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Re: [OM] OT: New Alaskan Earthquakes

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: New Alaskan Earthquakes
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:44:57 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     And that shock density continues.  Oddly, there aren't any known major 
faults nearby that this could be attributed to.

     In the meantime, the Indonesian island of Lombok continues to have major 
events, three greater than M6.0 in the past 24 hours, plus an M6.9 about 300km 
to the ENE.  That island sits just off a subduction fault.  The Rinjani volcano 
sits just north of the centre of the island.  It has had two major eruptions in 
the past 75 years (1944, 1966), so it may be due for another one.  Don't know 
if there's any instrumentation to show if there is a magma chambre rising.

>
>The density of aftershocks is unreal. For the first day, they say the
>ground never really stopped moving except for a handful of lulls that
>spanned a couple of minutes.
>
>We did get a pretty good jolt from one up by Talkeetna. It was a
>decently firm side-to-side jolt of a couple of inches. It was a single
>bump, but it was enough to slosh the coffee.
>

Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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