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Altering Earthquakes:
As of late, I have observed that USGS and EMSC are a bit lax on their reports of earthquakes. Sometimes not seeing anything reported for hours from the last update, or seeing periods of 90-200 minutes with no earthquakes in between. My question is, are they leaving swarms of earthquakes out of their reports, or there are actually periods of no earthquakes?
SOZT: Greater than 90% of the earthquake activity is being altered by the USGS at present, which is under orders to prevent any clue being given to the public about the Earth changes caused by the presence of Planet X. Over a decade ago, the approach was to de-sensitize the live seismographs periodically, so the displays do not turn black worldwide, and to ignore the twice-a-day patterns showing up on these seismographs. Then any quakes that could be dropped were dropped. This was obvious to some who were watching the database manipulation. Quakes in the list would suddenly disappear. This was particularly the case where a quake happened in a remote location, or out in the ocean. Dumbing down the magnitude quickly followed, but in order to ensure the public did not notice, the USGS took control of all websites reporting quake statistics. At times, this control breaks, and discrepancies are reported to the public. Some countries rebel. Quake swarms are another source of control, as they pepper the databases with many quakes and skew the statistics, and thus are pulled from the database. Else the question is raised, why so many? EOZT
Will the USGS internet system be a reliable warning system for the European tsunami by registering on the net the New Madrid earthquake on the exact time it occurs?
SOZT: It will not be a lack of information from the USGS that will be the point of confusion during the earthquakes leading up to the New Madrid adjustment, it will be knowing which quake is the big one vs the many minor quakes preceding it. The USGS downgrades almost all earthquakes, to prevent meaningful statistics from being generated from their databases. They also exclude quakes whenever they can, but this is unlikely to happen in the New Madrid area as it is in the center of a populated land mass. Thus you will have magnitude 6 quakes that will be called a 5.2, magnitude 7 quakes called a 6.1, and when a magnitude 8 or greater quake occurs, it will be called a 6.9.
We would advise that rather than watching the USGS quake statistics, that you watch the Earth changes. The adjustment that will incite the European tsunami will involve bridges on the Mississippi breaking, and being impassable. The land to the west of the Mississippi will drop so that the Mississippi will become 50 miles wide in the state of Mississippi. Watch for this. The New Madrid adjustment will be several large quakes of magnitude 8-9, though will be listed as a lesser magnitude. As the N American continent continues to unzip up to and along the Seaway, the quakes will be less than a magnitude 8 but very destructive to Cleveland and Toledo and Buffalo and the inland locks along the Seaway. Thus it is not what the USGS says that should be watched, but the condition of the bridges on the Mississippi, the impact on the cities along the Seaway, and whether the inland locks are reported as inoperable. EOZT
Please collect earthquake-reports here. Significant Quakes or Magnitude 7+ can be posted separately.
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Comment by Juan F Martinez on January 24, 2017 at 6:09am
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WARNING-US West Coast Earthquake Warning as Cascadia Subduction Zon...
An ocean data buoy is alerting to an “event” in the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the west coast of Oregon. This is where a magnitude 9 earthquake hit in 1700.
According to the data buoy, the water column height (depth) fell sharply within minutes off the coast of Oregon, signaling the land beneath the ocean has suddenly “sunk.”
As of 0231:30, the initial water column height is 2738.80 Meters deep (8985.56 feet). Two minutes and thirty seconds later, that same water column height had dropped to 2738.66 Meters deep (8985.10 feet). Where did the four inches of water disappear to? Answer: The earth sunk; and continued to sink for the next several HOURS. As you can see from the second chart above, from 0230 GMT to 0600 GMT, the ocean continued to sink to 2737.7 meters deep (8981.95 feet). The buoy is too far away from shore to be affected by high/low tide, so where did the four feet of ocean water disappear to?
This means a Tectonic Plate in the Ocean named the “Juan de Fuca Plate” has made a sudden, eastward movement and slipped beneath another Tectonic Plate named the “North American Plate.” This type of event is usually followed by a massive upward movement of the North American Plate causing a very severe earthquake.
