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Ropey video from someone filming their TV (may have been from a link i've posted already, appologies if this is so)
 
Interesting comment from the cbslocal link
Gerardo H.: “My friend in Vegas said a green thing landed on the next block over and the military has it blocked off.”
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None/not too much damage, hopefully :)

edit, I see the earlier M6 has been downgraded to a 5.5. I doubt that's the final settled magnitude, probably won;t have that for about 6-7 days. That was also very deep.
 
Hey xes how did you miss the earthquake in Nepal yesterday???!! ANd the wall of the British Embassy falls in Kathmandu and kills 3 people too!!!1 Wake up xes, wake up world!!!
 
A couple of small quakes in the English Channel, but it says that they may have been caused by a small explosion?? :confused:
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

And a few volcano news bits
Authorities in East Java have raised the alert level for the mudflow spewing from an underground volcano in Sidoarjo after nearby dikes nearly failed.

The mudflow has destroyed hundreds of homes, swamped 720 hectares of land and displaced more than 11,000 people since it began erupting in late May 2006.

“The situation is alarming,” said Achmad Khusaeri, a spokesman for the Sidoarjo Mudflow Mitigation Agency (BPLS), adding that the underground volcano had begun to erupt again after lying virtually dormant for years.

The mudflow had fallen from an average of 100,000 cubic meters per day in 2009 to 13,000 cubic meters per day last year.
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http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/threat-level-at-lapindo-mudlow-site-increases/466884

From hawaii
Activity Summary for past 24 hours: Summit tilt was relatively flat until early this morning, when slow deflation started. The lava level in the summit eruptive vent was at a relatively high level, with small changes in level caused by rise-fall cycles. Lava flows erupted within Pu`u `O`o overflowed the west side of the crater until stalling early this morning. At about 2:25 AM, lava broke through the upper east flank of Pu`u `O`o and a channelized flow advanced rapidly downslope to the east. Seismic tremor levels are low, but increased at Pu`u `O`o when the new fissure opened. Gas emissions from the summit and east rift zone vents remain elevated. All erupted lava is within Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park or adjacent State land managed by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. If the eastern flows persist, they may pose a hazard to the Royal Gardens subdivision in the coming days. The flow's progress will be assessed during an overflight this afternoon.
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http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/activity/kilaueastatus.php

And another one in Indonesia
(translation)
TAAL VOLCANO BULLETIN, 22 September 2011, 8:00 A.M.
Thursday, 22 September 2011 08:23
Taal Volcano’s (14.0000°N, 120.9833°E) seismic network detected one (1) volcanic earthquake during the past 24 hours. Field measurements on 20 September 2011 at the eastern sector of the Main Crater Lake yielded slightly increased water temperature of 33.6°C from 33.5°C, water level at a steady 1.74 meters and more acidic pH of 2.72 from 2.79 as compared to previous readings. Ground deformation survey (precise leveling) on the Volcano Island last 21 – 28 July 2011 indicated that the volcano edifice is slightly deflated compared with 01 – 10 June 2011, but is nonetheless still inflated compared with baseline data. Baselines calculated from continuous GPS (Global Positioning System) data for the period February to August 2011 also recorded a very slight but steady inflation of the northeast flank of the Volcano Island. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission recorded on 27 June 2011 at the Main Crater Lake was 1,821 tonnes per day, which is above background levels.
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http://www.vsi.esdm.go.id/
 
An underwater erruption is underway close to El Hierro in the Canay Island, after 8 thousand or so small earthquakes since July.
http://www.expatica.com/es/news/spa...uption-near-spanish-canary-island_181006.html


