The Earthquake/Seismic Activity Log

January 4, 2013 – SICILY, Italy – Earthquakes in Italy today: Sicily, Marche, Lazio, Umbria, Calabria and Basilicata regions affected. Today, the INGV has recorded four earthquakes in Italy that have affected districts seismic Gulf of Patti and Milazzo (magnitude 2.4), the Lipari Islands (magnitude 2.4 and 2.3) and Monti Reatini (magnitude 2). Affected the provinces of Messina, Rieti, Italy, Ascoli Piceno and Perugia. Yesterday, including those not yet reported, were recorded in the districts seismic shock of the Sea of ​​Sicily (magnitude 2.9), the Lipari Islands (magnitude 2.7), the island of Ustica (magnitude 2.4) and Pollino (magnitude 2.1). Affected the provinces of Messina, Palermo, Cosenza and Power. A shallow 4.6 (USGS) magnitude earthquake also struck Sicily at a depth of 9.2 km (5.7 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was 5 km (3 miles) from Maniace, 52 km (32 miles) NNW (332°) from Catania, Sicily, Italy and 72 km (45 miles) from Messina. The earthquake was felt by the population in the provinces of Messina and Catania, the town next to the epicenter are the municipalities of San Teodoro, Cesarò and Maniace. The earthquake was recorded at 8:50 am. –Corriere Web (translated) USGS

First Report: The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 7.6 quake struck at midnight Friday Alaska time and was centered about 60 miles (95 kilometers) west of Craig, Alaska.

Strong 7.5 Earthquake Shakes Parts of Alaska, Canada

JUNEAU, Alaska January 5, 2013 (AP) -A powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled when no damaging waves were generated.

The magnitude 7.5 quake and tsunami warning that followed caused concern in some coastal communities, with alarms sounding and people rushing to higher ground for safety.

But the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center later said the waves were too small to pose a threat, reaching just six inches above normal sea level in places such as Sitka and Port Alexander.

"Initially, in the first 15 to 20 minutes, there might have been a bit of panic," Sitka Police Chief Sheldon Schmitt told The Associated Press in a phone interview. But he said things calmed down as the town waited for the all clear.

The temblor struck at midnight Friday (1 a.m. PST Saturday) and was centered about 60 miles west of Craig, Alaska, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Seismologist Jana Pursley of the USGS said the quake was followed by six aftershocks, the strongest of which registered a 5.1 and came nearly four hours after the initial quake.

"Houses shook; mine had things tossed from (the) wall," Craig Police Chief Robert Ely said. But he added that there were "no reports of any injuries, no wave, no tidal movement seen."

The tsunami warning was eventually expanded to include coastal areas from Cape Fairweather, Alaska, to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada — an area extending more than 700 miles.

The center had warned that "significant widespread inundation of land is expected," adding that dangerous coastal flooding was possible.

In its cancellation statement, the center said that some areas were seeing just small sea level changes.

"A tsunami was generated during this event but no longer poses a threat," the center said.

The Alaska Earthquake Information Center said the quake was widely felt but it received no reports of any damage.

"It was the most intense earthquake I've felt in my 10 years here. I'm pretty sure there was stuff falling off of shelves," Chief Schmitt said. "There is no report of any wave activity here."

He said that an evacuation sirens and announcements came shortly after the quake, prompting the temporary rush to higher ground.

Some people in Craig also moved to safer territory.

"Several citizens elected on their own to move to higher ground. Several locations in Craig were set up for staging (and) shelter," said Chief Ely, adding that "no evacuation was ordered."

In addition to the warning, a tsunami advisory was briefly in effect for some Alaska coastal areas to the north of the warning zone, as well as to the south of the zone, from the Washington state border to the northern tip of Vancouver Island.

A tsunami warning means an area is likely to be hit by a wave, while an advisory means there may be strong currents, but that widespread inundation is not expected to occur.

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com

Saturday January 5 2013, 08:58:24 UTC 6 hours ago Southeastern Alaska. 7.8 28.0 GeoScience Australia Detail
Saturday January 5 2013, 08:58:19 UTC 6 hours ago Southeastern Alaska 7.5 10.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Saturday January 5 2013, 08:58:19 UTC 6 hours ago Southeastern Alaska. 7.8 10.0 GeoScience Australia Detail
Saturday January 5 2013, 08:58:19 UTC 6 hours ago Southeastern Alaska 7.5 9.8 USGS Feed Detail
Saturday January 5 2013, 08:58:16 UTC 6 hours ago Southeastern Alaska 7.7 5.0 USGS Feed Detail

Heres a great site if you want to check through data of past EQs.

http://www.ga.gov.au/earthquakes/searchQuake.do

If anyone needs.


