World shaking: Two strong and deep earthquakes struck South Pacific, Northern Italy still active… May 29, 2012

During last 12 hours two strong and deep earthquakes were recorded by seismograms in South Pacific region.

On May 28, 2012 at 21:47 UTC magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Tonga. According to USGS epicenter was located 158 km (98 miles) NNW of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga (19.861°S, 175.894°W). Recorded depth was 226.6 km (140.8 miles). EMSC recorded 5.4 magnitude earthquake with depth of 200 km.

Magnitude	5.8
Date-Time	Monday, May 28, 2012 at 21:47:11 UTC Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 10:47:11 AM at epicenter
Location	19.861°S, 175.894°W
Depth	226.6 km (140.8 miles)
Region	TONGA
Distances	158 km (98 miles) NNW of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga 241 km (149 miles) SW of Neiafu, Tonga 306 km (190 miles) ENE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2093 km (1300 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 17 km (10.6 miles); depth +/- 9 km (5.6 miles)
Parameters	NST=329, Nph=380, Dmin=680.2 km, Rmss=1.01 sec, Gp= 50°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source	Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usb000a1g7

 

On May 29, 2012 at 03:33 UTC a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck south of Fiji islands. This one was even deeper than Tonga with recorded depth of 605.4 km (376.2 miles). Epicenter was located 171 km (106 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji (22.010°S, 179.489°W). EMSC recorded 5.6 magnitude earthquake and depth od 626 km.

 

Magnitude	5.9
Date-Time	Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 03:33:26 UTC Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 03:33:26 PM at epicenter
Location	22.010°S, 179.489°W
Depth	605.4 km (376.2 miles)
Region	SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
Distances	171 km (106 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 454 km (282 miles) WSW of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga 481 km (298 miles) SSE of SUVA, Viti Levu, Fiji 1738 km (1079 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 13.4 km (8.3 miles); depth +/- 7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Parameters	NST=510, Nph=596, Dmin=537.7 km, Rmss=1.03 sec, Gp= 22°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=3
Source	Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usb000a1kl

 

On the other side of the globe, Northern Italy is still shaking. EMSC recorded 5 smaller but shallow earthquakes there in last 8 hours. The strongest one being magnitude 2.7 with recorded depth of only 1 km. Southern Italy is also showing signs of unrest where 2 weak and shallow earthquakes were recorded during last 2 hours. During the whole 24 hours of May, 28, 2012 UTC we had 36 shallow earthquakes recorded in Northern Italy according to EMSC.

Other significant earthquakes today include two stronger earthquakes in Russia and one in Japan. At 2:40 UTC a 5.6 magnitude earthquake with depth of 17.8 km struck Komandorskiye Ostrva. This one was followed by 4.6 magnitude with depth of 19.6 that struck the same area only 2 hours later. Earlier, a 5.2 earthquake with depth of 40.6 km struck off the east coast of Honshu, Japan at 01:56 UTC.

May 29, 2012 has just begun by UTC and judging by what we have seen by now there will be more strong ones to come.

The following is a list of all 2.5+ earthquakes recorded by USGS in last three days.

 

Update time = Wed May 30 6:50:41 UTC 2012

 

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	3.3	2012/05/30 06:21:39	19.299	-155.213	9.4	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.0	2012/05/30 05:14:01	33.669	-119.054	0.1	CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/05/30 03:28:54	18.140	-67.855	101.0	MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
MAP	3.6	2012/05/30 01:49:25	61.389	-151.166	66.5	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	4.4	2012/05/30 00:57:51	5.288	-73.746	157.2	COLOMBIA
MAP	2.5	2012/05/30 00:19:12	39.083	-123.142	5.5	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

 

