Earthquakes Increasing In Number And Intensity

A picture of the Earth with an earthquake crack going down the USA and S America

We’ve had another increase in earthquake intensity and tsunamis.

This was an active earthquake week, with a few small tsunamis thrown into the mix. The following quakes shook the Pacific Rim  and the Caribbean, 5/10 through 5/16, 2014:

  1. 5.6  Alaska  5/10
  2. 5.3  Off Oregon Coast  5/12
  3. 6.5  Southern East Pacific Rise  5/12
  4. 6.8  Panama  5/13
  5. 6.6  Yap  5/14
  6. 6.6  Yap  5/15
  7. 6.2  Philippines  5/15
  8. 5.7  New Caledonia  5/15
  9. 6.0 Antigua and Barbuda  5/16 –  local tsunami  Leeward Islands Caribbean Sea
  10. 5.0  Guadeloupe  5/16
  11. 5.5  Chile  5/16
  12. 5.0  Indonesia  5/16
  13. 5.1  Saint Helena

Huge Quakes Strike From Mexico To New Guinea Today

The Earth with bricks falling around it.

Large earthquakes are occurring all over the Pacific Rim today.

The Earth is lighting up! Today, large quakes – very large quakes – rattled Mexico to New Guinea:

  1. 6.2  Balleny Island region
  2. 5.2  Balleny Island region
  3. 5.2  Sabtang, Philippines
  4. 5.6  Noatak, Alaska
  5. 5.6  Noatak, Alaska (#2)
  6. 6.6  Kirakira, Solomon Islands
  7. 7.5  Petatlan, Mexico
  8. 5.5  Balleny Island region
  9. 7.0  Papua New Guinea

No tsunami warning was issued, but local flooding and rising waves are to be expected within 100 km of the epicenters of these quakes.

 

More Quakes Shake South Pole

USGS small globe showing the Bellany Islands off Antarctica

The Balleny Islands off Antarctica – USGS

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake in the Balleny Island region north of Antarctica was followed 10 minutes later by a 5.2 magnitude quakeMinutes after that, a 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck on the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge.

This might not appear to be any big deal, except to the penguins, but when one pole shifts, the other pole follows. So, heads up, Northern Polar Regions – that’s Russia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland/Iceland. Possibly Japan and the Philippines.

USGS map of quake at South Pole

5.5 magnitude quake at the South Pole/Pacific-Antarctic Ridge – USGS