Earthquakes around the world

[sToRmR1dR]

Fresh quake jolts Ohrid region

http://english.republika.mk/fresh-quake-jolts-ohrid-region/

A 5-magnitude earthquake hit the Ohrid region at 13:18 on Monday. The epicenter was 12km northeast of Ohrid, at a depth of 10km.

A couple of earthquakes were also felt during the night, at a 2.8 and 3.7 magnitude.

Since June 18, the Ohrid region has been hit by series of earthquakes, but no damages have been reported.

There is information about panic and material damage in Ohrid,see the photos:

http://vesti.mk/read/news/13522802/4662167/prvi-fotografii-od-shtetite-predizvikani-od-najjakiot-zemjotres-vo-ohrid

http://tocka.com.mk/vesti/236950/panika-i-steti-po-zemjotresot-vo-ohrid

The Seismological Observatory of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje says that in two weeks in Ohrid has been registered more than 800 earthquakes

http://denar.mk/148064/ekonomija/ohrid-se-drma-poveke-od-osumsto-zemjotresi-za-dve-nedeli

Two new earthquakes in the Ohrid region

http://standard.mk/novi-dva-zemjotresi-vo-ohridskiot-region/

Another earthquake, measuring 3,8 degrees, strikes Ohrid

http://english.republika.mk/another-earthquake-measuring-38-degrees-strikes-ohrid/

The ground in Macedonia’s south-west continues to tremble as another earthquake, measuring 3,8 degrees on the Richter scale, was recorded on Thursday at 11:12h.

It centered near Ohrid, which saw earthquakes measuring up to 5 degrees over the past two and half weeks. Two weaker earthquakes were registered overnight and in the early morning, both measuring about 2,5 degrees. The series of earthquakes caused minor damage to buildings and significant anxiety among the citizens and the tourists which flock to the lakeside riviera in summer.

 

[Pierre]

Thursday’s Montana earthquake is unrelated to an ongoing earthquake swarm northwest of Yellowstone Lake, Sanders said. The swarm has been going on for a little over two months, with the largest a magnitude 4.5. But most have been very small, recording in magnitude of 0.5 or 0.6, which are typical in places like Yellowstone every few years, Sanders said.

I don't understand how 'experts' manage to dismiss any possible link between Lincoln quake and the swarm that hit Yellowstone some days ago. They don't even provide any reason why those two events are unrelated.

It's all the more surprising that there is only about 250 miles between Lincoln and Yellowstone. In addition both are located on the same active fault line (the intermountain seismic belt:

In order to better pinpoint the two previously mentioned locations. Lincoln is roughly between Great Falls and Helena, while the Yellowstone National Park is just South of Bozeman.

 

[angelburst29]

Thursday’s Montana earthquake is unrelated to an ongoing earthquake swarm northwest of Yellowstone Lake, Sanders said. The swarm has been going on for a little over two months, with the largest a magnitude 4.5. But most have been very small, recording in magnitude of 0.5 or 0.6, which are typical in places like Yellowstone every few years, Sanders said.

I don't understand how 'experts' manage to dismiss any possible link between Lincoln quake and the swarm that hit Yellowstone some days ago. They don't even provide any reason why those two events are unrelated.

It's all the more surprising that there is only about 250 miles between Lincoln and Yellowstone. In addition both are located on the same active fault line (the intermountain seismic belt:

In order to better pinpoint the two previously mentioned locations. Lincoln is roughly between Great Falls and Helena, while the Yellowstone National Park is just South of Bozeman.

Another report on the Montana earthquake:

An earthquake strong enough to rouse sleeping residents more than 30 miles (48 kilometers) from its epicenter struck western Montana early Thursday.

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake rouses slumbering Montana residents
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/western-montana-rattled-strong-earthquake-48465773

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit just after midnight about 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) southeast of Lincoln, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Residents in Lincoln briefly lost power and there was a gas leak in Helena, the National Weather Service in Great Falls said on Twitter.

The Independent Record reports ( http://bit.ly/2tjvI12 ) that people felt the quake as far away as Bozeman, Idaho, and Great Falls.

Ray Anderson, 76, tells The Associated Press that it was the strongest seismic activity he had ever felt while living in Helena, which is about 34 miles away from the quake’s epicenter.

He said his wife told him the temblor woke up the dogs.

Musician John Mayer, a part-time Bozeman resident, took to Twitter to marvel at the event.

“Wow,” he wrote on Twitter. “Earthquake in Montana.”

