The last in that major series of small earthquakes that was striking around Southern California all day today came late this afternoon and you can see the whole list at the link when I'm all done telling the story. They went on to shake at Berkeley and Alum Rock up in the San Francisco area with so far the biggest one striking at 8:34pm my time or 6:34pm Pacific near Lake Isabella, California or 36 miles North of Tehachapi and 37 ENE of Bakersfield. Here is the link, now updated: http://eqalert.blogspot.com/2013/10/california-just-started-shaking.html
Looking at the total of around 65 Richters all striking at the one specific location around the south corner of the Salton Sea, it looks like to me the Pacific Tectonic plate might either be moving from Northwest to Southeast. . . or the North American Tectonic Plate is moving from Northeast to Southwest actually a more reasonable possibility if I might say so myself, there. Guessing the recent severe winter conditions at Nebraska, Iowa, and Dakotas are up in that direction and it makes sense to me that is the direction this earthquake energy could be coming from. If that is the case it makes it just slightly more possible that the shaking will continue and the big 5.9 Richters grand finale might be out there!
Having given some additional thought to Pakistan striking like virtually the next day after the landfall of Super Typhoon Usagi. . . I have determined that YES, it is possible! Recalling the early days of my EQ Alerts when I routinely posted immediately that people in shaky areas should begin watching IMMEDIATELY whenever such a huge windstorm as in this case, Super Typhoon Usagi, makes landfall just in the event something might shake immediately and so it DID!!! Might now be more of a fact, might have been a little fact that I stumbled over in my very early research, and might be what happened back in the hours that followed that landfall of September 23 with the earthquake dated September 24. So, continue to watch and see what is happening with that shaky tectonic plate boundary between the Australian and Pacific Plates and possibly Chile and Peru and maybe Easter Island again and go from there. SHOULD still be out there but 7.7 and 6.8 was a lot of earthquake energy released. Thank-You for Reading!!! EQ Guy
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FYI, On this date in 1980, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Algeria, killing over 3,000 people and leaving a staggering 300,000 Algerians homeless. The Algerian earthquake took place exactly 200 years after the Great Hurricane of 1780 took the lives of over 20,000 people in the Caribbean. Making 10/10 even more deadly, weather-wise, on October 10th, 1986, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit El Salvador, killing 1,500 people.
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