« Weinberg on Wikipedia | Main | Google's not perfect after all » Quakes du jour I subscribe to quake notifications via email, and earlier today I noticed a 7.3 earthquake near the South Sandwich Islands. About an hour ago I got notification of a 7.1 quake in the Fiji region. These quakes are the large orange squares on the quake map posted above. (USGS also has a list of quakes that are magnitude 5 or greater). Given the magnitude of the quakes and the fact that they're both at sea, I wondered about tsunami potential. According to the Pacific Tsunami Center, no tsunami resulted from the Fiji quake... but there's still no tsunami warning system for the Atlantic. I did find an article saying tsunami is unlikely. It's been a year sense the devastating Southeast Asian Tsunami, so I'm surprised there's no warning system for the Atlantic... evidently there's a plan, at least. jon posted this at 5:38 PM |
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