The Past Week Ticker

M04/6.0M, T05, W06, Th07,F08/6.8M,6.5M, Sa09/6.9M, Su10, M11, T12, W13/GS35, Th14

MTWThFSaSu-days of week; 6M-quake, GS-geomagnetic storm



Moon for October 2004 per Astronomy Magazine in EDT

5 apogee, 6 last quarter, 13 new moon, 17 perigee, 20 first quarter, 28 full moon

The Moon is at perigee (228,514 miles near) on 17 October.



Total lunar eclipse visible in North America on 27 October.





EARTH AND SUN DIGEST for October 14, 2004

Mount St. Helens, continued

...Week at a Glance (with time ticking)



California and Nevada earthquakes in past week--630; two quakes of 4M or greater: 10/12 4.6M OFF COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, 10/09 4.5M CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

Interactive map at http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm , see left lower corner

Global Earthquakes of 5.0 to 5.9M thru Wednesday--16 (Japan-2, SoPacific-3); three 6M quakes: 10/09 6.9M NEAR COAST OF NICARAGUA, 10/08 6.5M MINDORO, PHILIPPINES, 10/08 6.8M SOLOMON ISLANDS

Earthquake data from http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html .

Volcanic ash near Jet Stream (at 5 mi/8 km)--none

Ash data from http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs



Sunspot No. high and low--41 on 13 October from 0 on 10 and 11 October

Largest and smallest daily area of sunspots--190 on 13 October from 0 on 10 and 11 October (100=Earth)

X-Class Solar Flares: none; last M-Class flares (5+/day) five on 15 August (Ticker has fewer MC.) (See updating site at http://www.sel.noaa.gov/today.html )

Planetary Geomagnetic A Indices: high of 35 on 13 October; five or more Kp's of 4 (or more) per 24 hours: six on 13 October; high no. of Kp's of 3 per 24 hours this week: five on 11 and 12 October



(Data is upgraded at the source as needed without notice.)





RECENT VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS



Northern Ash and Gas Eruptions north of latitude 23°N.



ASAMA Honshu, Japan 36.40EN, 138.53EE; summit elev. 2,560 m (?)

at 1410 on 10 October a plume to an unknown height.



ETNA Sicily, Italy 37.73°N, 15.00°E; summit elev. 3,315 m (lava)

emission during 6-11 October from vents around 2,620 m and 2,350 m elevations, lava flowing in several arms and in tunnels



ST. HELENS Washington, USA 46.20°N, 122.18°W; summit elev. 2,549 m (?)

following a steam-and-ash emission on 5 October, during 6-12 October, seismicity at low-to-moderate levels with the highest magnitude earthquake M 2.4, on 6 October only weak steam puffs, the top of the area of intense uplift at or slightly above the highest point on the lava dome, a light dusting of ash on 5 October affecting the eastern part of Mount Rainier National Park, ~110 km NNE of St. Helens, a new steam vent openiing during the evening of 6 October, joining two that had been present for several days, the total volume change represented by the deformation between late September and 6 October at ~16 million cubic meters, the average rate of change ~2 million cubic meters per day, observations consistent with new lava having reached the surface of the uplift, gas-sensing on 11 October measuring fluxes of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide similar to those measured on 7 October





Equatorial Ash and Gas Eruptions at less than 23°N or S





COLIMA western México 19.514°N, 103.62°W; summit elev. ~3,850 m (4.2 km)

during 6-11 October block-lava flows continuing as they have since 30 September, on 6 and 11 October plumes to ~4.2 km



FUEGO Guatemala 14.47°N, 90.88°W; summit elev. 3,763 m (4.4 km)

during the evening of 9 October a narrow lava flow; a small sustained lava fountain ~75 m above the volcano during the evening of 10 October, on 12 October a narrow lava flow and plumes to ~4.4 km



GALERAS Colombia 1.22°N, 77.37°W; summit elev. 4,276 m (5.8 km)

during 8-11 October emissions of gas and fine ash plumes to a maximum height of ~5.8 km



KILAUEA Hawaii, USA 19.43°N, 155.29°W; summit elev. 1,222 m (lava)

on 11 and 12 October patches of incandescent lava visible on the PKK lava flow on the Pulama Pali fault scarp and all vents in the crater of Pu`u `O`o were incandescent, a M 4.0 earthquake at Kilauea's summit at a depth of ~32 km on 11 October at 2030 that affecting tilt meters, but the volcanic tilt minor



MAUNA LOA Hawaii, USA 19.475°N, 155.608°W; summit elev. 4,170 m (0)

during about 4-11 October only 23 earthquakes, down markedly from previous



RINJANI Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, 8.42 S; 116.47 E; summit elev. 3,726m (4.5 km)

an eruption on 30 September at 2330, during 2-4 October thick gray ash plumes to heights of ~4.5 km



SANTA MARÍA Guatemala 14.756°N, 91.552°W; summit elev. 3,772 m (5.3 km)

on 11 October a partial lava-dome collapse producing a pyroclastic flow, an ash cloud to a height of ~4.3 km covering most of the dome complex, the collapse preceded by an explosion and an ash-and-gas cloud to ~5.3 km, small explosions on 12 October producing small lava-dome collapses and generating avalanches of lava blocks and ash



SOUFRIÈRE HILLS Montserrat, West Indies 16.72°N, 62.18°W; summit elev. 1,052 m (gas)

volcanic activity at slightly elevated levels during 1-8 October, the sulfur-dioxide flux between 187 and 1,144 metric tons per day, with a weekly average of 462 metric tons per day



TUNGURAHUA Ecuador 1.47°S, 78.44°W; summit elev. 5,023 m (low)

volcanic activity during 11-12 October were at relatively low levels, emissions mainly steam and gas with small amounts of ash





All ash elevations are in km above sea level (a.s.l.) and times are converted to UTC.





