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| Earth and Sun Digest 200/10/16 NEW FORMAT, OLD INFO |
The Day-Date-Moon Ticker M06, T07/V8.26.2M, W08/V8.2,6.7M, Th09/V8.5,MC6.2M, F10FM, Sa11/6.2M, Su12, M13/6.0, T14/GS48, W15/GS426.0M, Th16
Earth and Sun Digest for October 16, 2003 NEW FORMAT, OLD INFO ...at a Glance (with time ticking (Source data can change without notice or correction.) BOON'S FIVE RULE: FIVE EARTHQUAKES OF FIVE.X MAGNITUDE IN FIVE DAYS CAN CAUSE A VOLCANO TO ERUPT ASH AND/OR GAS UP FIVE MILES. Earthquakes of 5.0 to 5.9M thru Wednesday--14; four quakes of 6M or greater: 10/15 6.0M FIJI REGION, 10/13 6.0M FIJI REGION, 10/11 6.2M KURIL ISLANDS, 10/9 6.2M MINDORO, PHILIPPINES California (includes Nevada) earthquakes in past week--265; one of 4M or greater: 10/09 4.4M OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Volcanic ash over 5 mi (8 km)--Ecuador, Mexico Sunspot No. high--79 on 10 October Smallest to largest daily total area of sunspots--20 on 14 October from 280 on 9 and 11 October (100 equals a Planet Earth area.) X-Class Solar Flares: none detected; last M-Class flares (5/day) 8 on 11 June (see ticker for fewer MC, if any) Planetary Geomagnetic Indices: high of 48 on 14 October; last set of K-Indices of 4 or more (5 or more/24 hours): 13 through 16 October
Moon for October per Astronomy Magazine 2 first quarter, 10 full, 13 apogee, 18 last quarter, 25 new, 26 perigee The moon is at perigee (222,791 miles near) on 26 October. The ORIONID METEOR SHOWER peaks before dawn on 21 October.
Recent Volcanic Eruptions Highlighted if at least one eruption is over 8 km COLIMA western México 19.514°N,103.62°W; summit elev. ~3,850 m as of 10 October an average of two explosions per day producing ash clouds to ~5.8 km, on 9 and 10 October ash clouds visible to a maximum height of ~8.8 km DUKONO Halmahera, Indonesia 1.70°N, 127.87°E; summit elev. 1,185 m on 10 October an ash plume visible to ~3 km FUEGO Guatemala 14.47°N, 90.88°W; summit elev. 3,763 m on 9 October ash to a height of ~4.6 km KARANGETANG (Api Siau) Siau Island, Indonesia 2.47°N, 125.29°E; summit elev. 1,784 m during 1-28 September gas emissions to 2.1 km KARYMSKY Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 54.05°N, 159.43°E; summit elev. 1,536 m seismic data indicating on 4 October an ash explosion producing a cloud to a height of 6.0 km, ash plumes extending 60 km SE and 30 km NE were observed on 4 and 7 October KILAUEA Hawaii, USA 19.43°N, 155.29°W; summit elev. 1,222 m during 8-14 October a few areas of surface lava visible upslope of Kilauea's coastal flat KLIUCHEVSKOI Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 56.06°N, 160.64°E; summit elev. 4,835 m during 3-10 October gas-and-steam plumes, with little ash, to 7.8 km MAYON southeastern Luzon, Philippines 13.257°N, 123.685°E; summit elev. 2,462 m on 11 October incandescence, sulfur-dioxide emission rates increasing from ~1,600 tons on 1 October to ~2,380 tons on 9 October SANTA MARÍA Guatemala 14.756°N 91.552°W; summit elev. 3,772 m on 13 October an ash-and-steam plume to a height of ~6.7 km SEMERU Java, Indonesia 8.11°S, 112.92°E; summit elev. 3,676 m during 1-28 September several ash explosions with plumes to 1.4 km SOUFRIÈRE HILLS Montserrat, West Indies 16.72°N, 62.18°W; summit elev. 1,052 m during 3-8 October light ash venting, sulfur-dioxide emission rates high during the week TUNGURAHUA Ecuador 1.47°S, 78.44°W; summit elev. 5,023 m moderate-to-large ash-and-gas emissions during 8-14 October, plumes to an average height of 7 km above the volcano, with heights of 8 km or over on 9, 11 and 12 October, Strombolian activity the evening of 12 October ULAWUN New Britain, Papua New Guinea 5.04°S, 151.34°E; summit elev. 2,334 m an ash plume visible on 10 October at an altitude around 3 km 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 .
