4.0 Richters Struck Between Salem, And Portland, Oregon Late Wednesday!!! Also a 4.3 Northern California Earthquake, Too!!! And 2.4 Richters Struck Piru in The Middle of That Big Wildfire Up In That Region!!!

Earthquakes are coming in while I'm getting todays EQ Blog together!!! Thought the most recent was going to be the big write-up about this here 4.0 Richters Earthquake that Struck 20 Miles East of Salem, Oregon and 30 Miles South of Portland, Oregon. . . . . and so let me get started with this one but there's more!!! Here's The Felt Report from the 4.0 Oregon Shaker at Earthquake Central@ http://eqalert.blogspot.com/2017/12/40-richters-earthquake-struck-20-miles.html

Who would have EVER beleived that I'd have been so close on that Haiti Earthquake!!! This one even surprised me and took me a moment to go back through and find where I posted Haiti. . . and found Day 60 on that alert will be yet to come on December 20th! It's the end of the line we are following through Fairbanks, and Edmonton and even below I'll go on to tell you about another shaker at Dover, Delaware, too!!! And I know I said Haiti more than once in recent blogs, and probably "Earthquake Minute" too!!! Here's that:

3.6 9km NW of Petit Goave, Haiti, 2017-12-13, 4:10pm Central Time

Nearby Places:
35 Miles West of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

At first I only saw the 2.1, but at press time I noticed there had been more than one and result is the list that follows this here bigger one along with the felt report from the now 2.4 Piru Earthquake. List of so far 3 there follows:

2.4 - 4km SE of Piru, CA
2017-12-13 16:06:10 UTC

City.........State.Zip.USA...............................#.....Km
Simi Valley, CA 93065 United States of America.....1....21 km
Simi Valley, CA 93063 United States of America.....1....22 km
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 United States of America...1....28 km
Rowland Heights, CA 91748 United States of America.1....94 km
Yucaipa, CA 92399 United States of America.........1....167 km

1.6 2km SSE of Piru, CA 2017-12-13 16:33
2.1 3km SE of Piru, CA 2017-12-13 16:23
2.4 4km SE of Piru, CA 2017-12-13 16:06

Dover, Delaware could still get something as this additional tiny one indicates:

1.2 - 13km NE of Dover, Delaware
2017-12-13 00:45:27 UTC 39.258°N 75.436°W 2.7 km depth

Nearby Places:
2.2 Miles ENE of Whitehall Landing, Delaware
8.4 Miles NE of Dover, Delaware
15.9 Miles SW of Bridgeton, New Jersey
20.0 Miles SE of Middletown, Delaware

Big 6.5 Richters Earthquake shook the middle of the ocean South of Africa. . . but probably tells us there's going to be more shaking like this somewhere else soon:

6.5 - 82km WNW of Bouvet Island, Bouvet Island
2017-12-13 18:03:43 UTC 54.209°S 2.140°E 15.1 km depth

Nearby Places:
1369 Miles SE of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, Saint Helena
1598.4 Miles SW of Hermanus, South Africa
1602.4 Miles SW of Retreat, South Africa
1606.9 mi) SW of Claremont, South Africa
1607.2 mi) SW of Lansdowne, South Africa

As was predictable, the Indian Ocean Tectonic Plate IS moving as the result of all the shaking around Yap, Micronesia recently!!! These are two different ones and I'll discuss the connection later in the blog, right now check out the reports that came to my E-Mail:

== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==

Region: Eastern Iran
Magnitude: 6.0
Universal Time (UTC): 12 Dec 2017, 21:41:32
Local standard time in your area: 12 Dec 2017, 15:41:32

Location with respect to nearby cities:
64.2 km (39.8 mi) NNE of Kermān, Iran
65.2 km (40.4 mi) SE of Rāvar, Iran
67.9 km (42.1 mi) E of Zarand, Iran
121.6 km (75.4 mi) NNE of Bardsīr, Iran
131.6 km (81.6 mi) ENE of Rafsanjān, Iran

== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==

Region: Eastern Iran
Magnitude: 5.9
Universal Time (UTC): 12 Dec 2017, 08:43:19
Local standard time in your area: 12 Dec 2017, 02:43:19

Location with respect to nearby cities:
56.2 km (34.8 mi) NNE of Kermān, Iran
69.8 km (43.3 mi) E of Zarand, Iran
73.0 km (45.3 mi) SE of Rāvar, Iran
115.2 km (71.4 mi) NE of Bardsīr, Iran
130.2 km (80.7 mi) ENE of Rafsanjān, Iran

Here's what the Kerman Earthquakes look like when I put them on the list with the ones near Baghdad, and you can see it looks like there just might be a connection between the shaking at Baghdad and the shaking at Kerman:

6.0 64km NNE of Kerman, Iran 2017-12-12 15:41
5.9 56km NNE of Kerman, Iran 2017-12-12 02:43
4.7 28km SW of Halabjah, Iraq 2017-12-11 08:42, NW of Baghdad
5.4 25km WSW of Halabjah, Iraq 2017-12-11 08:09, NW of Baghdad

Submitted a new update to my friends at Pacifica Radio Network on Tuesday and here's a look at the transcript. . . although it probably wouldn't even air until later today if they decide to play it at all you know@ http://earthquakealert.blogspot.com/2017/12/transcript-santa-ana-winds-pacifica.html

Here's some other shaking that took place around the Caribbean, and keep watching there because something much bigger could still happen:

1.6 16km SSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico 2017-12-13 08:48
3.1 2km ENE of Candelero Arriba, Puerto Rico 2017-12-13 03:43
2.2 4km SE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2017-12-13 00:15
2.4 3km SW of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico 2017-12-13 00:00:53 (UTC)

This edition of my EQ Blog is going to press right now and I must say contains one or two that weren't quite enough to post yesterday if anybody noticed:) Main thing to watch for is more shaking along that now VERY SHAKY line from Canada, to Haiti where lots of shaking is going on!!! Along with Oregon and Northern California which might be considered along that line, too, and all told that alert runs into January so let's be watching!!! Update on that Northern California Earthquake that rang my phone at 11:02pm late Wednesday Night my time, and currently has over 500 felt reports, will be coming in tomorrows EQ Blog!!!

EQ Guy


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