Posted on 04/15/2011 5:33:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Nevada Seismologists are keeping a close eye on an area southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada where hundreds of earthquakes have been detected since Sunday. " It's a little bit concerning in a sense.. The largest earthquakes in these sequences are pretty large in size." Graham Kent is Director of Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada Reno. He says there have been hundreds of earthquakes southwest of Hawthorne over the past few days. The largest-- recorded at a 4.4 in size.
"These are the biggest in a sequence we've seen at least in the last couple of years." Kent says unlike the 2008 quakes in Somersett that damaged so many homes, these earthquakes are fortunately not underneath a community.
Size is not the only reason Kent says they are watching the swarm of quakes closely. The location of these quakes is on top of a fault that has until now remained unknown or has not been active. Kent then made an eerie comparison, "Whats really interesting about most of these earthquakes we've experienced. Short of the Chilean and Japanese; Haiti, Baha, even Christchurch.. Were on unknown faults.
But Kent says just because those devastating quakes happened on un-named faults does not mean that the series of quakes near Hawthorne will lead to a big quake there. Reno, Carson City and the Las Vegas valley all lie on top of fault lines. And right now, there is no way to predict where the next big quake will occur.
(Excerpt) Read more at mynews4.com ...
Many times more people are killed every single year by tornadoes, hurricanes and floods in modern America, than earthquakes.
well, can’t help you then q
Understand.
If I come up with something, I’ll send you the link.
I think you may be lurkin in the wrong Dune area. ;-) The article says there is no way to predict where the next big one will hit. However, there is some predictability as to when the next big one will hit. In my studies of volcanic and EQ activity, I have noted that big ones often hit a few days after either a new moon or a full moon. This year, with the moon the closest it has been in 18 years, The Japan big quake hit a few days after the new moon (when both sun and moon are pulling hard in the same direction). The second big one occurred almost exactly 28 days later when the new moon had also been a few days earlier. So I will go out on a limb and suggest that another big something will occur shortly after the next new moon, or perhaps shortly after the next full moon. We will know soon enough. Now, if I could just guess where.
Was easier than I thought.
first hit at ATS search:
http://www.standeyo.com/NEWS/08_Earth_Changes/080502.NV.EQ.grid.html
TEN of those quakes were on the grid cross points.
Can’t imagine any way that was by chance alone.
Supposedly there was no drilling etc. . . . nor any other man made activity going on at those grid points.
This image is nothing like the one deyo is trying to force.
Its part of a nw trending, right lateral fault system - read a little further along the UNR article. They have been measuring fault creep over the region for decades. No mysterious 'grid' pattern, no artificial triggering event like HAARP.
Sorry - HAARP played no factor in these quakes
The golf course is safe from HAARP.
You put enough quakes in an area, you can make up just about any 'grid' pattern.
Learn to go to the source q, not wacko interpretations from deyo.
Good grief q, you'd believe any half-cocked notion.
Thx Thx.
Great having you around . . . I think. LOL.
I hold a lot of things as conceivable.
Doesn’t mean I’d bet the farm on all of them. LOL.
Does the moon weigh more when it is full?
I think you right. There’s a very recent basalt flow 3 mi SSW of the quake swarm, and the Aurora Crater cinder cone is 8 mi. to the SW. Keep your eyes peeled for fire fountains!
And there’s the even closer Aurora volcanic field. Looks like rising magma to me.
Nevada Earthquake Swarm has Experts Concerned
Above ancient Long Valley Supervolcano
http://www.iceagenow.com/Nevada_Earthquake_Swarm_has_Experts_Concerned.htm
Crap! Just what we need. Another dormant supervolcano similar to Yellowstone getting active again.
Two more quakes for Hawthorne, NV
Magnitude 4.1 and 4.6
http://www.iceagenow.com/Two_more_quakes_for_Hawthorne_NV.htm
Long Valley Supervolcano
(more info about it)
http://www.iceagenow.com/Long_Valley_Supervolcano.htm
Only 10% more due to the acidity of the cheese curds!
My first thought, too. Tahoe is, after all, a volcanic caldera and not that far away and Mammoth/Long Valley, isn’t far either.
There are two known magma chambers in the Long Valley complex: one under the existing Long Valley caldera and one under the Mono-Inyo volcanic complex. Both are far enough away from the Hawthorne swarm to make it unlikely that they are directly involved. Of course, there COULD be a previously unknown magma source involved...
Look at the depths of the quakes - they are all very shallow. Were they representing magma movement they would be far deeper and generating distinguishing harmonic signatures. It is unlikely they are relating to the activation of a volcano.
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