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January 6, 2013 – CALIFORNIA – Twenty-three hundred years ago, hordes of mice, snakes, and insects fled the Greek city of Helike on the Gulf of Corinth (map). “After these creatures departed, an earthquake occurred in the night,” wrote the ancient Roman writer Claudius Aelianus. “The city subsided; an immense wave flooded and Helike disappeared.” Since then, generations of scientists and folklorists have used a dizzying array of methods to attempt to predict earthquakes. Animal behavior, changes in the weather and seismograms have all fallen short. One theory is that when an earthquake looms, the rock “goes through a strange change,” producing intense electrical currents, says Tom Bleier, a satellite engineer with QuakeFinder, a project funded by his parent company, Stellar Solutions, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. “These currents are huge,” Bleier said at the AGU meeting. “They’re on the order of 100,000 amperes for a magnitude 6 earthquake and a million amperes for a magnitude 7. It’s almost like lightning, underground.” To measure those currents, Bleier’s team has spent millions of dollars putting out magnetometers along fault lines in California, Peru, Taiwan, and Greece. The instruments are sensitive enough to detect magnetic pulses from electrical discharges up to 10 miles (16 kilometers) away. “In a typical day along the San Andreas fault (in California), you might see ten pulses per day,” he told National Geographic News. “The fault is always moving, grinding, snapping, and crackling.” Before a large earthquake, that background level of static-electricity discharges should rise sharply, Bleier said. And that is indeed what he claims he’s seen prior to the half dozen magnitude 5 and 6 earthquakes whose precursors he’s been able to monitor. “It goes up to maybe 150 or 200 pulses a day,” he said. The number of pulses, he added, seems to surge about two weeks before the earthquake then drop back to background level until shortly before the fault slips. “That’s the pattern we’re looking for,” he said. –NG

January 8, 2013 – GREECE - An earthquake centered beneath the Aegean Sea shook cities and islands in Turkey and Greece on Tuesday, causing panic in some areas but no injuries or damage, officials said. The Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory said the quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 (5.7 USGS), occurred at 4:16 p.m. (1416 GMT) off the coast from Turkey’s northwestern Canakkale province. The earthquake was felt in the Turkish cities of Istanbul and Izmir, and their environs, officials said. “It was one of the strongest earthquakes we have experienced,” Mustafa Mutay, the mayor of the Turkish island of Bozcaada off Canakkale, told the state-run Anadolu Agency. “There was some panic during the quake, but things have returned to normal and there is no damage.” The Athens Geodynamic Institute in Greece put the magnitude at 5.8 and said the temblor occurred between the Greek islands of Lemnos and Lesvos, near the Turkish coast. The quake was mildly felt in Athens. The U.S. Geological Survey gave a preliminary magnitude of 5.7. Earthquakes are common in Turkey and Greece, both of which lie atop active fault lines. -ABC

January 9, 2013 – INDIAN OCEAN – Because the Carlsberg Ridge is one of the slowest-spreading, and so supposedly less active oceanic ridges, many had thought it unlikely to be the location of a major volcanic eruption.. At ridges such as this, heat is thought to be released more slowly from the underlying magma. However, we may have to rethink that previous assessment. The Carlsberg Ridge region is currently being shaken by a major seismic swarm, which could very well be volcanic in nature. The strongest tremor in the current swarm is a magnitude 5.0. Nature journal said in previous eruption, “A huge plume of hydrothermal chemicals, drifted up to 1.4 kilometers above the vent site and 70 kilometers along the underwater ridge was seen some years ago. It’s by far the biggest vent plume ever seen, and confirms that such plumes form following volcanic eruptions at the sea floor, even at slow-spreading oceanic ridges.” 1

The Carlsberg Ridge is the northern section of the Central Indian Ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary between the African Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate, traversing the western regions of the Indian Ocean. The ridge of which the Carlsberg Ridge is a part extends northward from a triple point junction near the island of Rodrigues (the Rodrigues Triple Point) to a junction with the Owen Fracture Zone. The ridge started its northwards propagation in the late Maastrichtian and reached the incipient Arabian Sea in the Eocene. Then it continued to accrete basalt but did not propagate for nearly 30 Ma. Then, in the early Miocene it started to propagate westwards towards the Afar hot spot, opening the Gulf of Aden. The Carlsberg Ridge is seismically active, with a major earthquake being recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey at 7.6 on the moment magnitude scale on July 15, 2003. –Wikipedia

January 13, 2013 – LOS ANGELES, Ca. – A Mexico earthquake today 2013 has erupted in Sinaloa. The Mexico earthquake today Sunday, January 13, 2013 began within the hour. And while one of the strongest quakes to strike the country this month, the quake was not centered on land. Its epicenter, in contrast, was centered in the Gulf of California. Officials tell news that a 5.5 magnitude Mexico earthquake began moments ago. Erupting at 9:28 am local time, the quake was shallow. USGS indicates to news that the quake began only six miles below sea level. As a result, the quake could be felt across the Sinaloa region. USGS indicates to news that the Mexico earthquake was fifty-six miles from Ahome. The quake was sixty miles from the Sonora town of Huatabampo. Officials also tell news that the quake was seventy miles west of Los Mochis and roughly six hundred miles from Tijuana. Today’s quake was close to the July and September quakes to strike the country. On July 18 last year, a series of quakes struck roughly fourteen miles from Baja California’s Guadalupe Victoria. The quakes were thirty-five miles from the Sonora town of San Luis Río Colorado and roughly one hundred miles from Tijuana. USGS also told news at the time that the quakes were roughly thirty miles from the Arizona community of San Luis. –LA Late

