Monumental Earthquakes Rocking the Globe - It's Starting

MONUMENTAL PLANETARY TREMORS: MAJOR ESCALATION IN GLOBAL SEISMIC DISTURBANCES - 
7.1 AND 6.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKES ROCK THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA IN MINUTES!

1:15 AM  ANDRE HEATH  

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 07:15:48 UTC. The quake was located at 28.790°N, 113.142°W and had a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles).

The epicentre was 134 km (83 miles) northeast (48°) from Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico; 162 km (101 miles) west (268°) from La Doce, Sonora, Mexico; 180 km (112 miles) northwest (334°) from Santa Rosalia, Baja Calif. Sur, Mexico; 214 km (133 miles) west (262°) from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; and 557 km (346 miles) SE (137°) from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has since downgraded the magnitude to 6.9.

NOAA's West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center indicated that based on the earthquake magnitude, location and historic tsunami records, a damaging tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska coasts. NO tsunami warning, watch or advisory is in effect for these areas.

This earthquake, comes against the background of a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in the same region, several minutes earlier at 07:06:01 UTC. This quake was located at 28.841°N, 113.072°W with a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles). The epicentre was 142 km (88 miles) northeast of Guerrero Negro, Baja Calif. Sur, Mexico; 182 km (113 miles) northwest of Santa Rosalia, Baja Calif. Sur, Mexico; 207 km (128 miles) west of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; and 519 km (322 miles) south of Phoenix, Arizona.

In the space of just one day, we have witnessed, a 8.7 and 8.2 off the west coast of northern Sumatra, a 6.0 in the North Indian Ocean, a 7.0 in Michoacan, Mexico and now a 7.1 and 6.2 in the Gulf of California. This escalation in the seismic disturbance across the globe can only be described as monumental.

12-APR-2012 08:56:29	37.48	72.01	4.1	163.4	TAJIKISTAN

DATE and TIME (UTC)	LAT-ITUDE	LONG-ITUDE	MAG-NITUDE	DEPTH km	REGION
12-APR-2012 07:57:32	28.51	-112.95	4.3	10.0	GULF OF CALIFORNIA
12-APR-2012 07:15:48	28.79	-113.14	6.9	10.3	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
12-APR-2012 07:06:01	28.84	-113.07	6.2	10.1	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
12-APR-2012 06:48:38	28.80	-113.05	4.9	9.8	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
12-APR-2012 03:29:22	37.81	-112.10	4.8	0.8	UTAH

DATE and TIME (UTC)	LAT-ITUDE	LONG-ITUDE	MAG-NITUDE	DEPTH km	REGION
12-APR-2012 09:15:18	1.11	92.03	4.7	27.5	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
12-APR-2012 07:43:48	2.97	92.74	5.1	30.4	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
12-APR-2012 07:34:57	3.40	89.82	5.2	15.8	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
12-APR-2012 07:01:46	1.96	93.93	5.0	26.9	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
12-APR-2012 06:47:36	2.90	89.46	4.8	14.7	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
12-APR-2012 05:48:24	1.80	89.55	4.9	15.1	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
12-APR-2012 02:54:44	1.22	91.77	5.0	14.8	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
12-APR-2012 02:42:43	3.53	92.69	4.8	27.7	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
12-APR-2012 00:50:36	2.56	92.30	4.7	10.0	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
12-APR-2012 00:30:02	4.45	92.86	4.7	29.2	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 23:56:33	1.80	89.67	6.0	13.9	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 23:18:50	3.09	92.84	4.6	10.2	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 22:51:58	2.90	89.60	5.8	14.7	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 22:35:34	2.49	90.19	5.1	14.8	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 22:15:26	0.51	92.44	5.3	13.8	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 21:36:08	1.83	90.95	5.0	10.0	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 21:02:47	0.71	92.28	4.7	10.0	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 19:04:19	1.20	92.09	5.5	10.3	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 16:04:23	3.43	92.86	5.1	10.8	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 15:46:52	2.99	92.25	5.1	21.6	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 15:09:26	2.97	90.06	5.1	13.1	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 14:54:29	1.34	91.84	5.3	11.9	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 14:34:18	1.50	90.89	5.3	14.4	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 14:26:27	2.29	92.39	5.0	9.4	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 14:18:44	2.57	92.30	5.0	10.3	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 14:08:40	1.15	92.16	5.8	9.6	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 13:58:06	1.49	90.89	5.5	13.7	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 13:42:40	2.15	93.57	5.3	10.0	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 13:39:55	0.60	91.89	4.6	10.0	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 13:32:34	1.91	89.58	4.6	10.0	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 13:19:37	2.35	90.30	4.9	20.4	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 13:15:28	4.61	90.76	5.1	5.3	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 13:10:06	0.89	92.38	4.5	10.0	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 12:37:48	2.53	92.60	5.1	10.0	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 12:21:58	3.14	92.77	5.1	9.9	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 12:10:53	1.39	92.64	5.2	10.4	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 11:53:36	2.93	89.53	6.4	14.9	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 11:52:29	0.99	91.94	5.3	14.9	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 11:34:02	0.74	92.87	5.5	15.5	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 10:43:09	0.77	92.45	8.3	16.4	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 10:36:54	1.07	91.94	5.4	15.5	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 10:21:15	2.83	92.48	5.3	14.8	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 10:08:30	2.65	90.08	5.8	16.1	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 10:01:20	2.50	90.37	5.3	20.0	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 09:51:41	2.51	90.32	5.3	20.0	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
11-APR-2012 09:27:56	1.28	91.73	6.0	9.8	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
11-APR-2012 08:38:37	2.31	93.06	8.6	22.9	OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA

