50:54 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
3.1 2005/10/17 03:29:23 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
4.9 2005/10/17 02:06:53 NEAR THE COAST OF SOUTHERN PERU
4.7 2005/10/17 01:24:05 FIJI REGION

the aegean sea (between turkey and greece)
has many volcanoes

this could be a precursor to an eruption as well

read about it here:
[link to www.gein.noa.gr]

The main, large- scale geodynamic feature that controls the seismicity in the Hellenic arc and trench system is the active subduction of the Mediterranean lithosphere beneath the South Aegean Sea . The dynamic interaction between the Mediterranean and the Aegean lithospheric plates results in the generation of shallow earthquakes in the broad Aegean Sea area and of intermediate focal depth earthquakes in the South Aegean Sea. Besides , intermediate depth seismicity may be of particular interest for understanding better volcanism in island arc structures since there is evidence that the two phenomena are geodynamically related (e.g. Papadopoulos, 1986, 1987).
One of the most important properties of the intermediate depth seismicity is the pattern of irregular geographic distribution of seismic intensities which was described by a number of authors (e.g. see in Ambraseys, 2001, for recent results and a short-review). The pattern of seismic anisotropy incorporates a component of high seismic conductivity towards the Mediterranean Sea, that is towards the subducting lithosphere, and a component of low seismic conductivity in the direction of the Central and North Aegean Sea, that is in the back-arc domain. Seismic intensities of degree III or even higher in 12-point intensity scales were typically reported as far as South Italy , Malta , Cyrenaica , Egypt ,Cyprus , Israel and Palestine, that is at epicentral distances up to 800km and more. On the contrary, such intensity values were not observed even at half distances towards the Central and North Aegean Sea. In addition, Papazachos and Comninakis (1971) and Delibasis (1982) presented instrumental evidence indicating a similar pattern in the seismic energy propagation due to the strong attenuation of mainly the shear waves towards the back-arc area. This was attributed rather to the anisotropic seismic energy propagation than to soil conditions that may locally amplify seismic wave amplitudes. A plausible geophysical explanation is that seismic waves traveling through the cold and dense lithoshperic slab subducting from the Mediterranean to the Aegean Sea do not attenuate significantly. However, the hot asthenospheric wedge dominating the back-arc region of the Aegean Sea area absorbs strongly the seismic energy(e.g. Hashida et al., 1988).
In earlier times magnitudes up to about Ms8.0 were assigned to intermediate earthquakes occurring in the instrumental era . More recent examinations , however, showed that this was rather an exaggeration possibly due to the extra large felt areas of such earthquakes which were taken into account in the magnitude calculation. In view of this one may argue that it is quite realistic for magnitudes up to 7-7.5 to be observed in association with the intermediate depth seismicity of South Aegean Sea.

[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

that is the url for the Eurpopean Mediterranean seismic monitoring stations

good local quake info with pictures

these are the aftershocks listed for the main shaker in the aegean sea, found it on this site:
[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

2005/10/17 13:52:42.0 39.76 N 24.65 E 32 ML4.1 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 13:22:51.0 38.19 N 26.82 E ML3.8 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 13:16:43.7 38.21 N 26.75 E 15 ML3.8 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 12:43:29.5 38.19 N 26.50 E 10 ML4.3 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 12:22:33.5 38.15 N 26.59 E 20f ML3.4 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 11:52:24.0 38.26 N 26.93 E ML3.6 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 11:23:22.0 38.19 N 26.97 E ML3.5 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 10:07:55.2 38.15 N 26.68 E 20 ML3.7 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 09:58:38.0 38.22 N 26.90 E ML4.3 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 09:55:31.6 38.15 N 26.77 E 25 mb4.9 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 09:46:55.5 38.19 N 26.67 E 10 Mw5.9 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 09:25:42.0 38.17 N 26.90 E 25 MD2.7 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 08:50:04.0 38.20 N 26.83 E ML3.4 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 08:39:05.0 38.11 N 26.75 E ML3.0 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 08:34:44.7 38.17 N 26.70 E 10 ML4.3 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 08:28:53.8 38.21 N 26.69 E 20 ML4.1 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 08:07:29.6 38.19 N 26.68 E 10 ML3.6 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 07:54:40.1 38.03 N 26.95 E 23 MD3.0 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 07:49:50.9 38.15 N 26.65 E 10 ML3.1 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 07:33:05.0 38.16 N 26.82 E 24 ML3.1 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 07:14:56.8 38.16 N 26.81 E 28 MD3.2 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 07:05:50.5 38.16 N 26.67 E 30 ML4.0 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 06:51:41.0 38.17 N 26.74 E 14 MD3.1 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 06:25:36.0 38.10 N 26.87 E 15 ML3.0 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 06:16:07.0 38.15 N 26.68 E ML3.7 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 05:59:23.0 38.22 N 26.68 E 20 ML3.9 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 05:45:17.5 38.17 N 26.66 E 10 Mw5.6 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 05:17:05.7 38.15 N 26.66 E 13 MD3.0 AEGEAN SEA
2005/10/17 04:31:27.3 38.19 N 26.71 E 20 ML3.6 AEGEAN SEA

[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

Roughly 48 in the region through out the med check the link

definitely feeling the pressure on those fault zones over there