The Day-Date-Moon Ticker
M5/MC, T6/MC, W7/MC(2),GS32, Th8/MC, F9/MC(2),6.3M, Sa10, Su11/6.0M,6.2M, M12, T13, W14, Th15/6.2M

Explanatory Notes
[i]The Ticker above is chronological, with symbols for day, date, moon phase and/or distance. After the / are earthquakes(7.0M), volcanoes(V8), geomagnetic storms(GS31), and solar flares(XC and MC). These correspond to the data below.[/i]

Earth and Sun Digest for January 15, 2004

...at a Glance (with time ticking)
[i](Source data can change without notice or correction.)[/i]

Earthquakes of 5.0 to 5.9M thru Wednesday--23 (Jap-2, SoPac-7); [b] four quakes of 6M or greater: 1/15 6.2M NEW IRELAND REGION, P.N.G.1/11 6.0M FIJI REGION, 1/11 6.2M SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN, 1/09 6.3M NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
California and Nevada earthquakes in past week-394 ; no quakes of 4M or greater
Volcanic ash near Jet Stream (at 5 mi/8 km)--none (but eruptions to ~7 km in Siberia, Ecuador and Guatemala)
Sunspot No. high and low--118 on 8 January to 53 on 11 and 13 January
Largest and smallest daily total area of sunspots--1010 on 8 Janury to 550 on 12 January (100 = Earth)
X-Class Solar Flares: none; last M-Class flares (5+/day) 5 on 27 October (see ticker for fewer MC)
Planetary Geomagnetic Indices: high of 24 on 10 January; last set of five or more Kp's of 4 or more per 24 hours: 3 to 7 January[/b]

Solar Fluxes Today (related to horizontal graph median line):
Proton and Electron lines under, correlates with New Ireland 6.2M
(for updates see http://www.sel.noaa.gov/today.html )
Near Earth Asteroid: 2003 YS17 coming Jan 14, a miss by 14 LD
(for more information today, see www.spaceweather.com )

[b]Moon for January 2004[/b] per Astronomy Magazine
3 apogee, 7 full moon, 14 last quarter, 19 perigee, 21 new moon, 29 first quarter, 31 second apogee
The moon is at [b]perigee[/b] (225,413 miles near) on 19 January.

[b]Recent Volcanic Eruptions[/b]

PITON DE LA FOURNAISE Réunion Island, Indian Ocean 21.23°S, 55.71°E; summit elev. 2,631 m
on 7 January a seismic event and significant surface deformation, on 9 January a 300-m-long fissure and a small ~2-km-long lava flow ending 10 January

COTOPAXI Ecuador 00.677°S, 78.436°W; summit elev. 5,911 m
during 29 December to 4 January, the number of earthquakes slightly increasing, on 2 January a strong smell of sulfur

DUKONO Halmahera, Indonesia 1.70°N, 127.87°E; summit elev. 1,185 m
during 7-13 January, low-intensity eruptions and plumes to low levels

FUEGO Guatemala 14.47°N, 90.88°W; summit elev. 3,763 m
an ash emission on 8 January to ~6.8 km, plumes visible on satellite imagery

KARYMSKY Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 54.05°N, 159.43°E; summit elev. 1,536 m
during 2-4 January ash deposits visible on the volcano's snow-covered flanks, ash visible on satellite imagery on 8 January at a height of ~7 km

KILAUEA Hawaii, USA 19.43°N, 155.29°W; summit elev. 1,222 m
during 8-12 January most of the cones in the crater growing the previous week and most incandescent, much lava from the West Gap vent

KLIUCHEVSKOI Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 56.06°N, 160.64°E; summit elev. 4,835 m
on 2 January an ash explosion slightly above the volcano

MIYAKE-JIMA Izu Islands, Japan 34.08°N, 139.53°E; summit elev. 815 m
as of 8 January gas emissions, the sulfur-dioxide flux relatively high (about 4,000-9,000 tons per day) and nearly constant since October 2002

SAKURA-JIMA Kyushu, Japan 31.58°N, 130.67°E; summit elev. 1,117 m
an eruption on 12 January with an ash cloud to 2 km

SANGAY, Ecuador 2.02°S 78.20°W; summit elev. 5230 m
emissions starting 14 January with ash to 7.3 km

SANTA MARÍA Guatemala 14.756°N 91.552°W; summit elev. 3,772 m
during 7-12 January several weak-to-moderate explosions, explosions on 12 January with plumes to ~4.3 km, ash plumes visible on satellite imagery several days during the report period

SOUFRIÈRE HILLS Montserrat, West Indies 16.72°N, 62.18°W; summit elev. 1,052 m
volcanic activity low during 2-9 January, sulfur-dioxide fluxes also low and stable around 300 tons per day

TUNGURAHUA Ecuador 1.47°S, 78.44°W; summit elev. 5,023 m
volcanic activity during 7-13 January continuing with emissions of gas, steam, and ash, to ~6 km, then to 7.6 km on 14 January

Ash data is summarized from the weekly GVN/USGS report at
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/
All ash elevations are in km above sea level (a.s.l.).

The earthquake data that follows are taken from U.S. Geological Survey tables available through http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html .

