earthquakes

An 8.0 quake just hit Northern Peru. This is the largest quake this year, and the largest since August, 2018. It was at a depth of 109.9km's (76 miles). I keep an eye out at this time of the year because of what the webbot predicted for the end of May and early June, back in 2013 (Global...

Hah! "Nobody knows why" Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why

On May the 22nd, 1960, one of the largest Earthquakes ever recorded, a 9.5 magnitude, struck Valdivia in southern Chile, at a depth of 33km's (21m’s). This was classified as a megathrust quake; these are quakes that have a strength of 9.0 or above. It was estimated that around 6,000 lives were...

Years ago I used to follow the Earthquake Alert Guy, which is an American with a blogger.com blog that he's been running for years, focused on Earthquakes. Some of you may remember past articles of his that I've re-posted from his blog on transients. I was wondering what he thought about the...

Two Scientists in the US just presented a new seismic theory. Since 2013 there has been an increase in seismic activity, with their information indicating that the Earth's rotation slowed down that year, and every year since. They predict 2018 will have a dramatic increase in the number of...

transients.info submitted a new transients.info article. New Zealand Earthquake: One Of The Most Complex Ever Recorded On Land Via The Watchers, 16 November 2016 New Zealand's GeoNet has revised their initial magnitude of the November 13, 2016 Kaikoura earthquake from M7.5 to M7.8. The...

A friend of mine in Oklahoma sent an email this morning about a good-sized earthquake originating north of Pawnee, Ok. early this morning. She attached a news article that described how it was felt from Nebraska to north Texas and was likely due to oil drilling processes. It was on Yahoo News...

Funny how you can live on a planet your whole life and then suddenly notice something completely new. I was looking at the European-Mediterranean Seismic Center (EMSC)'s site, and noticed a strange array of activity. Here is a shot of that (click to enlarge): Hm, I thought, what if the earth...