Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / June 2005

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If a giant magnitude 9 earthquake strikes someday along the coast of the
Pacific Northwest, or if, against all odds, an errant asteroid ...

30 mins ago.

TSUNAMI WARNING - U.S. WEST COAST
TSUNAMI WARNING West Coast of the US (Mag 7.4 quake 83
  miles off Northern California)
WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS ^ |

In January of 2004, geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok predicted
that a 6.4 or higher quake would hit somewhere in a region of the
Southern California desert.  Although last Sunday's 5.2 Anza
quake was much smaller, does anyone know if this might be the

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usziae.htm
OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
146 km (91 miles) WSW (252°) from Crescent City, CA
147 km (91 miles) WNW (282°) from Trinidad, CA

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/STORE/Xziae_05/ciim_display.html
Just updated the felt intensity map at the above link and
zip code 95536 Ferndale in CA is reporting Intensity IX.
Probably accurate as there's 76 reports form there so far.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/uszhcb.htm
     Location 51.309°N, 179.413°E
     Depth 51.7 km (32.1 miles)
70 km (45 miles) S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska

DAMNIT!...this is the second time I had a funny feeling about
Anza and didn't say anything. Oh well.....
Was laying in bed trying to get back to sleep after kicking the
cat out of my room. I heard little creaking noises and being half

Looks like a likely candidate.
http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/seismos/24hr-PGC.LHZ.shtml

Magnitude  7.8 earthquake has occurred 256 miles S of La Paz, Bolivia.
Location:  20.1S  69.1W   Depth: 103.0 km
Date/Time: 2005/06/13 22:44:31 UTC
Date/Time: 2005/06/13 18:44:31 ET

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Dear friends,
This is just to advise you that I wish to make a contribution from the True
Geology to you all, so as to raise the level of your understanding regarding
the Earth,  and of course to help you to free yourself from the formidable

i am going to work on processing of seismic signals using wavelets and
other techniques i stil have to get to know about.
can anybody please tell me of somewhere i could start from?
i need to know about very basic things like: informative sites,

Yes, because in 2006 the age of super earthquakes will start and then,
the weak earthquakes will be 8.0 , the big ones 12.0 and the very big
ones 20.0 !!!

There has been a flurry of small, deep earthquakes in
the south Puget Sound area in the general vicinity of
the M6.8 Nisqually 2001's epicenter.
http://www.ess.washington.edu/recenteqs/latest.htm