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 READ UP for latest report. 03/10/16 12:28:0825.89N101.34E33.0 5.6YUNNAN, CHINA 03/10/15 07:30:3635.52N139.81E78.5 5.0NEAR S. COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 03/10/15 02:19:4617.65S178.74W600.0 6.0FIJI REGION 03/10/15 04:13:1445.08N66.91W18.0 3.1NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA 03/10/13 09:52:3015.87S178.30W33.0 6.0FIJI REGION 03/10/12 08:26:0747.01N76.37W18.0 4.2SOUTHERN QUEBEC, CANADA 03/10/11 23:08:451.28S14.99W10.0 5.4NORTH OF ASCENSION ISLAND 03/10/11 19:46:0717.93S178.67W600.0 5.2FIJI REGION 03/10/11 18:26:1941.87N143.60E33.0 5.3HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION 03/10/11 14:35:4917.78S69.02W125.4 5.1PERU-BOLIVIA BORDER REGION 03/10/11 01:11:3244.08N148.09E62.8 6.2KURIL ISLANDS 03/10/11 00:36:0041.96N144.27E33.0 5.3HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION 03/10/11 00:08:4942.00N144.27E33.0 5.7HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION 03/10/10 12:58:2042.25N144.75E33.0 5.2HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION 03/10/10 03:32:457.53N126.42E33.0 5.0MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES 03/10/10 03:29:1739.54N98.28E33.0 5.0GANSU, CHINA 03/10/09 22:19:1313.80N120.04E33.0 6.2MINDORO, PHILIPPINES 03/10/09 22:13:1257.33N33.41W10.0 5.4REYKJANES RIDGE 03/10/09 16:06:0250.09N87.75E10.0 5.2SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA 03/10/09 16:02:5220.15S174.16W33.0 5.0TONGA 03/10/09 06:52:5741.54N143.40E33.0 5.7HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION United States Quakes this past week with quakes that might be felt: 03/10/16 05:55:1019.80N70.39W10.0 4.1DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION 03/10/15 11:48:4819.52N70.72W10.0 4.6DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION 03/10/15 04:18:3934.03N116.40W11.9 3.4SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 03/10/15 04:13:1445.08N66.91W18.0 3.1NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA 03/10/14 07:04:3463.04N143.73W10.0 3.6CENTRAL ALASKA 03/10/13 16:30:5020.32N75.83W10.0 4.4CUBA REGION 03/10/12 15:02:3140.27N124.41W0.0 3.3OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 03/10/12 14:43:4340.30N124.39W8.6 3.6OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 03/10/11 05:16:4137.84N122.05W15.7 3.1SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIF. 03/10/10 13:23:3919.35N155.07W9.1 3.8HAWAII 03/10/10 02:27:3534.23N116.45W0.3 3.6SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 03/10/09 21:50:0060.32N153.75W194.0 4.6SOUTHERN ALASKA 03/10/09 11:10:3414.67N144.19E33.0 4.9ROTA REGION, N. MARIANA ISLANDS 03/10/09 09:28:5732.16N115.43W16.7 3.0BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 03/10/09 07:33:5533.41N116.40W12.4 3.1SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 03/10/09 06:11:3341.07N125.24W2.5 4.4OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MEDITERRANEAN REGION, Continued 03/10/14 18:15:4442.88N0.19E5.0 2.0PYRENEES 03/10/14 05:39:3644.15N6.67E2.0 1.8FRANCE 03/10/14 03:35:0945.77N6.09E2.0 1.8FRANCE 03/10/14 01:34:5244.35N6.91E6.0 1.9FRANCE 03/10/14 01:15:0644.00N4.09E8.0 2.0NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF FRANCE 03/10/13 03:28:1843.41N0.60W5.0 4.0PYRENEES 03/10/13 02:47:0737.20N3.75E10.0 3.1WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA 03/10/13 02:26:2744.01N7.10E2.0 2.4NORTHERN ITALY 03/10/09 07:01:3344.32N7.28E5.0 2.4NORTHERN ITALY
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 May 3 15 17 8 9 6 9 5 8 7 16 with two 7M's June 1 11 12 12 3 3 3 22 10 14 12 with one 7M July 2 10 12 7 5 9 8 9 10 5 15 with one 7M August 2 14 16 6 7 8 9 12 8 12 8 with two 7M's September 4 8 8 9 7 4 12 7 10 13 18 with two 7M's, one 8M October 4 12 21 9 6 3 4 8 11 21 7 Yr total 19 110 160 109 76 63 103 109 112 133 (111)
SUN Sunspot numbers for the past week: 10/8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 69 68 79 77 35 25 24 29 Planetary geomagnetic A Indices for same period 9 8 5 5 6 13 48 42 Solar data from http://www.sec.noaa.gov/
SPECIAL NOTE With the coming changes in ISP's, the Digest is reformatted today without tools that are not available on several bulletin boards. Comments and questions are always welcome. Donald J. Boon, editor, donaldboon@comcast.net Follow Ups: ● Re: Earth and Sun Digest 200/10/16 NEW FORMAT, OLD INFO - Donald Boon 13:10:14 - 10/16/2003 (19699) (0) |
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