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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00n3xpk9#summary
Mag 8.3 Soloman Islands region. Pacific Tsunami warnings have been issued.
Mag 8.3 Soloman Islands region. Pacific Tsunami warnings have been issued.
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thanks, best be prepared, i'll look out my wellies.
8.3 is definitely at the high end.Often an earthquake report in one part of the world seems to be followed by reports of another earthquake of note elsewhere a week or so later,
Also had the 2nd in two days here in the UK, Rutland, East Midlands, 3.2 Mag. this morning.
The latter isn't worth mentioning, it won't have done any damage whereas the one in Mexico will have
According to the USGS it's ~200 miles SE of Mexico City, just N of Tecpán de Galeana.
Those are hardly earthquakes - merely shivers! Anyway, the UK has dozens of earthquakes every year but are so minor as to be hardly felt.
This one was felt, residents say it woke them thinking a lorry had crashed into the house or something like.
A lot depends on how deep they are. Northridge vs Nisqually quakes, for example- both the same magnitude, but while the deeper Nisqually quake caused some damage, the shallow Northridge quake was unmitigated disaster.
Interesting theory, perhaps they're just arriving in time for the latest Godzilla movie.
It'll have to be a big one for all 9 million sq. kilometers to feel it.
Which America is that then?
and it you have ever lived in an earthquake zone....a 3.2 mag is generally merely a shiver! It is just part of day- to- day living ; straighten the pictures on the wall and forget it! Because the UK rarely has earthquakes of such 'intensity', the reaction and reporting is somewhat blown out of proportion.
Yes, agreed but the quakes you quote were both around 6.7 mag and thus potentially much more serious than a 3.2 mag
Definitely much more serious.
I was in the Nisqually quake and it really was quite an event. I was also in a 5.5, watching t.v. nine floors up. It felt like the world was coming to an end- more so than the 6.8, yet nobody in the street felt a thing. No denying that a 3.2 is small potatoes compared to that monster in Chile, but given the right circumstances, if you're close to the epicenter, for example, I'm sure it'll feel and sound like more than a mere shiver.
USGS says it's a magnitude 5.6, 120km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 72.2km.