An underwater volcanic eruption is taking place just off Spain's El Hierro island in the Canaries, which has been rocked by thousands of small tremors since July, local officials said Monday.
The eruption is taking place some five kilometres (three miles) from the island at a depth of more than 500 metres (1,500 feet) but its effects will not be felt on the island, said volcanologist Alicia Garcia of the Higher Council of Scientific Research.
"The earthquake monitoring stations on the island recorded the start of an eruption overnight. There is no visible manifestation at the moment," she told AFP.
The regional government of the archipelago issued a "yellow" volcanic eruption alert -- the second level on a scale of four -- after the island was hit by a 4.3-magnitude quake.
The earthquake was the strongest of more than 8,000 tremors which the Spanish National Geographic Institute has recorded on El Hierro since they began in July. The majority have been too small to be felt.
"There was a volcanic eruption overnight, what we don't know is what is its state, if it has just started and if it is just releasing gases or if it is releasing magma as well," the head of the island's local council, Alpidio Armas, told Spanish public radio.
"If the magma gets out, which appears will be the case, it will mean that the seismic movements will decrease," he added.
El Hierro, which means iron in Spanish, is the smallest of Spain's Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic off the coast of Morocco. It is home to some 11,000 people.
The last volcanic eruption on the Canary Islands was on nearby La Palma in 1971.
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And Anak Krakatoa is having 4-6 thousand quakes per day according to this guy who visited the seismograph place and recorded this.

the blurb reads
The seismograph monitoring the Anak Krakatau volcano in the sunda straights, have shown immense increases in shallow volcanic earthquakes These readings have shown 4000-6000 earth quakes on average per day, since 30th September. During my visit to the Pasauran Observatory on Saturday 8th October I recorded several minutes of the Seismograph`s readings. This is a one minute part of the recording.

Location: Pasauran, West-Java, Indonesia

Visit http://oysteinlundandersen.com/ for more photography of Krakatau.
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A 7.3 in Turkey earlier, looks like it's caused a fair bit of damage with some building collapses.
 
maybe we're going to have another volcano go off soon, as this article states that the chamber is filling up at a rate of 1 cubic meter per second.(but it has been doing so for 20 odd years)

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/rapidly-inflating-volcano-creates-growing-mystery-2126/
Researchers from several universities are essentially working as geological detectives, using a suite of tools to piece together the restive peak's past in order to understand what it is doing now, and better diagnose what may lie ahead.
It's a mystery they've yet to solve.
Uturuncu is a nearly 20,000-foot-high (6,000 meters) volcano in southwest Bolivia. Scientists recently discovered the volcano is inflating with astonishing speed.
"I call this 'volcano forensics,' because we're using so many different techniques to understand this phenomenon," said Oregon State University professor Shan de Silva, a volcanologist on the research team. [See images of the inflating volcano here.]
Researchers realized about five years ago that the area below and around Uturuncu is steadily rising — blowing up like a giant balloon under a wide disc of land some 43 miles (70 kilometers) across. Satellite data revealed the region was inflating by 1 to 2 centimeters (less than an inch) per year and had been doing so for at least 20 years, when satellite observations began.
"It's one of the fastest uplifting volcanic areas on Earth," de Silva told OurAmazingPlanet."What we're trying to do is understand why there is this rapid inflation, and from there we'll try to understand what it's going to lead to."
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/b...mpaign=Feed:+BadAstronomyBlog+(Bad+Astronomy)

Mordor surely!
 
I think Mt Etna does something cool with shadows too, creates a pyramid effect or something IIRC.
 
and this morning China have had 2 5.5s a 5.8 and a 6.1. they usually go down in mag, hope these aren't foreshocks.
 
There appear to be some indications that Icelandic glacier volcano Katla could erupt soon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15995845

Hundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers there are signs of an imminent volcanic eruption that could be one of the most powerful the country has seen in almost a century.
Mighty Katla, with its 10km (6.2 mile) crater, has the potential to cause catastrophic flooding as it melts the frozen surface of its caldera and sends billions of gallons of water surging through Iceland's east coast and into the Atlantic Ocean.
"There has been a great deal of seismic activity," says Ford Cochran, the National Geographic's expert on Iceland.
"There have been more than 500 tremors in and around the caldera of Katla just in the last month, which suggests the motion of magma. And that certainly suggests an eruption may be imminent."
Scientists in Iceland have been closely monitoring the area since 9 July, when there appears to have been some sort of disturbance that may have been a small eruption.
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