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4.1-magnitude Arizona earthquake shakes metro Phoenix
The Republic | azcentral.com 12:48 p.m. MST November 2, 2015
Residents reported shaking across metro Phoenix on Sunday night amid at least three quakes that struck near Black Canyon City.
A
string of earthquakes north of Phoenix gave the Valley a rare jolt
Sunday night, and the largest – a magnitude 4.1 just before 11:30 p.m. –
rattled homes across the region.
The series of at least three
Arizona earthquakes generated no reports of notable damage, but left
people swaying or stunned from Black Canyon City, closest to the epicenter, to Camp Verde and across metro Phoenix as far as Queen Creek.
Michael
Conway of the Arizona Geological Survey said Monday morning that
scientists had not identified the causative fault line yet. Because the
earthquake was small and did not rupture the ground, it will be hard to
identify where it originated, Conway said.He also said there will be
aftershocks over the next few days, many of them too small to feel.
Sydney:
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early Friday,
US geologists said, but there were no initial reports of damage and no
tsunami warnings were issued.
The quake struck 98 kilometres (60
miles) southeast of the capital Honiara in the early hours of Friday
(around 1600 GMT Thursday) at a depth of approximately 23 kilometres (14
miles), USGS said.
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early Friday, US geologists said, but there were no initial reports of damage and no tsunami warnings …
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Sydney: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early Friday, US geologists said, but there were no initial reports of damage and no tsunami ...
Multiple Earthquakes Recorded In Oklahoma Tuesday Morning
Posted: Sep 22, 2015 7:54 AM CST Updated: Sep 22, 2015 7:54 AM CST
By Xin Xin Liu, News9.com
Waukomis, OK - Multiple earthquakes were recorded Tuesday morning in Oklahoma.
According
to the U.S. Geological Survey, at 1:33 a.m., a 3.6 magnitude earthquake
was recorded 14 miles west of Waukomis, and 16 miles west, southwest of
Enid. It was about two miles deep.
A 5.6-magintude earthquake struck the Gulf of Aden on
Tuesday morning, with authorities confirming the UAE was not impacted by
any seismic activity.
The incident occurred at 8.03am UAE time, with the head of the
country’s seismology centre telling ‘Emirates24|7’, the epicentre of the
tremblor was 10 kilometres deep in the Gulf of Aden, the body of water
between Yemen and Somalia.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) posted the epicentre was near Qalansiyah, Socotra Island, Yemen.
“The 5.6-magnitude tremblor is what we call a moderate earthquake,
which are regular occurrences in the Gulf of Aden,” said Khamis Al
Shamsi from the National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS).
A
strong, shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake rattled northern Thailand on
Monday afternoon, geologists said, shaking tall buildings in Bangkok
hundreds of miles to the south. The quake, at a shallow depth of 7.4
kilometers (4.5 miles), struck just after 6 pm local time (1100 GMT),
around 27 kilometers (17 miles) from the mountainous northern city of
Chiang Rai, the US Geological Survey said in a statement. There were no
immediate reports of damage. The area is a remote mountain retreat
popular with foreign tourists near to the border with Myanmar and Laos.
The quake was felt as far south as Bangkok, 800 kilometers (500 miles)
to the south, where tall buildings shook for several seconds. It was
also felt in the Myanmar capital of Yangon, an AFP reporter there said.
Major earthquakes are rare in Thailand, although tremors frequently
strike the northern portion of the country.
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One dead, 23 injured in Thai quake: official
BANGKOK
– An elderly woman died and 23 other people were injured after a strong
earthquake shook northern Thailand, an official said on Tuesday, as
aftershocks continued to rattle the mountainous region popular with
tourists.
The 83-year-old woman died when a wall in her house
collapsed after the 6.0-magnitude struck quake on Monday afternoon,
according to an official at the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
Department in Bangkok.
"Twenty-three people were also injured in
separate incidents caused by the quake," the official told AFP, without
giving further details.
The quake, which struck at a shallow depth
of just 7.4 kilometres, had its epicentre in the remote Phan district
of Chiang Rai province, geologists said, and was felt hundreds of miles
to the south in Bangkok and even in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon.
"Since
last evening (Monday) there were six large aftershocks with a magnitude
between 5.0 to 5.9 and the last was this morning," Burin Wechbunthung,
of the Meteorological Department said, adding there were a dozen smaller
tremors.
Thailand earthquake kills 1, injures several others
Posted By: Michele Wright, CBS 12 News Anchor
BANGKOK
(AP) — Officials said Tuesday that one person was killed and several
dozen were hurt in an earthquake that struck northern Thailand and
Myanmar a day earlier, smashing windows, cracking walls and roads and
damaging Buddhist temples.
