Terrific Quake Activity Today

It started in Nevada –

5.5 quake – Hawthorne, Nev. – USGS Report   |  MAP

Then – looking at Yellowstone – we see this –

An area north of Yellowstone Nat’l Park in southeast Idaho had a big quake swarm of 2-3M earthquakes in a small area.

RSOE MAP  (it isn’t over)

NOTE: There is internet connection trouble (damaged cable) in my region so the outage prevented earlier posting of this news.

UPDATE: California has 4M + quakes today – SEE the LIST on RSOE

2 quakes hit near Lake Tahoe, rumblings felt across region

 

 

2M Quake Near Yellowstone Volcano

RSOE Report  |  MAP

It’s 20-30 miles from the caldera, shallow – about 3 miles deep.

NOTE: There’s lots of large earthquakes in the South Seas and South America – so look at the sidebar here for news. Some are on the FC blog – but it’s hard to keep up!

Mount St. Helens is Shivering

RSOE REPORT:

A recent swarm of more than 120 earthquakes near Mount St. Helens — all below a magnitude 0.5 — comes as a reminder to scientists and residents alike that while the volcano has been relatively “well-behaved” recently, another eruption is inevitable. Our news partners at the Columbian recently got in touch with scientists who study, in part, the volcano and the land beneath it. To them, these quakes are a window into what’s going on underground, and can be helpful for directing further research. “Each of these little earthquakes is a clue and a reminder we are marching toward an eruption someday,” said Weston Thelen, a U.S. Geological Survey seismologist with the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, as reported in the Columbian.

MAP

Wired – A Swarm of Earthquakes Shakes Mount St. Helens

Yellowstone Affected? 8M Quake – Solomon Islands + 5.2M Quake Near Fukushima – Big Quakes Off N. California Coast

Maybe this big Solomon Is. quake set off small quakes around Yellowstone’s volcano.

• MAP of Yellowstone area small quakes
• Yellowstone Caldera volcano activity report

There have been 10 quakes in 39 days there from 0.8 to 2.7M.

flying cuttlefish picayune

8.0 QUAKENOW. Solomon Islands – MAP

Japan quake REPORT  |  MAP

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CALIFORNIA COAST:

USGS LIVE MAP

As usual, there’s more information on the RSOE map.

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