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Earthquake Today 2013 Strikes Utah
Still issues obtaining seismic data from Mammoth Mountain volcano (CA), but the most recent data do show continued low-level earthquake activity continued beneath the edifice through yesterday (station MRD). The Northern California regional seismic network (USGS) shows most activity is now located in the Sierra Nevada mountains south of Long Valley Caldera.
GNS has declared the end of dome extrusion at White Island volcano (New Zealand). There have been no identifiable morphologic changes in the construct over the past month, but the volcano is producing 400 tons of SO2 and 1300 tons of CO2 per day. The continous volcanic tremor recorded at the volcano bears this out! Windy conditions (?) again today at the other volcanoes Tongariro and Ruapehu.
Recent satellite data show the prominent SO2 plume issuing from Nevado Del Ruiz and another plume, detached from Popocatepetl volcano, drifting over the Gulf of Mexico. Copahue volcano issued a plume of SO2 in conjunction with elevated seismicity there yesterday
7
January, 2013
LOS
ANGELES (LALATE) – An Arizona earthquake today 2013 struck Utah and
sections of Nevada. The Arizona earthquake erupted shortly after 8:36
am PST today Monday, January 07, 2013. No damage has yet to be
indicated by local news.
Officials
tell news that a 3.1 magnitude quake began today with a shallow
epicenter. The quake erupted only four miles below the earth’s
surface. As a result, the quake could be felt in neighboring Utah.
USGS
indicates to news that the quake began nineteen miles northwest of
Bitter Springs. The quake was also twenty miles southwest of Big
Water, Utah. Officials report that the quake was twenty-two miles
from Page, Arizona as well.
The
temblor began forty miles east of Kanab, Utah. USGS indicates to news
that the quake was one hundred twenty-three miles east of Mesquite
and one hundred ninety-two miles east of Las Vegas.
4.9
earthquake in Japan
In
related news, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck Japan earlier today.
The quake erupted seventy-one miles east of Ishinomaki. The quake was
seventy-five miles southeast of Yamoto and seventy-eight miles east
of Namie. Officials also indicate that the quake was eighty miles
east of Shiogama and roughly two hundred miles from Tokyo. The quake
began shortly after 10:53 pm local time.
Moderate
earthquake strikes off Taiwan
TAIPEI:
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan on Monday, shaking
buildings in the capital city, but there were no reports of damage or
casualties.
The
quake struck at 2:49 pm (0649 GMT), 152 kilometres east-southeast of
Taipei, with a depth of 73.3 kilometres, the US Geological Survey
said.
Taiwan's
Seismology Centre put the quake's magnitude at 5.6.
Taiwan
lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is regularly hit by
earthquakes.
A
5.9-magnitude quake in February sent people rushing onto the streets
of the island's second-largest city of Kaohsiung and led to a
temporary suspension of rail services. No major damage was reported.
In
September 1999, a 7.6-magnitude tremor killed around 2,400 people in
the deadliest natural disaster in the island's recent history.
Volcanic activity report
The video below is quiet hilarious. Some climbers and a lot of wind are creating a wild atmosphere. But imagine, how you would behave if suddenly a volcano erupts relatively close to you ! Exciting. Put your sound level low please
Colima volcano (Mexico) erupted yesterday !. The attached seismograms show the eruption had been building since 05 January. Colima’s now tranquil again! The picture source is from @gobiernocolima.
The video below is quiet hilarious. Some climbers and a lot of wind are creating a wild atmosphere. But imagine, how you would behave if suddenly a volcano erupts relatively close to you ! Exciting. Put your sound level low please
KVERT
reports volcanic tremor amplitude has increased further (but
slightly) at Plosky
Tolbachik (Kamchatka
Peninsula) in the past day. Seismicity levels have also
increased at nearby volcanoes Klyuchevskoi
and Sheveluch.
Kizimen
volcano re-erupted (a lava flow!) sometime between 28 and 31 December
2012. The volcano had been placed in eruption code GREEN only
one day before! Seismicity began increasing on 28 December and
satellite imagery detected a large thermal anomaly shortly
thereafter. A new lava flow has been visually confirmed on the
volcano’s flank and seismic and thermal imagery indicate that lava
effusion at Kizimen continues (not pictured).
Still issues obtaining seismic data from Mammoth Mountain volcano (CA), but the most recent data do show continued low-level earthquake activity continued beneath the edifice through yesterday (station MRD). The Northern California regional seismic network (USGS) shows most activity is now located in the Sierra Nevada mountains south of Long Valley Caldera.
Exhalations
of gas and minor amounts of ash occur at an average rate of less than
one per hour at Popocatepetl volcano (Mexico).
The Popocatepetl seismogram
shows low level volcanic tremor and perhaps small earthquakes.
Wind
is playing its part in complicating seismograms at the Guatemalan
volcanoes today. Most of the tremor-like signal apparent on
seismograms recorded at Pacaya (station
PCG), Fuego (station
FG3), and Santa
Maria(station
STG6) volcanoes is likely due to wind.
The
swarm of volcanic earthquakes which began yesterday at San
Miguel volcano
(El Salvador) (station VSM) has subsided, but frequent pulses of
tremor (in other words, low amplitude volcanic earthquakes) continue
at the volcano.
No
current data available from San
Cristobal volcano
(Nicaragua) today, but volcanic tremor remains elevated at nearby
Masaya volcano (station MASN). Trains of volcanic tremor are
apparent on seismograms recorded at Concepcion volcano (station CONN)
as well.
Amplitude
of low-level volcanic tremor has risen slightly at Nevado
Del Ruiz volcano
(Colombia) (station OLLZ) over the past day. Has anyone else
noticed the nice correlation between the appearance of tremor at Ruiz
with satellite data showing a strong SO2 plume over the volcano?
Tungurahua volcano
(Ecuador) (station RETU) appears to be returning to slumber.
EPN warns that the northern flank of the volcano remains
inflated. Reventador volcano
(station CONE) exhibits a continued higher level of (co-eruptive?)
seismic unrest.
SERNAGEOMIN
reports that Copahue volcano
(Chile) experienced three seismic swarms yesterday accompanied by
increased crater glow and elevated degassing tremor. Windy
weather at that volcano today helps to obscure the eruptive plume in
the volcanocam photo.
GNS has declared the end of dome extrusion at White Island volcano (New Zealand). There have been no identifiable morphologic changes in the construct over the past month, but the volcano is producing 400 tons of SO2 and 1300 tons of CO2 per day. The continous volcanic tremor recorded at the volcano bears this out! Windy conditions (?) again today at the other volcanoes Tongariro and Ruapehu.
Recent satellite data show the prominent SO2 plume issuing from Nevado Del Ruiz and another plume, detached from Popocatepetl volcano, drifting over the Gulf of Mexico. Copahue volcano issued a plume of SO2 in conjunction with elevated seismicity there yesterday
image
courtesy @gobiernocolima
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