January 13, 2013 – TASMANIA - Residents on Tasmania’s northern coast have woken to tremors after a 3.4-magnitude earthquake struck 10km from the shore. The earthquake, about 10 to 12 kilometers from Wynyard, hit at 7.21am (AEDT), sending short and sharp tremors to nearby Burnie and as far away as Launceston, said Geoscience Australia seismologist Jonathan Bathgate. Mr. Bathgate said the agency received around 100 calls from residents who felt the tremors. “It’s been fairly widely-felt across that section of Tasmania,” he said. “They generally hear a loud noise and feel a sharp, sudden jolt. “The phones have been just ringing constantly. “I think it woke a few people up.” Mr. Bathgate said it was not uncommon to get earthquakes in the area which experienced a 3.6-magnitude earthquake in 2006 and a 3.8 in 2007. He said an earthquake of this size, and so far from shore, was unlikely to have done any damage and no reports of damage had been received. Burnie resident Lyn Paine said the tremor shook her house for 10 seconds. “I just thought `what the heck is that?” Ms Paine said. “It felt like if a big truck goes past your house. “It wasn’t enough to lose pictures off the wall or anything. “That’s a pretty unusual thing for here – I’ve never experienced it.” A Tasmania police spokesman said they had received calls reporting the tremor but no reports of damage. –The Australian

Seismologist warns tremors signal larger quakes: Smaller earthquakes in Cowra and surrounds could be a warning for stronger, potentially damaging earthquakes, says a prominent seismologist. Director at the Australian Seismological Centre in Canberra Kevin McCue said a 3.2 magnitude earthquake on Monday night at Frogmore could be a sign of things to come. “This morning a small, shallow, magnitude 3.2 earthquake was recorded on the network at 12 minutes past 3am,” he said. “It was big enough to be quite strongly felt if you were within 10km of the epicenter.” Mr. McCue said that a series of smaller earthquakes could potentially lead to a larger, more serious earthquake with a magnitude 5 or higher. He said earthquakes are often overlooked because damaging events are rare compared to other natural disasters. “We cannot predict earthquakes, but there is a 10 per cent chance of [a one in] 500 year earthquake occurring in any 50 years, the next 50; or similarly that the 100 years earthquake has a 10 per cent chance of occurring in the next 10 years.” Cowra was shaken last year with a magnitude 3.8 with an epicenter 10km north of Boorowa. “I just want to make sure people know these are still happening.” Earthquakes occur when rocks break and move as a result of stresses caused by tectonic plates. However, earthquakes are rare in Australia as it is located in the middle of the Indo-Australian tectonic plate, with no major fault lines running through the country. But Mr McCue said that even though the nearest fault line to the region runs through New Zealand and other island nations in the Pacific Ocean, there are minor fault lines running through Australia. “There are [minor] faults everywhere in Australia,” he said. “Because our continent is so old, there has been plenty of time for these faults to occur.” He said these minor fault lines are caused when the Indo Australian plate rubs alongside the Pacific plate. –CG

January 25, 2013 – TEXAS – The U.S. Geology Survey confirms a 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit East Texas around 1:01 a.m. The earthquake struck at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles). Friday morning with an epicenter 2 miles from Timpson, Texas. KSLA News 12 phone lines started ringing after numerous people felt the ‘quake from Shelby County all the way to Bossier City. It woke me up out of a dead sleep,” said Amanda Jones who lives on Highway 7 E between Center and Joaquin. Jones tells us it felt stronger than the last earthquake that hit East Texas last summer. Jones says she is unsure about damage but will wait until the sun comes up to check. Jamie Ward in Center, TX tells us her house shook for at least 20 seconds. A man from Carthage, TX who was working the night shift at a gas plant says “it felt like it was coming from the bottom of my feet up.” He described what he felt “like the wind was shaking the travel trailer.” He tells us he looked for damage but didn’t see any. A woman who lives on W. 70th in Shreveport tells us she was laying in bed when “stuff started shaking.” Bossier City resident Sarah Rains, who lives off of Sligo Rd., says she and her roommate felt their trailer shake and thought it might have just been heavy winds. Katy Cash of Keatchie says she felt her house shake but thought she was just imagining it when her chandelier over the dining table started swaying. Katy tells us her mom in Florien, Louisiana also felt it. –KSLA



