On Dec 29 2011, 12:20*pm, Weatherlawyer
wrote:
In almost every case of a series of largish quakes in any 24 hour,
there appears a pattern of not much happening the day befo
28th
5.5 * * *M. * * *PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
5.1 * * *M. * * *TONGA
5.4 * * *M. * * *S SANDWICH ISLANDS
5.4 * * *M. * * *HALMAHERA, INDONESIA
5.2 * * *M. * * *FIJI REGION
27th
*5.1 * * M. * * *BOUGAINVILLE, PNG
*6.6 * * M. * * *SW SIBERIA, RUSSIA
*5.2 * * M. * * *BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN
*5.4 * * M. * * *IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN
This Mag 6 was preceded by
26th
*5.1 * * M. * * *MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
*5.6 * * M. * * *VANUATU
*6.0 * * M. * * *TONGA
...not very much of note he
25th
*5.0 * * M. * * *NE OF HONSHU, JAPAN
..or he
24th
*5.3 * * M. * * *NEW IRELAND , PNG
These three Kiwis were preceded by
23rd
*5.9 * * M. * * *SOUTH OF AFRICA
*5.0 * * M. * * *SOUTH ISLAND, N Z
*5.0 * * M. * * *PAKISTAN
*5.5 * * M. * * *S KERMADEC Is
*5.3 * * M. * * *MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
*5.9 * * M. * * *SOUTH ISLAND, N Z
*5.3 * * M. * * *SOUTH ISLAND, N Z
*5.8 * * M. * * *SOUTH ISLAND, N Z
...not quite (but almost) a flatline:
22nd
*5.0 * * M. * * *NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
*5.0 * * M. * * *OFF AISEN, CHILE
*5.0 * * M. * * *S JAVA, INDONESIA
The New Zealand quakes broke the spell.
I'm not saying that they usually do that but a sequence of three
uniterupted as those tends to occur with the end of a tropical
depression.
I wonder if there is a relationship between the category of storm and
the magnitude of the quake.
Met angle?
A series of long occluded fronts on the North Atlantic chart tends to
give way to the not very much happening seismologically stuff followed
by *the serious quakes within a day or so.
Consider today's MetO SSP for instance:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/..._pressure.html
There isn't much on it that looks tremorous. But by noon today
(Thursday 29th Dec 2011 GMT) quite a large frequency wave is going to
hit Norway. The chart for T+24 is then full of Occluded fronts.
Noon tomorrow the Low coming off the North American coast splits into
2 (forecasting another tropical depression or an increase in the
category(s) of whatever is already blowing in the wind.)
By the ends of the spell (1 Jan 2012) there is a build up of strain in
the oh so semi-fluid athenahnoreallysphere.
T+60 is interesting from the point of view of tropical cyclones. The
new spell is almost identical to the present so it could all start all
over. (You can tell the degree of uncertainty by the dotted lines. Any
Blue Peter fans will know what that means.)
A 6.8 just S of Japan broke the last spell -the next one of which will
be similar.
Oddly, in the prescience of flaterrrreally the great assume imminence.
The only bubbles to come out of **** on an hot day.
(Not at all like the stuff that doesn't come out of the aeseenosthere.)