Here’s a map of the relevant Tectonic Plates:
Mount Hood Volcano Can Be Triggered to Erupt
This type of Tectonic Movement has a direct effect upon the volcanos in the Cascadia Volcanic Chain, in particular, Mount Hood.
When the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate goes beneath the North American plate, it begins to get crushed. The heat from the friction of the two massive plates rubbing together, melts the Juan de Fuca plate into Magma (lava).
Directly next to the Cascadia Subduction Zone is the Mount Hood Volcano. Here’s a graphic to show you the relevant details:
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1-23-2017 Multiple earthquakes south of Des Moines at the same time, January 23, might have had something to do with it. Local officials are calling it "a sinkhole."
A portion of the riverbank has collapsed near City Hall in downtown Des Moines.
Pam Cooksey, city engineer, said her department noticed Monday that soil between City Hall, 400 Robert D. Ray Drive., and the Des Moines River had shifted, but it has not determined a cause. Cooksey said it "looked kind of like a sinkhole."
"We’re looking into that right now to figure out what’s going on to get a repair," she said. "We became aware of it today. I assume it started it over the weekend."
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/16174743_10156306125…
ZetaTalk
What happens to rock layers under a diagonal pull, or being pulled apart? As can be seen during recent years, this has resulted in derailing trains, sinkholes suddenly appearing, gas and water main breaks, torn roadways and separating bridges. Despite the effect on man, crawling about on the surface of what they assume to be terra firma, these changes are superficial. When the pulling starts, weak points break and thereafter the plumbing and roadways hold, giving the impression that the pulling has stopped, but this is misleading. The North American continent is giving evidence that its rock layers are separating from each other, and sliding sideways in a diagonal, thus exposing portions of these layers to vent into the air above. If rock is being stressed, then where are the earthquake predictors giving evidence of this, the frantic animals, the static on the radio, the earthquake swarms? Rock in the stretch zone, pulling apart rather than compressing, does not emit the particles flows that animals and radios sense, nor register on instruments are tension and release quakes.http://poleshift.ning.com/…/…/sinkhole-incidents-on-the-rise
http://poleshift.ning.com/…/collapsing-buildings-and-roadwa…
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/…/riverbank-coll…/96966364/Riverbank collapses near Des Moines City Hall
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Comment by jorge namour on January 22, 2017 at 5:54am
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2017-01-22 04:30:24 (UTC)
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M 5.7 - CENTRAL ITALY - 2017-01-18 10:14:10 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=560781Distances 96 km NE of Roma, Italy / pop: 2,564,000 / local time: 11:14:10.8 2017-01-18
22 km NW of L’Aquila, ItalyTESTIMONIES http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/Testimonies/comments.php?id=560781
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=y&...
Earthquake, endless nightmare: strong shocks in bursts to Italian Centre, afraid to Rome and blocked trains. Despair Apennines: "we have done wrong?"
January 18, 2017
Earthquake, the morning of severe shock to the Italian Center: new collapse, is another disaster. The desperation of Mayors: "we have done wrong?". All live updates
After the strong quake of magnitude 5.3 10:25 this morning with its epicenter in the area of Campotosto and Montereale (L'Aquila), 11:14 hath been a new and even stronger quake with a magnitude of 5.4. This morning's earthquake and nell'aquilano 'was generated by the same fault system that has' activated on August 24. And 'what emerges from the first analyzes of the experts working in the seismic area National Institute of Geophysics Volcanology (INGV). "And 'the same fault system activated on August 24, but to generate today's Earthquake and' a different segment," ANSA said the seismologist Paola Montone, INGV.
In Rome he closed the a and b of the metro lines, and evacuated many schools.
Meanwhile Apennines there is despair. "I do not know if we have done something wrong, I wonder since yesterday, a meter and a half to two meters of snow and now even the Earthquake. What can I say? I do not pa role ".
