Swarm Now Back At Yellowstone!!!!! More at Mammoth Lakes, California, too!

Might as well just be keeping an eye on all of the stuff that is shaking between Yellowstone and California because that is where all the action is right at the moment and it is tough to tell what will happen next. I thought about the possibility Seattle might start to get some of this seismic stuff that is going on here, but in the past it looks more like New Zealand has been next in line. Also am thinking Alaska just because they are like next along that tectonic plate boundary with the Pacific there. And there actually was a 2.5 at Bayview, California up near Eureka and so I suppose they could be next although I do not know for sure if we are watching for a swarm up there or a real major shaker. I suppose we should be prepared for an earthquake just the same there. Here is the link if anybody wishes to see all the newest long list of small earthquakes striking at Yellowstone: http://eqalert.blogspot.com/2013/09/new-yellowstone-swarm-updated-from.html and the original list can still be seen at: http://eqalert.blogspot.com/2013/09/heres-yellowstone-and-old-faithful.html so that if anybody actually wanted to see ALL of them you will need to check out both lists because I thought tonight adding all of the new ones that mostly happened TODAY. . . would make far too long of a list and it would be posted still as last Tuesday or Tuesday of this week. So todays Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm is the first link.

Spent all day today reading up on the book "iWoz" and am really enjoying everything that I am now learning about the invention of the Apple Computer and just today found out that Wozniak and Jobs started working together like in high school. Also seen that movie "Pirates of Silicone Valley" and enjoyed that, too! Just finished book by Scobie and he replyed my text with the fact that they have a new book coming out soon called "Age of Context" that I am now looking forward to, but will have to finish "iWoz" first anyways! Also have "When The Snakes Awake" that I have to read next! That and lots of preparation for upcoming "EQ Radio Show" and let me know if anybody has any requests because I am planning a news radio sort of format like where they play a popular song in background while they are talking, you know. Sports Talk sort of seems to do that now days, too, and I plan to as well. Just added "Changes" by David Bowie and might replace "Long as I can See The Light" by CCR with "Abraham, Martin, and John" by Dion! Let me know if any of you have a request, I have one or two spots, yet! EQ Guy

Edited to fix title of movie.

Update: 3.4 and 2.9 at West Yellowstone and MORE Mammoth Lakes Swarm!! Happy Friday #13!!!

Not that unusual to see West Yellowstone getting earthquakes at all, but a 3.4 and 2.9 at 7:55 and 7:58 respectively is very close to the equivilent of one 6.3 by the advance numbering/calculation system that I am busily working to perfect! Of course it will still need a lot of work but it probably has something to do with the number of seconds apart these things strike, and number of miles apart, and total number of Richters. For now I'm adding them up and giving them to you. . . but in the future multiples of .7 or .8 percent for time and space distance will certainly be in order.

Now the update on Mammoth Lakes is that there were a number of additional smallish shakers over night and here they are:

0.7 9km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 09:05:24
1.1 2km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 08:11:35
1.7 15km N of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 07:56:54
0.9 5km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 07:43:23
0.9 2km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 05:45:20
1.9 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 02:19:36
1.6 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 02:16:00
0.9 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 01:27:41
0.7 2km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 01:20:13

No running total as of yet, I will total them up for my next EQ Blog if they continue, though. What I think is the main cause for concern with all of this new earthquake energy striking at Mammoth Lakes is the fact that this is now as a rule PRECEDING the major shaking of something else, somewhere else. I'll guess New Zealand or Anchorage/Alaska, but Seattle and California could get some of this, too. It is my opinion that this Mammoth Lakes Swarm AND all the major shaking they are getting at Yellowstone WILL equal more major earthquakes in the coming hours and days with that Full Moon now only about a week away as well as today being Day 33 after the landfall of Super Typhoon Utor at Philippines. . . and Friday #13!!!!! Be Watching!!! EQ Guy

Swarm Striking Mammoth Lakes, California Right Now!!!!! Where Next??? Friday 13 Shaker???

