Pacific Ring of Fire activity

[NoTrespassing]

Not really related to anything but I was noticing all the pacific ring of fire activity in the news overnight and wondered if it could all be related. There was an earthquake off Alaska, a volcano in Japan, an earthquake in Indonesia where a volcano has been active recently, and an active volcano in the Philippines. There's a whole lotta shaking going on.

Thoughts?

Kevin

Found this btw

6 major volcanoes in Japan, Indonesia, Mexico and US might erupt in 218: Who's at stake?

 

[cat fever]

Well they don't call it the "Ring of fire" for nothing. The earth likes to stretch and clear its throat once in a while.

 

[Doofy]

Yep, there was a 7.9 quake at 12:30am that woke me up and scared the dog. It is just the earths stomach growling.

 

[RNeumann]

Yep, there was a 7.9 quake at 12:30am that woke me up and scared the dog. It is just the earths the stomach growling.

It’s funny to hear folks from tornado and hurricane country say their is no way they would live where they have earthquakes. To u it’s a role over and go back to sleep event....perspective

 

[Ehanson]

I recall 1980, laying in a water bed, the water moving end to end woke me and I immediately thought our black lab had jumped up on the bed. To my amazement when turning the covers and looking towards the end of the bed, there was no dog, but the water was moving back and forth. I went upstairs and saw the coocoo clock weights a swinging.
It was later I learned of Mount St Helens erupting. It was the largest landslide ever recorded!
That is the closest I have been to an eruption and perhaps the only time I felt the ground shake due to ring of fire activity.

 

[mjarrels]

Experinced many earthquakes while living in the Philippines and on Whidbey Island, most helpless feeling. Typhoons in the Philippines were bad too. Massive flooding and the worst part were the open sewers so who knows whats in the flood water. The earthquakes always re-started my two clocks.

mark

 

[MossRoad]

I felt one earthquake in my life. Here in Indiana. Was sleeping in one morning. Wife was out of bed. I was in the waterbed. It's full wave, no baffles. The only way to describe it was it felt like the water was full of buzzing bees. BZZZ BZZZ BZZZ for about 20 seconds. Kinda funny. Some hotels you have to put a quarter in the machine to get that feeling.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We have had quite a few quakes here in Oklahoma the last few years. Most are negligible, but we've had two or three that were kinda scary. I have a couple little plastic toy figures...Charlie Brown and Lucy...that the grand kids left here...that are designed to sit on the edge of a table or China cabinet or some such. I call them my "earthquake detectors". I have them sitting on my Lawyer's book case; and they will fall off in a slight shake. Got home from the Elks last week, and they were both on the floor. Heard later on TV that there was a quake that evening.

 

[k0ua]

Well they don't call it the "Ring of fire" for nothing. The earth likes to stretch and clear its throat once in a while.

More like a cat hacking up a furball..:laughing:

 

[cat fever]

Good one James.

 

[Doofy]

The house was creaking so bad that the wife went and stood in a doorway. There were also a bunch of aftershocks.

 

[Creamer]

It's all a matter of perspective. In 1983 I was living in a 3rd floor apartment in San Diego. I had played basketball that morning and was sitting around talking and having a couple of beers with friends when one of them brought I had not been through an earthquake yet as I had jsut moved there a couple of months previous. I had not and said do you really feel the tremors or are they just recorded and he said "Oh you feel them - it is just a quick shake and then its over - no big deal. If it is a real quake you will know it." that night I awoke to a big shake and then it was over. Nothing really happened except my bike leaning up against a wall fell over. I rolled over and went back to sleep thinking i had just felt one of those tremors. the next morning the paper headlines were "Major Earthquake Shakes Area". Apparently this was one of the larger earthquakes to ever hit San Diego. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

 

[bcp]

The continents are still drifting...and bumping.

Bruce

 

[cat fever]

I had a small (by earthquake standards) earthquake happen just behind my house. The sound was incredibly loud. I felt the ground move as the boom sounded then it was over. I'm glad that's all it was. When the news reported it they said the USGS didn't even know there was a fault in that area.

 

[sd455dan]

Was in an elevator Gillette Wyoming in 1984 and the thing starts banging us off the walls- when we got to the Lobby floor - we hear the receptionist yelling earthquake. Told her well that's a good thing other wise you need to call Otis immediately

Earlier this year there was an M 5.8 in nearby Montana and I thought the dog was rubbing on my reclining chair- told the dog to knock it off and then noticed no dog and the shades on the windows were swinging.

If interested- There is a guy ( Dutchsinse) on youtube that does earthquake forecasting and many weeks he gets about 70-80% right

and he did forecast an M7.- for a quake SE of the Aleutian chain for this week.

 

[orezok]

There have been 2 large earthquakes in the Mojave since I've been here. Landers at 7.3 and Hector Mine at 7.1, both within 40 miles. They do get your attention. The second picture is a bowling alley that lost an entire wall.

 

[bunyip]

We are about 20km from a small fault that has a bit of a grumble every so often, sometimes there is some small shaking but more often everything goes very quiet and their is an eerie feeling that is difficult to describe.
The fault runs through one of the few underground coal mines but there was not much evidence of collapse as a result of the tremors, the mines have not operated since the 1940's due to operating costs rather than safety.

 

[brown40]

Not sure how much gravitational stress impacts volcanism and plate shifting... I found this link to try and get more familiar with the night sky.

I do remember seeing this winter's stacking of planets coming up last summer and wondering if there would be unusual weather or geological activity... moderns don't put much stock into planetary conjunctions and alignment, but the ancients would plan marriages, ceremonies, battles, etc. to occur on "auspicious" days--whatever that means.

I don't have an opinion, but find it interesting to see where what was and when--hoping to understand a little more of the why, and how.

It does seem like things get a little more squirrelly when the big pullers are near each other in the sky--especially around new and full moon.

Has there been a statistically significant increase in activity?

Planet Positions - Dan Bruton

 

[NoTrespassing]

Has there been a statistically significant increase in activity?

Planet Positions - Dan Bruton

Not from what I've been looking at, it seems about the same as 2016 and 2017. I guess I was just paying more attention this year

Kevin

 

[jerrybob]

Went through all the big quakes in Calif......some good shakers. One strange one......the Sierra Madre quake in the early 90's.....I think it was a 5.5 or 5.6 quake. We lived in a condo downsteam of the quake. It was described as a roller.....a big wave coming through the ground. Everything on a North/South wall was knocked off......our refrig. door flew open and everything came out........cabinets the same......everything on a East/West wall was fine.......pictures were not even disturbed.........very strange to see.