Another serious aftershock

[Jay & Ping]

I just heard the news. Old news by now.

 

Nothing on Candle, nothing from my girls in Chongqing.

I hope everyone is well.

 

6.2 is a darn good jolt.

 

SICHUAN-GANSU BORDER REGION

Magnitude: 6.2

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 at 09:49:18 UTC

 

45 km (25 miles) NW of Guangyuan, Sichuan, China

145 km (90 miles) WSW of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China

365 km (225 miles) NNW of Chongqing, Chongqing, China

1260 km (780 miles) SW of BEIJING, Beijing, China

[heyjimi]

I just heard the news. Old news by now.

 

Nothing on Candle, nothing from my girls in Chongqing.

I hope everyone is well.

 

6.2 is a darn good jolt.

 

SICHUAN-GANSU BORDER REGION

Magnitude: 6.2

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 at 09:49:18 UTC

 

45 km (25 miles) NW of Guangyuan, Sichuan, China

145 km (90 miles) WSW of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China

365 km (225 miles) NNW of Chongqing, Chongqing, China

1260 km (780 miles) SW of BEIJING, Beijing, China

 

i heard from my wife today before midnight(her time),she was ok,she is in chongqing

 

jimi

[jim_julian]

Hmmm ... I just looked at it on Google earth ... it was 225 miles from our Chongqing condo.

 

I also see they had a 4.9 and a 5.7 in the same general area on August 1st.

[tonado]

Nothing about it in major news sources.

[Guest WenDylan]

Nothing about it in major news sources.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26027245/

[izus]

poor people

i dont think that was an aftershock 3 months afterwards

Edited August 6, 2008 by izus (see edit history)

[Maxal]

Chongqing did not get hit too hard. It was far enough away it just slightly shook the buildings!

 

Have not heard how it was at the epi center.

[jim_julian]

An earthquake large enough to cause damage will probably be followed by several felt aftershocks within the first hour. The rate of aftershocks decreases quickly - the decrease is proportional to the inverse of time since the main shock. This means the second day has about 1/2 the number of aftershocks of the first day and the tenth has about 1/10 the number of the first day. These patterns describe only the overall behavior of aftershocks; the actual times, numbers and locations of the aftershocks are random. We call an earthquake an aftershock as long as the rate at which earthquakes occur in that region is greater than the rate before the main shock. How long this lasts depends on the size of the main shock (bigger earthquakes have more aftershocks) and how active the region was before the main shock (if the region was seismically quiet before the main shock, the aftershocks continue above the previous rate for a longer time). Thus, an aftershock can occur weeks or decades after a main shock.

 

USGS

[Smitty]

Those are both pretty strong quakes!

 

I hope that people are doing ok, and not too upset!

[jim_julian]

I talked with my daughter in Chongqing tonight. Just a little shaking and they also felt the 'quakes on August 1st.