Earthquake Magnitude 6.7 - SOLOMON ISLANDS 2007 August 16 08:39:27 UTC

USGS and NOAA ^ | August 16, 2007

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Magnitude 6.7 - SOLOMON ISLANDS

2007 August 16 08:39:27 UTC

Earthquake Details



Magnitude 6.7
Date-Time Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 08:39:27 UTC
Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 07:39:27 PM at epicenter

Location 9.715°S, 159.335°E
Depth 1.8 km (1.1 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region SOLOMON ISLANDS
Distances

75 km (45 miles) WSW of HONIARA, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
185 km (115 miles) SW of Auki, Malaita, Solomon Islands
185 km (115 miles) S of Dadali, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands
2070 km (1290 miles) NNE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13 km (8.1 miles); depth +/- 87.8 km (54.6 miles)
Parameters Nst=102, Nph=102, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.23 sec, Gp=101°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2007gccj

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The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:

An earthquake occurred 75 km (45 miles) WSW of HONIARA, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 185 km (115 miles) SW of Auki, Malaita, Solomon Islands 185 km (115 miles) S of Dadali, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands at 2:39 AM MDT, Aug 16, 2007 (7:39 PM local time in Solomon Islands).

The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. No reports of damage or casualties have been received at this time.

[GOP Poet]

A big volcano next?

Add this to the list. A volcano in Ethiopia.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881938/posts

[LibertyRocks]

I remember the thread here at FR about that a few days ago. I noticed on the World Earthquake map at the USGS there is a LOT of activity on all shorelines of the Pacific in the last week. And, especially in the last 24 hours. Here is the current picture from the USGS -- Red boxes are earthquakes in the last hour, Orange in the last day, yellow in the last week... For updated map please see this page: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

[LibertyRocks]

LIVE LINK from above post:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

[YellowRoseofTx]

Volcano erupts in Ethiopia

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881938/posts

[sr4402]

Just Wait, It will be blamed on Bush and Global Warming!

[wolfcreek]

If we have enough volcanos go off, we won’t have to worry about GW.

[craig_eddy]

Indonesian volcano: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881930/posts

[G Larry]

Just before Peru was a 5.3 in Japan.

[pgkdan]

Don’t forget the volcanic eruption in Ethiopia today. It’s all got my attention.

[Dudoight]

Volcano’s in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Alaska, Peru, and recently in Utah....potential tsunami’s, etc. Sounds like the sub surface of the earth is tap dancing all over the place...wonder why?

[marvlus]

wonder why?

Polar shift?

[jeffers]

Hmmm, quake in Japan, then Malaysia, then California, then Peru, okay, plate in arrested rotation, popping loose at subsequent points around the perimeter as stresses, relieved elsewhere, concentrate at distant points later on.

Not so much scientific suopport for this wild theory of mine, but hey, it feels good to me.

But now, instead of the plate settling down after stress was relieved on all sides, we see more stress release on the “originating” side.

Does this mean more pressure building up on our side?

Time will tell.

[Dudoight]

Maybe the sub earth has always rumbled to some extent only now we have seizmographs, etc, and instant communication. If an earthquake happened in 1920 in the outback of some place and no body felt it....we just never knew.

[RDTF]

AlGore is elated and with every new report is doing cartwheels

[mewzilla]

Mother Earth’s sure got the fidgets. Maybe her girdle’s too tight.

[marvlus]

AlGore is elated and with every new report is doing cartwheels

I would think Algore would be concerned that nature is taking its course. If he thinks that earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are on the same plane as man made global warming, he is stupider than I ever imagined.

[wayne_b24]

as always, answers found here...
Matthew chapter 24, verses 6-8

[xjcsa]

as always, answers found here... Matthew chapter 24, verses 6-8

Of course he said all those things would happen in that generation.

[RightWhale]

6.5 in the Aleutians