It took most of the day, but AER even posted this quake on their dashboard, at a similar size 4.71ml) to what NRC posted, at 5km depth instead of 3.
Above snap from AER’s earthquake dashboard.
It’s large enough to require immediate mitigation, which at this size requires frac’ers to stop.
Image above by Barb Ryan of Fox Creek, Alberta
Is there any seal integrity left in the energy wellbores frac’d and quaked at Fox Creek? How many wells in Alberta are leaking significant amounts of climate chaos causing (and wildfire feeding) methane because of quakes compromising industry’s standard cheapest practice of leaking well bores?
Above Aug 24, 2024 snap of the 4.8M quake from NRCanada
There were 16 felt reports posted at NRC and 42 at Volcano Discovery
Moderate magnitude 4.8 quake hits 27 miles west of Fox Creek, Alberta, Canada early morning by Earthquakemonitor, Sat, 24 Aug 2024
4.8 quake 24 Aug 6:50 am (GMT -6)
| Shaking intensity | VI Strong shaking near epicenter |
The first report about ground shaking reached us after only 5 minutes, before other agencies reported it. So far, we have received 42 reports for this quake from Canada. Out of these, 42 people indicated they felt it. The quake was reported to have been felt in up to approx. 250–700 km (155–435 mi) distance.
The majority of reports came from Grande Prairie (10 reports), a town with 41,000 inhabitants in Alberta in 115 km (72 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter, Canada, Peace River (6 reports), a town with 5,300 inhabitants in 197 km (122 mi) distance north of the epicenter, and Calgary (6 reports) (443 km or 275 mi to the southeast). …
Just 25 minutes ago, a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Fox Creek, Alberta, Canada. The tremor was recorded early morning on Saturday, August 24th, 2024, at 6:50 am local time, at a very shallow depth of 1.9 miles below the surface.
The event was filed by the Department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN), the first seismological agency to report it.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Fox Creek (pop. 2,500) located 27 miles from the epicenter, and Valleyview (pop. 2,000) 42 miles away.
Other towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Grande Prairie (pop. 41,500) located 72 miles from the epicenter, and Hinton (pop. 9,900) 74 miles away.
VolcanoDiscovery will automatically update magnitude and depth if these change and follow up if other significant news about the quake become available. If you’re in the area, please send us your experience through our reporting mechanism, either online or via our mobile app. This will help us provide more first-hand updates to anyone around the globe who wants to know more about this quake.
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Primary data source: NRCAN
Zebby@Sm0k3y1922:
at a family event and still posting to inform us.. what a guy !
Some of the documented 42 felt reports at Volcano Discovery:
North Edmonton 167 ave & 139 street (271.9 km ESE of epicenter) [Map] / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / single lateral shake / very short : Incident occurred at approximately 6:50 AM today. I felt the entire house shake for about a second. At the same time, my doorbell camera was activated, suggesting a possible external disturbance. 139 street and 167 ave Edmonton
Grande Prairie / Light shaking (MMI IV) / horizontal (sideways) swinging : I was upstairs in bed. I thought a huge excavator was digging by the house but our neighbourhood no longer needs any houses built. When I looked out the windows there were no trucks. The whole upstairs of the house was shaking. Then I saw on facebook people asking from all over the city anyone else felt that.
Sunset House Alberta / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / both vertical and horizontal swinging / 15-20 s : Was lying in bed this morning approximately 7:00 a.m. when my bed started to shake quite hard for what assumed to be about 15 to 30 seconds
Slave Lake / Weak shaking (MMI III) / complex rolling (tilting in multiple directions) / very short : While having breakfast upstairs this morning there was a slight rattling of the dishes in the cupboard.
30 km of Fox Creek, Alberta (32.7 km NE of epicenter) [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / single lateral shake / 1-2 s : We live in a big heavy log house, and it felt like the whole house moved as a single unit with 2 lateral movements. Felt like mild airplane turbulence.
65057a highway 43 / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 2-5 s : was in bed, felt the house shake, waited for more none came so went back to bed.