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	4.2	2012/05/29 22:44:30	16.620	-98.000	10.0	OAXACA, MEXICO
MAP	2.7	2012/05/29 21:39:41	34.949	-116.728	2.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.2	2012/05/29 21:28:07	18.912	-65.400	80.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.4	2012/05/29 18:28:02	44.950	10.981	13.1	NORTHERN ITALY
MAP	2.6	2012/05/29 18:15:34	32.911	-115.578	14.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.3	2012/05/29 17:59:24	18.140	-68.153	77.0	MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP	4.9	2012/05/29 16:37:24	51.121	-179.488	18.3	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/05/29 14:32:51	17.797	-67.009	28.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	5.1	2012/05/29 11:00:26	44.916	10.934	10.0	NORTHERN ITALY
MAP	5.4	2012/05/29 10:55:58	44.859	10.991	9.9	NORTHERN ITALY
MAP	4.7	2012/05/29 08:40:58	44.853	10.990	10.1	NORTHERN ITALY
MAP	4.7	2012/05/29 08:25:52	44.814	10.948	10.0	NORTHERN ITALY
MAP	2.8	2012/05/29 07:32:47	19.304	-155.207	8.9	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.5	2012/05/29 07:23:32	42.652	23.035	7.9	BULGARIA
MAP	5.8	2012/05/29 07:00:04	44.814	11.079	9.6	NORTHERN ITALY
MAP	2.9	2012/05/29 05:53:43	18.992	-64.346	28.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.5	2012/05/29 05:07:36	16.890	147.426	42.4	MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.6	2012/05/29 04:17:33	54.191	169.072	19.6	KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION
MAP	3.3	2012/05/29 04:03:09	19.612	-66.590	35.8	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	5.9	2012/05/29 03:33:26	-22.010	-179.489	605.4	SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP	5.6	2012/05/29 02:40:55	54.381	168.916	17.8	KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION
MAP	5.2	2012/05/29 01:56:06	39.159	144.654	40.6	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	4.5	2012/05/29 01:15:26	3.383	127.289	71.8	KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP	3.7	2012/05/29 00:27:18	24.840	-98.955	13.0	TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO

 

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	5.8	2012/05/28 21:47:12	-19.861	-175.894	226.6	TONGA
MAP	2.6	2012/05/28 17:57:41	19.366	-155.030	5.3	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	2.6	2012/05/28 17:49:29	19.236	-155.345	0.0	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	2.8	2012/05/28 17:25:19	34.947	-116.724	2.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.3	2012/05/28 16:36:47	35.725	140.082	62.0	NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	5.0	2012/05/28 15:39:46	-25.267	-179.884	506.2	SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP	3.2	2012/05/28 15:38:51	18.233	-67.824	122.0	MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
MAP	5.0	2012/05/28 13:15:04	-0.017	123.476	149.2	SULAWESI, INDONESIA
MAP	2.5	2012/05/28 12:11:03	59.662	-153.300	115.4	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	5.1	2012/05/28 11:50:56	-28.140	-63.206	592.0	SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA
MAP	2.7	2012/05/28 10:49:20	51.242	-177.952	26.1	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	3.7	2012/05/28 10:30:45	19.165	-63.562	32.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/05/28 08:39:54	60.019	-153.184	109.6	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	4.5	2012/05/28 08:29:27	14.289	145.233	100.8	ROTA REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
MAP	4.6	2012/05/28 08:22:09	-27.925	-71.060	22.9	ATACAMA, CHILE
MAP	2.9	2012/05/28 07:29:53	51.798	-178.707	32.8	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	3.5	2012/05/28 05:30:19	52.526	-164.690	41.5	SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP	6.7	2012/05/28 05:07:24	-28.061	-63.077	588.0	SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA
MAP	2.7	2012/05/28 03:23:44	58.358	-152.179	36.0	KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	4.7	2012/05/28 02:22:57	39.654	118.736	38.7	HEBEI, CHINA
MAP	4.5	2012/05/28 01:06:32	39.917	16.159	28.4	SOUTHERN ITALY
MAP	2.6	2012/05/28 01:02:50	60.914	-151.065	18.8	KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA

 