April 12, 2012 Thursday 3.5 EQ {swarms}
Location: 33.458N, 116.477W
Region: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
13 Miles ESE from Anza, California
16 Miles NNW from Borreto Springs, California
26 Miles S from Palm Springs, California
[3.7 Miles Deep]
USGS

12-APR-2012 02:29:41	42.00	-65.99	4.8	15.8	NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

See Dutchsinse Video of yesterday, April 11, 2012:  

Dutchsinse puts it together - 6 large quakes in 24 hours.

Sources:

Celestial Convergence

Iris Seismic Monitor

USGS 

Real Time USGS Map

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Quakes Concentrated in Japan

Strangely, most of the earth's quakes are happening in Japan for now.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Usually when I check the Iris monitor, the RED (today) or ORANGE (yesterday) circles are distributed more or less evenly around the Ring of Fire and some small ones around the globe.

Movement seems to be concentrated in mostly one spot for now.

What could it mean?  The most energy release at this fault line juncture?

What will it be like in a few days, a week, a month?  And March 17 - 25th, when some predictions have been made for super quakes around the Supermoon?

 

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Violent Seismic Activity Tearing Africa in Two

High-Speed Geology Violent Seismic Activity Tearing Africa in Two By Axel Bojanowski Photo Gallery: 22 Photos University of Bristol / Lorraine Field The fissures began appearing years ago. But in recent months, seismic activity has accelerated in northeastern Africa as the continent breaks apart in slow motion. Researchers say that lava in the region is consistent with magma normally seen on the sea floor -- and that water will ultimately cover the desert. Cynthia Ebinger, a geologist from the University of Rochester in New York, could hardly believe what the caller from the deserts of Ethiopia was saying. It was an employee at a mineralogy company -- and he reported that the famous Erta Ale volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was erupting. Ebinger, who has studied the volcano for years, was taken aback. The volcano's crater had always been filled with a bubbling soup of silver-black lava, but it had been decades since its last eruption. The call came last November. And Ebinger immediately flew to Ethiopia with some fellow researchers. "The volcano was bubbling over; flaming-red lava was shooting up into the sky," Ebinger told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The earth is in upheaval in northeastern Africa, and the region is changing quickly. The desert floor is quaking and splitting open, volcanoes are boiling over, and seawaters are encroaching upon the land. Africa, researchers are certain, is splitting apart at a rate rarely seen in geology. The first fracture appeared millions of years ago, resulting in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The second fracture, stretching south from Ethiopia to Mozambique, is known as the Great Rift Valley, and it is lined with several volcanoes. Millions of years from now, it too will be filled with seawater. Could Go Quickly But in the Danakil Depression, in the northern part of the valley, the ocean could arrive much sooner. There, low, 25 meter (82 foot) hills are the only thing holding back the waters of the Red Sea. The land behind them has already dropped dozens of meters from previous levels and white salt deposits on the desert floor testify to past encroachments of the sea. But lava soon choked off its access. For now, no one can really say when the sea will finally flood the desert. But when it does, it could go quickly. "The hills could sink in a matter of days," Tim Wright, a fellow at the University of Leeds' School of Earth and Environment, said at a recent conference hosted by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. In the last five years, the geologic transformation of northeastern Africa has "accelerated dramatically," says Wright. Indeed, the process is going much faster than many had anticipated. In recent years, geologists had measured just a few millimeters of movement each year. "But now the earth is opening up by the meter," says Loraine Field, a scholar at the University of Bristol who also attended the conference. HE AFAR TRIANGLE The Great Rift Valley (northern part) Earth tremors cause deep fissures to form in the desert floor and the ground in East Africa is shattering like broken glass. Researchers in the Gulf of Tadjoura, which juts into Djibouti from the Gulf of Aden, have recently registered a barrage of seismic shocks. "The quakes are happening on the mid-ocean ridge," Ebinger reports. Shifting