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2nd Earthquake Identified:

code Date      Time             Lat       Lon  Depth   Mag Magt  Nst Gap  Clo  RMS  SRC   Event ID 2006/05/01 21:04:42.60  30.1990 -114.3320  10.00  5.10   Mw   61          1.17  NEI 200605014119 code

Using some equations to figure out how long it took to go from it's location south of Arizona, It took approximately 7.5 minutes to reach the LIGO center, which is why it registered close to 21:00 as shown in the graph below. So if you divide the distance the quake was from the LIGO center in hanford, 1834.65216km, by the speed the wave traveled, 4km/sec, you come out with 458.66 seconds, which is about 7.64 minutes. The quake occurred at 21:04:42.60 according to the earthquake data, and then hit LIGO 7.64 minutes later which you can see in the graph below, at about 21:12:00

I figured out how far away the earthquake occurred from LIGO by adding the coordinates of the earthquake on to Google Maps, and then drew a line using Google Map tools to the Hanford, Washington LIGO site and it calculated the distance in miles for me, and I then used Google calculator to convert the miles to kilometers.

Graph of LIGO

So because the graph registered very close to 21:00 on the dot, I have reason to believe that the earthquake is the one I suggested as it would have only taken about 7.5 minutes.

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