Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated*5.7 Southeast of Loyalty Islands*5.2 Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge*5.2 Fiji ~ Pg 20429

The #Kodiak earthquake was a strike-slip fault type event and is unlikely to produce a significant #Tsunami

They often don't produce any tsunamis, sometimes local tsunamis may occur due to landslides triggered by the quake.

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"The M 7.9 occurred as the result of strike slip faulting. At it's location, the Pacific plate is converging with the North America plate. Over the preceding century, 11 other M7+ earthquakes have occurred within 600 km of today's earthquake."

I'm not quite as concerned about the Kodiak quake as I am about the potential behavior of the Cascadian Subduction Zone in the coming days.

This one goes off every once and a while - I live on Long Island....could be a whale...

Yeah... for sure.

That A.C. made a good point with strike slip events. They've produced big quakes with a lack of tsunami threats in the past stumping seismologists even. But it certainly appears a big wave is out there?

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"Hawaii was briefly under a tsunami watch early this morning following a magnitude 7.9 earthquake off Alaska late Monday.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which issued the watch at 11:43 p.m. Monday, canceled the alert at 1:10 a.m."

:wawow::wawow: What a way to wake up - 8.2??!!!!!:wawow:

Good morning, WA!!!!

hon. Catching up right now. What is it - 16 buoys including the freak one off NY coast? This really rung earth's bell

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The Latest: Tsunami warning canceled after Alaska quake

"ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on an Alaska earthquake that prompted a tsunami warning for coastal Alaska, Canada’s British Columbia and the West Coast of the U.S. (all times local):

3:10 a.m.

The National Tsunami Center has canceled a tsunami warning that was triggered by a powerful earthquake off the coast of Alaska.

Mickey Varnadao, a computer specialist with the warning center in Palmer, Alaska, said early Tuesday that an advisory remains in effect for parts of Alaska, from Kodiak Island to Prince William Sound.

Watches have been canceled for British Columbia in Canada, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii. Officials in Japan say there is no tsunami threat there."

There was a tsunami buoy in the Bay of Bengal that went off for four days without a precipitating earthquake event due to sperm whales mating in that area.

Powerful enough to rearrange the bottom of the ocean pretty good. Possibly the 10 km depth helped in that regard. Doesn't seem too far fetched for an 8 to create a wave that high

Ok since the watches have been cancelled for California I am going to sleep.

Good night all!

Ok since the watches have been cancelled for California I am going to sleep.

Good night all!

Ok so now maybe someone will pay attention PSIGUY posted a while about this he told people in the Pacific north west to get out!

Also no one is reporting about this but if you use the app called my radar there is a no-fly zone in Alaska it's for a space launch I have been trying to get people to pay attention to that and nobody cares

Tons of quakes near Kodiak now:

Tuesday January 23 2018, 11:34:19 UTC 36 minutes ago 248km SE of Kodiak, Alaska 4.4 23.8 USGS Feed Detail
Tuesday January 23 2018, 11:28:13 UTC 43 minutes ago 249km SE of Kodiak, Alaska 4.6 15.5 USGS Feed Detail
Tuesday January 23 2018, 11:09:56 UTC 61 minutes ago 237km SE of Kodiak, Alaska 4.3 0.0 USGS Feed Detail
Tuesday January 23 2018, 10:58:23 UTC 72 minutes ago 260km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska 4.1 17.5 USGS Feed Detail
Tuesday January 23 2018, 10:56:42 UTC 74 minutes ago 67km N of Pahrump, Nevada 1.0 0.0 USGS Feed Detail

A Sperm whale produced semen tsunami

M 6.0 - 40km S of Binuangeun, Indonesia
2018-01-23 06:34:54 UTC
43.9 km depth