Mysterious Extreme Deep Earthquake Phenomenon Persists

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Ever since the whole 2012 prophecy shenanigans I’ve had a slightly more than casual curiosity with earthquake patterns and earthquake oddities. A couple years prior to and a few years following 2012 I became slightly obsessed with checking the quake reports and on a few occasions I noticed a few strange things.

One of those strange things being the rare odd occurrence of extremely deep earthquakes. I think the first one that ever popped out at me and caught my attention was one in Russia’s Sea of Okhotsk in 2013.

Yesterday on May 29, 2016 I was taking a quick glance at the days earthquakes and there were no unusually large quake to take note of but something did stick out. Bolivia had a fairly modest4.3 event, however the depth was the point of interest, it was 562km deep in the earth. I’m not sure if most of you realize how extreme that is but just think how far down just ONE kilometer or mile is and you quickly realize how astonishing 562km deep in the earth is. This 4.3 Bolivia extreme deep event may seem like just another rare odd event, except it isn’t as rare as it probably should be.

Here are two interesting records, the strongest deep-focus earthquake in seismic record was the 2013 Okhotsk Sea earthquake (magnitude 8.3) that occurred with an epicenter in the Sea of Okhotsk at a depth of 609 km. However, the deepest ever recorded earthquake is the 1994 Bolivia earthquake with a focal depth of 647 km and a moment magnitude of 8.2 (source wikipedia)

A bit more on the Okhostsk deep earthquake in 2013 which I mentioned earlier (source):

A magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck deep beneath the Sea of Okhotsk on May 24, 2013, has left seismologists struggling to explain how it happened. At a depth of about 609 kilometers (378 miles), the intense pressure on the fault should inhibit the kind of rupture that took place.

It’s a mystery how these earthquakes happen. How can rock slide against rock so fast while squeezed by the pressure from 610 kilometers of overlying rock?” said Thorne Lay, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Seismic analysis revealed that this was the largest deep earthquake ever recorded, with a seismic moment 30 percent larger than that of the next largest, a 1994 earthquake 637 kilometers beneath Bolivia.

Deep earthquakes occur in the transition zone between the upper mantle and lower mantle, from 400 to 700 kilometers below the surface. They result from stress in a deep subducted slab where one plate of the Earth’s crust dives beneath another plate. Such deep earthquakes usually don’t cause enough shaking on the surface to be hazardous, but scientifically they are of great interest.

The energy released by the Sea of Okhotsk earthquake produced vibrations recorded by several thousand seismic stations around the world.”

The researchers also mention that this extreme deep quake behaved very unlike other deep quakes and instead behaved like a normal shallow quake which they thought impossible due to the amount of weight and force acting on the materials at this extreme depth and the consistency of the materials being more flowing as a result of the extreme temperatures.

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Mysterious Extreme Deep Earthquake Phenomenon Persists

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