Just clicked on latest earthquakes to find a long trail of small shakers that has just now struck at Mammoth Lakes up in the Northern California Region. Here are just the ones that happened in the last few minutes as of this writing:

2.2 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 01:09:58
1.4 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 01:07:49
0.6 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 01:03:39
1.8 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:53:35
1.9 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:49:58
1.5 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:49:13
1.0 8km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:48:26
1.2 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:47:12
0.8 12km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:46:43
1.6 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:46:09
1.5 12km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:45:38
2.6 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:45:07
1.0 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:44:02
1.2 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:43:39
1.1 0km NW of San Fernando, California 2013-09-13 00:40:59
1.1 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:40:48
1.1 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-09-13 00:39:38

That is a lot of earthquake activity and it is possible this will continue on for the coming hours. What I consider to be the unfortunate part of all of this major earthquake energy is that it means there is a lot of seismic activity and that it is now possible that all of this will be moving unknown directions. I would be prepared just as precaution in San Francisco being situated somewhat near this event.

There is still that one major earthquake out there that I did all of the math on in the past days and came up with the night of the September 2013 Full Moon or September 19 for a Major Shaker. Well, here it is Friday, September 13 and so I have to also say something major could shake right this moment as I am writing or at any time in the coming hours today or today. Friday 13 Shaker? EQ Guy

Small Shakers at Half Moon Bay, San Dimas, Fremont, and China Lake!!! Where Next?

There has been some activity out in the Atlantic and it will probably mean even more of those small earthquakes striking at notable places such as Half Moon Bay, Fremont, and China Lake as well as San Dimas all in California. There were also a few more in Yellowstone but I will wait until something just a little bigger strikes to update that list you can see at: http://eqalert.blogspot.com/2013/09/heres-yellowstone-and-old-faithful.html But the basic update is that there were 4 more smallish ones up that way today all around like one, so I didn't really think 4 adding up to 2.9 was worthy of an updated list, yet.

Then there was this big 3.1 that I actually had to click on to try and figure out where it was: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pr13254004#summary You might be able to have some idea what all those places are that they are talking about in that there name, but as of this writing I have no idea unless they are all names of islands, or perhaps rocks, or occasionally shallow water that will sometimes become an island at low tide also gets a name like "The Bottom, Bonair, Saint Eustatius, and Saba?"

So, as September 19, 2013 gets ever closer I noticed the moon high in the sky tonight coming home from my meeting and want to now add that September 19 looks like it will also be the September 2013 Full Moon in addition to already possibly being the date of this next big upcoming Major Earthquake! California? Hopefully Not! EQ Guy

Huge Swarm at Old Faithful and Yellowstone!!! What's Going On??? Foreshocks?

I've watched swarms such as the one that is currently happening up in the Old Faithful region of Yellowstone Park before and have to say it isn't always the ultimate location of a Major Earthquake when the region is ever all done shaking. Two that I can recall that are fresh in my memory are a Baja California Swarm and a Mettler Swarm. The Baja California Swarm happened just a few miles south of Mexicali/Calexico and came to precede the Eureka 2010 Earthquake and the Haiti Earthquake. That Mettler Swarm was located up near Bakersfield in 2005 and ended up preceding the Islamabad Earthquake and I know because I was tracking the potential earthquake energy from the landfall of Hurricane Katrina!

So, Katrina August 29, 2005, Mettler Swarm September 23, 2005, and Islamabad Earthquake October 8, 2005. Baja California Swarm December 30, 2009 through January 1, 2010, Eureka Earthquake January 9, 2010, and Haiti Earthquake January 12, 2010. Therefore landfall of Super Typhoon Utor August 11, Old Faithful, Yellowstone Swarm like September 4-11, 2013, and Ultimate Major Earthquake Resultant. . . . .well September 19, 2013 if there is to be any similarity with the landfall of Hurricane Katrina at Louisiana, and the landfall of Super Typhoon Utor at The Philippines.

Just as a precaution let me again remind all my readers that it does appear there is still that one source of major earthquake energy out there and while the date of September 19 did come up when compared to the Mettler Swarm of 2005, let us watch until then for something major to shake because as I said in recent EQ Blog Posts the next 3 days will be Day 31, 32, and 33 after that landfall. Be Watching and Be Prepared!!! EQ Guy

North of Watkins Glen, New York a 2.0 and a 3.3 at Old Faithfull, Keep Watching Richmond/DC!!!