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	3.2	2012/05/27 23:27:09	69.023	-146.834	37.5	NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP	4.5	2012/05/27 22:16:30	14.375	-93.451	42.1	OFF THE COAST OF CHIAPAS, MEXICO
MAP	3.2	2012/05/27 22:12:27	18.854	-64.984	14.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.4	2012/05/27 21:52:52	13.176	-89.060	75.1	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	3.4	2012/05/27 21:49:29	19.139	-68.563	94.8	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/05/27 21:33:24	49.368	-120.474	0.0	BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
MAP	4.7	2012/05/27 20:50:22	30.792	83.425	27.5	WESTERN XIZANG
MAP	4.4	2012/05/27 20:01:44	-21.730	-68.431	122.0	ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP	2.6	2012/05/27 18:42:54	54.251	-162.462	8.3	ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP	4.4	2012/05/27 18:40:25	-21.989	-179.416	486.8	FIJI REGION
MAP	4.6	2012/05/27 18:05:50	16.229	-95.523	71.6	OAXACA, MEXICO
MAP	4.7	2012/05/27 17:12:30	-30.264	-177.968	25.3	KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
MAP	3.0	2012/05/27 16:35:00	61.837	-149.788	11.4	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	4.2	2012/05/27 15:01:29	26.601	91.524	59.2	ASSAM, INDIA
MAP	4.9	2012/05/27 13:42:02	14.368	-93.305	52.3	OFFSHORE CHIAPAS, MEXICO
MAP	3.8	2012/05/27 13:05:48	34.947	-116.722	6.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.6	2012/05/27 12:34:41	45.424	151.471	53.9	KURIL ISLANDS
MAP	3.0	2012/05/27 11:29:03	18.483	-66.277	107.9	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.8	2012/05/27 11:20:09	24.643	123.156	16.0	SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP	4.8	2012/05/27 10:58:03	-2.959	100.132	34.2	KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	4.6	2012/05/27 10:10:33	-10.409	-75.363	41.6	CENTRAL PERU
MAP	2.7	2012/05/27 09:51:31	61.038	-149.554	20.6	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	4.7	2012/05/27 09:27:11	-40.629	155.949	9.0	SOUTHEAST OF AUSTRALIA
MAP	2.9	2012/05/27 08:25:40	18.833	-65.584	80.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/05/27 08:12:13	18.227	-68.209	96.9	MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP	4.8	2012/05/27 07:49:54	40.862	145.150	10.4	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	4.3	2012/05/27 07:45:00	18.113	-64.868	4.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.5	2012/05/27 07:40:58	52.086	176.846	11.7	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.4	2012/05/27 07:40:46	50.684	176.171	9.9	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.1	2012/05/27 07:07:07	61.501	-151.871	0.0	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/05/27 06:38:38	18.180	-67.365	22.0	MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
MAP	4.7	2012/05/27 05:21:35	-13.672	-76.146	61.6	NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU
MAP	3.1	2012/05/27 05:00:54	18.397	-65.804	83.9	PUERTO RICO
MAP	2.7	2012/05/27 04:47:53	33.858	-116.155	4.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.3	2012/05/27 03:50:21	-2.810	100.167	29.8	KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	2.9	2012/05/27 03:28:20	19.123	-67.418	17.8	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.3	2012/05/27 03:19:49	72.948	5.629	9.9	NORWEGIAN SEA
MAP	4.4	2012/05/27 01:49:52	38.486	144.825	25.9	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	2.7	2012/05/27 01:45:14	18.597	-64.870	2.6	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/05/27 00:04:19	19.009	-65.528	6.1	PUERTO RICO REGION

 

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	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	3.4	2012/05/26 22:34:25	19.251	-63.568	24.8	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	6.0	2012/05/26 21:48:09	26.876	140.214	472.6	BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP	4.5	2012/05/26 20:41:50	-24.353	-69.297	68.6	ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP	5.0	2012/05/26 20:00:26	26.958	140.323	483.5	BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/05/26 19:50:50	40.398	-122.082	12.9	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.0	2012/05/26 17:18:02	-4.938	103.072	66.6	SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP	2.5	2012/05/26 13:03:04	52.638	-165.439	32.6	SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
MAP	3.5	2012/05/26 12:10:55	19.193	-155.607	7.0	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.8	2012/05/26 11:15:47	16.991	147.201	47.1	MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.0	2012/05/26 11:01:19	51.402	-176.780	25.4	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	3.2	2012/05/26 10:59:51	52.311	-171.275	25.7	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.6	2012/05/26 08:52:15	34.676	24.634	31.2	CRETE, GREECE
MAP	2.5	2012/05/26 05:58:27	31.822	-94.329	5.1	EASTERN TEXAS
MAP	4.4	2012/05/26 03:59:46	35.942	70.725	116.5	HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
MAP	5.0	2012/05/26 03:27:04	85.924	32.617	10.0	NORTH OF SVALBARD
MAP	4.6	2012/05/26 03:25:20	85.833	30.067	9.9	NORTH OF SVALBARD
MAP	4.8	2012/05/26 01:19:29	13.599	-92.047	64.8	OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP	5.1	2012/05/26 00:51:26	-20.856	168.643	10.1	LOYALTY ISLANDS

Updates:

Very strong and shallow earthquake with magnitude 5.8 struck Northern Italy at 7:00 UTC. Recorded depth was 9.6 km (6.0 miles). Epicenter was located 40 km (25 miles) NNW (330°) from Bologna, Italy (44.814°N, 11.079°E).

