:: ASC :: Stacey S. Martin (Webmaster)

My name is Stacey S. Martin and I've been running the Amateur Seismic Centre (ASC) since 1 June 2000. I developed this website independently and it is intended to be a one-stop guide to earthquakes in India as well as south Asia. It is quite an honour for the ASC to be listed on the Seismo-Surfing Index.

I am presently studying Geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington. Historical or pre-instrumental seismicity interests me a lot and I have worked on revising the earthquake catalogue for India & Pakistan with Munich Reinsurance. Prior to that I worked on similar projects with the Southern California Earthquake Centre (SCEC) and with the United Nations Development Programme in India under the UEVRP. In 2005, I was even lucky enough to turn up in the local Pune papers. An interesting by-product of my work has been the Historical Intensity Maps on this website for south Asian earthquake as well as the below listed publications.

My interest in earthquakes began at a very young age, more over, after watching the Hollywood thriller, 'Earthquake'. Since then I've feared and been awe-inspired by this powerful natural phenomena. The surreal experience of the first earthquake that I experienced is best described in the words of Charles Darwin, after he felt tremors from the great Concepción earthquake in Chile in 1838, while on his epic journey around the world. I have felt several earthquakes with my first in India in August 1993 and since my arrival in New Zealand, this list has steadily grown much, much longer!

Local Date	M	T*	Lat.	Long.	Epicentral Location	EMS†

28 August 1993	4.8	Mb	17.240	73.733	Koyna-Warna, Maharashtra	4
08 December 1993	5.1	Mw	17.071	73.648	Koyna-Warna, Maharashtra	4
01 February 1994	5.0	Mw	17.231	73.518	Koyna-Warna, Maharashtra	4
14 February 1998	4.3	Mb	17.382	73.870	Koyna-Warna, Maharashtra	F
12 March 2000	5.0	Mw	17.244	73.707	Koyna-Warna, Maharashtra	3
26 January 2001	7.7	Mw	23.422	70.310	Rann of Kachchh, Gujarat	4
23 May 2001	3.8	ML	34.020	-116.76	San Jacinto Mountains, California	2
14 March 2005	4.9	Mw	17.139	73.687	Koyna-Warna, Maharashtra	5
14 September 2008	4.7	Mb	-40.260	174.58	Wanganui Bight, North Island	4
02 October 2008	3.3	ML	-41.086	175.06	Hutt Valley, North Island	F
27 December 2008	4.7	Mb	-40.550	174.86	Wanganui Bight, North Island	5
10 February 2009	4.0	ML	-39.970	176.67	Hawkes Bay, North Island	F
19 February 2009	6.9	Mw	-27.424	-176.33	Kermadec Trench	2
11 March 2009	4.3	ML	-41.700	174.48	Cook Strait, Off Marlborough	3
20 March 2009	7.6	Mw	-22.874	-174.69	South of Tongatapu, Tonga	3
22 March 2009	4.8	Mb	-37.969	177.04	Bay of Plenty, North Island	4
28 April 2009	4.3	ML	-41.050	175.44	Southern Wairarapa, North Island	2
01 May 2009	4.1	ML	-41.190	174.81	Porirua-Wellington, North Island	4
08 May 2009	3.6	ML	-41.280	174.85	Wellington Harbour, North Island	4
15 May 2009	4.5	ML	-41.390	174.12	Cloudy Bay, Off Marlborough	3
16 May 2009	6.5	Mw	-31.529	-178.88	Kermadec Trench	3
Epicentre & Magnitude source [ISC=Mb; PDE=Mw or Mb; HRV=Mw; GNS/USGS=ML*]. † EMS-98 intensity at my location, not epicentral intensity!