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Earthquake swarm near Yemen
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Several earthquakes (a so-called earthquake swarm) having magnitude of about 4/5 (from 4.6 to 5.4) were noted in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen!
What's strange about them, most of them occurred at the depth of exactly 10.0km/10.1km!
See for yourselves:
Earthquake.usgs.gov
One news in the Internet about it so far!
Planetsave.com
This is actually a common pattern. As earthquakes are caused by the hard interaction of two or more tectonic plates, you almost never get a single earthquake from their interaction. Instead, you get dozens or hundreds over a short period of time as something snaps or grinds, with particularly large events spiking off. Events like this are actually more common than the sort of large, city-wrecking earthquakes.
All this means is a fault at 10km deep is getting a workout.
You say it is a common pattern. Can you present earthquakes swarm that share this characteristic? This one is large anyway. Saw one that actually had same depth numbers, but it didn't occur so frequently and clustered as this one.
the Arabian peninsula lies on its own small tectonic plate. u can clearly see the line in the red sea and the line in the gulf of Aden.
HAARP.