Aftershocks Still With Us

A 2.7 aftershock woke light (or nervous) sleepers early Sunday morning in central Va. as the year of the quake continues here the Central Va. Quake zone. The rest of the planet shakes on, mostly on the plate boundaries where quakes belong and there have been no quakes in the red zone, 6.0 or better, on the list in several days. The aftershocks continue off Honshu as Japan nears the first anniversary of the devastating quake and ensuing tsunami, an event that has changed quake/tsunami awareness and thinking world wide.
Earth rumbles and shimmies on!!!!
Hang on!!

Plate Boundaries and Central Va.

Plotting quakes for the last two days would easily identify the boundaries that the Earth's lithosphere is broken into and identify places that are regular visitors to the quake list. And, then there's central Virginia; far both in time and space from a plate boundary but shaking again. Three quakes yesterday: two @ 2.5 and one @ 2.0 shake us back to our new reality; we live in an earthquake zone.
The Pacific rim, the mid-ocean ridges shift and shimmy on: Japan, Indonesia, Kamchatka, Philippines, Chile, Central America, the Aleutians, Hispaniola, and the most active of all, the Scotia plate, are all on the list, as usual, but Virginia, to our dismay, is back on the list, as well.
Hang on Earthlings!!!

Central Va. Rockin' Again

After nearly a two week xmas/new year break the aftershocks return to the central Va. equake zone. A good rumble and rattle a little after 1 Saturday am (still not on the list), a 1.9 shake about 9:30 Sunday morning and another this morning at 8:09.  The rest of the planet shakes on as well, a 6.6 quake in the Santa Cruz Islands a couple of days ago is the only red on the list but the usual plate boundary locations shimmy on.
Hang on Earthlings!!

A quiet end to 2011

The last few days of 2011 have been fairly calm on the shaky planet. Several days have past since anything in the red zone and nothing above 5.4 anywhere on Earth.
2011 will be remembered for the 9.0 magnitude quake and resultant tsunami in Japan back in early March where they are a long way from recovered from the devastation. The 5.8 quake here in Central Va will never leave our memories and our recovery, while trivial compared to Japan, is still a long way from over. New Zealand is still dealing with major aftershocks after a series of strong quake has trashed the city of Christ Church. The shaky earth is still doing what it does. Hang on in 2012!!!

The Usual Suspects

Nothing on today's (fairly light) earthquake list come as any surprise to a regular follower: Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, western America's,  some minor shakes in the southern Asian mountain belts and magnitudes are all in the 4's and 5's. Just Earth doing what it does.
The aftershocks in the Central Va. Equake Zone continue to shrink in magnitude and number; a good thing for those of us that don't like living in an active earthquake zone.
Earth is likely to have other plans (a figure of speech - I don't buy that the Earth has any plans of it's own - and I know that's a problem for some)

Earthquakes

A 6.0 earthquake hit the coast of New Zealand at 4:34 p.m. At 38S and 179E, aftershocks continue to happen. There was no damage reported and there were no deaths or injuries.

Molucca Sea Quake

The Australian plate is now active. On Monday November 14th at 4:05 a 6.3 quake hit in the Molucca Sea. No tsunamis are expected. The quake epicenter was located at 1 south and 126E, no damage was reported.