January 25, 2013 – TOPAZ LAKE, NV - Sixteen small quakes hit an area near Topaz Lake early Thursday, but there have been no reports of damage or injury. The quakes hit an area southwest of the lake between midnight and 5AM. They ranged from 1.1 to 3.7 in magnitude, and were between three and nine kilometers deep. Another handful of small quakes hit several hours later, in the afternoon and evening. The remote area is about 45 miles southeast of Gardnerville. Another small swarm hit an area about 20 miles west northwest of Donner Lake between 5:45AM and 6:15AM Thursday. They ranged between 0.5 and 2.1 in magnitude, with no reports of damage or injury. –KOLOTV

Oregon quake cluster: A small cluster of modest earthquakes has been recorded off the central Oregon coast with the largest a magnitude 3.4. A handful of people reported feeling the 3.4 quake that hit shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday. The quakes had an average depth of about 35 km (22 miles). Geophysicist Randy Baldwin of the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., says small quakes in that area would not be expected to cause any damage on land. The quakes were centered about 30 miles west of Waldport. Others included a magnitude 3.0 and a 2.6. Baldwin says such quakes are fairly common. –Oregon Live

January 28, 2013 – KAZAKHSTAN – A shallow 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck a remote region of Eastern Kazakhstan today. According to news reports, the 6.0 earthquake caused apartment buildings to sway in the country’s largest city, Almaty. Residents in Almaty could feel buildings and windows shaking. Some ran out to escape to the open area. The earthquake was followed by three moderate aftershocks: of a 4.4, a 4.5, and a 4.6 magnitude. The shallow tremors were also felt in the capital of neighboring Kyrgyzstan. The 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 10.9 km (6.8 miles). According to the USGS, the epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) SE of Kegen, Kazakhstan. –The Extinction Protocol


January 27, 2013 – SOUTH POLE - Today, three earthquakes struck along the southernmost region of the planet, known as the Southern East Pacific Rise. The SEPR lies north of Antarctica. The SEPR quakes occurred in succession, following two moderate 4.7 magnitude earthquakes, which struck east of Bristol Island, near the Sandwich Islands- also north of Antarctica. The East Pacific Rise is a mid-oceanic ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It separates the Pacific Plate to the west from (north to south) the North American Plate, the Rivera Plate, the Cocos Plate, the Nazca Plate, and the Antarctic Plate. It runs from an undefined point near Antarctica in the south northward to its termination at the northern end of the Gulf of California in the Salton Sea basin in southern California. The oceanic crust is moving away from the East Pacific Rise to either side at a rate of 70mm/year. The series of earthquakes today ranged in magnitude instensity of from 5.2 to 4.7. We’re seeing more signs of growing tension along tectonic plates in the Ring of Fire. Stay tuned… –The Extinction Protocol

Guam earthquake goes unreported: An earthquake that shook the island just before 8am Monday morning has not been reported by the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake gently shook buildings throughout the island, but caused no reported damage or injuries. The magnitude of the earthquake is unclear because the USGS website, which normally records and reports earthquakes throughout the world, did not report this temblor. It’s not clear why the earthquake was unreported, but it’s not the first time. Last year, a similarly mild earthquake went unreported by the USGS. Email inquires to the Western Regional Office of the USGS have not been answered. -PNC

California to get early-warning quake system: Californians would have precious seconds to prepare for a major earthquake under a new proposal to create a statewide early warning system. State Sen. Alex Padilla joined with seismologists Monday in announcing legislation to create the system. The U.S. has been testing warning systems for several years but lags behind countries such as Japan and Mexico in implementing the technology to warn the public. Such systems are designed to detect the first pulses of energy from an earthquake, estimate its magnitude and send alerts before damaging seismic waves spread widely. Warning times would range from a few seconds to tens of seconds—enough time for people to take cover or begin shutting down systems that could be damaged by severe shaking. –Mercury

Magnitude-6.8 Earthquake Shakes Northern Chile
ABC News - ‎52 minutes ago‎
A magnitude-6.8 earthquake shook buildings and broke some windows in north-central Chile on Wednesday, but officials discounted the possibility of a tsunami and reported no major damages.

