Special Events

Top 10 most visited special event pages*

  1. 1998 India underground nuclear tests (1939)
  2. 1998 Pakistan underground nuclear tests (1649)
  3. 2002-09-24: Earthquake frequency in the Solomon Islands (1155)
  4. China earthquakes and nuclear tests (767)
  5. Afghanistan earthquake-aftershock-2nd Pakistani nuclear test sequence (748)
  6. Magnitude 7.6 quake in the Kashmir region, Pakistan (in Spanish) (691)
  7. 2003-06-17: Magnitude 3.43 quake near San Bernardino, California (609)
  8. 2003-05-23: Magnitude 3.71 quake near Brawley, California (609)
  9. 2003-06-20: Magnitude 3.55 quake near Boulevard, California (606)
  10. 2003-08-07: Magnitude 2.91 quake near Avalon, Catalina Island, California (604)

* – Based on analysis of 2007 web traffic. Unique visitors in parentheses.

Special event dates are listed in YYYY-MM-DD format (where YYYY is year, MM is month and DD is day).

Current Events

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This page provides links to individual pages that describe medium to large magnitude earthquakes that occurred within or close to the Anza deployed stations, and large teleseismic events that were recorded by USArray stations.

On every special event page there are also many country flags —

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— that are links to the Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Arabic, Greek, Russian, simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean translations respectively. Translations are provided by Google.com's translation service.

Special events for the current year are displayed. To view previous years events, please click on the year. Special event links for the selected year will be displayed, and other years hidden.

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2005

Photo of monitors displaying real time waveforms created by the Alaska and Peru earthquakes of August 15, 2007

Figure 1: Monitors displaying real time waveforms recorded by seismic stations across North America created by the Alaska and Peru earthquakes of August 15, 2007. The top monitors show 24 hours of time, the bottom monitors show 2 hours of time. The photo was taken approximately one hour after the first arrivals of the P-waves for the Peruvian event. The upper monitors clearly show the P-wave arrivals of the Alaskan event, followed approximately 3.5 hours later by the P-wave arrivals of the Peruvian event.

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URL: http://www.eqinfo.ucsd.edu/special_events/index.php [Last updated: 2008-04-21 (112) 20:39:52 UTC]