Thursday, February 23, 2006

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake Report: GULF OF MEXICO

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake Report: GULF OF MEXICO

Magnitude 5.2
Date-Time Friday, February 10, 2006 at 04:14:17 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Thursday, February 09, 2006 at 10:14:17 PM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 27.58N 90.18W
Depth 5 kilometers
Region GULF OF MEXICO
Reference 205 km (130 miles) SSW of Buras, Louisiana
230 km (140 miles) SSE of Houma, Louisiana
265 km (165 miles) S of New Orleans, Louisiana
330 km (205 miles) SSE of BATON ROUGE, Louisiana
Location Quality Error estimate: horizontal +/- 10.6 km; depth fixed by location program
Location Quality
Parameters
Nst=21, Nph=21, Dmin=610.0 km, Rmss=1.29 sec, Erho=10.6 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=123.5 degrees
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Dave's buying some earthquake insurance this afternoon.....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Insurance..But what if the earthquake causes flooding?

Want to move to Canada, Swapna and I would be glad to have ya!! winkers!!

Swapna Padmanabh said...

I would too!