February 1, 2013 – EARTH – The Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ has been angry over the past day, producing four strong earthquakes since yesterday afternoon- not counting the 5.9 quake which just struck Papua New Guinea. North-central Chile was the first to feel the Ring’s wrath, as a magnitude 6.8 quake went off at about 3:15 p.m. EST, centred roughly 40 km north of Vallenar, the capital city of Chile’s Huasco Province. Reports say that it shook buildings as far away as Santiago, nearly 600 kms to the south, and closer to the epicenter; some buildings in lower-income areas of Vallenar suffered collapsed walls. According to a Reuters report, one unfortunate woman died shortly after the quake, of an apparent heart attack. The Solomon Islands, in the south Pacific, were next, as two strong earthquakes, registering as magnitude 6.0 and 6.2 on the Richter Scale, struck just east of the island of Nuendö at 6:03 p.m. EST. No reports of any damage or injuries from either of these earthquakes as of yet, however the area is sparsely populated, with Lata, a community of just over 550 residents at the northwestern end of Nuendö, being the closest settlement to the quake epicenter of magnitude 6.0 earthquake off the southern coast of Alaska. Finally, this morning, at 4:53 a.m. EST, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook an already battered region along the southern tip of Alaska. The Alaskan Earthquake Center is apparently reporting that today’s tremor is an aftershock of the magnitude 7.5 quake that shook this same area on January 5th, and it is just north of where a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) in October of last year. No damage or injuries have been reported from this latest quake. Although earthquakes around the ‘Ring of Fire’ have been known to touch off tsunamis, no alerts were sounded as a result of any of these four events. These earthquakes occurring in relatively quick succession, separated by distances of thousands of kilometers, punctuates just how active the ‘Ring of Fire’ is and just how unpredictable it can be. Although efforts are being made to put early warning systems into place, true earthquake prediction remains a lofty goal. –Yahoo News


6.0 magnitude earthquake shakes southeastern Alaska
January 31, 2013 – ANCHORAGE, Alaska —A strong shallow earthquake has shaken southeastern Alaska, but officials say there is no danger of a tsunami and there are no immediate reports of any damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.0 magnitude quake struck about 1 a.m. Thursday and was centered in the ocean, about 188 miles south of the capital, Juneau. The Tsunami Warning Center says there is no danger of a tsunami. The earthquake was widely felt across the region, according to the Alaska Earthquake Information Center. However, it had no immediate reports of any damage. The center believes the quake is an aftershock to a magnitude 7.5 temblor that struck the region on January 4. That earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles along the Alaska and Canadian coasts, but it was cancelled after a few hours when no damaging waves were generated. The 6.0 quake in Alaska is the fourth strong earthquake to rumble across the planet in 24 hours, following events in the Santa Cruz Islands and Chile. Seismic tension across the planet remains relatively elevated. –The Extinction Protocol


6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes region of Santa Cruz Islands
January 31, 2013 – SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS – A deep 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck near the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific, about four hours after the region was rattled by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake. The 6.2 magnitude earthquake had a depth of 55.4 km (34.4 miles) with an epicenter of 60 km (37 miles) E of Lata, Solomon Islands. This is the third major earthquake to strike the planet in a 24 hour period. The planet is experiencing a heightened level of seismic activity following a record number of volcanoes across the globe exhibiting activity in the month of January. Today’s earthquake was followed in rapid succession by two 5.6 aftershocks, and a 5.0 magnitude earthquake in southern Sumatra, Indonesia, and a 4.5 aftershock in Atacama, Chile from the 6.8 magnitude earthquake. Seismic tension is also mounting on the Indo-Australian and Sunda plate near the region of Indonesia. –The Extinction Protocol

6.9 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 6.9

Date-Time Saturday, February 02, 2013 at 14:17:34 UTC
Saturday, February 02, 2013 at 11:17:34 PM at epicenter

Location 42.812°N, 143.078°E

Depth 103.1 km (64.1 miles)

Region HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
Distances 109 km (68 miles) W (261°) from Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan
120 km (75 miles) SSE (152°) from Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
144 km (89 miles) ESE (102°) from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
844 km (525 miles) NNE (19°) from TOKYO, Japan

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 14.6 km (9.1 miles); depth +/- 8.9 km (5.5 miles)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc000f03a.php

Austria shaken by strongest earthquake in 13 years
February 2, 2013 – AUSTRIA – A 4.5-magnitude quake shook southern Austria on Saturday, the country’s ZAMG meteorological and geodynamic institute said, but it was not immediately clear whether it had caused any damage. The quake struck at 14:35 pm (1335 GMT) and “was strongly felt” in the Karavanke mountain range bordering Slovenia, near Eisenkappel in Austria’s southern state of Carinthia, the centre said.

Earth reeling from nine major earthquakes, striking in 5 days
February 2, 2013 – EARTH – An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the coast of the Solomon Islands (Santa Cruz) in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Friday. The quake was later downgraded by the USGS to a 6.3 magnitude event. The depth of the quake was 10 km (6.2 miles) and the epicenter was 68 km southwest of Lata. The quake hit at 9:16 a.m. local time on Saturday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not immediately issue any alerts on its website. This quake was underscored by an even stronger 6.9 magnitude earthquake that just struck the Hokkaido region of East Japan on February 2nd. This is the ninth major earthquake to strike the planet in the last five days. The present cluster of earthquakes began with a 6.0 event in Eastern Kazakhstan on January 28th, following a full moon on January 27, 2013. Perhaps, it may not be readily apparent to most that our planet appears to now be inching towards the spectrum of some major cataclysmic event. This approaching black swan occurrence is characterized by the gradual escalation of geological activity of a violent seismic and volcanic nature. 44 volcanic eruptive events have already been recorded for the month of January; where there was only 77 chronicled for the entire year of 2012.

