Earthquakes around the world

[Dirgni]

I hope all Californians are OK. Good luck to you.

_http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2947

Bárðarbunga - updated information

26th August 2014 17:53 - from geoscientist on duty

Just under 900 earthquakes have been detected by the network since midnight, somewhat fewer than at the same time yesterday. The intrusive dike is now about 40 km long. Most of the activity has been near the edge of the glacier. An earthquake M4.6 (EMSC M4.4) occurred at 11:56. Reports were received from Akureyri (a town in northern Iceland) that the earthquake was found there. The earthquakes are mostly on similar depth as before, i.e. 8-12 km. A few were larger than M3. Few earthquakes were located in the Bárðarbunga caldera today.

 

[Dirgni]

Still a lot of earthquakes in Iceland.

_http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2947

27th August 2014 06:30 - from geoscientist on duty

The night started with a 5.3 event in Bardarbunga at 00:16 hours.

Around half an hour later activity around the tip of the dyke started increasing and reached some kind of "high" around 2 o'clock and has continued at that level since with many events of magnitude 2-3.

Just before 2 o'clock there was a magnitude 4.5 event just east of the Askja caldera. Few microearthquakes have been measured there earlier this week.

At 02:50 there was a 5.2 event again in Bardarbunga.

Total events automatically detected from midnight until now are 500, most of them around the tip
of the northward migrating dyke.

Implications of Askja event is still premature to speculate on. However, we are watching the area closely.

There seems to be a slight increase in activity compared to same time. The >M5 events in Bardarbunga are still interpreted as being relaxation process of the caldera due to magma pressure changes and the propagating dyke.

Earthquakes > 5.0
_http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/today.html

Updated: Wed, 27 Aug 09:13 UTC (GMT)
Time Mag. / Depth Location Source
Wed, 27 Aug (40 earthquakes)
Wed, 27 Aug 06:10 UTC M 5.0 / 27 km 46km ESE of Middleton Island, Alaska USGS
Wed, 27 Aug 04:48 UTC M 5.4 / 30 km HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION EMSC
Wed, 27 Aug 02:50 UTC M 5.3 / 10 km Iceland GFZ
Wed, 27 Aug 00:16 UTC M 5.1 / 10 km Iceland GFZ
Tue, 26 Aug (91 earthquakes)
Tue, 26 Aug 09:30 UTC M 5.6 / 10 km 102km NE of Hihifo, Tonga USGS

 

[Ca.]

Up date of the mysterious lights seen at the time of the Napa Quake
EEL (Earthquake Lights) seen at Napa

MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX 5) SF Ca. (Propaganda News Service)

Several people called the KPIX 5 newsroom after Sunday morning’s magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Napa, reporting mysterious flashes of light in the sky. Witnesses said the strange phenomenon looked like lightning.
Similar flashes of light have been reported in earthquakes around the world, from Japan to Peru

Friedemann Freund, a scientist with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, said the same thing happened during Sunday morning’s earthquake. And it wasn’t a transformer blowing up or UFOs.
“What they are, are a consequence of the stresses building up deep below the earth, seven miles like in the case of the Napa Valley earthquake,” Freund told KPIX 5.

He calls the phenomenon “earthquake lights,” the quick buildup of stress that causes an electric current to flow to the surface and burst through the earth. This typically happens before or during an earthquake.
Several North Bay witnesses contacted Freund at the SETI Institute about seeing several flashes around the time the Napa quake hit. They said there was one or two seconds between each one.

Freund has been studying the lights for 12 years. His team recently looked at 65 occurrences around the world over the last 400 years. Most seismologists don’t believe such things are real.
“There are things that we still don’t understand about the earth, so why not accept unusual, exceptionally unusual phenomena taking place? And the light outburst from the ground is one of them.”

Wine Train 2014 Earthquake Commissary Camera (Video shows EEL and the level of shake intensity of this area.)
Published on Aug 28, 2014
This footage was taken by our Commissary cameras in our Train Yard during the Napa earthquake on August 24, 2014.
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kHvG5MbCYs&feature=youtu.be

Earthquake lights Santa Rosa (The distance between Santa Rosa and Napa in a straight line is 23 miles or 37.01 Kilometers
Ajoutée le 27 août 2014
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBwXR_It9kw
Flashing lights all over Santa Rosa, Ca during Aug 24, 14 earthquake. Camera is about 7 minutes off, but it is right when quake hit around 3:20am. 3:13:26 and 3:13:53 are BIG flashes.

Hmm... guess the possible methane release may have not panned out, fudge.