Tectonic Plates Lava gushes out of fissures in these underwater mountain ranges to constantly create new earth crust -- when it hardens, it becomes part of the sea floor. As the magma surges upward, it spreads the ocean floor on both sides, shifting tectonic plates and causing tremors. In recent months, the quaking in the Gulf of Tadjoura has been getting closer and closer to the coastline. As Ebinger explains, the splitting of the ocean floor will gradually extend to dry land. This is already the case along some fault lines in the Ethiopian desert, creating a geological spectacle that can otherwise only be witnessed deep below the surface of the ocean. Even the pattern of earthquakes supports the conclusion that the desert landscape is transforming into a deep seafloor, according to a recent article in theJournal of Geophysical Research published by Zhaohui Yang and Wang-Ping Chen, two geologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The researchers have recorded several strong earthquakes at a shallow depth in northeastern Africa similar to ones that are otherwise only seen on mid-ocean ridges far out at sea. In recent months, researchers have also recorded an up-tick in volcanic activity. Indeed, geologists have discovered volcanic eruptions near the earth's surface at 22 places in the Afar Triangle in northeastern Africa. Magma has caused fissures up to eight meters (26 feet) wide to open up in the ground, reports Derek Keir from the University of Leeds. While most of the magma remains beneath the surface, in places like Erta Ale it has made its way above ground. An Ocean Without Water Scientists have also noted that the kind of magma bubbling up in the region is the type otherwise only seen spewing forth from mid-ocean ridges deep below the water's surface. One of its signature characteristics is a low proportion of silicic acid. The magma coming out of Erta Ale has the same chemical composition as the kind that emerges from deep-sea volcanoes. The entire region increasingly resembles an ocean floor -- one without water. The new burst in activity began in 2005, when a 60-kilometer-long fissure suddenly formed in the Afar Depression. Since then, roughly 3.5 cubic kilometers of magma have gushed forth, according to Tim Wright -- enough to cover the entire area of London to an average person's height. From a geological perspective, the speed with which the magma is pushing forth is astonishing. It has been channeling its way through the rock below the earth's surface at speeds of up to 30 meters per minute, reports Eric Jacques from the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris. Satellite measurements attest to the consequences: In one 200-kilometer stretch welling up with magma, the ground looks like asphalt on a hot summer day. Magma is also pooling up under the Dabbahu Volcano in northern Ethiopia, Lorraine Field reported in San Francisco. Continuing to Expand The satellite data has also shown that a much larger area has been scarred by fissures than previously assumed, says Keir. Subterranean currents of magma are also causing ground temperatures to spike in eastern Egypt, a team of geologists from Egypt's National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics recently reported in Seismological Research Letters. At the AGU conference, Columbia University's James Gaherty reported that magma eruptions have ripped a 17-kilometer gash into the desert floor in the northern part of Malawi and that the lateral pressure they have exerted has even lifted the surrounding earth up to 50 centimeters (20 inches) in places. The most violent upsurge of magma in recent years, though, happened in an unexpected place. In May 2009, a subterranean volcano erupted in Saudi Arabia. A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 accompanied by tens of thousands of milder tremors forced 30,000 to seek shelter. Magma spewed out of the ground in an area about the size of Berlin and Hamburg combined, Sigurjon Jonsson from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology reported at the AGU meeting. The fact that the eruption took place almost 200 kilometers (124 miles) away from the fault line in North Africa "surprised all of us," says Cynthia Ebinger. And the world's largest geological construction site continues to expand. Loraine Field confirms that more and more magna is pushing its way to the earth's surface, adding that: "The magma chamber is reloading." Oxford University's David Ferguson predicts a considerable increase in volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in the region over the next decade. They will, he says, "become of increasingly large magnitude." 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