There have been more than 70 quakes measuring larger than 4.5 in Montana and parts of Wyoming and Idaho since 1925, according to the USGS. The largest quake in state history was magnitude 7.2 in 1959 near west Yellowstone.

 

[Voyageur]

Re Montana Earthquake.

People throughout the area above Montana into the BC Southern Interior and parts of Vancouver felt the tremor, including where I live by some people.

'Montana earthquake rattles residents in Alberta, B.C.'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/montana-alberta-earthquake-1.4192408

People in parts of southern Alberta and southeastern B.C. also reported feeling a quake.

 

[Konstantin]

More earthquakes in Macedonia in the region of Ohrid

_http://www.minareport.com/2017/07/07/ohrid-cant-catch-a-break-rattled-again-with-multiple-earthquakes/

Ohrid and its surroundings keep getting rattled by flurry of quakes, one after another for nearly two weeks now.

The latest quake registered 3.3 magnitude according to the Richter scale. Four quakes occurred earlier in the day, one at 2:52pm with a magnitude of 2 on the Richter scale, then another hit at 4:32pm with a strength of 3.1 and another one at 6:54pm with a magnitude of 3.1 according to the Richter scale.

The epicenter of all quakes was Ohrid and its surroundings. According to the Macedonian Seismological Observatory at Ss Cyril and Methodius University, over the past two weeks Ohrid has been shaken by over 1,000 earthquakes.

Some of the stronger quakes have caused cracks in the walls of buildings and houses. Tourists in Ohrid have also been alarmed over the constant tremors and shakes in the city.

 

[Ca.]

Thursday’s Montana earthquake is unrelated to an ongoing earthquake swarm northwest of Yellowstone Lake, Sanders said. The swarm has been going on for a little over two months, with the largest a magnitude 4.5. But most have been very small, recording in magnitude of 0.5 or 0.6, which are typical in places like Yellowstone every few years, Sanders said.

I don't understand how 'experts' manage to dismiss any possible link between Lincoln quake and the swarm that hit Yellowstone some days ago. They don't even provide any reason why those two events are unrelated.

It's all the more surprising that there is only about 250 miles between Lincoln and Yellowstone. In addition both are located on the same active fault line (the intermountain seismic belt:

In order to better pinpoint the two previously mentioned locations. Lincoln is roughly between Great Falls and Helena, while the Yellowstone National Park is just South of Bozeman.

Another report on the Montana earthquake:

An earthquake strong enough to rouse sleeping residents more than 30 miles (48 kilometers) from its epicenter struck western Montana early Thursday.

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake rouses slumbering Montana residents
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/western-montana-rattled-strong-earthquake-48465773

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit just after midnight about 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) southeast of Lincoln, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Residents in Lincoln briefly lost power and there was a gas leak in Helena, the National Weather Service in Great Falls said on Twitter.

The Independent Record reports ( http://bit.ly/2tjvI12 ) that people felt the quake as far away as Bozeman, Idaho, and Great Falls.

Ray Anderson, 76, tells The Associated Press that it was the strongest seismic activity he had ever felt while living in Helena, which is about 34 miles away from the quake’s epicenter.

He said his wife told him the temblor woke up the dogs.

Musician John Mayer, a part-time Bozeman resident, took to Twitter to marvel at the event.

“Wow,” he wrote on Twitter. “Earthquake in Montana.”

There have been more than 70 quakes measuring larger than 4.5 in Montana and parts of Wyoming and Idaho since 1925, according to the USGS. The largest quake in state history was magnitude 7.2 in 1959 near west Yellowstone.

Did an 'earthquake sky' on Wednesday signal a temblor on the way? Not likely, seismologist says
Updated 7-7-11
http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/did-an-earthquake-sky-on-wednesday-signal-a-temblor-on/article_2feb5699-8e64-5cc3-9cb6-6398f4af399b.html

But NorthWestern Energy spokesperson Butch Larcombe said power was restored in Lincoln within about 45 minutes and no leaks were found in Helena.

Larcombe said there have been no other reports of power outages or gas leaks in western Montana. BSB Director of Emergency Management Dan Dennehy also confirmed there have been no reports of gas or propane leaks in Butte.

Resident David Abrams commented on Facebook after the quake hit that the chandelier in his bedroom shook and he heard car alarms "firing up" all over the Flats. Abrams lives in the 1900 block of Argyle Street.

One Butte resident, Debbie Shea, told The Montana Standard Thursday that the “earthquake sky,” earlier in the evening, close to sunset, might have also been a harbinger of what was to come.

