It sort of almost looks like they had that 7.1 at Papua New Guinea at about the same instant that Tropical Cyclone ITA was making its huge landfall at Australia! That is the landfall of TC Ita pushing against the shores North of Cairns, Australia might well have already been the first in a potential series of Major Shakers yet to come in the wake of the landfall of this Huge Windstorm with wind gusts reported as high as 189 mph!!!
I do recall mentioning in my earlier EQ Blog today that we should probably watch immediately for shaking due to the possibility that just such a thing could occur and am not really too surprised that we did have something like that or at least it appears we do. You decide whether they were connected. . . but I am going to say they are!
One of the aftershocks of yesterdays 6.1 that struck 25 miles north of Managua, Nicaragua has now struck to the Southwest of that city and left the City of Managua situated just about right in between the Major Earthquake and now at least one of the aftershocks. Could indicate this city might be next inline to become an actual epicenter itself, just a matter of how big and how close to the heart of that city! Managua was struck by a big earthquake in the 1970's, you know.
Landfall of Tropical Cyclone unfortunately will probably mean the NEXT in the line with other major earthquakes that have been the result of similar Tropical Cyclones that I know of striking that very dangerous region of North East Australia with the others being the Bam, Iran Earthquake of 2004, Haichang, China Earthquake of 1975, Christchurch, and Honshu Japan Earthquakes of 2011. ALL are Major Earthquakes that struck following the landfall of similar huge Tropical Cyclones up in those northern shores of Australia and if that 7.1 at Papua New Guinea at 2:07am Central Time and immediately following the EYE of T.C. Ita's landfall, is any indication. . . then the tectonic plate there is already on the move!!! Be Watching!!! EQ Guy
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