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Earthquake tremors felt in different parts of Karachi
Euro-Med Seismological Centre (EMSC
Posted on January 17, 2017
http://aaj.tv/2017/01/earthquake-tremors-felt-in-various-areas-of-k...
KARACHI: Earthquake tremors were felt in several parts of the city on Tuesday, Aaj News reported.
According to the reports, residents in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Gulshan areas felt strong shocks and some came out of their houses and offices. Students and teachers at the Karachi University and NED University also felt jolts. Students came out of their departments.
According to Pakistan Meteorological Department, the earthquake was recorded 3.6 on the Richter Scale.
People took to social media to describe the scene
Extreme vibrations at Karachi University. All the departments have been vacated including IBA. Students standing outside. #Karachi
2:53 AM - 17 Jan 2017
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M 5.7 - CUBA REGION - 2017-01-17 09:08:00 UTC FELT
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=560495
M 5.6 - NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA - 2017-01-17 11:48:49 UTC FELT
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=560545M 4.8 - SOUTHERN IRAN - 2017-01-17 10:41:15 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=560530M 2.5 - CENTRAL ITALY - 2017-01-17 10:06:30 UTC FELT
M 4.0 - E. RUSSIA-N.E. CHINA BORDER REG. - 2017-01-17 08:53:48 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=560547M 5.1 - SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION - 2017-01-17 09:21:50 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=560501M 5.9 - VANUATU - 2017-01-16 20:47:38 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=560357M 4.9 - KAMCHATKA PENINSULA, RUSSIA - 2017-01-16 19:07:20 UTC
2017-01-16 Mw 5.7 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/Testimonies/comments.php?id=560268M 4.2 - OFF COAST OF CHIAPAS, MEXICO - 2017-01-16 12:13:48 UTC
2017-01-16 12:00:53.0 16.88 N 100.36 W 10 3.4 OFFSHORE GUERRERO, MEXICO
2017-01-16 11:59:46.0 17.22 N 101.43 W 16 3.4 OFFSHORE GUERRERO, MEXICO
2017-01-16 11:46:00.0 16.62 N 98.41 W 7 3.4 GUERRERO, MEXICO2017-01-16 12:00:53.0 16.88 N 100.36 W 10 3.4 OFFSHORE GUERRERO, MEXICO
2017-01-16 11:59:46.0 17.22 N 101.43 W 16 3.4 OFFSHORE GUERRERO, MEXICO
2017-01-16 11:46:00.0 16.62 N 98.41 W 7 3.4 GUERRERO, MEXICOM 4.8 - SOUTH OF AFRICA - 2017-01-16 08:20:57 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=560265M 3.4 - NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA - 2017-01-16 08:33:54 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=560235M 4.7 - MARIANA ISLANDS REGION - 2017-01-16 03:17:08 UTC
M 5.8 - VANUATU - 2017-01-16 01:16:38 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=5601602017-01-15 11:55:06.2 39.55 N 26.08 E 6 2.5 NEAR THE COAST OF WESTERN TURKEY
2017-01-15 11:51:27.0 39.56 N 26.10 E 4 2.4 NEAR THE COAST OF WESTERN TURKEY
2017-01-15 11:47:18.9 39.49 N 26.14 E 7 2.2 NEAR THE COAST OF WESTERN TURKEY
2017-01-15 11:43:51.5 39.55 N 26.10 E 8 2.1 NEAR THE COAST OF WESTERN TURKEYM 4.7 - NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR - 2017-01-15 09:44:49 UTC FELT
M 4.7 - NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR - 2017-01-15 09:44:49 UTC FELT
M 4.8 - ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE - 2017-01-15 08:48:24 UTC FELTM 4.5 - NEAR THE COAST OF WESTERN TURKEY - 2017-01-14 22:38:59 UTC SWARM
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559915M 5.6 - FIJI REGION - 2017-01-14 18:25:43 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559871M 5.6 - MOLUCCA SEA - 2017-01-14 11:41:21 UTC FELT
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559800M 6.0 - FIJI REGION - 2017-01-14 06:11:40 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559746M 4.5 - SUCRE, VENEZUELA - 2017-01-14 03:34:32 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559735M 4.4 - CYPRUS REGION - 2017-01-13 21:43:31 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559645http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/?view=1
Magnitude mb 4.7
Region VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
Date time 2017-01-17 07:46:21.1 UTC
Location 22.02 N ; 143.68 E
Depth 134 kmQuake Hunter Australia
Australian Earthquake Highlights for 2016https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbLoiyIY0cU&feature=youtu.be
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https://www.facebook.com/SismoMundial/photos/a.806148329453999.1073...
