BREAKING--Earthquake swarm, San Andreas

Hurrah!

It's going to get worse, this is the beginning...

Check out Easter island and also Mariana Island today as well. All on the Ring of fire I believe it is called.

[link to www.iris.edu]

Fiji Island as well:

[link to www.iris.edu]

MAP 2.6 2006/05/24 05:14:27 32.308 -115.208 30.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 2006/05/24 05:05:10 32.349 -115.176 36.3 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 2006/05/24 05:01:36 32.294 -115.182 35.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.4 2006/05/24 04:49:57 32.256 -115.212 53.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.9 2006/05/24 04:39:34 32.333 -115.180 13.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.2 2006/05/24 04:36:54 32.203 -115.191 20.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.0 2006/05/24 04:20:28 32.347 -115.189 5.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.9 2006/05/24 04:19:06 32.366 -115.264 0.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.8 2006/05/24 02:24:56 37.806 -122.079 12.3 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 2006/05/24 00:32:33 -27.530 -112.759 10.0 EASTER ISLAND REGION

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

Started 11:32pm central, 23rd.

I am not an expert, so could someone please tell me if that is the correct term? "Ring of fire"?

Ring of Fire? Got hemmoroids?

10.5 apocalypso....

Partially. The ring of fire is a circle of all the coasts, it forms a circle basically.

10.5 could only happen if there was a fault running around the entire globe...(There isn't one!).

The 9.6, 9.7 are the worst ones we will ever see.

Mind you - a 9.7 in California would be devastating! But there's no evidence that one is imminent...According to most leading seismologists, a 'big one' is inevidable though..sometime within the next 10,000 years or so.


Remember that a 9.7 is 10+ (I don't remember the exact formula) time more powerful than a 9.6...it's exponential...

It's just a logarithmic scale isn't it?

ie... a quake with magnitude of 8.2 would be 10 to the power of 8.2 (10 ^ 8.2)

comparisons would just be division to see difference

hmmmm only 14 events category 5+ in South California since 2000 ...........get ready
to ruuuuuuuuuun


[link to www.data.scec.org]










just kidding

#YYY/MM/DD HH:mm:SS.ss ET MAG M LAT LON DEPTH Q EVID NPH NGRM
2001/02/10 21:05:05.78 le 5.13 l 34.289 -116.946 9.1 A 9627721 249 1432
2001/07/17 12:07:26.10 le 5.10 l 36.016 -117.874 3.0 A 9674049 106 1491
2001/09/20 08:02:23.00 le 5.10 s 40.400 -125.300 2.0 Z 9707621 0 1447
2001/10/31 07:56:16.63 le 5.09 l 33.508 -116.514 15.2 A 9718013 116 1559
2001/12/08 23:36:10.11 le 5.10 l 31.998 -115.002 7.0 C 9732601 27 1591
2002/02/22 19:32:41.75 le 5.70 w 32.319 -115.322 7.0 C 12456384 32 1609
2003/02/07 10:34:04.83 le 4.99 l 31.628 -115.511 7.6 C 9886485 47 1795
2003/02/22 12:19:10.58 le 5.37 l 34.310 -116.848 1.2 A 13935988 202 1728
2004/06/15 22:28:48.16 le 5.27 l 32.329 -117.918 10.0 C 14065544 100 1938
2004/09/29 22:54:54.24 le 5.04 l 35.390 -118.624 3.5 A 14095628 246 1902
2005/04/16 19:18:13.55 le 5.15 l 35.027 -119.178 10.3 A 14138080 292 1892
2005/06/12 15:41:46.54 le 5.20 w 33.529 -116.573 14.2 A 14151344 296 1886
2005/06/16 20:53:26.02 le 4.90 w 34.058 -117.011 11.6 A 14155260 326 1871
2005/09/02 01:27:19.81 le 5.11 w 33.160 -115.637 9.8 A 14179736 58 2373

# Number of events: 14

You know... I wonder if hemhorroids were to what Johnny cash was referring when he sang of, "The burning ring of fire."

