For a little context, I've visited this site a few times recently to see just how many quakes there are around the world every day - turns out a few dozen. Activity around Japan is just phenomenal.
So back in Spain - one morning over breakfast, I remember a friend telling us about a news report about a nearby earthquake that occurred the night before while we were playing poker. He
mentioned something at the time, not many of us noticed anything - might have been the San Miguel...
This is a five day inclusive search around the world in August 2008 - I repeat, only 5 days worth:
So to find those just in Spain, I restricted the region in the search criteria.
The two in highlighted red in the report below are the ones that we were within possibly 3 kms of it, if I remember our exact location correctly. Two evening quakes just over an hour apart, 7km deep.
U. S. G E O L O G I C A L S U R V E Y
E A R T H Q U A K E D A T A B A S E
FILE CREATED: Wed Apr 13 15:52:46 2011
Geographic Grid Search Earthquakes= 8
Latitude: 50.000N - 30.000N
Longitude: 10.000E - 20.000W
Catalog Used: PDE
Date Range: 2008/08/04 to 2008/08/08
Data Selection: Historical & Preliminary Data
CAT YEAR MO DA ORIG TIME LAT LONG DEP MAGNITUDE IEM DTSVNWG DIST
NFO km
TF
PDE 2008 08 04 060910.21 42.10 -6.82 17 2.8 LgMDD ... .......
PDE 2008 08 05 152121.24 37.00 3.42 0 4.0 UKMDD ... .......
PDE 2008 08 05 224121.93 38.05 -0.78 7 3.5 MLSTR 3F. .......
PDE 2008 08 05 234123.44 38.07 -0.78 7 2.7 LgMDD 3F. .......
PDE 2008 08 07 090314.60 42.94 -1.33 2 2.5 MLLDG ... .......
PDE 2008 08 07 103215.30 41.98 2.56 5 2.6 MLSTR ... .......
PDE 2008 08 08 094711.30 42.36 3.45 10 2.5 LgMDD ... .......
PDE 2008 08 08 225611.15 35.58 -4.70 65 2.8 UKMDD ... .......
I had a look on google maps for the location, I think we stayed in Los Montesinos, Torrevieja - very close!
The internet is full of amazing information - sometimes it's just a matter of tapping into it, sometimes it's a matter of coming up with the idea.
ScottWe
2 comments:
I think there will be some people in Australia, Africa, Russia, Greenland, and Antarctica that will beg to differ on the term "safest place"
I recall feeling an Earthquake in Sydney, around 2002 I think.
In theory you can look them up here:
http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/listQuakes
and
http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/quake/quake_online.jsp
In practice it doesn't seem to be working today. I'm sure it's not the "oracle" part, so it must be the "jsp"
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