6.7 Quake Hits the Tonga Islands

[theHandpuppet]

Not in the headlines yet or I would have posted to LBN. Got the info straight from the IRIS Earthquake Monitor.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30.html

Man the folks in the Pacific Rim have been through hell the past few years -- earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis... hope the folks in the Tongas are okay.

[theHandpuppet]

1. BTW, here's the map

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Damn! the rim was busy today. We even got one off the coast of OR

:scared:

[earth mom]

5. I hadn't heard about that. How big was it? TIA!

:scared:

Sending good vibes out to the people of Tonga and Indonesia!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. 4.8

depth at 10.0km

:(

[earth mom]

11. Wow and Yikes!

:(

[NYC]

2. Is this related to the one

that just killed 3,000 people?

[theHandpuppet]

10. No. That one was a 6.2 in Java the day before

There were two other major quakes yesterday -- another 6.2 in New Guinea and the 6.7 in the Tongas.

Quakes rock the Pacific

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Two strong earthquakes shook the South Pacific on Sunday but there were no reports of major damage or injury and seismologists said they did not signal an increase in seismic activity in the quake-prone region.

The quakes in Tonga and Papua New Guinea hit within 10 minutes but were unrelated to a strong quake on Indonesia's main island of Java on Saturday which killed more than 3,000 people, seismologists said.

There were no immediate fears of tsunamis being generated by either of Sunday's quakes, which were both deep below the Earth's surface, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said.

MORE at http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/727754

[TheCentepedeShoes]

3. NE of New Zealand

close to Fiji.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I am seeing a pattern here

energy is being released in the Western pacific, but not in the Eastern Pacific... that should make all of us on the west coast of the US a tad nervous

[JesterCS]

8. speaking of...

did anyone watch 10.5 Apocalypse?

the theory was that the plates were reversing towards their Pangea state, at an accelerated rate.

Interesting timing of the made-for-tv movie

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. The problem with that is the science is NOT really there

I haerd some geologists chucking about it... HARD.