There was a big earthquake in southern Mexico this morning...heard from a friend of mine whose wife and daughter are in Mexico City, they are ok this morning but a wall in their house collapsed.

Scary stuff.

Fish on...

Todd

We were in Managua last week. We left town the day before their big one and got back the day after their last big aftershock. Living right , I guess.

There has been a TON of tectonic activity over the last several weeks. Subscribe to "Dutchsinse" on Facebook for some great writeups.

With all the movement be prepared for our big one here in the PNW... these events are all interrelated. Not crying wolf, but with all the movements it makes a biq quake in our area more likely.

I read "Cascadia's Fault" about ten years ago. It was then updated after the Japan subduction zone quake so I, of course, had to re read it.

Don't read this book if you want to get a good nights sleep!

Think of the west coast as a crumpled piece of carpet. Since the 1700 event the Olympic mountains have risen 10 feet up and 8 feet over Puget Sound while Puget Sound has been pushed down ~8 feet. So when Cascadia rips the coast will drop 10 feet and PS will rise 8 feet . If it is a complete failure the shaking will last up to six minutes (or more) as the fault breaks from the north tip of Vancouver Island to Crescent City Ca.

I'm with Sky-Guy. Since 1966 there have been two subduction quakes in Ak, two off of Chile and one off of Japan so I can't see how the Cascadia zone isn't over due.

Speedy Gonzalez pronounced it areeba areeba

I get e-mail notifications whenever a Tsunami watch/warning is issued. Nice to have when you are out on the beach clamming . Of course email hooked up to phone so pretty handy IF you have cell phone reception when you are out on the Ocean.

There really has been an unusual amount of activity over the past month. Fortunately , there is no evidence that an earthquake somewhere else makes one more likely to happen on the JDF plate.

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This is a list of Earthquakes over 7.0 in the last 30 days. From http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
You can mess around with the settings ...

8.2
95km NW of Iquique, Chile
2014-04-01 16:46:46 UTC-07:0020.1 km
7.7
49km SW of Iquique, Chile
2014-04-02 19:43:14 UTC-07:0031.1 km
7.6
100km SSE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands
2014-04-12 13:14:39 UTC-07:0029.3 km
7.5
75km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea
2014-04-19 06:27:59 UTC-07:0030.9 km
7.4
111km S of Kirakira, Solomon Islands
2014-04-13 05:36:18 UTC-07:0035.0 km
7.2
36km NNW of Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico
2014-04-18 07:27:26 UTC-07:0024.0 km
7.1
57km SW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea
2014-04-11 00:07:21 UTC-07:0050.0 km
6.9
89km WNW of Iquique, Chile

While not on a plate contact point, Yellowstone has also had an interesting past 6 months, including some major gas developments. Idaho also just had a major rash of quake activity. We're pretty much the only major quake area around the world that hasn't had much activity.

Yellowstone Quake

http://www.stwnewspress.com/local/x33419...isions-are-made


Look at the ones in Oklahoma, I think all this fracking is going to come around and bite us square in the ass. Hope I'm wrong!!!!!!!

One type of quake we have here, and it is hard to detect, is a really huge release of energy over a very long time. Months, I think. Apparently, some of our local faults will have a month or so of movement that releases a lot of pent-up energy but doesn't really shake anything. As I recall, geologists were not sure if these actually relieved stress on the subduction zone (lessening the chance of the "big one") or were just another quake in nature's toolbox.

6.6 two hours ago off Vancouver Island.

Fish on...

Todd

* AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH PARAMETERS LISTED BELOW.


PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
---------------------------------
* MAGNITUDE 6.7
* ORIGIN TIME 1910 AKDT APR 23 2014
2010 PDT APR 23 2014
0310 UTC APR 24 2014
* COORDINATES 49.9 NORTH 127.4 WEST
* DEPTH 14 MILES
* LOCATION 25 MILES SW OF PORT ALICE BRITISH COLUMBIA
280 MILES NW OF SEATTLE WASHINGTON

4.8 off Bandon Oregon yesterday