In the last 48 hours or so Tropical Cyclone Tomas made landfall around Fiji and a few hours later there was a 4.4 Richters earthquake at Pico Rivera, California, just one or two miles from downtown East Los Angeles with the epicenter recorded at just over 1000 feet south of the Shakeys Pizza and In-And-Out Burger on the corner of Whitter and Rosemead Boulavards! As fast as I could check this out with my patented "Globe/Wrap-Around Tool" I found that if this new potential seismic energy travels in a straight line it would strike at around Northern British Columbia, Yukon, and Juneau, Alaska. Actually the imaginary straight line travels the other direction and comes out up around Greenland, Labrador, and New Foundland, and our Northern East Coast, which probably would then come back out over around the Yukon. This alert will now basically run through the month of April, but probably only affect the above regions.
Tropical Cyclone Tomas may not be finished yet, and there is still another Tropical Cyclone named Ului that is heading directly for Australia with 100 Knot winds and 125 Knot gusts! If Ului makes landfall in that condition it could mean another big earthquake not quite as big as Bam, Iran 2003, since that is the general direction Ului is heading similar to Tropical Cyclone Debbie that made landfall near there in the days before Bam, Iran 2003, a major earthquake where like 40,000 people were killed.
There is now presently a fair amount of potential seismic activity out there and possibly more to come, however note that these may not be major alerts and these amounts so far are not real big major earthquakes we are now talking about, maybe 6 or 6.1 Richters up near Greenland, Yukon, or our Northern East Coast, or something like that!
5 comments:
Just discovered your blog.
Reason is I have a house in the Azores (Pico) which is a major earthquake zone and also has vulcanicity, being located at the intersection of three plates. Any unusual activity there? Would love to ask you for an earthquake prediction but it's too inexact a science I suppose...
Personally I'm expecting a big one just after I finish renovating the house.
In what way is it a great message for you??? I'm trying to converse with the blog owner. He might find the intense activity west of Faial Island interesting. Looks like a brand new volcano about to emerge down the road from me.
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Marcus,
Occasionally there are earthquakes out your way, but as I like to tell anyone who asks, the epicenter of any major earthquake in your region will generally be far enough away such as IN Lisbon Portugal, France, Morrocco, or Algiers if you know what I mean.
Right at the moment there is a smallish alert for the shores of Greenland, Labrador, New Foundland and Yukon, but this is rather specific straight line sort of seismic energy and i do not expect it to affect the Azores hardly at all.
Thank-You for writing me and keep on top of my EQ Blog and you shouldn't have to ever worry! And that volcano will happen over a period of hundreds of millions of years and not today or tomorrow!!!!!
EQ Guy
Thanks for the kind reply! I'm not to worried about volcanic eruptions but there was one in 1957 on Faial:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/faial-island-eruption-podimage.html
Now there is frequent seismic activity concentrated a few miles west of there, so it seems the hotspot has moved.
I am however worried about earthquakes on Azores Pico Island, they seem to come very regularly every 10-15 years and by that count there should be another one due soon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_natural_disasters_in_the_Azores
Regards, Marcus
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