Another major aftershock hits Lombock, this time 6.2

USGS estimated the depth of the latest tremor at 7.9 kilometres and said the epicentre was on the north-eastern shoulder of the island at the foot of Mount Rinjani.
Footage uploaded on social media showed clouds of dust raising from landslides covering a large area of the mountainside.

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Grant
Darwin NT

It's going off like a frog in a wet sock from Lambock, PNG and Fiji atm :(

If I've read it correctly those quakes in Fiji are at a depth of between 580 kms-622 kms! (Lower Mantel? )

I would be getting a little nervous in NZ being on the same faultline

Magnitude 8.2 quake strikes in the Pacific, no damage expected -USGS

Wow - 8.2 lucky that one was not closer to the surface.

Bill

Lombok has been hit again by a 6.9 quake along with some aftershocks, 1 death reported so far. :-(

Villagers forced to flee after volcano erupts in PNG

A volcano on the north coast of Papua New Guinea erupts, sending plumes of ash 15 kilometres into the air and forcing 2,000 villagers to flee from lava flows.

And Lombock has a long way to go recovery wise.

Almost a month after the Indonesian Island of Lombok was rocked by the first in a devastating series of earthquakes, the tourist haven remains a scene of destruction on a grand scale.
The clean-up has been delayed by almost 1,000 aftershocks that have shaken the region, including one magnitude 6.9, almost equivalent to the big quake that destroyed much of the north on August 5.
The ongoing tremors are also causing more death and destruction, with more than 430,000 people now displaced, 74,000 homes damaged or destroyed and 7,000 people injured.

The official death toll is now 515 and still rising.

Things have certainly been active in this region over the last month or so.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Timor region, Indonesia........Magnitude 6.2

:-(

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Yep just seen..

Steve :(

M5.5 Earthquake - south of Tonga
M6.6 Earthquake - Hokkaido, Japan region

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It's going off like a frog in a wet sock from Lambock, PNG and Fiji atm :(

If I've read it correctly those quakes in Fiji are at a depth of between 580 kms-622 kms! (Lower Mantel? )

I would be getting a little nervous in NZ being on the same faultline

That depth according to the wiki is the transition zone, but damn that's deep no matter where that is at.

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Hi Vic & Grace,

Another Fiji quake.

M7.8 Earthquake.
A deep magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck 105 kilometres east-southeast of Suva, Fiji, with no destructive Pacific-wide tsunami expected.

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Three more quakes today. :-(

M6.2 Earthquake - Ecuador
M5.8 Earthquake - Chile-Argentina border region
M5.6 Earthquake - Panama-Colombia border region

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Hi Vic & Grace,

Another Fiji quake.

M7.8 Earthquake.
A deep magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck 105 kilometres east-southeast of Suva, Fiji, with no destructive Pacific-wide tsunami expected.

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Hi Lynn.

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Reports of a 5.6 quake near Walpole in WA (Western Australia).
5.3 according to the USGS. Was felt in Perth, 280km away.
Also in Albany 120km away, although only weakly.

Given it's epicentre, depth, and the low population density of the area there shouldn't be much damage, if any.

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Grant
Darwin NT

"Shaky Town" may be in for some serious earthquakes:
A tectonic squeeze may be loading three thrust faults beneath central Los Angeles

LA’s problem: The squeeze

Thrust earthquakes like these, in which the top side of the fault is thrust up and over the bottom side, will likely strike Los Angeles again in the 21st century. They may in fact pose a greater hazard to the city than earthquakes on the nearby San Andreas Fault because they can occur directly beneath the central metropolitan area. This means that a city that has found so much of its identity and place in history from being improvised as it went, and from being a cultural and economic melting pot, now faces the unwieldy task of readying its diverse infrastructure and populace for the strong shaking these kinds of earthquakes can produce.

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Krakatoa is erupting again, yes it's from that Volcano, the son of the one from 1883, I hope this time people will evacuate, since Friday it's erupted 44 times and its killed 30,000 back then KABC said. Though for all intents and porpoises, this is the one from 1883 reborn, nature is relentless.


This is not a current pic, but this will do, beautiful and deadly... If a Volcano could represent Death, this one could be nominated...
It's number 7: http://arveltheo.blogspot.com/2012_06_01_archive.html
News: https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/krakatau/news.html

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You mean Anak Krakatau

You mean Anak Krakatau

It wasn't called that in the News, but whatever. And yes I know what it means, it's like calling Wizard Island in the crater of Mt Mazama, Anak Mazama. Technically at least.

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Powerful earthquake rocks central Sulawesi in Indonesia

INDONESIA has been struck by a tsunami after a 7.7-magnitude quake, killing at least one person and entire families reported missing as homes were swept away.

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Powerful earthquake rocks central Sulawesi in Indonesia

INDONESIA has been struck by a tsunami after a 7.7-magnitude quake, killing at least one person and entire families reported missing as homes were swept away.

Current reports are 48 dead, hundreds injured, many still to be accounted for.

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Grant
Darwin NT

It's very sad to hear of these quakes but also amazing that Australia being so darn close to the ring of fire
that we don't ( Hope never will ) get them "yes we get little ones"...Seems the ring of fire has not settled down
since 2003 still adjusting to the changes still happening.. I'm just amazed that NZ is so quiet atm ( Hope it remains so )