Calexico and New Britain earthquakes
Posted by Lowell on February 18, 2002 at 21:45:20:

Earlier I reported on the Ml 3.3 near Calexico, California which occurred at 00:30 UT
Feb 19 (this evening local time).

A Ms 6.0 (NEIS) earthquake also occurred a few minutes later at 00:35 in the New Britain
region. Since commentary has been previously made suggesting a linkage between
earthquakes in these two regions, I thought it might be interesting to note this coincidence.
Both occurred shortly after the M-class solar flare and both represented a sudden
escalation in regional and global seismic activity.
It is clear that the New Britain event did not trigger the Calexico event since the former
occurred 5 minutes later than the Calexico event. Perhaps there is no relation or
there is an external triggering common to both.
Data on the New Britain event can be found at:
http://seismo.ethz.ch/redpuma/redpuma_ami_list.html



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