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5.7 quake strikes remote Pacific area: geologists

Wellington: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks struck beneath the Pacific off New Zealand's Kermadec Islands today, US geologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The remote offshore quake hit at 05:42am local time at a depth of 32 kilometres, 65 kilometres east of Raoul Island and 926 kilometres south of Tonga, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

The USGS at first measured the quake at a strong magnitude of 6.2 but later downgraded it.

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Active 200-km Fault Found off Honshu's Kii Peninsula

New Fault Line
© Kyodo Graphic
Kyodo - An active fault around 200 km long that is believed to have been a source of huge quakes in the past has been found off Honshu's Kii Peninsula, according to researchers at the University of Tokyo.

If the fault on the Nankai Trough moves, it could trigger a magnitude 8.0 earthquake, the researchers said, adding they have found a seabed cliff several hundred meters high that was created by the fault's past movements.

"There is a high probability that fault shifts have caused great tsunami," said Park Jin Oh, associate professor of marine geology. "We need to reformulate disaster countermeasures by taking into account an active fault on the seabed 200 km or longer."

Park analyzed sonar data on the seabed collected by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and found a fault branching off from a boundary between two tectonic plates in an area west of the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula in Wakayama Prefecture.

The fault was found to be connected to a similar fault to the east of the peninsula and to extend at least 200 km, the researchers said.

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Kermadec Islands - Earthquake Magnitude 5.8

Kermadec Quake_280112
© USGSEarthquake Location
Date-Time
Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 17:42:53 UTC

Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 05:42:53 AM at epicenter

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Location
29.344°S, 177.424°W

Depth
28 km (17.4 miles)

Region
KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND

Distances
47 km (29 miles) E of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands

272 km (169 miles) NNE of L'Esperance Rock, Kermadec Islands

936 km (581 miles) SSW of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga

1108 km (688 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand

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California, US: No damage preliminary 3.4 quake hits near Sonoma

San Francisco - No damage has been reported after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 rattled a rural area of Northern California.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 9:21 p.m. Thursday about 26 miles north of Santa Rosa, or about 75 miles north of San Francisco.

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Southern polar region status: 5.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Scotia Sea

5.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Scotia Sea near tip of Antarctica. Maybe soon we're discover the skyquakes, the cracking of the magnetosphere, the magnetic pole migration are all rooted in the same growing dilemma of a hastening planetary magnetic field reversal.
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Earthquakes strike Ireland and southwest of Santorini volcano in Crete

People in north Donegal were left shaken, but hopefully not too stirred, last night when an earthquake tremor hit the region. Tom Blake, a geophysicist at the Dublin School for Advanced Studies confirmed that a 2.2 magnitude tremor struck north Donegal at 1.04 am. The tremor was recorded at a seismic monitoring station in Inishowen.
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The station was set up and is operated in association with LYIT and North West Electronics. The tremor was also recorded at St. Columba's National School and St. Egney's Desertegney, where equipment has been in place for some time. According to the Donegal Weather Channel, hundreds of people felt the tremor right across north Donegal, areas affected included Letterkenny, Buncrana, Kilmacrennan, Raphoe, Ramelton, Carrigard and Downings.

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US: Alaska - Earthquake Magnitude 5.1 - Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands

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© USGS
Date-Time:
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 00:46:00 UTC

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 03:46:00 PM at epicenter

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Location:
52.809°N, 167.095°W

Depth:
39.4 km (24.5 miles)

Region:
FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

Distances:
119 km (73 miles) E of Nikolski, Alaska

127 km (78 miles) SSW of Dutch Harbor, Alaska

1395 km (866 miles) SW of Anchorage, Alaska

2121 km (1317 miles) W of WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory, Canada

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Earthquakes strike regions of US Mt. St. Helens and northern Italy

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© USGS
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred at 2:51 a.m. Wednesday about 10 miles north of Mount St. Helens. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network reports mild shaking was felt in Longview, Castle Rock and Morton. The University of Washington reports the quake was followed by a half-dozen small aftershocks in the next hour. Small quakes are common in the area around the volcano in southwest Washington.

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A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck the northern region of Italy at a depth of 10.2 km or 6.3 miles below the surface. The epicenter of the earthquake was about 13 km from Parma, Italy and about 368 km from Rome. The earthquake was preceded by a much shallower 4.0 foreshock some 47 km away. Italy has seen a growing amount of seismic unrest along the northern mountainous region of the country. The Alpide Belt which runs along the southern region of Europe and Asia continues to show signs of stress. In the meantime, we continue to monitor the stresses erupting along the planet's lower southern hemisphere. A 5.1 magnitude earthquake was reported west of New Zealand's South Island.

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Fiji Islands - Earthquake Magnitude 6.3

Fiji Quake_240112
© USGSEarthquake Location
Date-Time
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 00:52:06 UTC

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:52:06 PM at epicenter

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Location
24.959°S, 178.611°E

Depth
582.8 km (362.2 miles)

Region
SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

Distances
543 km (337 miles) SE of Ceva-i-Ra, Fiji

551 km (342 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji

756 km (469 miles) S of SUVA, Viti Levu, Fiji

1370 km (851 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand

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Offshore Bio-Bio, Chile - Earthquake Magnitude 6.2

Bio-Bio Quake_230112
© USGSEarthquake Location.
Date-Time
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 16:04:54 UTC

Monday, January 23, 2012 at 01:04:54 PM at epicenter

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Location
36.415°S, 73.015°W

Depth
29.7 km (18.5 miles)

Region
OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE

Distances
50 km (31 miles) N of Concepcion, Bio-Bio, Chile

80 km (49 miles) SW of Cauquenes, Maule, Chile

90 km (55 miles) WNW of Chillan, Bio-Bio, Chile

393 km (244 miles) SSW of SANTIAGO, Region Metropolitana, Chile