Spent a few moments today working on the exact magnitude of possible earthquakes up in the Alaska area and the numbers I came up with were nowhere near the 7.7 that struck recently at Pakistan. Rather, the winds that struck at the South of Japan on September 15 say 75mph and 90 mph gusts on my card here. You would probably like to know exactly what might be going on up that way if for no other reason then to have as close of an estimate as possible when this upcoming Anchorage/Alaska Earthquake strikes. So. . . 90 mph gusts do not even actually always warrant an alert, so I have to say we might watch for something as big as about a 7.0 Richters Earthquake around Anchorage, Juneau, or the epicenter of the 1964 Alaska Earthquake which is right in between there somewhere. So this one might be in between 6 and 7 Richters.
Not the Banda Aceh, Phuket, Andaman/Nicobar Islands Shaker that is coming, though! This one could still be upwards of 8 or maybe even 9 Richters and is most likely still out there! I will have more updates as the days pass on this one but it runs all the way into November so this one will be big. . . and a ways out in the future, yet!
I do not expect any of the above ones to affect California beyond just the slightest movements of the San Andreas Fault as all of these other plates are moving. Not so for Yellowstone where they are actually very near that same line that I am watching up in Alaska and just posted at 6 or 7. Ditto for Yellowstone, Helena, Wyoming, and New Madrid where they are already shaking!!! Here is the list I just seen from today:
Updated: 2013-09-28 00:38:38 All Times CDT (UTC-05:00. 17 earthquakes in map area
0.4 8km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 14:07:03
-0.1 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 14:00:06
1.3 8km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 13:57:18
2.1 8km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 13:19:28
0.1 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 12:22:01
0.4 8km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 12:13:32
0.2 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 11:30:26
0.7 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 11:12:32
1.3 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 10:43:04
-0.29km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 10:42:52
2.3 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 10:40:23
2.3 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 10:38:53
0.1 8km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 10:33:40
0.2 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 09:43:19
0.1 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 08:44:31
0.8 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 08:43:27
0.7 9km N of West Yellowstone, Montana 2013-09-27 08:42:37
Just a lot of earthquakes and while not all that unusual for Yellowstone, I just want to say we ARE watching for something major to shake that region and it CAN happen. Keep Watching for earthquakes Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and New Madrid as well as those other places! Meanwhile I have one more song to get to prepare for my EQ Radio Show on Monday Night. Might end the show with . . . . . well, suppose I shouldn't say what song I might end with:)
Thank-You again for Reading!!! EQ Guy
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