6.1 Richters Earthquake Struck North Island of New Zealand With Upwards of 15,000 Felt Reports, There!!! Some Big Shaking at Drake Passage Preceded It, Too!!! And 1995 Kobe, Japan Quake Was Preceded By Another Mediteranean Hurricane!!!!!

With that many felt reports already in on this 6.1 New Zealand Earthquake that THEY are reporting as a 6.2 and won't need to update that many felt reports because this one was basically felt about everywhere in New Zealand!!! I noticed even the much shorter list of reports filed with OUR own USGS contains at least a couple from Christchurch!!! My best readers will like the fact that it's being reported as biggest New Zealand Earthquake since the 7.8 of November 2016!!!!! Yes, that was the now famous "5 Prediction Friday" where we had discussed a possible upcoming 7.8 New Zealand Earthquake!!! NOW let me try to paste that felt report from THEIR Country right here:

Magnitude 6.2, Tue Oct 30 2018 3:13 PM

Earthquake Details
When: Tuesday October 30, 2018 3:13 PM
Where: 25 km South-West of Taumarunui
Magnitude: 6.2
Depth: 207 km

Felt Report Summary
Extreme: 11
Severe: 33
Strong: 979
Moderate: 4649
Light: 6435
Weak: 3559
Total: 15666

HERE'S the USGS Report abbreviated and followed by the USGS Felt Report and I'll have updates in later editions due to this all coming in late Monday:

6.1 - 64km ESE of Waitara, New Zealand
2018-10-30 02:13:39 39.054°S 174.977°E227.3 km depth

City......Region......Country.................#......Km
Feilding Manawatu-Wanganui New Zealand...1....266 km
Palmerston North Manawatu-Wanganui NZ....5....274 km
Dannevirke Manawatu-Wanganui New Zealand.1....277 km
Hastings Hawkeʿs Bay New Zealand.........1....285 km
Napier Hawkeʿs Bay New Zealand...........1....285 km
Kapiti Wellington New Zealand............1....306 km
Upper Hutt Wellington New Zealand........1....324 km
Lower Hutt Wellington New Zealand........1....329 km
Wellington Wellington New Zealand.......11....336 km
Te Karaka Gisborne New Zealand...........1....345 km
Gisborne Gisborne New Zealand............1....351 km
Motueka Tasman New Zealand...............1....364 km
Blenheim Marlborough New Zealand.........2....367 km
Nelson Nelson New Zealand................2....367 km
Mapua Tasman New Zealand.................1....369 km
Hokitika West Coast New Zealand..........1....574 km
Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand......6....580 km

Now onto some other stuff. . .I'm not kidding when I say these have been ringing my phone all day Monday!!! That big 6.3 is big enough to tell me there is about to possibly be Major Shaking around South America so remember we're watching Antofagasta, and Tocopilla, there. . . and THAT was before the New Zealand Shaker, so don't forget we've been watching THERE, too, and this would be a sure sign of that:

5.5 Drake Passage 2018-10-29 16:07:13
5.8 Drake Passage 2018-10-29 15:17:22
6.3 Drake Passage 2018-10-29 01:54:21
4.6 92km ENE of Bristol Is., Sandwich Is. 2018-10-28 23:46
4.9 121km ENE of South Sandwich Is. 2018-10-28 22:30
5.0 107km ENE of South Sandwich Is. 2018-10-28 22:18

AND you might be able to figure out where exactly this place is, by the list of nearby places and also figure out why no felt reports seemed to have came in from this region, too! Here's the USGS From the biggest of those "Drake Passage" Shakers on Monday:

6.3 - Drake Passage
2018-10-29 06:54:21 (UTC)57.405°S 66.409°W10.0 km depth

Nearby Places
194.5 Miles NNW of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
343.4 Miles NNW of Punta Arenas, Magallanes, Chile
415.5 Miles NNW of Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
462.3 Miles NW of Puerto Natales, Magallanes, Chile
667.9 Miles North of Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz, Argentina

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This one came in late Sunday and here is the USGS Report although there wasn't too much else to say about it, the felt report follows, but appears the epicenter was a little ways offshore so less felt reports, you know:

6.1 - 93km SW of Acajutla, El Salvador
2018-10-28 22:23:54 (UTC)12.949°N 90.385°W24.7 km depth

Nearby Places
58 Miles NE of Acajutla, Sonsonate, El Salvador
69.1 Miles NE of Sonsonate, Sonsonate, El Salvador
70.3 Miles NE of Sonzacate, Sonsonate, El Salvador
72.7 Miles NE of Izalco, Sonsonate, El Salvador
73.4 Miles NNW of Puerto San José, Escuintla, Guatemala

Now here's the Felt Report from that one at 3 and likely the final one on that:

City......Region....Country....................#......Km
Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala...........1.....188 km
Huehuetenango Huehuetenango Guatemala...1.....288 km
San Pedro San José Costa Rica...........1.....768 km

Here's a Few of them that shook around L.A.

1.6 6km NNW of Boron, CA 2018-10-29 18:17
1.4 16km N of Grapevine, CA 2018-10-29 09:16
1.1 6km SSW of Marina del Rey, CA 2018-10-29 06:28
0.8 4km SSE of Encino, CA 2018-10-29 01:54:25
1.5 6km ENE of North Tustin, CA 2018-10-29 00:41
1.2 7km NW of Rancho Cucamonga, CA 2018-10-28 23:42
2.5 24km SE of Santa Cruz Is., CA 2018-10-28 23:36
2.1 12km W of Orcutt, CA 2018-10-28 20:55:43

Up to this point I was really enthused about this next story. . . and it might well have been my top banner headline story until that big New Zealand Earthquake struck!!! So, there had been yet another "Mediterranean Hurricane" that I happen to recall striking that Mediterranean Sea now quite a long time ago when I had just started pursuing such things as these big windstorms and saw this one not even knowing it was unusual at the time!!! Simply took a look at it and thought "Japan" and went on with my life like I tended to do in those days immediately following the Northridge Earthquake which hadn't even been a full year past, yet. This one was named "Celeno" and was active in the Mediterranean beginning on January 13, 1995 and the Kobe, Japan Earthquake struck there at a 6.9 on the Richter Scale on January 17, 1995 with over 6000 dead and 4600 of those from Kobe, Japan alone!!! Without going into all the damage it totaled 200 Billion U.S. Dollars! One more thing about those "MediCanes" and that would be maybe we should also STILL now watch around Japan, because of not being sure what the result of all this will be!!! Note that we are watching Turkey for 8 or 9 Richters anyways, so there's still plenty of other things that will be shaking, too!!!

EQ Guy


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