A bigger update tomorrow, then I've got some things to take care of, so there will be no updates on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (5/31 - 6/2). Severe weather due here again too - tonight, Monday and Wednesday, so hopefully I'll be back on Friday!
but I don't know how to show it.**
Mitch Hedberg
LARGEST QUAKES -
This morning -
5.7 SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA
5.5 BANDA SEA
5.4 NEW BRITAIN REGION, P.N.G.
Yesterday -
5/28/11 -
5.1 JAVA, INDONESIA
5.5 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
5.5 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
5.6 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
5.1 OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
5.1 OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
5.0 LOYALTY ISLANDS
5/27/11 -
5.1 SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA
5.1 MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA
5.3 NEAR N COAST OF NEW GUINEA, PNG.
5.0 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
PENNSYLVANIA - Big boom was an earthquake after all. For everyone wondering what the loud explosion was in Northeast Philadelphia late Friday, we finally have an answer. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed Saturday an earthquake with a magnitude of 1.7 rocked the Far Northeast near the Franklin Mills Mall. The quake was 2.6 miles below the Earth's surface. There were no injuries and no damage reported. The quake occurred at 9:33 p.m. and the resulting noise caused a flurry of calls to Philadelphia's 911 center, and 50 calls alone to the 8th Police District.
"As I was sitting in my car I felt the ground move." A resident of Philadelphia described the noise as a "big bang and a shock." Within minutes, police, firefighters, Philadelphia Gas Works and PECO crews converged on the intersection and there was a sea of fire trucks and police cruisers. Hundreds of people were mingling in the streets talking about the noise and what it could have been. Police initially believed a gas leak may have occurred, but they said several helicopters with thermal imaging equipment ruled out that possibility. There were no electrical outages reported and no reports of any transformers exploding.
Earthquakes in this part of the country are "infrequent" and tend to happen with more regularity closer to the New York State border and in the Adirondack Mountains. "It was a very small earthquake with no damage, but earthquakes with a magnitude of less than 2.0 are RARE. There is no identified fault in the area where it occurred, but it may have been caused by normal stress in a slip of an unidentified fault."
Another loud noise was heard early Saturday on Whiting Road in Philadelphia, but that has not been confirmed as an earthquake and may have been an aftershock.
Other recent quakes in the area -
May 29th -
1.9 23 km (15 mi)SSE of Mcguire AFB,New Jersey
1.3 6 km ( 4 mi) N of New York,NY
27th -
1.7 3 km ( 2 mi) E of Nth Philadel,Pennsylvania
1.2 39 km (24 mi) NW of Saranac Lk,NY
1.4 27 km (17 mi) ENE of Ogdensburg,NY
26th -
2.8 49 km (31 mi) NNW of Dansville,NY
25th -
1.5 32 km (20 mi) NW of Massena,NY
24th
1.3 20 km (13 mi) NNW of Laconia,NH
2.3 23 km (14 mi) S of Ripon, Quebec
23rd -
2.0 44 km (27 mi) WNW of Glens Falls,NY
1.5 9 km ( 6 mi) WSW of Valleyfield, Quebec