The sky to the north-northwest of Butte was a luminous, intensely bright shade of pink.

That sky seemed ominous to Shea, in part, because her ex-husband, Dan Shea, remembers an “earthquake sky,” the evening of the “big one” that hit near Yellowstone Park in 1959. The quake, with 7.3-magnitude, centered at the Madison Valley’s Hebgen Lake, killed 28 people and caused approximately $11 million in damage to the area. It is the biggest reported earthquake to hit Montana.

A boy of 10 at the time, Dan said that he and a friend were walking up Excelsior Street from a baseball game that particular evening when an older gentleman waved them over to talk to them from his front porch.

Dan said the elderly man pointed out the sky, which Dan described as

“very strange,” “red” and “moving really fast.”

The elderly man reportedly called it “an earthquake sky” and warned them an earthquake was coming.

“And sure enough, there was an earthquake that night,”

Dan said.

Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Seismologist Mike Stickney said he wasn't aware of an "earthquake sky," but he said there are some fairly credible reports of lights in the sky around the time an earthquake hits. Stickney said most rock has grains of quartz in it and quartz has electrical properties. When rocks are under pressure and squeezed in the right way, they may give off energy.

But Stickney added that such earthquake lights have been reported when earthquakes are above a 7.0 magnitude and cause a surface rupture. Thursday's early-morning quake was centered nine miles deep and was not big enough to cause a surface rupture.

Stickney said that while the phenomenon spotted close to sunset in Butte didn't seem likely to be connected to the earthquake that hit hours later, he wouldn't entirely rule it out.

"I’ve tried to learn to say nothing is impossible,"

Stickney said.

 

[Ca.]

National Geographic's Guide To The Yellowstone Supervolcano (Video, Illustrations, and the Pièce de résistance, the comment's)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-08/ready-blow-national-geographics-guide-yellowstone-supervolcano
Mini Snip:

Amid a growing 'swarm' of over earthquakes (now over 1000), and Montana's largest quake ever, scientists are growing increasingly concerned that the so-called 'super-volcano' at the heart of Yellowstone National Park could be building towards a Category 7 eruption. So what is a 'super-volcano' and what does its explosion mean for life on earth? NatGeo explains...

 

[angelburst29]

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit on Tuesday the southwestern part of Japan, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Southwestern Japan Hit by 5.2-Magnitude Earthquake - US Geological Survey
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201707111055426157-south-west-japan-earthquake/

The tremors were registered at 02:56 GMT some 14 kilometers (over 8 miles) southwest of the city of Tarumizu located in the Kagoshima Prefecture.

The epicenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 16.7 kilometers. There are no reports about damages and victims.

 

[angelburst29]

M 6.6 - 198km NW of Auckland Island, New Zealand
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100098qm#executive

Magnitude - 6.6 mww

Location - uncertainty 49.546°S 164.031°E ± 8.2 km

Depth - uncertainty 10.0 km ± 1.9

Origin Time - 2017-07-11 07:00:01.210 UTC

 

[Gawan]

A recent study report thats about 300.000 methane craters are discovered next to Helgoland, North Sea (originally they were discovered in 2015), but a study was recently published. The craters emerged within about five months according to the study and took them by surprise.

Abstract:

A series of multibeam bathymetry surveys revealed the emergence of a large pockmark field in the southeastern North Sea. Covering an area of around 915 km2, up to 1,200 pockmarks per square kilometer have been identified. The time of emergence can be confined to 3 months in autumn 2015, suggesting a very dynamic genesis. The gas source and the trigger for the simultaneous outbreak remain speculative. Subseafloor structures and high methane concentrations of up to 30 μmol/l in sediment pore water samples suggest a source of shallow biogenic methane from the decomposition of postglacial deposits in a paleo river valley. Storm waves are suggested as the final trigger for the eruption of the gas. Due to the shallow water depths and energetic conditions at the presumed time of eruption, a large fraction of the released gas must have been emitted to the atmosphere. Conservative estimates amount to 5 kt of methane, equivalent to 67% of the annual release from the entire North Sea. These observations most probably describe a reoccurring phenomenon in shallow shelf seas, which may have been overlooked before because of the transient nature of shallow water bedforms and technology limitations of high resolution bathymetric mapping.

 

[angelburst29]

The 5.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of North Korea on Wednesday (7-12-2017) was of natural causes and not the result of a nuclear test, according to US Department of Defense spokesman Jamie Davis.

