SG+earthquake+identifications

I took this earthquake from September 3, 2006 at 04:26 to 05:00 GMT on the same day. On September 3, 2006, an earthquake struck at 4:26 (31 miles southwest of Kallaul Island), magnitude 5.70. Through water (meaning the waves would be p-waves), an earthquake takes 5-8 km per second to travel. From this point to LIGO in Hanford, WA, the distance is 5,845.70 miles. Divide that by 5 and you get 1169.14 seconds, which you then divide by 60 to get 19.48 minutes. The time it took for this earthquake to get to LIGO was 19 minutes (04:26 to 04:45 = 19 minutes).

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I took this graph from September 1, 2006 at 10:00 GMT to 13:00 GMT on the same day. On September 1, 2006, an earthquake struck at 12:04 Bougainville Island, magnitude 5.90. Through water (meaning the waves would be p-waves), an earthquake takes 5-8 km per second to travel. From Bougainville Island to LIGO in Hanford, WA, the distance is 6,322.32 miles. Divide that by 5 and you get 1264.464 seconds, which you then divide by 60 to get 21 minutes. The time it took for this earthquake to get to LIGO was 21 minutes (12:04 - 12:25, just like the graph shows above).

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I took this earthquake from September 5, 2006 at 04:00 GMT to 07:00 GMT on the same day. On September 5, 2006, an earthquake struck the Philippines at 04:53 GMT, magnitude 5.80. Through water (meaning the waves would be p-waves), an earthquake takes 5-8 km per second to travel. From the Philippines to Hanford, WA the distance is 6,906.77 miles. Divide by 5 you get 1,381.354 seconds which you then divide by 60 to get 23 minutes. The time it took for this earthquake to get to LIGO was 23 minutes (04:53 - 5:16, as shown above in time). [|Link to Google Map indicating each earthquake]