Either that, or he was singing of anal sex. Take your pick. They had gay cowboys then, too.

a 9.7 in California would be devastating! But there's no evidence that one is imminent...<<<

Apparently you havent been reading the WERB BOT forecasts....it is coming..before the end of Summer. :(

What is that area ( continental plate? ) called that runs from Alaska down along mexico, across twards Easter Island, Fiji Island, over by Australia, andup along to Russia??

Patrick25: "10.5 could only happen if there was a fault running around the entire globe"

Or if the moon slams into the Earth

Thankyou 94054.

Just for Some1, because every post I have ever seen from him/her has this happy lil flag waving in all its glory.

Of course, it could be about hemorrhoids AND anal sex.

I'll return you to your regularly scheduled dose of doom 'n' gloom in a sec.

Lions and tigers and earthquakes oh my!

And you thought EQ damage was bad...wait 'til you try it Greek style!

Johnny cash surely knew VERY personally about, "the burning ring of fire'.

EQ In San Andreas? Don't you have a gay town down there?

That word's hard to spell: hemorrhoids.

[From Middle English emoroides, hemorrhoids, from Old French emoroides, from Latin haemorrhoidae, from Greek haimorrhoïdes, pl. of haimorrhoïs, from haimorrhoos, flowing with blood : haimo-, hemo- + rhein, to flow.]
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You do realise I'm kidding here? I'm liberal arts fer cristsakes! Besides, I have had no premonitions for this date, so relax! (your spincter!)

74037:

You must be talking about the 6.0 earthquakes that are produced consistently every 20-24 or so years.

This is diffrent from "the big one" forecasted to happen sometime in the future. (no one knows when)

The infrastructure is built to withstand a 6.0 quake no problem. It's the 7.8+ ones we need to worry about.


Here's the good data on this fault:

[link to en.wikipedia.org]


And Ashchaya - you are right about the moon :) In fact, we'd probably be instantly liquified - the earth's mantle would turn to molten rock instantly...THAT'S an end of the world type thing...

Thankfully though, the moon's not going to fall to earth anytime soon .. in fact, it's slowly moving away from earth at a couple of centimeters per year.

Record rain for the area and now earthquake swarms...any connection?

Official one day rainfall total is new record for downtown San Diego.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Lindbergh Field Monday morning recorded close to an inch of rain – .77 of an inch, more than doubling the record for the date. The previous high rainfall total for May 22, set in 1921, was .36 of an inch.


The California Highway Patrol reported more than 100 ccidents across San Diego County roads and freeways as the unusually strong storm helped make a mess of the morning commute.


There were 117 crashes reported between midnight and 8 a.m., when the rain stopped, said CHP Officer Jim Bettencourt. He said that on a day with good weather, the CHP usually responds to 50 to 75 crashes.



Flooded streets and intersections were reported in Mission Beach and other low-lying coastal areas in San Diego.


In National City, heavy rain was to blame for a roof partially collapsing at an apartment building on South Highland Avenue near 13th Street shortly after 5:30 a.m. No injuries were reported.
[link to www.kogo.com]

It's not the San Andreas fault zone. Close to the Imperial Fault zone but not San Andreas.

there's been 3 small quakes in the area of the 5 one. Lots of activity.

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

There's no correlation between rainwater and earthquakes that I know of.

In fact, if I think about it, rainwater wouldn't even reach passed a few KMs (I'm being generous here) underground.

Earthquakes are generated 10km+ down..Some even 40km+ underground. The water would never reach the fault.

It has been raining quite a bit lately however.. Here in Ottawa also. Spring will be Spring though... It's forecasted to be a hot/dry summer, so let's take advantage of it!

Here's a really good website quoting lots of facts and figures on earthquakes:

[link to www.ceri.memphis.edu]

Ring of Fire

[link to www.crystalinks.com]

Peace.

Most excellent "i is that which i is".

Thanks for the link!