MUST SEE ! 2011 earthquakes WORLDWIDE plotted and animated (with sound intensity) !

[epo333]

This is truly profound to see — the year of 2011 earthquakes plotted out on a orthographic (globe) map — ANIMATED WITH SOUND INTENSITY for each earthquake!!

Note the lull on the Western Coast of the USA.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2a--NC4Nong

Thanks to the person/people who assembled this data and put it out to the world !!!

(turn your speakers up a bit)

[Doc]

That is remarkable. What a find! When we studied Archeology we took a few geology courses. One of the instructors said that the assumption back in the 1930's and 1940s was that we we living in a slow era for seismic and volcanic activity. However, research from the 1950s on shows that we are living in a very active period so we are getting to see events that people in other times have not seen.

[southerncross]

Thanks for posting that epo, fascinating.

I watch quakes almost daily but looking at the year in rapid flow really sets the earth in motion.
And yes, it IS interesting how quiet the west coast of the US has been.
Thankful for the stability but how stable is it truly ?

2 thumbs up for the post.

[A99]

Thanks for posting that epo, fascinating.

I watch quakes almost daily but looking at the year in rapid flow really sets the earth in motion.
And yes, it IS interesting how quiet the west coast of the US has been.
Thankful for the stability but how stable is it truly ?


Um, just keep hitting the refresh button southerncross... something is bound to come up sooner than later, if not sooner. When things are TOO quiet, it's only the calm before the storm; at least when it comes to earthquakes and California.

[newyorklily]

It's not too quiet in California http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57376900/magnitude-5.6-earthquake-hits-northern-california/


(CBS/AP) TRINIDAD, Calif. - A moderate earthquake struck Northern California's coast Monday afternoon, rattling nerves around the Oregon border but yielding no immediate reports of major injury or damage, officials said.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-5.6 quake struck at 1:07 p.m. about 18 miles east of Trinidad in an unincorporated part of Humboldt County. The epicenter is a rural area near the small community of Weitchpec, about 220 miles northwest of Sacramento. The shaking lasted 30 to 45 seconds.

Or, maybe, it's just starting to get active again.

[southerncross]

It was only 17.5 miles down too so this was felt. It isn't uncommon to see quakes along the coastline to be 3.0 or less but it has been a long time since the area felt a 6.0+ , each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude. So as it goes up, the strength is vastly more for every step.

The west coast has been quiet (meaning heavy quake and damage) too long and it does make you pause as to what the fault system has in store for it.
Considering the Japanese, New Zealand, and South American quakes in 2011, the North American continent has been lucky.

[newyorklily]

A 6.0 just hit off the coast of Oregon http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/quakes_big.php

[epo333]

Earthquake Hits The West Coast Of Northern SUMATRA

Indonesia’s geophysical agency has registered an 8.9 M( bmkg.go.id ) > 8.7 M ( earthquake.usgs.gov ) magnitude earthquake in the Aceh region, off the coast of northern Sumatra. A tsunami warning has been issued, the US Geological Survey reports.

Tremors were felt in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India. High-rise apartments and offices on Malaysia’s west coast shook for at least a minute. In Bangalore, India hundreds of office workers left their buildings, workers there said.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the powerful quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from Aceh’s provincial capital.

The closest city to the quake’s epicenter is provincial capital Banda Aceh with a population of over 220,000, some 500 kilometers away.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php

http://www.iris.edu/dms/seismon.htm

[CasperParks]

great video...

[newyorklily]

There is a cool real-time earthquake map here http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/. It shows the plates.

Oh and there was a 4.5 a couple of hours ago in Yarmouth, Canada. That's on the east coast of Canada.

[Chris]

From Mitch Batros at Earth Changes Media:


First an 8.6 magnitude quake hits Indonesia followed by an aftershock registering 8.2. A few hours later, a 5.9 quake hits near the Cascadia Subduction Zone near Oregon, and then a 7.0 quake hits Mexico.

If a second series occurs around the ring-of-fire within the next 48 hours, I would give serious warning to the eruption of a dormant catastrophe known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

I have been reporting on this region since 2004, telling of its history and of a geological time clock set to go off any day. The last subduction quake off the US west coast occurred on Jan. 26, 1700. It has been estimated to have been between 8.7 and 9.2 magnitudes.

The size of the Cascadia quake was determined from evidence buried in sediments along the coast. The date is known, because it created a tsunami that washed up in Japan where observers recorded the date.

[newyorklily]

Thanks, Chris, though that is very scary.

[Fore]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E35sH1Oy1As

Several High magnitude quakes in the North American region in the last 24 hours.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZeG3a697vQ