May 26, 2022

 The world seismic activity levels are very high today. A magnitude 7.2 struck southern Peru several hours ago and not long after that a magnitude 6.4 struck the Loyalty Islands. Yesterday was quiet where I almost cancelled the extended world earthquake watch. Later on, I had a feeling there was a lot to come any time or day now. My side has been tender since late yesterday. This morning, just shortly before the major earthquake in Peru, I felt a dull aching deep in my left side. I also briefly felt a mildly acute throbbing pain in my left side before the mag. 6.4 in the Loyalty Islands. This made me think about how the pain can vary from a sharp pain to a dull, achy type of sensation. I theorize that the dull, aching types of pain might be from a convergent boundary - where the earthquake might be deep in thick continental crust. The more sharp pains could be from shallower, transform and divergent boundaries. The boundary where the mag. 6.4 was was at the tail end of a transform boundary. However, if an earthquake in a convergent boundary were not at a deep focal depth, the pain may not be as dull. I will start taking notes on that with future events. I felt more of an aching pain rather than a sharp pain with activity from Japan. Japan lies largely along a convergent boundary - hence subduction zone earthquakes. I felt sharp pains before the Ridgecrest sequence(which was relatively close to me) which was in a transform tectonic plate zone(also strike-slip events). In California, the pains varied there quite often. The dull, aching sensations were from reverse faults in the area. Before, I theorized it had to do with the length of fault the energy was coming from.