Magnitude 6.1 - SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
Posted by
JAC on 6/21/2011, 5:50 am
http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com//map_detail.php?id=118053
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0004clj.php
A strong earthquake today occurred in the Santa Cruz Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean with M 6.1-6.2. This earthquake was not reported felt or damaging in the epicentral area.
This earthquake occurred during a strong solar flare of C7.7 which began about half an hour earlier when the Santa Cruz Islands were sub-solar (near local noon) and the effects of solar flares are maximized.
This is the strongest solar flare in the past week since an M 1.3 on June 14.
Several canary earthquakes occurred in the South Pacific yesterday and may have notified us of the possibility of a strong earthquake in this region at this time.
Events over the last 2 days have for the most part been located in Sumatra, Indonesia or areas of the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
This suggests a somewhat higher possibility of a succeeding earthquake.
Both the earthquakes in the Santa Cruz Islands and the event in Chile yesterday occurred about 10-15 degrees south of the geomagnetic equator and were probably promoted by recent geomagnetic storms.
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