INGV, the Italian seismological service is reporting a Magnitude of M5.8 at a focal depth of 10.8 km.

People in panic have been poured into the streets, leaving apartments and offices.

Detailed updates on this particular earthquake and aftershocks can be found at thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/05/29/very-strong-...

Magnitude	5.8
Date-Time	Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 07:00:03 UTC Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 09:00:03 AM at epicenter
Location	44.814°N, 11.079°E
Depth	9.6 km (6.0 miles)
Region	NORTHERN ITALY
Distances	40 km (25 miles) NNW (330°) from Bologna, Italy 60 km (37 miles) E (88°) from Parma, Italy 71 km (44 miles) S (175°) from Verona, Italy 149 km (92 miles) NW (313°) from SAN MARINO
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 12 km (7.5 miles); depth +/- 4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Parameters	NST=400, Nph=401, Dmin=210.4 km, Rmss=1.32 sec, Gp= 25°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=A
Source	Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usb000a1mn

 

Update 13:35 UTC:

EMSC is mostly offline today and USGS is utterly slow on updates.

Two important earthquakes are mission on USGS charts. 5.5 magnitude and 5.1 magnitude earthquakes in Canary Islands, Spain. Both with depth of 10km. You can see them listed in Montenegro’s Seismological Observatory below.

Montenegro Seismological Observatory

Origin Time Mag Latitude Longitude Depth Region Name Last Update 2012-05-29 10:55:59 5.3 44.97° N 11.19° E 10 Northern Italy 2012-05-29 11:30:11 2012-05-29 10:23:08 5.1 30.15° N 11.94° W 10 Canary Islands, Spain Region 2012-05-29 10:30:03 2012-05-29 09:25:30 5.5 30.84° N 17.84° W 10 Canary Islands, Spain Region 2012-05-29 09:32:55 2012-05-29 08:40:32 5.2 41.64° N 7.69° E 352 Western Mediterranean Sea 2012-05-29 08:45:16 2012-05-29 08:25:54 4.9 45.01° N 11.19° E 10 Northern Italy 2012-05-29 08:33:48 2012-05-29 08:15:51 4.8 41.50° N 7.64° E 10 Western Mediterranean Sea 2012-05-29 08:19:20 2012-05-29 07:46:50 4.7 35.70° N 7.46° W 575 Strait of Gibraltar 2012-05-29 07:52:46 2012-05-29 07:23:32 3.6 42.62° N 23.09° E 10 Bulgaria 2012-05-29 07:26:24 2012-05-29 07:00:04 5.9 44.95° N 11.16° E 10 Northern Italy 2012-05-29 11:28:34 2012-05-29 04:58:15 3.3 38.66° N 20.55° E 29 Greece 2012-05-29 05:01:49 2012-05-29 03:44:53 5.3 49.88° N 73.90° E 10 Central Kazakhstan 2012-05-29 03:53:17 2012-05-29 03:42:28 5.4 32.22° N 127.40° E 10 Northwest of Ryukyu Islands 2012-05-29 04:20:03 2012-05-29 02:41:44 4.8 56.30° N 168.90° E 360 Komandorskiye Ostrova Region 2012-05-29 02:56:00 2012-05-29 01:56:04 5.1 39.37° N 144.16° E 10 Off East Coast of Honshu, Japan 2012-05-29 02:10:55 2012-05-28 16:36:47 5.8 37.45° N 140.11° E 10 Eastern Honshu, Japan 2012-05-28 16:50:24 2012-05-28 15:44:18 4.4 38.04° N 21.28° E 76 Greece 2012-05-28 15:50:17 2012-05-28 07:47:43 2.4 41.05° N 20.42° E 5 Albania 2012-05-28 07:51:03 2012-05-28 05:15:27 5.6 12.03° N 30.89° W 10 North Atlantic Ocean 2012-05-28 05:27:09 2012-05-28 05:07:24 5.6 14.96° S 56.96° W 10 Brazil 2012-05-28 05:28:36 2012-05-28 01:06:37 4.3 40.34° N 16.63° E 10 Southern Italy 2012-05-28 02:06:18

 

Sources: USGS, EMSC, seismo.co.me

Featured image: Tonga and Fiji earthquakes on May 29. Credit: Google Earth + USGS

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