Posts
There was a sharp
4.5 quake at 3.20 am centred 35 km SW of Wellington, 17 km deep. I managed to sleep through it in our wooden bungalow.
I
wonder if this is why there were so many people leaving the capital last night?
PS.
It was reported in earlier reports on Radio NZ but no mention of it
since.
Central
New Zealand shaken awake by magnitude 4.6 Cook Strait earthquake
26
November, 2016
A
magnitude 4.6 aftershock that woke much of Wellington on Saturday
morning was closer to the capital than most - but within probability
modelling, GeoNet says.
The
magnitude 4.6 earthquake centred 30km south-west of the capital
Wellington - in Cook Strait - struck at 3.22am at a depth of 17m.
6:58 AM - 26 Nov 2016
It
was widely felt in Wellington, Hutt Valley, Porirua, Kapiti Coast,
Blenheim, Marlborough Sounds, Nelson and Motueka.
It
comes at a nervous time for central New Zealand after a magnitude 7.8
earthquake near Culverden in North Canterbury on November 14 and more
than 1000 aftershocks since that closed State Highway 1, left seaside
town Kaikoura isolated and caused building damage in Wellington's
CBD.
GeoNet
seismologist Tony Hurst said the M4.6 was closer to Wellington than
previous aftershocks but its magnitude and location within the Cook
Strait fault zone was within probability modelling.
The
Cook Strait fault zone has many different faults, which do not
connect directly with the Wellington-Hutt Valley
The
Cook Strait fault zone has many different faults, which do not
connect directly with the Wellington-Hutt Valley or Wairarapa fault
zones.
"It
was similar to what we've had before, it was in the middle of the
Cook Strait. It was much closer to Wellington than most of the
significant aftershocks, they've been a bit further south.
"Most
of them have been down around north Canterbury."
Hurst
said many of the aftershocks in the past two weeks were centred
around Cape Campbell, which lies near the Seddon and Needles faults.
The Cook Strait faults do not run directly into the Wellington Fault,
which extends into Cook Strait from the Hutt Valley.
Sign
up for the Two Minutes of Stuff newsletter
Hurst
said the aftershock generated more than 1500 "felt"
reports.
"It's
entirely the sort of region that's been shaken up by this big 7.8.
"A
Cook Strait epicentre, that's a very typical type of where we've been
getting [aftershocks]. There are a lot of faults in the Cook Strait.
It"s not at all surprising that has been set off by the effects
of this big earthquake."
TheCook Strait region generated large-magnitude quakes in 2013
OK that #eqnz was definitely significant - a sharp jolt out of nowhere, followed by a stretch of moderate rocking.
There was a sharp
4.5 quake at 3.20 am centred 35 km SW of Wellington, 17 km deep. I managed to sleep through it in our wooden bungalow.
I
wonder if this is why there were so many people leaving the capital last night?
PS.
It was reported in earlier reports on Radio NZ but no mention of it
since.
GeoNet
Kevin Sweeney
OK that #eqnz was definitely significant - a sharp jolt out of nowhere, followed by a stretch of moderate rocking.
A mag 6.5 - quake strikes Tajikistan...The 4th major quake to hit the planet since Monday
25
November, 2016
It’s
another big one! A magnitude 6.5 - 49km NE of Karakul, strikes
Tajikistan, making it the 4th major quake to hit
earth since Monday.
And
major quakes were predicted on Monday by The Big Wobble as a major
coronal hole turned to face the Earth See
here
On
Tuesday the stricken nuclear station, Fukushima had it's cooling
system shut down, a meteor burned through the sky and a tsunami
evacuation warning after a powerful mag 6.9 quake hit Japan. And on
Thursday a massive 7.2 earthquake rocked El Salvador as Hurricane
Otto made landfall!
The
massive coronal hole is now moving away from Earth facing but we are
still in the danger zone, see below.
Photo
NASA SDO
This
afternoon's major quake was the 11th of this November and the 123rd
of 2016.
The
West coast of the US is looking more and more vulnerable as its the
only area of the "ring of fire" not to witness a major
quake this year and the law of averages would suggest "the big
one" has to come sooner or later.
25
November, 2016
It’s
another big one! A magnitude 6.5 - 49km NE of Karakul, strikes
Tajikistan, making it the 4th major quake to hit
earth since Monday.
And
major quakes were predicted on Monday by The Big Wobble as a major
coronal hole turned to face the Earth See
here
On
Tuesday the stricken nuclear station, Fukushima had it's cooling
system shut down, a meteor burned through the sky and a tsunami
evacuation warning after a powerful mag 6.9 quake hit Japan. And on
Thursday a massive 7.2 earthquake rocked El Salvador as Hurricane
Otto made landfall!
The
massive coronal hole is now moving away from Earth facing but we are
still in the danger zone, see below.
Photo
NASA SDO
This
afternoon's major quake was the 11th of this November and the 123rd
of 2016.
The
West coast of the US is looking more and more vulnerable as its the
only area of the "ring of fire" not to witness a major
quake this year and the law of averages would suggest "the big
one" has to come sooner or later.
TSUNAMI hits El Salvador and Nicaragua after 3 devastating earthquakes
Authorities
in El Salvador have issued a tsunami alert after a 7.0 magnitude
earthquake shook the country and neighbouring Nicaragua.
