OK, are the aliens and/or nazis trying to restart the ancient mothership buried in the ice of New Swabia?

@USGS_Quakes




Notable quake, preliminary info: M 6.3 - Drake Passage http://ow.ly/arNO106oo0E


 

What, another one? There was a 7.8 there last weekend!

https://news24online.com/world/7-8-magni...ca/649443/

It's probably a perfectly normal science thingy. Just what the Earth does, ya know?

Invoked comment.

I think it was an aftershock of The 7.6 on the 10th in the same area. 

South American, Antarctic, and Scotia plates meet in the Drake Passage.   There are parallel running fault zones. 



Most active is The Shackleton Fracture Zone, which I've just looked up is the southern transform boundary of the Scotia plate. Which is actually a "transpressional fault zone" (Boundary + Strike slip + Compression). 

The quakes here are usually on faults resulting from The South American Plate and The Antarctic Plate squeezing and fracturing the Scotia Plate. 

Depending on which fault zone, its likely a strike-slip fault. There is some subduction in the southwest boundary and Eastern boundary, but it's an extremely complex system of faulting, micro plates, and continental plates move at varying speeds. 

It would take too long to explain. 

It happened in a VERY active area for quakes between 6 and 8 Magnitide though.

And when they happen they are mildly felt or damaging to any human population. 

I think there was Tsunami warning, some coastal evacuation for The main shock 7.6, but otherwise Chileans called it Viernes. It was felt in the MMI II to MMI III range in the closest major city of Punta Arenas. Most wouldn't have felt it. 

Chile mocks most peoples earthquakes. They get an 8.5+ megathrust every 80 years or so. And a 7.0 or greater every 22 months. And this one doesnt even count as Chile.

I love how this place has various members who, seemingly randomly, turn out to be absolute experts on earthquakes, airplanes, egyptology—and various such arcana—and will pop in and set things straight when necessary.

(10-16-2025, 09:29 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: I love how this place has various members who, seemingly randomly, turn out to be absolute experts on earthquakes, airplanes, egyptology—and various such arcana—and will pop in and set things straight when necessary.

Thats what old days ATS used to be. We had a lot of very knowledgeable people in all kinds of areas of expertise. Thats why I started going there and now here instead of media reporting.