I was just a little surprised today to see that a 2.0 struck up in the little out of the way region of New York State what looked very near Watkins Glen. . . and seen Watkins Glen State Park right there on the map just 10 miles to the south of this one the USGS located at 4 Miles North of a small town named Dundee, NY. Kind of unusual to have one strike up in that region, but I immediately reasoned the recent landfall of Tropical Storm Gabrielle at Puerto Rico on September 4 might have been about due to shake something up in that region and me, of course, always watching Richmond and Washington DC as most of you probably recall. Let us now still watch Richmond and Washington DC a while just as a precaution, but as I had been saying it should be small like that and no worries!

There was also a 1.6 recorded 1 mile East of Berkeley and it made me wonder if a person can feel a 1.6, or if 2.0 is the starting point where we have any movement other than just a small vibration under foot? OR is 2.0 and 2.5 the number where the USGS begins to record those felt reports? After now having done this enough years and focusing on that tiny fact. . . I want to say that with the increase from 2 to 3 you shake progressively more, and more and thus wind up reporting it on the USGS Felt Reports progressively more, and more, too, but apparently not at 1.6 and that is where I am at right now with the magnitude/felt report ratio.

Finally, as I wrote earlier this week September 11, 12, and 13 will be Day 31, 32, and 33 after the landfall at Philippines of Super Typhoon Utor at Cat-5 and I might still expect something major to shake with those there days being highly susseptible to major earthquakes and my phone has now chimed numerous times with shakers out in the Pacific Islands Regions and so it remains possible there is still significant earthquake energy out there that we should be watching our West Coast for. Also Central and South America since all we know here is that the Pacific Tectonic Plate is moving and due for a Major Shaker!!! Be Prepared! EQ Guy

Watch Northern California/Southern Oregon This Week!!!!! Typhoon Utor Earthquake Energy Still Out There?????

Monday will be Day 10 after the landfall of Tropical Depression Kong-Rey and if I remember correctly that one was downgraded upon the storm approaching landfall at the South of Japan and my notes say USA!!! While winds on my sheet say 40 with gusts of 50, we have been having fairly good luck tracking ones such as this mostly for something to do. . . and as I have always said the smaller ones are good practice because they almost never have a lot of damage, but probably always DO happen so let us track this one for about another 10 days or so and see where this small Northern California Earthquake ends up! This week I will have more time to check the globe for tonight I can already say Northern California/Southern Oregon and since this one is a straight line, it will intersect that region exactly and should be no bigger than 6 Richters, however I myself can not recall the last 6 that struck that region so it will be very noticeable when it strikes there in the coming days.

Here's what I was doing today: http://www.ironman.com/triathlon-news/articles/2013/09/wisconsin-recap.aspx#axzz2eNKXyQ5N Had a great time and met a lot of Great People there, too!

Finally some of this new earthquake energy could have to do with the 2.4 that struck Downtown San Fernando, California just 12 miles North of Burbank, or that 2.8 North of Old Faithful Geyser again. Finally note that September 11, 12, and 13 are Day 31, 32, and 33 after the landfall of Super Typhoon Utor at CAT-4 the Philippines and with all that is going on it might seem hard to keep track of all the different earthquakes that could be coming. . . but this one could be HUGE, so let us keep watching for it!!! EQ Guy

Shakers at Guatemala, Millbrae, and Keep Watching Washington DC!!!

At the same time as we are seeing a lot of big windstorm activity down around the Southern Tip of the Baja California Peninsula, we just also now seen a 6.6 shake Guatemala very near Guatemala City with 73 felt reports from that city. This could have been a much worse earthquake if it struck much closer to a larger population but tells us just the same that it is possible a lot of this new earthquake energy could be heading north along an imaginary line that follows in the direction where these now 2 or 3 Hurricanes and Tropical Storms have struck at B.C.

Just now as I signed on Saturday Morning I also just found a small shaker at Millbrae, Calfornia on San Francisco Bay, and hope no more follow since that is also the town where I changed from the Bay Area Rapid Transit to the Cal-Train, as well as the town where I traveled up Millbrae Avenue to the San Andreas Trail and a great view of beautiful San Andreas Lake. I also toured their very beautiful downtown before getting back on B.A.R.T. and heading back to my motel after visiting the USGS in Menlo Park that day!

