Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated

I am sorry for all that you are going through, but I so admire your strength as well. You are a real trooper.

Magnitude 2.0
Region WESTERN TEXAS
Date time 2022-08-11 02:09:14.5 UTC
Location 31.68 N ; 104.41 W
Depth 6 km
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Magnitude 4.0
Region FLORES SEA
Date time 2022-08-11 02:30:00.0 UTC
Location 7.46 S ; 120.30 E
Depth 578 km
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Magnitude 3.5
Region MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
Date time 2022-08-11 02:36:19.9 UTC
Location 18.38 N ; 67.38 W
Depth 104 km
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Anyway, we are in the middle of a heatwave here. Looking at around 5 days with 100+ temps to come.



At least it gives me the opportunity to send out some open applications in to all kinds of social connected companies in town for a parttime job during fall and winter, when the days are a bit more silent, even though i guess, despite the extreme number of open jobs around here, age will be a factor again.

But we won't give up faith in a good outcome. Thanks for the updates and other posts my friends. Please stay as cool as you are, in every meaning of the word.

Much love to all of you!



*Mezzo, poof, gone*

Magnitude 2.7
Region SOUTHERN IDAHO
Date time 2022-08-11 03:01:31.9 UTC
Location 43.73 N ; 111.08 W
Depth 5 km
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Good luck with your job search and stay cool. And hydrated!

*flash attack hug for the Moon Girl*



Wow. You are up early Sim. You okay?

Magnitude 3.2
Region VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
Date time 2022-08-11 03:21:35.4 UTC
Location 18.12 N ; 64.99 W
Depth 12 km
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I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping. If I wake up in the middle of the night, I'm stuck awake for hours. I've been up for 2 hours now. Got annoyed laying in bed after that long so came out to the living room.

Magnitude 4.4
Region KURIL ISLANDS
Date time 2022-08-11 03:26:09.5 UTC
Location 47.87 N ; 151.92 E
Depth 80 km
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Magnitude 3.0
Region LUZON, PHILIPPINES
Date time 2022-08-11 03:27:16.0 UTC
Location 17.44 N ; 120.59 E
Depth 21 km
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Magnitude 3.6
Region LAKE ALBERT REGION, UGANDA
Date time 2022-08-11 03:28:19.9 UTC
Location 0.65 N ; 30.25 E
Depth 10 km
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Magnitude 4.5
Region SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA
Date time 2022-08-11 03:59:45.0 UTC
Location 40.11 N ; 77.80 E
Depth 2 km
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Magnitude 3.8
Region LUZON, PHILIPPINES
Date time 2022-08-11 04:07:05.0 UTC
Location 17.52 N ; 120.64 E
Depth 23 km
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Magnitude 3.1
Region LUZON, PHILIPPINES
Date time 2022-08-11 04:39:56.0 UTC
Location 16.29 N ; 120.33 E
Depth 3 km
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Magnitude 4.1
Region OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
Date time 2022-08-11 05:07:25.0 UTC
Location 13.38 N ; 90.30 W
Depth 31 km
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Magnitude 3.6
Region GULF OF CALIFORNIA
Date time 2022-08-11 05:11:36.2 UTC
Location 27.75 N ; 111.69 W
Depth 10 km
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Magnitude 4.3
Region SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Date time 2022-08-11 05:19:19.0 UTC
Location 3.50 S ; 101.81 E
Depth 39 km
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Magnitude 4.8
Region CENTRAL PERU
Date time 2022-08-11 06:24:48.8 UTC
Location 13.18 S ; 74.73 W
Depth 80 km
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Magnitude 4.0
Region OFFSHORE OAXACA, MEXICO
Date time 2022-08-11 06:46:55.0 UTC
Location 15.43 N ; 94.87 W
Depth 16 km
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Magnitude 3.0
Region TARAPACA, CHILE
Date time 2022-08-11 06:48:49.0 UTC
Location 19.16 S ; 69.50 W
Depth 97 km
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Magnitude 4.2
Region WESTERN TEXAS
Date time 2022-08-11 07:17:20.3 UTC
Location 31.60 N ; 104.25 W
Depth 92 km
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Magnitude 3.6
Region ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY REG., CANADA
Date time 2022-08-11 07:37:16.0 UTC
Location 49.01 N ; 68.03 W
Depth 10 km
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Sorry to hear that sweetheart. I know you have a lot on your plate and on your mind. Just try to give your mind a little rest with all this. And I know that's easier said than done.