20 km WSW of the red circle / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / very short : Like someone accidently kicked the table I was working at. Vibration alarms activated in the facility.
Peace river (195 km N of epicenter) [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 1-2 s : Woke us all up. Felt our beds shake slightly and heard my dresser rattling
Grand prairie Alberta (129.6 km NW of epicenter) [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) : I was laying in my bed and it started to shake the it hit my bird and she fell of her pirtch
High Prairie, Alberta (124.5 km NNE of epicenter) [Map] / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 1-2 minutes : Bed shaking like someone was pushing on it
Spirit River Alberta / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / single lateral shake / very short
near Valleyview, Alberta (44.5 km N of epicenter) [Map] / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / vertical swinging (up and down) / 5-10 s
Peace River / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s
Simonette field / Strong shaking (MMI VI) / rattling, vibrating / very short : I’m in camp and our computers shook a bit we all looked at each other and asked if we felt that.
Peavine Métis settlement / Light shaking (MMI IV) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 15-20 s : Shaking like someone was shaking the bed
Rycroft, AB / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s : I was on my bed, already awake. It just felt as though the bed was shaking.
Mclennan, Alberta / Weak shaking (MMI III) / vibration and rolling / 2-5 s : It was like the couch was vibrating. It lasted 5 to 6 seconds
Nampa / Weak shaking (MMI III) / very short
Whitecourt / not felt
Girouxville / not felt / vertical swinging (up and down) / 2-5 s
Grande Prairie, Alberta / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 1-2 s
Peace River, Alberta / Weak shaking (MMI III) / 2-5 s : My overhead light shook in the kitchen and I felt my trailer rattle
Sexsmith (128 km NW of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / very short
40km NW of Fox Creek / Light shaking (MMI IV) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 2-5 s
Debolt (91 km NNW of epicenter) [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s : Mobile home was shaking, could hear dishes and chandelier in the kitchen rattling.
Vernon BC / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / 2-5 s
Grande prairie / Very weak shaking (MMI II) : Weak shaking, felt couch moving
38 km of Fairview, Alberta (151.5 km NNW of epicenter) [Map] / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / single lateral shake / 1-2 s : A single light shake
Grande Prairie / Weak shaking (MMI III) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 2-5 s
McLennan (142.3 km NNE of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 2-5 s
Stony plain / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / single lateral shake / 2-5 s
Debolt (91.3 km NNW of epicenter) [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s
68574 Little Smoky Road / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / single lateral shake / 1-2 s
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation 6 km West of Valleyview. (66.5 km N of epicenter) [Map] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s : House shook fridge rattled things fell off the table.
Grande prairie / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s
Sexsmith, AB / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s : Fridge fan rattled and I felt shaking while sitting
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation / Weak shaking (MMI III) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 5-10 s : Like heavy trucks speeding past. Bed shakes side to side.
Peace River (203.8 km N of epicenter) [Map] / Very weak shaking (MMI II) : Bed shaking
Peace river, alberta (198.8 km N of epicenter) [Map] / Very weak shaking (MMI II) : I was on bed sudeenly bed started shaking
Refer also to:
2024 08 10: Frac’ing Brazeau Dam, Alberta? 4.1M “very shallow” (1km depth) earthquake on July 24, 2024 (felt in Quesnel BC, 423.9km W of epicenter); Aug 10, more than two weeks later, still not listed on “World-Class” AER’s Earthquake Dashboard. A few weeks after this quake, AER finally posted it as a 3.52ml, but at depth of 6km instead of 1km, and described the location as near Harlech instead of near the dam (perhaps because of TransAlta’s lawsuit opposing frac’ing under and near it).
Days later, NRC posted an earlier (July 21, 2024) larger quake (4.2M) in the same location (no felt reports). So far, AER has not listed the larger of these two quakes.
Photo by Kyle Brittain: Wall of Wildfire, Fox Creek Alberta:
I have never seen a vertical wall of smoke like this one near Fox Creek, Alberta on Sunday
2018: “Insane” Greed: Fox Creek Shakes as Frackers Drill for Condensate to Dilute Bitumen