]EARTH

FIVE Index of Global earthquakes of 5.0 magnitude or greater

DATE-(UTC)-TIME LAT LON DEP MAG Q COMMENTS
yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss deg. deg. km

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04/01/15 07:26:573.42S151.01E33.0 6.2NEW IRELAND REGION, P.N.G.
04/01/14 18:38:5319.92S125.28W10.0 5.2SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
04/01/14 16:58:5127.70N52.31E33.0 5.4SOUTHERN IRAN
04/01/14 11:26:1836.63S53.34E10.0 5.2SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN
04/01/13 21:54:2422.62S63.42W535.6 5.1SALTA PROVINCE, ARGENTINA
04/01/13 21:28:5916.20N96.91W33.0 5.4OAXACA, MEXICO
04/01/13 20:09:4812.31N144.08E21.7 5.0GUAM REGION
04/01/13 20:04:248.62S105.76E33.0 5.2SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA
04/01/13 19:50:1916.09N96.93W28.6 5.0OAXACA, MEXICO
04/01/12 20:12:1242.16N143.33E33.0 5.0HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
04/01/12 19:59:0659.42N30.51W10.0 5.0REYKJANES RIDGE
04/01/12 17:17:0022.11S170.34E10.0 5.8SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
04/01/12 14:14:315.54N79.12W33.0 5.2SOUTH OF PANAMA
04/01/12 12:49:2015.56S73.70W104.2 5.1SOUTHERN PERU
04/01/11 19:31:3155.63N165.70E10.0 5.4KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION
04/01/11 09:29:4420.04S179.13W644.3 5.1FIJI REGION
04/01/11 09:29:0920.14S179.17W672.1 6.0FIJI REGION
04/01/11 08:07:0516.21S176.17W366.4 5.9FIJI REGION
04/01/11 04:32:4836.66S53.28E10.0 6.2SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN
04/01/10 07:25:4130.81S71.57W33.0 5.7NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE
04/01/09 22:35:286.02S149.42E33.0 6.3NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
04/01/09 19:50:3556.82N34.08W10.0 5.3REYKJANES RIDGE
04/01/09 04:39:1646.96N154.26E33.0 5.3EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
04/01/08 23:05:535.97S149.41E33.0 5.8NEW BRITAIN REGION, P.N.G.
04/01/08 21:19:393.92S80.11W72.1 5.1PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION
04/01/08 12:32:4722.59S169.99E10.0 5.1SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
04/01/08 08:45:0114.47N56.31E10.0 5.2OWEN FRACTURE ZONE REGION

United States Quakes this past week
with quakes possibly felt in U.S. from nearby countries:

04/01/15 04:46:0049.45N127.07W10.0 4.3VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION
04/01/14 16:42:0862.07N149.54W38.2 3.4CENTRAL ALASKA
04/01/14 12:13:3847.86N120.16W2.9 3.3WASHINGTON
04/01/14 10:55:4724.03N108.98W10.0 4.4GULF OF CALIFORNIA
04/01/14 01:14:1637.03N104.86W5.0 3.0COLORADO
04/01/14 01:09:1635.58N120.80W5.0 3.7CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
04/01/13 21:55:5458.65N156.66W184.2 4.2ALASKA PENINSULA
04/01/13 20:54:4023.83N108.93W10.0 4.4GULF OF CALIFORNIA
04/01/13 14:00:0524.15N108.78W10.0 4.0GULF OF CALIFORNIA
04/01/13 11:40:5624.04N108.94W10.0 4.2GULF OF CALIFORNIA
04/01/13 01:14:2737.51N118.84W3.8 3.8CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
04/01/12 15:31:3461.09N138.07W1.0 4.9S YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
04/01/10 16:49:0659.39N153.76W91.9 4.2SOUTHERN ALASKA
04/01/10 09:10:4535.70N121.04W5.5 3.2CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
04/01/10 04:09:3135.51N120.93W4.0 3.5CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
04/01/09 22:42:2361.73N150.70W65.0 4.5SOUTHERN ALASKA
04/01/09 13:00:2635.12N118.60W1.1 3.0CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
04/01/09 08:20:1661.95N150.82W57.0 3.3SOUTHERN ALASKA
04/01/09 00:07:3435.67N121.11W5.0 3.5CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
04/01/08 10:38:1338.74N119.58W6.8 3.1NEVADA
04/01/08 07:44:4851.38N177.87E33.0 4.7RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
04/01/08 00:14:4935.72N121.08W7.0 3.4CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

Monthly Summary of Earthquakes of 6 or greater Magnitude
in the World, per USGS/NEIC Preliminary Global Report

YEAR: 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04

November 0 7 10 6 7 4 15 15 10 11 13 with one 7M
December 0 6 13 7 3 2 16 11 7 11 17 with one 7M
YR total 19 110 160 109 76 63 103 109 112 133 145 (7)

January 2 1 13 10 4 7 5 8 10 14 10 (7 with one 7M)


SUN

Sunspot numbers for the past week:
1/7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
93 118 88 66 53 77 53 58
Planetary geomagnetic A Indices for same period
32 9 21 24 17 10 18 12

Solar data from http://www.sec.noaa.gov/

[b]SPECIAL NOTE[/b]

[b]Three Year Quake Cycles in Central San Andreas Fault[/b]

Thanks to Cynthia Page, who found and posted this on Pinpoint:

Seismologists have identified a three year cycle of medium and large earthquakes on the central part of the Sand Andreas Fault in California. Check it out at
http://www.brightsurf.com/news/jan_04/EDU_news_011204_b.php

Comments or questions are welcome.

Donald J. Boon, editor, [email]donaldboon@comcast.net[/email]