Things will work out in the end Sim. You have been there before and managed. Hope that restless feeling disappears soon and you can get back to sleeping normally again.

Love you much!

Magnitude 3.8
Region OFFSHORE O'HIGGINS, CHILE
Date time 2022-08-11 08:22:46.0 UTC
Location 33.89 S ; 72.58 W
Depth 41 km
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Magnitude 4.4
Region TONGA
Date time 2022-08-11 08:44:37.6 UTC
Location 17.57 S ; 175.32 W
Depth 283 km
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Love you too :)

Magnitude 3.1
Region CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Date time 2022-08-11 08:47:03.5 UTC
Location 35.95 N ; 22.15 E
Depth 14 km
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'EARTHQUAKE BALLOONS' IN THE STRATOSPHERE: If you want to detect an earthquake on Venus--good luck. The planet's surface is hot enough to melt lead, and the atmospheric pressure is crushing. No ground-based seismometer could possibly survive.

What's an extraterrestrial seismologist to do? Launch a balloon.

https://imgur.com/jxOjflR

A new paper just published in the Geophysical Research Letters reports the detection of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake by a fleet of balloons floating through the stratosphere above Indonesia's Flores Sea. Onboard infrasound sensors registered acoustic waves rippling upward from the sea surface below, proving that, here on Earth, balloons can be used as seismometers.

"The same technique should work in the atmosphere of Venus," says Raphael Garcia, the study's lead author and a planetary scientist at the Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronatique et de l’Espace of the University of Toulouse. "Balloon-based sensors could float high above Venus's deadly surface, collecting data at a safe distance."

In the fall of 2021, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) launched a fleet of 16 balloons from Mahé Island in the Seychelles archipelago. Unlike ordinary weather balloons, which explode in a matter of hours, these were "superpressure balloons," which can remain aloft for months. Stratospheric winds carried them over the Flores Sea.

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Four balloons picked up the undersea quake on Dec. 14, 2021. Combining their signals, researchers pinpointed the epicenter within 300 km, the magnitude of the quake within 0.8 units, and its onset within 50 seconds. Furthermore, waveforms recorded by the infrasound sensors were detailed enough to sense structures in the Earth 100 km deep.

Garcia would like to do the same thing on Venus. "We know nothing of its interior," he says. "We don't know how it's made inside, and seismology is one of the best tools to figure that out."

Seismic balloons could come in handy on Earth, too. "Balloons could be used to cover ocean regions where conventional seismometers are not yet deployed," notes Garcia. "Another advantage: Balloons may be rapidly deployed just after a big quake for monitoring aftershocks."

https://imgur.com/o5814ol

The test flights have already unearthed a curiosity in South America. On Nov. 28, 2021, just one of the balloons detected a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in northern Peru. The infrasound frequency, 0.23 Hz, was higher than expected; for comparison, the Flores Sea quake registered a more typical 0.085–0.125 Hz. Garcia's team believes the high pitch may have been caused by a "ringing" of sediments in the Amazonian basin.

Sensing earthquakes from the stratosphere is relatively new. Researchers at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory did it for the first time in July 2019. Garcia's study marks the first time an earthquake was detected by more than one balloon. It won't be the last.

For more information, read the original research here. [link to agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com (secure)]

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Magnitude 3.5
Region LUZON, PHILIPPINES
Date time 2022-08-11 09:48:10.0 UTC
Location 17.63 N ; 120.65 E
Depth 10 km
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