The airport in Chiang Rai, a northern
Thai city near the epicenter of the shallow magnitude 6.3 temblor,
evacuated people from its terminal, where display signs and pieces of
the ceiling fell. There was no damage to the runway or flight
disruptions, airport General Manager Damrong Klongakara said.
A well-known temple near the city, the all-white Wat Rongkhun, was closed due to safety concerns after the earthquake.
"The
spire of the main building came off and the tiles on the roof fell
off," Chalermchai Kositpiphat, the artist who designed the temple, told
Nation TV. "I still don't know how we can sleep tonight. ... It was
shaking the whole time and then aftershocks followed four to five
times."
Pictured: Thailand earthquake splits road in two causing devastating damage to ground
By John Sutton
No
serious injuries have been reported so far after the magnitude-6.0
quake struck 6 miles south of Mae Lao shaking shops and causing cracks
in buildings
These startling pictures show a road being torn apart by an earthquake in Thailand.
Luckily
nobody was injured in the magnitude-6.0 quake, which struck 6 miles
south of Mae Lao and 17 miles southwest of the town of Chiang Rai on
Monday.
Tall buildings swayed in the Thai capital of Bangkok, 500
miles to the south. The quake also was felt in Yangon, the capital of
neighboring Myanmar.
A Chiang Rai police officer said: "There has
been minor damage to buildings in Chiang Rai itself, some shops have
goods scattered about and we're seeing cracks in buildings.
Fracking-linked earthquakes likely to worsen – seismologists
Published time: May 02, 2014 03:40
Ongoing
hydraulic fracking operations will only exacerbate seismic activity,
leading to heightened earthquakes in areas where wastewater is injected
deep underground, according to new research.
To unleash natural gas, hydraulic fracturing - or fracking
- requires large volumes of water, sand, and chemicals to be pumped
underground. Scientists attending the Seismological Society of America
(SSA) annual meeting said
Thursday that this storage of wastewater in wells deep below the
earth’s surface, in addition to fracking’s other processes, is changing
the stress on existing faults, which could mean more frequent and larger
quakes in the future.
Researchers previously believed quakes that
resulted from fracking could not exceed a magnitude of 5.0, though
stronger seismic events were recorded in 2011 around two heavily drilled
areas in Colorado and Oklahoma. “This demonstrates there is a significant hazard,” said Justin Rubinstein, a research geophysicist at the US Geological Survey (USGS), according to TIME magazine. “We need to address ongoing seismicity.”
Not all of the more than 30,000 fracking disposal wells are linked to quakes, but an accumulatingbody of evidenceassociates an uptick in seismic activity to fracking developments amid the current domestic energy boom.
The
amount of toxic wastewater injected into the ground seems to provide
some clarity as to what causes the earthquakes. A single fracking
operation uses two to five million gallons of water, according to reports, but much more wastewater ends up in a disposal well.
The
M 7.5 April 19, 2014 earthquake southwest of Panguna, Papua New Guinea,
occurred as the result of thrust faulting on or near the subduction
zone interface between the subducting Australia plate and overriding
Pacific plate. At the location of the earthquake, the Australia plate
moves towards the east-northeast at a velocity of 102 mm/yr with respect
to the Pacific, and begins its subduction into the mantle beneath
Bougainville Island at the New Britain Trench south of the earthquake.
The moment tensor and depth of the event are consistent with thrust-type
motion on the interface between these two plates. Note that at the
location of the earthquake, some researchers divide the edge of the
Australia plate into several microplates that take up the overall
convergence between Australia and the Pacific. Here the Solomon Sea
plate moves slightly faster and more northeasterly with respect to the
Pacific plate than does Australia due to sea-floor spreading in the
Woodlark Basin several hundred kilometers to the south of the April 19
earthquake.
This event is the latest in an ongoing
sequence of seismicity in the same region over the past week, which
began with M 7.1 and 6.5 earthquakes on April 11, just to the northeast
and southeast of the April 19 earthquake, respectively. Over the
intervening eight days, 45 earthquakes of M 4.5 or greater have occurred
nearby, including a M 6.6 event about 12 hours before the April 19
earthquake.
In the Papua New Guinea region, the
boundary between Australia and Pacific plates is very active
seismically; 35 M 7+ events have occurred within 250 km of the April 19,
2014 earthquake over the past century. None are known to have caused
any shaking-related fatalities. The largest was an M 8.0 175 km to the
northwest of the April 19, 2014 earthquake, one of two M8+ earthquakes
140 km apart in July 1971. The M 8.1 Solomon Islands earthquake in April
2007, which caused a devastating tsunami, was 300 km southeast of
the April 19, 2014 event.
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