Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / May 2006

Yes this is an earthquake board, and lets remember a prelude to a
volcano eruption is often an earthquake swarm. With that getting us on
topic I've put together a small pimage gallery of IUS west coast
volcanoes using raw images from the US Geological Survey. A couple

Posted by E.D.G.    April 29, 2006
http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/Data.html
Several fairly strong earthquake warning type signals were detected on April
25, 2006.  And my Data.html Web page was updated earlier today.

It's midnight PST and I see that there's a small sequence
occuring in the Qualeys Camp area just NW of Mono Lake.
Max so far is a 3.9.
http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Maps/119-38.html

I was wondering what with subduction zones and all whether there was
any dry land left that was around during the 'it was all one
continent' phase of the Earth.
Related question would be how fast will these shifting plates take to

I saw the contrails while driving from Phoenix to Tucson.  I did not have
a camera with me.
That thing exists!  It is real.

Hi was this quake dip/slip or strike slip ?
I am not good at reading beach balls.

One of the recent quakes down in Chile I see was upgraded
to a 6.7. That puts it in range for Petra's quake contest,
excpet that it happened before the contest officially started.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usmdbd.php

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALAMITY
BY EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE
A Complete and Accurate Account of the Fearful Disaster which
Visited the Great City and the Pacific Coast, the Reign of Panic and

Next 2 hours are very important. Let us pray no one is hurt.

Monster quake in Tonga!
Need more info.
Will seek it out myself!
____

Here's an interesting story about dolphins coming ashore along the
African Coast.   Though not right next door it isn't very far from the
location of the 7.3 earthquake near Klerksdorp, South Africa.  The most
interesting part of the story is the last part, where a local resident

Charles Richter's birthdate.  I trust everyone will celebrate
accordingly!
Susan

I was thinking again, what with the recent centennial of the Great
Quake of '06, about the influence modern man and his creations might
have on the likelihood of earthquakes.
In other words is it more or less likely to defuse a quake if the