unusually strong earthquake M5. 5 with epicenter 42 km southwest of betafo, on the island of Madagascar to a depth of 8.7 km. #Usgs (22:06 UTC)
M 5.6 - MADAGASCAR - 2017-01-11 22:07:01 UTC
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https://www.facebook.com/SismoMundial/photos/a.806148329453999.1073...Strong earthquake was sensitive in almost all of the guatemalan territory, in large part of the territory of El Salvador, in chiapas, Mexico and also reports in Honduras.
#Usgs measures the magnitude in 5.3 and a depth of 56 km, the mercalli intensity was VL (6).
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https://www.facebook.com/SismoMundial/photos/a.806148329453999.1073...there are reports of large landslides in the hills of tocopilla, product of today's earthquake M5. 7 in Maria Elena (Antofagasta, Chile)
M 5.8 - ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE - 2017-01-11 21:58:18 UTChttp://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559157
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5.8 magnitude quake shakes Nunavut's High Arctic
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-earthquake-1.3926952
Earthquake originally measured at magnitude 6.4 by U.S. Geological Survey
Nunavut's High Arctic was shaken by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Sunday, according to Earthquakes Canada.
The U.S. Geological Survey, which originally measured the earthquake at magnitude 6.4, reported that it was centred about 89 kilometres southeast of Resolute.
Cracked windows, shaking reported after High Arctic earthquake and aftershock
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/aftershock-earthquake-nunavut-1...
A few cracked windows seem to be the only damage from the 5.9 magnitude earthquake and 5.1 magnitude aftershock that hit Resolute.
The earthquake hit at 5:45 p.m. local time on Sunday
"The earthquake felt like it was going on forever and our house seemed like it was going to slide. I was lying on the couch watching TV — it was as if was the couch was going to slide too," said Saroomie Manik, CBC's community reporter in Inuktitut.
Paul Legacy, the maintenance manager with the Housing Association in Resolute, says he felt the shaking for "a little bit, then it got a little bit worse for 10 or 15 seconds."
"Things were moving around in my house, pictures were crooked all over the wall. I did get a call from one tenant. She thought it was her furnace but she told me it was knocking everything off her walls too," he said.
"There's a few cracked windows and a couple of broken drains that I'm repairing."
M 6.1 - DEVON ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA - 2017-01-08 23:47:12 UTC
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M 4.9 - NEAR WEST COAST OF COLOMBIA - 2017-01-12 16:06:32 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559392M 4.1 - REGION METROPOLITANA, CHILE - 2017-01-12 12:57:06 UTC FELT
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559343M 5.0 - GUERRERO, MEXICO - 2017-01-12 10:27:00 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559314M 5.1 - ORURO, BOLIVIA - 2017-01-12 09:00:05 UTC FELT
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559297M 3.8 - GOLFE DE TADJOURA, DJIBOUTI - 2017-01-11 19:57:21 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559257M 4.6 - CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN SEA - 2017-01-11 15:50:27 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559123M 4.5 - CASPIAN SEA, OFFSHR TURKMENISTAN - 2017-01-11 14:28:05 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=559112M 4.6 - COOK STRAIT, NEW ZEALAND - 2017-01-11 00:19:21 UTC FELT
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=558952M 6.4 - SOLOMON ISLANDS - 2017-01-10 15:27:16 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=558884M 5.8 - ROTA REGION, N. MARIANA ISLANDS - 2017-01-10 10:01:33 UTC
M 5.9 - JUJUY, ARGENTINA - 2017-01-08 01:04:42 UTC
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M 5.9 - EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG., P.N.G. - 2017-01-08 08:52:08 UTCModerate earthquake - Western Greenland on January 9, 2017
http://earthquake-report.com/2017/01/09/moderate-earthquake-western...
