Two separate stations are reporting this - the INFP in Romania, and the Red Puma in Switzerland.
Institutul National pentru Fizica Pamantului
# Regiune: SICHUAN, CHINA
# Latitudine: 31.5311N
# Longitudine: 108.9173E
# Adancime: 15km
# Data/Ora: 27.01.2010, 18:51 (UTC)
# Magnitudine: 8.6 ( mb=8.6 )
The Red Puma site....but is that China?
USGS says nothing.
It was on the EMSC site, but now it's gone.
How can there be a reporting error with seismic equipment picked up by monitors in two such far flung locations?
This was the Red Puma information:
LOCATION > 0.3N 0.5E 71 mb=8.6 6 ROM OFF S. COAST OF NORTHWEST
Where the heck is that? Dunno, time for sleep. All very odd.
I found a report of a minor earthquake in southern China on Jan. 17, but nothing more recent. Glitch?
ReplyDeleteJust a thought, could it have been in some remote area that did not affect anything, so it was not found to be newsworthy?
ReplyDeleteAnother thought -- it was an A test?
An A test? Oh Lord...I hope not.
ReplyDeleteThat was what I was thinking too Matt. There was apparently an earthquake in the upper 4's over a week ago that killed several people, and the official "position" of the Chinese govt was that there was no earthquake. An article went up yesterday saying that the Chinese govt was telling residents not to believe rumors of earthquakes (what an odd thing - earthquake RUMORS?), but since the area residents know there WAS an earthquake the govt has diminished their credibility and people will know NOT to believe them next time the govt says "the rumors aren't true".
ReplyDeleteWonder if we'll ever know what caused that 8.6 to show up on two monitors?
Oh, and there was a massive quake in that area on December 12, 1920 between a 7.8 and an 8.5 that killed upwards of 200,000 people. So it is seismically active. 1920 Haiyuan earthquake
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