The on-going volcanic activity in Kamchatka also provides compelling testament that massive changes are now taking place within the planet’s interior. No less than 4 volcanoes on the Far Eastern peninsula of Kamchatka are erupting simultaneous, though all the volcanoes lie in relative close proximity to each other (with a 110 km radius). Even more interesting, the magma flow fueling each volcanic system appears to emanting from a separate magma source. However, what’s even more disconcerting is the fact that Plosky Tolbachik volcano awakened from 40 years of dormancy and is now ejecting massive rivers of lava across the landscape of Kamchatka. Russian scientists attest this is the first time rivers of lava have ever flowed from one of the Kamchatka volcanoes during the Holocene period. Large-scale protracted effusive eruptions, such as these, are generally fueled by a deep magma source.

A tsunami alert has been issued for several South Pacific islands after a strong earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands.

It wasn't yet known if a tsunami was generated. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says it issued a warning based on an evaluation of the earthquake.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the 8.0-magnitude quake struck Wednesday 81 kilometers (50 miles) west of Lata, in the Solomon Islands, at a depth of 5.8 kilometers (3.6 miles.)

Josephine Mae, a police official in the Solomon's capital city of Honiara, said she had not felt any shaking.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says the tsunami warning is in effect for the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, Kosrae, Fiji, Kiribati, Wallis and Futuna. A tsunami watch is in effect for American Samoa, Australia, New Zealand and eastern Indonesia.

February 5, 2013 – SOLOMON ISLANDS - An earthquake measuring 8.0 magnitude struck southeast of the Solomon Islands on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. ABC News.net reports three villages were wiped out on the Santa Cruz Islands. The earthquake struck at the fairly shallow depth of 28.7 km (17.8 miles), and a tsunami warning was issued for the region. This is the second largest earthquake to ever strike the Solomon Island region and the strongest to hit the region in almost 40 years. The largest earthquake to ever strike the region was an 8.1 magnitude earthquake that struck 104 km from Honiara Makira, Solomon Islands on April 21, 1977. However, today’s 8.0 magnitude earthquake was some 581 km (361 miles) ESE of Honiara, Solomon Islands and represents a new geologically-agitated tension spot. The quake was followed by two powerful aftershocks, a 6.4 and 6.6. This is now the ninth major earthquake to strike this region since January 31, 203. –The Extinction Protocol – ABC