So, now hear this. . . we might need to start watching California for a small earthquake in the coming hours and days, but shouldn't hardly be enough to disturb a lot of people. Remember to keep watching around Richmond, Washington DC, and our East Coast for another, this time probably smaller earthquake any minute now, too! EQ Guy

Be Prepared DC!!!!! Also Watch Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama For Earthquakes!!!!!

Just checked the numbers on the landfall of Hurricane Irene at Puerto Rico and the exact moment was early on August 21, 2011 with that HUGE Virginia Earthquake that shook Washington, DC following at 1:51pm on August 23, 2011.

NOW, we will be watching a somewhat similar, but a lot smaller obviously, landfall of Tropical Storm Gabrielle at Puerto Rico that I have recorded on my sheet as 11:42pm the night of September 4, 2011. With the 24 hour mark just now passing it looks like the exact moment when the two of these marks might be due to pass if there was such a thing, and they do come close sometime, the exact moment will fall on the difference between "Early" on August 21 and 1:51 in the afternoon Aug. 23. With the 48 hour mark being on Friday Night, it would then be Late Friday or Early on Saturday Morning and of course we should probably start watching right this moment since the September 2013 New Moon Window is currently running and runs until Friday sometime.

There is also somewhat of a chance that places such as the Carolinas could get earthquakes with this small amount of energy headed up that way, as well as Alabama, and Tennessee places where small earthquakes DO happen. I suppose New York, too! Should not be anything too big for anybody to worry about. . . just that it is always nice when we know there is earthquake energy heading for us!!! Of course there is other earthquake stuff around the world, too, but for now I suppose we could focus on the East Coast!!! Be Prepared DC!!!!! EQ Guy

New Tropical Storm at Dominician Republic!!! (Edit: It's Puerto Rico) So. . . Richmond/Washington, DC Shaker!!!? New Moon Window is also NOW!!!

The answer to the question is Old Faithful seismically active seems like it might be answered by the swarm of like 5 or so small earthquakes that struck 14km from there in recent hours. I suppose if you really think about it. . . that big of a thing with such a huge steam vent sort of does indicate that there is something going on there, but I guess I was just never sure that meant seismic activity. What kind of thing is that there, anyways a vent of some kind, AND is it ever possible that something like Old Faithful could be the epicenter and if so of how big an earthquake?

Just noticed the September New Moon Window actually started early Wednesday at 6:36am my time, 4:36am Pacific and the actual moment of the New Moon will be Thursday morning at 4:36am Pacific. So we will be watching especially due to the fact that there is right now a lot of smallish earthquake energy and still one possible big one, although there has been quite a lot of big energy just released up in the Alaska Islands. . . Utor could still be out there so we will watch well into around September 23 or Day 43 and also close to the September Full Moon on September 19.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle has just formed and is looking like it is making landfall at Dominican Republic as I am writing and looks like it might also generate enough seismic energy there to also be an immediate earthquake threat, too! So also watch that immediate area for some fair sized shakers. . . . . but also RICHMOND/WDC!!!!! Could be in the range of 5 or 6 Richters and when Hurricane Irene hit there one night the 5.9 was the very next day!!! Be Prepared Washington, DC!!!!! EQ Guy

Edit: T.S. Gabrielle is actually affecting Puerto Rico, which is where the landfall preceded that Virginia 5.9

HUGE Los Angeles Swarm IN PROGRESS!!!!! Watch Out!!! Be Prepared!!!!!

I am looking at this right now as I write and seeing the very latest shakers as they happen with 3.3 Borrego Springs only minutes ago as well as San Bernardino, Anza, Aguanga, and Yucca Valley!!!!! On the surface this looks like a very serious swarm happening right there on that exact stretch of the SAN ANDREAS FAULT where they have long been saying they are overdue for the next major earthquake to strike! Especially Watch and Be Prepared in that region!!! There is at least one big source of earthquake energy around the Pacific and while I do not believe Los Angeles will be the ultimate target for it. . . we do want to note that a major earthquake COULD still strike L.A. just about anytime!