The
Pacific Ocean tremor occurred on Thursday around 120km off the coast
of El Salvador, at a depth of 33km, according to the US Geological
Survey.
Earlier
reports had put the quake's magnitute at 7.2.
There
were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
In
El Salvador, the eartquake could be felt in the regions of
Chalatenango, San Salvador, Cabanas and San Miguel.
El
Salvador sits along the major seismic zone known as the Pacific Ring
of Fire, a series of faults marked by 450 active volcanoes over
40,000km.
Over
the last two weeks, earthquakes with magnitudes over 7.0 have hit
Japan and New Zealand, both of which are also near the Ring of Fire.
Shaking
was also felt in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, and as far as the
Costa Rican capital San Jose.
The
earthquake struck one hour after a powerful hurricane packing winds
of 175 kilometres per hour made landfall on Nicaragua's other coast.
The
heavy rains hurricane Otto was offloading were likely to cause
dangerous flooding and mud slides, according to the US National
Hurricane Center.
Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega declared a state of emergency due to the
quake and the storm.
| SRC | Location | UTC Date/time | M | D | INFO | |
| ER | I Felt A (not Listed) Earthquake | Nov 25 23:59 | 4.6 | 0 | MAP I Felt It | |
|
| ||||||
| EMSC | Southern Xinjiang, China | Nov 25 23:12 | 4.7 | 56 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Tajikistan-xinjiang Border Region | Nov 25 23:12 | 4.6 | 48 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Karakul, Tajikistan | Nov 25 23:12 | 4.7 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Southern Xinjiang, China | Nov 25 20:58 | 4.9 | 60 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Southern Xinjiang, China | Nov 25 20:58 | 4.7 | 53 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Karakul, Tajikistan | Nov 25 20:58 | 4.9 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Karakul, Tajikistan | Nov 25 19:46 | 4.7 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Southern Xinjiang, China | Nov 25 15:26 | 4.8 | 60 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Southern Xinjiang, China | Nov 25 15:26 | 4.8 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Karakul, Tajikistan | Nov 25 15:26 | 4.8 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Tonga Islands | Nov 25 15:25 | 4.9 | 217 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Tonga | Nov 25 15:25 | 4.8 | 200 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Pangai, Tonga | Nov 25 15:25 | 4.7 | 168 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Southern Xinjiang, China | Nov 25 15:16 | 4.6 | 60 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Guatemala | Nov 25 15:08 | 4.6 | 219 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Guatemala | Nov 25 15:08 | 4.6 | 200 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Tecpan Guatemala, Guatemala | Nov 25 15:08 | 4.7 | 190 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Southern Xinjiang, China | Nov 25 14:24 | 6.5 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Tajikistan-xinjiang Border Region | Nov 25 14:24 | 6.6 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
|
| ||||||
| USGS | Karakul, Tajikistan | Nov 25 14:24 | 6.6 | 12 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEONET | Wellington | Nov 25 14:22 | 4.6 | 17 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Southern Xinjiang, China | Nov 25 14:19 | 5.2 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Tajikistan-xinjiang Border Region | Nov 25 14:19 | 5.1 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Karakul, Tajikistan | Nov 25 14:19 | 5.2 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Hachijo-jima, Japan | Nov 25 12:47 | 4.7 | 16 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Southeast Of Honshu, Japan | Nov 25 12:47 | 5.0 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Izu Islands, Japan Region | Nov 25 12:47 | 4.9 | 14 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | L'esperance Rock, New Zealand | Nov 25 11:01 | 5.0 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Kermadec Islands Region | Nov 25 11:01 | 5.1 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Kermadec Islands Region | Nov 25 11:01 | 5.1 | 13 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Makubetsu, Japan | Nov 25 08:22 | 4.8 | 22 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Hokkaido, Japan Region | Nov 25 08:22 | 4.9 | 25 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Hokkaido, Japan Region | Nov 25 08:22 | 4.9 | 25 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Mindoro, Philippines | Nov 25 07:48 | 4.6 | 60 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
|
| ||||||
| GEOFON | Mindoro, Philippines | Nov 25 07:48 | 4.7 | 20 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan | Nov 25 07:35 | 4.7 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Near East Coast Of Kamchatka | Nov 25 07:26 | 5.2 | 88 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Near East Coast Of Kamchatka | Nov 25 07:26 | 5.2 | 91 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Petropavlovsk-kamchatskiy, Russia | Nov 25 07:26 | 5.5 | 83 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Java, Indonesia | Nov 25 05:31 | 4.6 | 249 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Nikol'skoye, Russia | Nov 25 04:06 | 5.1 | 29 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Komandorskiye Ostrova Region | Nov 25 04:06 | 5.2 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Komandorskiye Ostrova Region | Nov 25 04:06 | 5.1 | 30 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Puerto El Triunfo, El Salvador | Nov 25 02:40 | 4.6 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Off The Coast Of El Salvador | Nov 25 02:40 | 4.6 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Namie, Japan | Nov 25 00:20 | 4.7 | 11 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan | Nov 25 00:20 | 4.8 | 10 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| GEOFON | Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan | Nov 25 00:20 | 4.9 | 16 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| USGS | Namie, Japan | Nov 25 00:09 | 4.6 | 16 | MAP I Felt It INFO | |
| EMSC | Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan | |||||
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.