North American west coast earthquake activity

[thunder24]

Through the day I often check the earthquake maps on usgs http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/(understanding the controversy of usgs maps). Iv noticed that for weeks and probably prior there is large amounts of smaller earthquakes happening in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. I have some questions, if anyone with a more detailed scientific mind wouldn't mind sharing their thoughts or own researh it would be appreciated.

Is the usgs just not posting earthquakes happening in Canada on the west coast or are they not happening with consistency there? If not then why only in the United States?

I know volcanoes and faults are a simple answer for the activity, but if you notice the world map, no other places show such rapidity of smaller earthquakes without many if any larger ones, larger ones being 4.0 or larger. Is this because of some technology that is being used to keep the big ones from happening or is this a sign of a buildup to a very larger or many large earthquakes? To me this is very puzzling.

Also when looking at the world map, one can see that consistanly there are larger earthquakes around the same magnitude but varying in the same areas. So are the smaller ones on the west coast of north america consistant with this pattern or is something keeping the smaller ones clustered, or making the rest of the worlds bigger?

I have noticed an uptick with the alignments of planets and sun flares affecting earthquake activity but again its seems the west coast of United States and Canada has missed the brunt end of the big quakes during these sun flare and alignment periods.
I know the possibilitys of haarp, fracking, volcanoes, fault lines and such but wondering if any of our geologists have more detail to add with these observed data points...

7day world wide earthquakes: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22feed%22%3A%227day_all%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22sort%2 2%3A%22newest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap% 22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-20.46818922264095%2C-199.51171875%5D%2C%5B60.15244221438077%2C-93.69140625%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%7B%22plates%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%7B%22map%22%3Atr ue%2C%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Atrue%2C%22help%22%3Afalse%7D%7D

1 day world wide earquakes:http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22feed%22%3A%221day_all%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22sort%2 2%3A%22newest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap% 22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-20.46818922264095%2C-199.51171875%5D%2C%5B60.15244221438077%2C-93.69140625%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%7B%22plates%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%7B%22map%22%3Atr ue%2C%22list%22%3Atrue%2C%22settings%22%3Atrue%2C%22help%22%3Afalse%7D%7D

[KiwiElf]

A couple of things I've noticed with USGS, & earthquakestoday sites - and I know this has appeared on past threads too:

* Some earthquakes just don't get reported at all, especially outside of USA - eg, we had a significant 4.1M a few days ago in NZ near a known previous major Quake city (Wellington); it made headline News here and scared the hell out of a lot of people - didn't even make a blip on either of these two sites
* More often than not, the magnitude gets lowered on these sites compared to the local reporting station closest to the quake, ie a 6.1M will get downgraded to a 5.9M. Also anomalies with the reported depth
* With earthquakestoday, which also has a tab for Volcano activity - again, a lot of volcanic activity doesn't get reported

Neither of these popular sites are showing the full global picture for sure

(Speaking of planetary alignments, there have not really been many in the last few days, and coincidentally, not much EQ activity - I'm talking quakes approaching M5+ - we're now coming into more alignments going through to the end of the month - the uptick has started again as of about 20:00 UT today)

[eagle0027]

Dutchsinse has quite a following with his interpretations and predictions on both youtube and facebook if you are not aware of this.
He uses a googleearth addon which i am not sure but may be same data but easily available to all.
Be well

[thunder24]

i am aware of dutch's work, but still why is the west coast showing so much small activity? i hope i explained my questions and thoughts clearly....cause according to the maps it is odd, to my layman views of it all...

why so many little ones skipping canada up to alaska, and why so many more big ones else where?!

[KiwiElf]

Bob has explained the smaller ones elsewhere on Avalon (and can do so in his own words much better than me ;)) - the smaller ones in the US (up the West Coast & Oklahoma) are a secondary affect after fracking per se. He or Herve could better explain the bigger ones elsewhere :)

[ghostrider]

Earth, a living organism, reacts to the vibrations of everything around it , stars, planets, suns, and the thought waves of humans. .. the thinking patterns of human beings go out like an electro^-magnetic wave from human to human from planet to planet across the universe affecting everything -source (Enoch, the plejaren, and theyfly.com )...

[thunder24]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmIhlxRWPoU

[Hervé]

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why so many little ones skipping canada up to alaska, and why so many more big ones else where?!

You know... it's like the Weather maps on TV... it stops at the border... so that, to have a complete map, one needs to watch both US and Canadian channels...

The lower magnitude earthquakes are recorded on seismographs network monitoring them... US network, Canadian network. Since low magnitude earthquakes dissipate only relatively small amount of energy, they don't "make it" to far away network where the temblors are swamped by the noise from trains, trucks, surf waves, mining, military exercises, etc... the seismographs have usually their sensitivity set so as to not record the ambient "noise."

Another aspect is the density of the network which, in Canada, leaves a lot of "uncovered" space: http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/stndon/wf-fo/index-en.php

As for the "Big Ones," well, they need very active subduction zones that can "stick" and accumulate energy at a sufficiently high rate to generate high energy ruptures... see this thread: Plate Tectonics Of New Zealand (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91499-Plate-Tectonics-Of-New-Zealand)

Hope this helps?

[arizona]

I ever read the news that the west coast or Pacific North west coast really worried people because of the subduction zone. This is active indeed. Do you think that there would be any prediction? Because, until now, the prediction was not able to be made based on prior experience before Nepal earthquake.

According to USGS, the big one may be up to 6/7 magnitude. Is this based on what?