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=558681
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Comment by Poli on January 10, 2017 at 10:49am
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Magnitude Mw 7.3
Region CELEBES SEA
(Pacific Ocean - West/ Philippines)
Date time 2017-01-10 06:13:47.9 UTC
Location 4.48 N ; 122.59 E
Depth 630 km
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=558802
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Comment by Kojima on January 10, 2017 at 3:22am
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* Station IU TIXI; Heliplot
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/stations/IU/TIXI/
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplot.php?virt...
* Earthquakes
1) 08-JAN-2017 23:47:12, Mag 5.8; Depth 19 km; Location: 74.32, -92.31, QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS, CANADA; IRIS ID: 9953567
2) 09-JAN-2017 17:55:36; Mag 5.2; Depth 15 km; Location:74.44, -92.52, QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS, CANADA; IRIS ID:9953651
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Comment by Stanislav on January 5, 2017 at 1:35pm
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Colombia, Italy, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Mexico - Record earthquakes in 2016
Source of earthquakes data: redsismica.uprm.edu
Source of earthquake data: (ingv.it) ISIDe working group (2016) version 1.0, DOI: 10.13127/ISIDe
Source of earthquakes data: Servicio Sismológico Nacional | UNAM, México - ssn.unam.mx
Source of earthquakes data: Red Sismologica Nacional de Colombia - Servicio Geologico Colombiano
Record-breaking year of earthquakes: 32,828 quakes hit New Zealand in 2016
Source: twitter.com
2 January, 2017. If you felt like the earth moved more in 2016 than ever before, you're right: GeoNet says last year set a new annual record for the number of earthquakes hitting New Zealand.
Its monitoring network recorded 32,828 quakes - well up from the annual average of about 20,000 - leading seismologists to dub 2016 "the Groundbreaker".
The previous most active year was 2011, with 29,000 quakes. GeoNet's monitoring network has been running for 15 years.
Helping achieve the "dubious honour" of most earthquakes in a year were two magnitude 7+ quakes, 10 tremors measuring magnitude 6 to 6.9, and 122 between magnitude 5 and 6.
JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/FAIRFAX NZ
The Kaikoura quake and its many aftershocks made 2016 a year for the record books."You'd be hard pressed to find someone who wasn' impacted, in some way, by earthquakes in New Zealand this year," GeoNet's Sara McBride wrote in a blog post.
It was unusual for New Zealand to see two quakes top M7 in a year.
The first, on September 2, was a 7.1 that struck at 4.37am, 22 kilometres deep, off the northeast coast of New Zealand.
"Luckily, the damage was minimal on land, although a small tsunami was generated. A strong aftershock sequence continued in the days following," GeoNet said.
"Now, in any other year, the M7.1 would have been the biggest earthquake in New Zealand. But, New Zealand was just getting warmed up."
Then came the big one: the 7.8 Kaikoura quake at 12.02am on November 14, near Culverden in Canterbury.
Two people were killed as the quake ruptured faults, shaking the country from Christchurch to Wellington, and raising the seabed in Kaikoura.
While the M7.8 quake wouldn't make the history books for its size - which was average for the Ring of Fire - it was unique for two reasons: the way it ruptured multiple faults, and the "slow-slip" earthquakes it triggered.
"While we knew the faults were all there, we had only rarely seen an earthquake behave quite like this one," GeoNet said.
Other natural disasters also kept the country on its toes, including a tsunami in the wake of the Kaikoura that sort swathes of the east coast of both the North and South Islands evacuated.
The waves rose up to four metres, destroying a cottage at Banks Peninsula. Source: stuff.co.nz
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