You might have read my early Tuesday EQ Blog where I tracked the earthquake energy from Kong-Rey directly to Victoria, British Columbia. . . and today they got among many, a 6.0 Richters Earthquake up there exactly where I discussed in my early today EQ Blog or Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Island and Victoria, British Columbia. You could go back to that EQ Blog if you wish paragraph 4 @ http://earthquakealert.blogspot.com/2013/09/41-and-43-at-texas-among-strongest-ever.html

There was also a 6.5 Izo Islands, Japan and more Aleutian Islands and Atka, Alaska earthquakes so it is possible there could in the coming hours be an upcoming MAJOR EARTHQUAKE in one of these regions although most of you probably do not even need me to tell you that. . . just seeing everything that is shaking! By Earthquake Preparations, I mean a minimum of one or two of the things that might be on such a complete list such as some extra bottled water and then when the alert subsides you may go ahead and drink from this supply and then refresh it at the next time something starts shaking. There are also some basic food supplies, but whatever ones you prefer would be satisfactory. Finally whatever tools you have, maybe a hammer, pry bar, screwdriver or whatever, should be at least located as well as any extra blankets. My Earthquake Preparation expert friend says you should locate this stuff somewhere you will be able to access it such as near an exit, window, garage and has a complete container with lots of stuff packed. This type of preparation is the basis for ultimately knowing what all you might need in a major earthquake. Thank-You for reading! EQ Guy

6.0 Just North of Victoria, British Columbia!!! Plus Aftershocks!!!

Of course it was just early today that I wrote all about this one happening and wasn't too surprised when so far THREE have now struck up in that region, actually 368 Miles Northwest of Victoria the capital city of British Columbia which I wanted to discuss in my earlier EQ Blog but am now too busy as you can imagine!!! You can read the last paragraph of my early today EQ Blog about Victoria and Queen Charlotte Island @ http://earthquakealert.blogspot.com/2013/09/41-and-43-at-texas-among-strongest-ever.html

This Earthquake Energy might just be also headed for Seattle, and possibly that entire general area and while I was not watching for too much more than 6 Richters there is always the chance of more or something a little bigger shaking so be prepared!

Booked the EQ Radio Show last night and you can try the link to them online at http://www.wortfm.org/ and see if clicking "Listen Live" works for you all out there everywhere around the world where you won't be able to pull in the local FM signal to hear my EQ Radio Show on September 30, 2013 at 7 PM Central Time, 5 Pacific Time.

Keep Watching for more earthquakes and there might even be some additional push on that tectonic plate boundary between the Pacific and North American Tectonic Plate so watch out entire West Coast!!! EQ Guy

4.1 and 4.3 at Texas!!! Among Strongest Ever To Hit Texas!!!

The two medium sized earthquakes that struck at Texas today were located about 120 Miles North of Port Arthur, TX and a few more miles North of Galveston. While there were no reports of either of them being felt in Houston, there were numerous reports from a lot of other places such as 60 from Nacogdoches, 5 from Shreveport, and 21 from Timpson where the epicenter was reported as 2 Miles West Northwest of. I must note that there had been a landfall of a Tropical Depression Kong-Rey that might have been a downgraded typhoon at the South of Japan possibly being involved in this new earthquake energy because there was also a 2.5 just 14 Miles North West of Memphis, Tennessee. If so, we should continue to be watching for more and they could get just a little bit bigger, but not much.

The earthquakes continued up there in the Alaska Islands and I went ahead and updated the list to now include the very latest right up to this writing. Here is that updated List of Alaska Earthquakes: http://eqalert.blogspot.com/2013/08/heres-all-earthquakes-at-atka-alaska.html DO YOU THINK all of this Alaska Islands movement could BE the earthquake energy measured earlier at Marlborough, New Zealand at 5 Centimeters and Cook Strait at 8 Centimeters, where I then said "Easter Island" and Easter Island then got 3 Magnitude 5 Earthquakes in a row? Did those Alaska Islands now also just move 5 to 8 Centimeters, or collide as they say pushing 5 to 8 Centimeters over or under another tectonic plate up that way?

IF that was the case, then we still have the earthquake energy from the landfall of Super Typhoon Utor out there to watch all through September with Tuesday being Day 23. . . OR the day number when the Great Sumatra Earthquake struck after a similar landfall of Super Typhoon Nanmadol in December 2004.

Also the close brush with land of Tropical Storm Kiko at Baja California on September 1 possibly causing something to shake up in Southern California one of these days and finally Kong-Rey might send some earthquake energy over towards Queen Charlotte, and Vancouver Island, Victoria and Seattle Regions. Hope Everybody had a Great Labor Day Weekend!!! I got a lot of bike riding in!!! EQ Guy