An active period of time for the Northern reach of the Ring of Fire

It's been a busy twenty four hours for the Northern string of the Ring of Fire

A snapshot of some seismic activity over the last 24 hours shows an interesting pattern for those who follow the science of earthquakes, with the famed Ring of Fire particularly active in its Northern reaches from Japan to the Alaska/Yukon border.

All told twelve quakes of varying magnitude were recorded in the twenty four hour period of time.

On the Alaska side of the Ring, the largest of the string of quakes located near a major population centre was a 3.1 quake SW of Homer which is not far from Anchorage, Alaska's largest city.

Two days ago, a 4.6 temblor was recorded 123 kilometres west of Juneau in the upper Alaska panhandle.

The Homer quake was one of seven quakes of note  recorded in Alaska
over the last twenty hour period

In Asia, the largest of the quakes was recorded near Misawa, Japan at a magnitude of 5.4 

One of five seismic rumbles recorded around Japan over the last 24 hours

So far, the rumbling has not extended as far as the Pacific fault line running along Haida Gwaii, the BC Coast and Vancouver Island.

The last recorded quake of note for British Columbia was on  August 3rd, and a 4.3 seismic event West of Port Hardy.

For more items of interest on seismic events see our archive page here.


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