***7.3 EQ PAPUA NEW GUINEA - <6.9 FORESHOCK!>***

I'm afraid that you might be right! They are now reporting them as 6.9 and 6.8. If they are foreshocks - I'd hate to see the size of the main event!

pin for an hour or two?

just in case.

BBC just said tsunami alert has been issued

The in-continuity in reporting is just baffling!

EMSC is reporting the EQ's at 7.1 and 6.2!!!
[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

8.7, 8.8 Mag...maybe!!!

From NOAA Pacific Tsunami Alerts:



000
WEPA42 PHEB 181410
TIBPAC

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1410Z 18 JUL 2010

THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC
OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...
WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ...

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.

THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 1335Z 18 JUL 2010
COORDINATES - 6.1 SOUTH 150.5 EAST
DEPTH - 63 KM
LOCATION - NEW BRITAIN REGION P.N.G.
MAGNITUDE - 6.8

EVALUATION

NO DESTRUCTIVE WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON
HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.

HOWEVER - EARTHQUAKES OF THIS SIZE SOMETIMES GENERATE LOCAL
TSUNAMIS THAT CAN BE DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS LOCATED WITHIN
A HUNDRED KILOMETERS OF THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. AUTHORITIES
IN THE REGION OF THE EPICENTER SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS
POSSIBILITY AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.

THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY MAY ALSO ISSUE TSUNAMI MESSAGES
FOR THIS EVENT TO COUNTRIES IN THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC AND SOUTH
CHINA SEA REGION. IN CASE OF CONFLICTING INFORMATION... THE
MORE CONSERVATIVE INFORMATION SHOULD BE USED FOR SAFETY.

THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE PRODUCTS
FOR ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...WASHINGTON...OREGON...CALIFORNIA.
...SP...

I don't think there are any mods on at the moment... we'll have to keep bumping.

Mama's pissed the fuck off that's what they finally stopped the oil leak (stopped the planet from bleeding) and now the earth has regained enough strength to fuck some people up, shes mad and SOMEONES going to pay.

well, that was weird.

watching CNN then, and the map they showed centred on Port Moresby, a good 500 KMs from the epicentre, and then the presenter said, 'we'll bring you more information when it becomes available'

well, at least you could give the Mags, the precise location, etc.

that info is 'available'

yeah

and they just did it AGAIN!

Anybody else able to get Geoscience Australia (Australia's version of USGS) to work? Here's the link I have:
[link to www.ga.gov.au]

Look at this list just from so far this morning. Is this normal? I don't know about this stuff.

Update time = Sun Jul 18 14:05:30 UTC 2010

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 6.8 2010/07/18 13:35:02 -5.994 150.472 50.9 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 6.9 2010/07/18 13:04:13 -6.116 150.522 57.5 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 5.1 2010/07/18 13:03:25 24.031 122.439 27.2 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 2.8 2010/07/18 12:48:34 57.307 -153.878 17.2 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 2010/07/18 12:32:42 38.841 -107.391 1.0 COLORADO
MAP 4.5 2010/07/18 11:52:43 52.654 -168.684 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2010/07/18 11:30:23 60.661 -147.407 2.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.0 2010/07/18 11:16:55 32.402 -115.540 4.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.8 2010/07/18 10:51:10 32.703 -115.964 1.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.2 2010/07/18 10:24:52 52.824 -169.740 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.9 2010/07/18 10:07:23 52.907 -169.933 6.1 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.9 2010/07/18 09:07:26 52.632 -169.636 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.1 2010/07/18 07:52:08 52.702 -169.506 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2010/07/18 07:49:17 38.826 -122.811 3.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.9 2010/07/18 07:48:50 52.724 -169.490 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.8 2010/07/18 07:32:04 52.652 -169.666 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2010/07/18 07:28:03 39.011 -118.810 10.4 NEVADA
MAP 3.0 2010/07/18 07:21:56 18.312 -64.514 52.5 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.0 2010/07/18 06:53:28 52.745 -169.460 4.8 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2010/07/18 06:30:07 63.236 -144.959 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.5 2010/07/18 06:16:26 37.621 -118.814 7.8 LONG VALLEY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 2010/07/18 06:15:51 52.649 -169.463 0.4 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.8 2010/07/18 06:09:56 52.698 -169.591 6.9 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 6.7 2010/07/18 05:56:44 52.861 -169.839 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.0 2010/07/18 03:29:38 -41.813 -73.464 34.9 GOLFO DE ANCUD, LOS LAGOS, CHILE
MAP 4.7 2010/07/18 02:43:46 -30.593 -71.105 58.0 COQUIMBO, CHILE
MAP 4.5 2010/07/18 01:54:47 30.025 70.235 37.3 PAKISTAN
MAP 2.5 2010/07/18 01:25:09 39.385 -123.273 0.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

i cant!!!

and AGAIN.

unbelievable.

now she's having a laugh and a joke with the reporter at the VERY important golf.

What do you expect? gotta love the MSM

large EQs popping,and all these fuckwits on CNN care about is Tiger Woods putter.

PIN OR DIE

That's just sickening...and while were at it why not forget about this who incident and get back to Lindsay lohan and rehab!

Well the USGS did pull their recent Tsunami staff out of the West Coast, so were solely relying on the Pacific Board for updates at the moment.

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

Here's a good news article on the quakes which also gives some good info on what quakes this size have done in the way of damage in the past...

[link to www.thaindian.com]

now Sky News breaking news ticker are reporting the quakes as being ''73 miles east of Papua New Guinea'', when they are ACTUALLY 185 miles east of the closest point of Papua New Guinea.



it's almost as though they don't want us looking at this exact area.

they can't be this unprofessional, surely, BOTH stations?

Am I reading this wrong or did that article just say two 7.2s?

Buoy #52405 west of Guam is in event mode....

[link to www.ndbc.noaa.gov]

You read it right... See what I mean? The reporting is all over the place on this one!

Hopefully ONE of them is just having a bad morning or something

Damn even I am confused now! at first when the little firefox extension did the first quake I was like OK that was a big quake, then another happened, and another and I was trying to get the story of what was going on but I couldn't find anything and the bit I did made me with even more questions lol

I hope everyone is alright wherever it happened.