7.0 COLOMBIA
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=304122


DATE LAT LON MAG DEPTH
km REGION
09-FEB-2013 14:16:06 1.14 -77.36 7.0 129 COLOMBIA
09-FEB-2013 12:28:57 -11.09 165.73 5.1 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 10:23:52 -11.87 165.63 5.1 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 08:40:04 -11.10 116.33 4.9 32 SOUTH OF SUMBAWA, INDONESIA
09-FEB-2013 08:04:05 -11.24 165.65 5.3 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 07:34:36 -10.86 165.13 4.7 46 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 06:44:23 -11.87 165.06 5.0 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 06:42:03 -10.91 165.13 4.6 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 05:45:01 -11.11 161.65 4.8 36 SOLOMON ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 05:32:08 -10.92 166.00 5.6 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 04:43:08 36.96 141.10 5.0 30 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
09-FEB-2013 03:01:11 -10.91 165.91 4.5 15 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 02:50:38 2.34 99.17 4.7 163 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA
09-FEB-2013 02:47:29 -11.38 165.83 4.8 15 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
09-FEB-2013 02:16:56 -7.03 117.15 4.6 603 BALI SEA
08-FEB-2013 23:16:30 -11.05 166.72 5.3 35 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 23:15:38 -10.91 165.79 5.0 35 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 22:45:12 -10.91 165.91 5.0 35 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 22:30:17 -10.93 165.69 4.7 35 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 22:29:44 -11.35 165.22 4.0 35 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 22:25:30 -10.99 165.81 4.9 35 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 21:06:11 15.01 -92.66 4.7 103 MEXICO-GUATEMALA BORDER REGION
08-FEB-2013 20:05:51 -10.96 165.90 5.2 29 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 19:32:04 36.11 69.89 4.4 90 HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
08-FEB-2013 19:31:47 4.44 126.19 4.7 146 TALAUD ISLANDS, INDONESIA
08-FEB-2013 19:09:11 -10.86 166.06 5.1 25 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 18:10:47 -10.76 166.03 5.3 26 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 18:07:53 -10.99 166.41 5.7 58 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 17:59:52 -6.28 154.80 5.9 75 SOLOMON ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 17:48:51 -6.10 148.92 5.0 72 NEW BRITAIN REGION, P.N.G.
08-FEB-2013 17:42:34 -10.95 165.47 5.1 20 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 15:56:09 -11.37 165.45 4.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 15:46:12 -10.72 166.13 4.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 15:42:59 -10.95 166.06 4.6 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 15:26:39 -10.91 165.96 7.0 27 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 15:00:12 -10.98 165.87 5.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 14:14:09 -10.96 165.88 5.2 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 14:10:38 -11.11 165.87 5.3 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 13:39:27 -10.91 165.88 4.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 13:28:09 -10.85 166.78 4.9 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 12:34:00 1.19 126.59 4.7 10 NORTHERN MOLUCCA SEA
08-FEB-2013 12:09:19 -10.97 165.88 5.1 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 12:03:39 -10.90 165.96 5.0 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 11:56:11 -10.92 165.93 5.0 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 11:39:41 -10.95 165.90 5.1 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 11:25:41 -11.43 165.44 4.9 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 11:12:13 -10.90 165.90 6.8 18 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 09:28:08 -11.17 164.70 4.6 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
08-FEB-2013 09:18:43 -11.88 165.80 4.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 09:09:01 -10.91 164.74 5.5 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
08-FEB-2013 08:24:02 -10.90 165.78 4.7 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 08:14:59 -11.02 165.40 4.9 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 08:03:35 -11.03 165.67 5.3 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 07:35:04 -10.93 164.83 4.9 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
08-FEB-2013 07:04:11 -10.95 164.62 4.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
08-FEB-2013 06:18:40 -25.51 -116.42 4.5 10 SOUTHERN EAST PACIFIC RISE
08-FEB-2013 05:29:34 -11.28 165.73 4.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 05:15:50 38.06 142.94 4.5 16 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
08-FEB-2013 05:03:48 -11.02 165.72 4.7 28 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 04:48:19 -10.98 164.82 4.8 15 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
08-FEB-2013 04:38:10 36.51 71.42 4.5 96 AFGHANISTAN-TAJIKISTAN BORD REG.
08-FEB-2013 04:26:16 -11.04 165.82 5.5 16 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 04:23:38 -10.50 165.63 4.6 15 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 03:54:41 30.50 69.54 4.5 10 PAKISTAN
08-FEB-2013 02:00:13 -10.72 165.32 4.7 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 00:54:16 39.15 142.93 4.7 39 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
08-FEB-2013 00:25:58 -10.99 165.78 4.7 15 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
08-FEB-2013 00:12:57 -11.69 165.47 5.1 15 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 22:47:57 29.25 141.98 4.6 19 SOUTH OF HONSHU, JAPAN
07-FEB-2013 21:56:24 -10.89 165.67 4.6 11 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 21:40:54 -10.89 165.74 5.1 20 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 21:38:26 -4.42 143.01 5.0 112 NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
07-FEB-2013 20:51:52 -10.89 165.07 4.9 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 20:45:18 -10.91 165.77 5.0 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 20:41:37 -0.39 124.36 4.7 48 SOUTHERN MOLUCCA SEA
07-FEB-2013 20:20:06 -10.86 165.71 5.2 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 19:48:19 -10.87 165.72 5.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 19:43:12 -11.02 165.63 4.9 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 19:25:15 -10.98 165.68 5.0 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 18:59:16 -11.00 165.66 6.7 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 17:59:00 -10.94 165.52 4.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 17:49:46 -11.24 165.92 5.1 14 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 15:37:28 -21.09 -67.42 4.3 173 CHILE-BOLIVIA BORDER REGION
07-FEB-2013 15:22:39 -5.63 103.25 4.7 62 SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA
07-FEB-2013 15:05:10 -11.04 165.66 5.0 30 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 14:05:56 -11.03 164.82 5.0 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 13:46:36 -10.83 165.68 4.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 13:23:18 -10.77 165.43 4.8 16 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 12:36:49 -10.82 165.17 5.1 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 11:30:16 -8.69 168.27 4.9 15 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 10:23:29 -10.67 164.88 4.8 21 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 09:50:08 -11.05 164.82 4.7 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 09:36:54 -6.61 -74.29 4.5 163 PERU-BRAZIL BORDER REGION
07-FEB-2013 08:20:42 -10.69 164.60 4.7 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 08:03:41 -11.03 164.75 5.8 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 08:03:30 0.24 98.50 4.9 35 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA
07-FEB-2013 07:38:18 -33.65 77.58 4.8 10 MID-INDIAN RIDGE
07-FEB-2013 07:19:51 -15.59 -173.14 5.9 10 TONGA ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 07:11:19 -10.97 165.49 5.3 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 05:27:40 -21.20 -176.56 4.5 230 FIJI ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 03:52:56 -11.67 165.05 5.0 35 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 02:59:59 -11.43 165.20 4.9 35 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 02:56:29 -10.73 165.44 4.9 27 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 02:46:08 -10.77 165.26 4.8 25 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
07-FEB-2013 02:42:29 -11.75 164.95 4.9 27 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 02:17:24 -10.64 164.82 5.2 52 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 01:00:48 -11.82 164.82 5.2 34 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 00:56:47 -11.67 164.78 5.1 35 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 00:41:31 1.43 98.94 5.1 83 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA
07-FEB-2013 00:30:11 -11.66 164.96 6.0 10 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION
07-FEB-2013 00:16:27 -10.83 164.88 4.8 25 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS REGION

Moderate Earthquake Strikes in Rural Nevada - Magnitude 5.1 Earthquake rattles Nevada, Northern California
A moderate earthquake and a trio of smaller aftershocks have struck in rural Nevada near the California state line. The U.S.

