Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / February 2005

Hello, all!  I note that the 4.4 temblor on the "Clayton-Marsh
Creek-Greenville" fault which struck yesterday, 19 miles East of Alum
Rock (which is itself 5 or 6 miles east of Downtown San Jose,
California), has as of this hour, almost one full day later, produced

If these folks are to be believed the 12/04 Sumatra EQ was mag 9.3 not 9.0
as previously reported. At mag 9.3 the Sumatra EQ would be the second
largest, behind the 1960 Chili 9.5 EQ, ever recorded.
Excerpt From Below Article

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 04:40:32 GMT, "Ralph Nesbitt"
<ralph-nesbitt@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

35 years ago, I found a relation between earthquakes and lower clouds,
I was 16, than I predicted 5 earthquakes in Turkey.. no-scientific
believed me... Last year a bulgarian scientist found same relation via
satellite.. to read more look website www.meteoquake.org or

I was just taking a look at the OLD prediction still posted
over at http://www.syzygyjob.com/
 "...predicting with 85% confidence, for the Super Seismic
  Window of January 08-15, 2005:

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The ever-fascinating collection of high-resolution
images of Mt. St. Helens shows a new instrument package,
'AHAB' has been installed on the 'whaleback' inside
the volcano.

This is in response to someone here who doesn't realise that a webpage
that supplies 50% adverts instead of doing what you want it to do is
spam.
And that searching for security software on it then choosing the first

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/050210_earthquake_arkansas.html
An interesting article comparing potential damages from an EQ of the same
size in S Calif vs The New Madrid Area.
Ralph

February 7, 2005
Here is the data so far :
http://www.emsc-csem.org/cgi-bin/QDM_all.sh
Here are the Atlantic and Pacific tide gauges :

(Note to Allan: Thank you for the totally unexpected, but quite
pleasant, surprise)
I found out that some were wondering where I might be. At present, I'm
still on the green side of the grass... :-)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/andaman_swarm.html
A large number of earthquakes have recently occurred beneath the Andaman Sea
east of the Nicobar Islands, starting 26 January 2005. The earthquake activity
is in a broad sense part of the aftershock sequence ...

I took a look at the GeoForecaster website.
http://www.geoforecaster.com/
I took the time to click on every link. It didn't take too
long as there wasn't a whole lot there.

Any comments on that quake just before 1808Z today?  See, for example,
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/SEP_SHZ_CV.2005020312.html
It showed up on the SEP, YEL, HSR and CDF Webicorders but not on BLIS.
That may be due to settings of the BLIS unit, of course. The size of

February 7, 2005 10:25 Pacific Time
I 'think' that there will be a severe earthquake (7.0 plus) today, either
epicentred near Mount Saint Helens in SW Washington state, or off the SW
coast of British Columbia, Canada.