Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / July 2006

I'm going to Newberry Volcano on a field trip 7/20 through 7/24
with this new group I joined. Dr. Brian Hausback of California
State University in Sacramento heads up VSSAC and Dr. Steve
Kuehn at CSU Stanislaus will be the the trip leader.  It looks like

I'm expecting moderate seismic activity for alaska vicinity very soon.
Current forecast window: Sept 2006 to April 2007. Hopefully deep, and
broken in multiple quakes rather than one big one and away from
populated areas.

I've released version 1.1 of SeisMac. This version features a number of
improvements:
   * Reversed the horizontal scale (so the graph now matches a real
seismogram)

Hi John V, You've Been Tagged.  Just couldn't resist tagging you
tonight.  No one's safe now days.  Hope you found a house that is safe
from slides.  Hope you enjoy the new local and work that is ahead of
you.  Take Care...Don

I just wanted to note I haven't forgotten about the contest, though I
can't bring it forward as it has been more than 30 days since the last
post was made.
Where Is That Earthquake?   I started the thread on 4/22 and boy it's

BIRDY PREDICTS QUAKE 2/10/06
Winter weather in swfla is beyond category-every, yes every day is that
one spectacular mountain weather day in 20 years visiting the
boondocks.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/su-seq070306.php
A team of American geoscientists is urging colleagues around the world to
search for evidence of tiny earthquakes in seismically active areas, such
as the Pacific Northwest, that are periodically rocked by powerful ...

One of the websites I visit has some interesting stuff for amateurs like me.
This one seems applicable to this group.
"For nearly three decades after Chinese officials predicted the powerful
earthquake that hit Haicheng in the north of China on Feb. 4, 1975, details

I found a story on an estimate of the age of the Sierra Nevada
mountains,
http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060706_sierra_nevada.html
The story doesn't make sense.

Hey George, just found out Syd Barrett died. What a bummer.
Brian

USGS....and whoever else:
Stop it, already!
What's going on???
I predicted that the next eq >6.3 would be in the Anchorage area (when

Of interest to anyone?  I got it via the VentsProgram site
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1832800
It starts.................

I'd like to mention an application I've written for recent Macintosh
laptops (which have internal three-axis accelerometers). SeisMac turns
your laptop into a three-axis seismograph. It's not high-precision, or
perhaps even scientifically useful, but it is fun, and it is free.

For  years the question as to a possible connection between earthquakes
occurring in Chile as an example having an affect on California
earthquakes was a topic that came up many times and yet I never had the
time to look into it.  However, today I made it a top priority and I

Aerosols from Mount Pinatubo's eruption on 12th June 1991, spread
around the globe in the troposphere and allegedly blocked the sun,
cooling the tropics. It is further alleged that this reduces the north
to south temperature difference that helps to shift the Arctic