Earthquake Swarm at Machín in Colombia

Moderate earthquake – Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan on February 13, 2013

Tremor in North Korea may have been nuclear test

February 13, 2013 – NEVADA - A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck western Nevada on Tuesday, close to the California border, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and there was no immediate word of any injuries or significant damage. The Geological Survey said the earthquake had a shallow depth of 4.4 miles and was centered 16 miles south of Tonopah Junction, Nevada, between Reno and Las Vegas. An Esmeralda County Sheriff’s office dispatcher said she was not aware of any injuries or damage from the quake. “We had minimal shakes but nothing damaging,” said the dispatcher, who did not wish to be identified. The 5.1 magnitude earthquake generated more than 13 initial aftershocks. –Reuters

February 12, 2013 – NORTH KOREA – President Obama called North Korea’s latest nuclear test “a highly provocative act” that undermines regional stability and threatens international peace. North Korea announced earlier today that it successfully tested a miniaturized nuclear device underground, according to state media. Official state media said the test was conducted in a safe manner and is aimed at coping with “outrageous’ U.S. hostility that “violently” undermines the North’s peaceful, sovereign rights to launch satellites. Unlike previous tests, North Korea used a powerful explosive nuclear bomb that is smaller and lighter, state media reported. North Korea kept up its belligerent talk today, vowing more provocative actions. If the U.S. “makes this situation complex in hostility, we will come up with second and third reactions,” North Korea said in a statement. The regime blamed the nuclear test on the United States. “Originally we didn’t have to test the nuclear bomb and we didn’t plan to,’ the statement said. “The major purpose of this test is to show our anger to the hostile actions of the U.S. and show off our will and capability to protect our sovereign right to the end.” The statement lashed out at the U.S.-led sanctions as well as the search of North Korean ships that are suspected of exporting illegal arms. “We will consider the search of our ships and other sanctions by the international community as an act of war. And it will bring on our relentless retaliatory attack,” North Korea said. “The danger posed by North Korea’s threatening activities warrants further swift and credible action by the international community. The United States will also continue to take steps necessary to defend ourselves and our allies. “The United States remains vigilant in the face of North Korean provocations and steadfast in our defense commitments to allies in the region,” he added. The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on North Korea’s nuclear test later this morning. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement expressing “firm opposition” to the test. “We strongly urge the DPRK (North Korea) to abide by its denuclearization commitments, and to refrain from further actions that could lead to a deterioration of the situation”” the statement read. “Safeguarding Korean Peninsula and East Asian peace and stability serves the shared interests of all parties.” China, North Korea’s main ally in the region, has warned North Korea it would cut back severely needed food assistance if it carried out a test. Each year China donates approximately half of the food North Korea lacks to feed its people and half of all oil the country consumes. Suspicions were aroused when the U.S. Geological Survey said it had detected a magnitude 4.9 earthquake Tuesday in North Korea. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization told ABC News, “We confirm that a suspicious seismic event has taken place in North Korea. The event shows clear explosion-like characteristics and its location is roughly congruent with the 2006 and 2009 DPRK nuclear tests,” said Tibor Toth, executive secretary of the organization. –ABC News

Earthquakes in the world on February 14, 2013 – Very strong earthquake in eastern Russia
A very strong M 6.9 earthquake hit Russia. The epicenter is located in the northeastern part of Siberia, north of Kamtchatka peninsula. This earthquake has a depth of approx. 20 km. This makes us expecting a strong to very strong shaking close to the epicenter. Luckily this area is only sparesley populated.
Update: USGS correctd the depth to only 10 km. This makes the earthquake more dangerous due to a stronger shaking. http://earthquake-report.com/2013/02/14/very-strong-earthquake-eastern-siberia-russia-on-february-14-2013/

Deep 6.2 magnitude earthquake rattles the Philippines
February 16, 2013 – PHILIPPINES - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Saturday near the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, the state-run Philippines News Agency (PNA) reported. The temblor hit at 12:37 p.m. local time, 149 kilometers (93 miles) south of Davao, the USGS said. It struck at a depth of about 98 kilometers. The epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) SE of Caburan, Philippines. No tsunami warning or watch has been issued. Today’s earthquake marks the 20th major earthquake to strike the planet in the month of February. A 5.7 magnitude earthquake also struck the ocean floor, off the North Island of New Zealand. –CNN, TEP