Just a bit more on the strange seismic event as it’s interesting that an as yet unknown Kiwi (FVEY country) spots it first. Who is he/she and why hasn’t credit been claimed for the discovery? Surely an ‘earthquake spotter’ or geologist would have eagerly done so by now.
Strange seismic event detected in Wellington 'too perfect' to be natural
30/11/2018
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/11/strange-seismic-event-detected-in-wellington-too-perfect-to-be-natural.html
Excerpts from the page -
“A mysterious tremor that's baffled geologists worldwide might have gone unnoticed if it weren't for an eagle-eyed Kiwi earthquake-spotter.”
On November 11 at about 10:30pm (NZ time), a seismic event was detected in Wellington, Kenya, Spain, Chile, Canada and even Hawaii - on the direct opposite side of the world from where it began, just off the coast of Madagascar near the French island of Mayotte.
The problem is, there was no earthquake to trigger it. And though it was strong enough to be felt by seismometers around the world, no one felt a thing - and it likely would have gone unreported if it weren't for Wellington-based Twitter user @matarikipax.”
“Not only was there no quake, the signal lasted for 20 minutes and was dominated by a single incredibly low frequency that repeated every 17 seconds. Quakes normally have a range of different waves of different frequencies."It's like a ringing bell," French Research Institute for Development seismologist Jean Paul Ampuero told Gizmodo. "If you want to get a very low frequency, a very low tone, you need that bell to be huge."”
"They're too nice; they're too perfect to be [natural]," University of Glasgow volcanology PhD candidate Helen Robinson told National Geographic. "What baffles me is how evenly spaced out they were. I have no idea how to explain that."
“The French plan to get to the bottom of it - literally - by surveying the ocean floor to see if perhaps an undetected volcano is down there.
In the meantime @matarikipax has been having fun with the story, suggesting Godzilla could be to blame.
At the time of writing, (30/11/2018) Newshub was unable to confirm @matarikipax's real name.”