[Skywise]

Tomorrow, July 11th, it will have been one year since the swarm in the north-west corner of Nevada started. As of this writing there are 4668 quakes. The swarm still continues albeit slowly, with 2 events in the past 24 hours, and an additional eleven in the past week.

Brian

[PennyB]

(07-10-2015, 10:18 PM)Skywise Wrote: Tomorrow, July 11th, it will have been one year since the swarm in the north-west corner of Nevada started. As of this writing there are 4668 quakes. The swarm still continues albeit slowly, with 2 events in the past 24 hours, and an additional eleven in the past week.

Brian

Well, the region has certainly awakened today! Check it out. I do want to get up there soon...just to look around.

[Skywise]

(07-16-2015, 07:08 PM)PennyB Wrote: Well, the region has certainly awakened today! Check it out. I do want to get up there soon...just to look around.

No kidding!! Noticed it last night. Just when I thought it was just going to slowly fade away.

Must be the mole people.

Brian

[PennyB]

(07-10-2015, 10:18 PM)Skywise Wrote: Tomorrow, July 11th, it will have been one year since the swarm in the north-west corner of Nevada started. As of this writing there are 4668 quakes. The swarm still continues albeit slowly, with 2 events in the past 24 hours, and an additional eleven in the past week.

Brian

There was a 4.2 today (Aug 13) so obviously this sequence is not finished. Wonder if anybody is doing field work up there?

[Skywise]

(08-13-2015, 09:00 PM)PennyB Wrote:

(07-10-2015, 10:18 PM)Skywise Wrote: Tomorrow, July 11th, it will have been one year since the swarm in the north-west corner of Nevada started. As of this writing there are 4668 quakes. The swarm still continues albeit slowly, with 2 events in the past 24 hours, and an additional eleven in the past week.

Brian

There was a 4.2 today (Aug 13) so obviously this sequence is not finished. Wonder if anybody is doing field work up there?

Apparently not much. According to the following news article, they've put in only one temporary seismometer, which has only marginally helped in precisely locating the quakes.

http://www.ktvn.com/story/29760369/unive...-continues

Brian

[Island Chris]

Hi Brian and Penny,

I read the article at your link to be ambiguous. It may be that the people being talked to put in only one station, but the University of Washington put in several. By the way, I read all the posts but have not responded to some of Brian's recent ones. Penny, post some of your Santa Barbara oil geology or whatever stories!. I'm going to submit an abstract to SEC in a bit, and will post it here then. It bear on a paper being published by others on giant tsunamis that were modeled for Ventura etc due to quakes on the Ventura-Pitas Point fault. It uses a completely wrong fault-fold model. Actually, it does not use a fold model at all and that is the problem. The paper will likely get some press.

from Brian:
"According to the following news article, they've put in only one temporary seismometer, which has only marginally helped in precisely locating the quakes."

[PennyB]

(07-10-2015, 10:18 PM)Skywise Wrote: Tomorrow, July 11th, it will have been one year since the swarm in the north-west corner of Nevada started. As of this writing there are 4668 quakes. The swarm still continues albeit slowly, with 2 events in the past 24 hours, and an additional eleven in the past week.

Brian

This is still going strong a 4.7 today (September 14, 2015.)

[Skywise]

(09-14-2015, 05:04 PM)PennyB Wrote: This is still going strong a 4.7 today (September 14, 2015.)

That would have been interesting for visitors if Burning Man was still going on. They would have felt it. The festival is held on Black Rock Desert, about 125km/77miles SSE of this 4.7 quake. The current festival ended just a week ago.

Brian

[PennyB]

(07-10-2015, 10:18 PM)Skywise Wrote: Tomorrow, July 11th, it will have been one year since the swarm in the north-west corner of Nevada started. As of this writing there are 4668 quakes. The swarm still continues albeit slowly, with 2 events in the past 24 hours, and an additional eleven in the past week.

Brian

Looks as if this area is still going strong!  (As of Sept 27.)  Still waiting to get up there...oh well.