What do you make of this Jamie?
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This is a most odd and unusual seismic signal.
Recorded at Kilima Mbogo, Kenya ...
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First guess would be some kind of meteor air burst, possibly offshore Kenya/Tanzania in the Indian Ocean. Would be useful to see the signal in Asia if possible
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Gotta be huge though eh? Just to get coupling into the ground and then to propagate around the planet.
Magnitude isn't as big in Asia, this from Qiongzhong, Hainan Province, China.
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The earlier signal there looks to be the M4.5 India-Nepal quake, followed by the M5.5 Indonesia quake. So that gives an idea. The signal is clearly not of a seismic origin, so it has to be something else, hence my first thought was a meteor of some kind.
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Fair call.
Some kind of extraterrestrial electromagnetic shock wave may be worth thinking about, or some previously unknown to me oscillatory mechanism perhaps involving a complex electromagnetic component at great depth.
It is strange.
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As an update for you, further investigation lends itself to the suggestion of a submarine volcanic event, possibly near the island of Mayotte, between Madagascar & Tanzania/Mozambique. If this is the case it must have been a massive volcanic event, albeit in very deep ocean.
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I've managed to narrow down the origin area to somewhere near Madagascar (earliest arrival I've found is there at 09:31 UTC). Could be meteor or, due to relative proximity, related to Reunion volcano (far less confident)
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No extraterrestrial shock wave was measured.
The seismic event was found to be below the ocean floor in deep water by seismic analysis.
We don't have a good location for the 16s period signal as traditional seismological techniques don't work on such waves
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Replying to @matarikipax and @UKEQ_Bulletin
Spaceweather looks pretty settled.
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