Thursday, September 15, 2011

Three Magnitude 6+ Earthquakes Hits in Past 1 Hour

3:53 PM Philippine Time, I got a pop-up notification that a Magnitude 6.0 quake struck the New Zealand region near the North Island at a depth of 13km (8mi).

Fast forward 7 minutes later I got another notification again. This time, at 04:00 PM a Magnitude 6.2 quake struck on the easter part of Fukushima region on Japan. Yeah I know this region is periodically hit by earthquakes of that intensity since the Magnitude 9.1 quake sttuck the nation last March 11. By the way, the quake struck at a depth of 10km (6mi) below the surface of the earth.

40 minutes has passed and another notification appeared again. This time, a Magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Cuba on North America at 04:43 PM with a depth of 10km (6mi) too.

Feels creepy no?

All information from USGS. Reports from other agencies may show slightly different details.

Source: USGS
Via: Earthquake app for iPad

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