Aftershocks (Napa is still vibrating)
Published on Aug 27, 2014
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QvMb4fu870
Around 100 aftershocks have struck the Napa area since Sunday morning’s magnitude 6.0 tremor. The quake has prompted renewed attention to unmapped, small faults. Paul Deanno reports. (8/27/14)

Wild speculation: Beta test by the consortium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyH2OxnH5Rs
Just like Haiti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwMM_vsA3aY
Mise en ligne le 21 mars 2011

A visualisation of the response to the earthquake by the OpenStreetMap community. Within 12 hours the white flashes indicate edits to the map (generally by tracing satellite/aerial photography).
Over the following days a large number of additions to the map are made with many roads (green primary, red secondary) added. Also many other features were added such as the blue glowing refugee camps that emerge.
A lot of these edits were made possible by a number of satellite and aerial imagery passes in the days after the quake, that were release to the public for tracing and analysis.
Developed with support from ideasintransit.org

 

[Arwenn]

An earthquake has just occurred in Afghanistan, tremors were felt in Kabul - this just came in on my twitter 'feed'.
"A magnitude 5.1 - 34km SSE of Jarm, Afghanistan
2014-08-31 11:48:24 UTC"

 

[Skyfarmr]

Minor earthquake rumbles SE Wis

KENOSHA, Wis.—
A minor earthquake rumbled through southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.

Seismologists with the U.S. Geological Survey say the 2.4 magnitude quake happened just before 10 p.m. Monday and was centered about 30 miles from Kenosha, just east of McHenry, Ill.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-wisconsin-earthqu,0,6927551.story

Not a major quake by far, but unusual for this area; the unusual seems to be increasing though.

March 25, 2015
2.9 Earthquake rumbles northern Il.

Same area as the one quoted above. Not much on news about it.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/03/25/2-9-earthquake-reported-west-of-lake-of-the-hills/

Again, kind of minor but unusual for this area.

 

[mabar]

Cyprus earthquake, 5.5

Magnitude mb 5.5
Region CYPRUS REGION
Date time 2015-04-15 08:25:13.1 UTC
Location 34.74 N ; 32.39 E
Depth 20 km

Cyprus rocked by strongest quake in 16 years
Cyprus was rocked by its strongest earthquake in 16 years Wednesday, AFP reported. The 5.6-magnitude quake hit at 11:25am and was followed by 10 aftershocks before midday, according to the island’s geological survey department. The epicenter was off the resort of Paphos on the southwest coast, but it was felt in the capital, Nicosia, 110km away. There were no immediate reports of casualties or serious damage.

 

[casper]

Strong earthquake in New Zealand,link:
http://rt.com/news/252585-earthquake-new-zealand-kaikoura/

 

[Thebull]

Another large earthquake. In Nepal 7.7 on the Richter scale.

 

[mabar]

Another large earthquake. In Nepal 7.7 on the Richter scale.

A very strong one, buildings collapse according to RT

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake has struck 80km east of the city of Pokhara in Nepal, the US Geological Survey said, adding that the tremors were also felt in India. Some buildings have reportedly collapsed in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu.

Add: Here some images:_https://twitter.com/khalidkhan787 April had become ... intense.

 

[casper]

Another large earthquake. In Nepal 7.7 on the Richter scale.

A very strong one, buildings collapse according to RT

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake has struck 80km east of the city of Pokhara in Nepal, the US Geological Survey said, adding that the tremors were also felt in India. Some buildings have reportedly collapsed in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu.

Add: Here some images:_https://twitter.com/khalidkhan787 April had become ... intense.

two more after 7.9
link:
https://translate.google.hr/translate?sl=hr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=hr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vecernji.hr%2Fsvijet%2Fpotres-jacine-75-stupnjeva-pogodio-nepal-1002228&edit-text=

 

[Dirgni]

A video about the earthquake in Nepal - it also was felt in India (New Delhi and other cities) - magnitude 7.9

http://<iframe width="640" height="...6Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[Thebull]

Yes I noticed it had been upgraded to 7.9. It looks like it's had devastating effects and I'm sure we won't find out the true extent of the damage and loss of life for a few days yet. It looks like the earth changes are really hotting up right now.

 

[Kisito]

http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2015/04/25/un-puissant-seisme-frappe-le-nepal_4622516_3216.html

 

[casper]

Link:
https://translate.google.hr/translate?sl=hr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=hr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.index.hr%2Fvijesti%2Fclanak%2Fpotres-izazvao-lavinu-na-mount-everestu-poginulo-najmanje-osam-ljudi--%2F816475.aspx&edit-text=

 

[Andrian]

On RT's page you will find Live updates of this tragic event so far there have been found 1,130 people dead, and it's not over yet, the searching is ongoing.