Earthquake Off North Korea Coast Not Result of Nuclear Test - Pentagon
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201707131055489796-north-korea-earthquake-nuclear-test/

"It’s unlikely it caused any damage," Davis said on Wednesday, adding the earthquake was a result of natural causes.

The earthquake occurred 125 miles off the North Korean coast at a depth of 350 miles, according to the Defense Department.

There were no reports of injuries or damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

The US Geological Survey detected a 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday (7-12-2017) off the coast of South Korea.

US Geological Survey Detects 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Off South Korea Coast
https://sputniknews.com/environment/201707131055489202-south-korea-earthquake/

The earthquake was detected at 4:48 a.m. local time (19:48 GMT) 176 kilometers (109 miles) east-southeast of the North Korean city of Hoemul-li, placing it in the Sea of Japan.

At a depth of 537.6 kilometers, the earthquake was measured deeper than most that are associated with Pyongyang’s underground nuclear tests. There were no reports of injuries or damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit on Tuesday (7-11-2017) the southwestern part of Japan, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Southwestern Japan Hit by 5.2-Magnitude Earthquake - US Geological Survey
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201707111055426157-south-west-japan-earthquake/

The tremors were registered at 02:56 GMT some 14 kilometers (over 8 miles) southwest of the city of Tarumizu located in the Kagoshima Prefecture.

The epicenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 16.7 kilometers. There are no reports about damages and victims.

 

[angelburst29]

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake occurred near the coast of New Ireland belonging to Papua New Guinea, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported Thursday.

Magnitude 6.7 Earthquake Strikes Off Papua New Guinea Coast - USGS
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201707131055494718-earthquake-papua-guinea-usgs/

The quake hit 42 kilometers (26 miles) south of New Ireland at 03:36 GMT. The epicenter of the quake was located at the depth of 33 kilometers (20 miles).

There have been no reports of destruction or casualties caused by the earthquake so far. No tsunami warning was issued.

The New Ireland Region is located in the so-called Ring of Fire quake zone where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

 

[MusicMan]

M 6.6 - 198km NW of Auckland Island, New Zealand
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100098qm#executive

Magnitude - 6.6 mww

Location - uncertainty 49.546°S 164.031°E ± 8.2 km

Depth - uncertainty 10.0 km ± 1.9

Origin Time - 2017-07-11 07:00:01.210 UTC

I was talking to my NZ cousin today and she noted that she felt this one, in Otaki Beach, with two jolts and rolling waves.
She said they have been warned to expect tsunamis where she is, which is about half way between the two latest 6+ Earthquakes.

 

[angelburst29]

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake occurred Monday near the Commander Islands (Komandorski Islands), located east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) said.

Magnitude 6.0 Quake Hits Russian Eastern Kamchatka Region
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201707171055616422-eastern-kamchatka-quake-/

The epicenter of the quake, which rocked Kamchatka region at 11:05 GMT, was located at a depth of 10 kilometers (about 6.2 miles), according to GS RAS.

Meanwhile, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a 6.2-magnitude tremor struck 183 kilometers (113 miles) south-east of Nikolskoye, Kamchatka region at a depth of 7.9 kilometers (4.9 miles).

A representative of a seismological station located in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Kamchatka region told Sputnik that a 5.1-magnitude aftershock occurred in the same area in the follow-up to the quake.

There have been no reports of destruction or casualties caused by the earthquake so far. No tsunami warning was issued.

 

[angelburst29]

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the area on the Commander Islands, of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported.

Commander Islands on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula Hit by 7.7-Magnitude Quake
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201707181055633586-russia-kamchatka-earthquake/

The tremor occurred at 23.34 GMT, and its epicenter was located in 233 kilometers (144.7 miles) from Nikolskoye settlement located on one of the Commander Islands, at the depth of 48,3 kilometers.

There have been no reports of destruction or casualties caused by the earthquake so far.

According to the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS), a tsunami warning was issued on Bering Island, which is located in 290 kilometers from the epicenter.

The Commander Islands suffered another 6.0-magnitude earthquake on Monday.

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit on Tuesday the southern part of Peru, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported.

Peru Struck by 6.6-Magnitude Earthquake
https://sputniknews.com/world/201707181055634365-peru-struck-earthquake/

The tremors were registered at 21:05 p.m. local time (2:05 GMT Tuesday) some 104 kilometers (over 64.6 miles) west of the town of Camana in southern Peru.

The epicenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 10 kilometers.

There are no reports about damages and victims. he tsunami alert was not announced.