EARTH

The FIVE Index has the last column giving the eight daily Kp (three hourly) geomagnetic values in the same UTC time frame as the quake listings.
FIVE Index of Global earthquakes of 5.0 magnitude or greater
DATE-(UTC)-TIME    LAT  LON    DEP   MAG  Q  COMMENTS  Day's Kp values 
yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss  deg. deg.   km 
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04/10/14  04:09:029.44S114.27E40.0   5.2SOUTH OF BALI, INDONESIA 
10/13     4 5 5 4 5 4 3 3
04/10/13  20:35:446.05S130.55E117.2  5.8BANDA SEA
10/12     3 3 3 3 2 2 2 3
04/10/12  15:29:0117.16S174.45E20.6  5.5FIJI REGION 
10/11     3 3 2 1 3 3 2 3
04/10/11  22:03:4614.84S175.13W10.0  5.7SAMOA ISLANDS REGION 
04/10/11  18:14:1917.30S167.82E25.0  5.9VANUATU 
04/10/11  08:58:4915.60N119.47E15.0  5.1LUZON, PHILIPPINES 
04/10/11  06:37:115.37N126.41E20.6   5.8MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES 
04/10/11  05:09:3531.12N135.43E493.7 5.0SOUTHEAST OF SHIKOKU, JAPAN 
10/10     3 3 0 3 2 2 2 2
04/10/10  06:52:366.69S130.41E43.0   5.7BANDA SEA 
04/10/10  00:13:3460.68S50.79W10.0   5.0SCOTIA SEA 
10/9      3 1 0 1 1 2 2 2
04/10/09  21:26:5611.41N86.55W61.1   6.9NEAR COAST OF NICARAGUA 
10/8      1 3 2 1 2 2 1 3
04/10/08  15:28:3856.49S26.87W96.6   5.9SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
04/10/08  14:36:0513.87N120.59E105.0 6.5MINDORO, PHILIPPINES 
04/10/08  08:27:5311.02S162.19E36.0  6.8SOLOMON ISLANDS
10/7      1 2 1 1 2 2 2 2
04/10/07  21:46:2037.09N54.45E40.2   5.6NORTHERN IRAN
04/10/07  19:26:4342.43N143.03E47.7  5.1HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION 
04/10/07  16:14:1740.31N77.42E46.6   5.1SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA
04/10/07  12:55:0228.34N57.32E73.6   5.2SOUTHERN IRAN 
04/10/07  07:16:5336.44N22.82E60.2   5.0SOUTHERN GREECE 
04/10/07  01:05:1336.61N26.81E128.1  5.5DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE 
10/5      Apogee
United States Quakes this past week 
with quakes possibly felt in U.S. from nearby countries:  
(only highest magnitude quakes shown for Mount St. Helens)
04/10/01  06:45:1046.20N122.19W0.7   3.5MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
04/10/01  06:14:5946.20N122.19W0.2   3.5MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
04/10/14  01:04:2127.69N112.01W10.0  4.1GULF OF CALIFORNIA 
04/10/13  10:31:2243.31N126.94W10.0  4.4OFF COAST OF OREGON 
04/10/13  08:34:1638.06N118.70W5.6   3.5CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
04/10/12  23:17:5819.34N155.12W9.4   4.5ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII 
04/10/12  19:51:2137.97N118.67W7.7   3.1CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
04/10/12  00:53:5241.53N125.57W10.0  4.6OFF COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 
04/10/11  22:03:4614.84S175.13W10.0  5.7SAMOA ISLANDS REGION 
04/10/11  20:29:5019.35N155.28W31.8  4.0ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII 
04/10/11  00:58:4138.83N107.43W1.0   3.3COLORADO
04/10/09  03:45:4837.99N118.62W6.2   4.5CENTRAL CALIFORNIA 
04/10/09  00:57:5738.72N115.38W2.9   3.5NEVADA 
04/10/08  16:32:3138.74N115.39W2.5   3.9NEVADA
04/10/08  11:42:2360.12N153.50W16    4.0SOUTHERN ALASKA 
04/10/08  02:25:4642.52N71.46W1.0    2.1MASSACHUSETTS
04/10/07  17:07:0414.54N147.04E27.6  4.9MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
04/10/07  08:39:2921.61N142.99E338.7 4.2MARIANA ISLANDS REGION 
04/10/07  08:23:3242.06N120.42W5.0   3.4OREGON 
04/10/07  02:15:5814.53N146.95E53.2  4.7ROTA REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
Late listing
04/10/06  18:31:3461.48N146.63W30.0  4.1SOUTHERN ALASKA 
YEARS OF MONTHLY COUNTS 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
June      1  11  12  12   3   3   3  22  10  14  12  10
July      2  10  12   7   5   9   8   9  10   5  15  11 with two 7M
August    2  14  16   6   7   8   9  12   8  12   8   4
September 4   8   8   9   7   4  12   7  10  13  18  15 with two 7M's
October   4  12  21   9   6   3   4   8  11  21  11  (4)
YR total 19 110 160 109  76  63 103 109 112 133 145 (99)
SUN
Sunspot numbers, daily for the past week:
10/6   7   8   9  10  11  12  13
  39  38  28  24   0   0  10 190
Planetary geomagnetic A Indices, daily (eight Kp's for same period)
   5   4   7   6   8  11  11  35