Category Archives: tsunami

2020/01/28
8:15 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Cayman Islands

Contrary to what some people spread around on the internets (some of them major earthquake experts), strike-slip earthquakes can and do generate tsunami (just like this one). More on this below. I am in Portland, Oregon this week, attending the … Continue reading →

Posted in caribbean, earthquake, education, geology, plate tectonics, strike-slip, tsunami

2020/01/12
11:43 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Puerto Rico!

Welcome to the next decade of the 21st century. We may look back a decade to review the second most deadly earthquake in the 21st century, from the magnitude M 7.0 Haiti Earthquake on 12 Jan 2010. I put together … Continue reading →

Posted in caribbean, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, tsunami

2020/01/05
2:49 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: 2010 Haiti M 7.0

This is the ten year commemoration of the 2010 magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti that caused widespread damage and casualties, triggered thousands of landslides, caused tsunami, triggered a turbidity current, and caused thousands to be internally displaced. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000h60h/executive Here I … Continue reading →

Posted in caribbean, earthquake, education, landslides, strike-slip, Transform, tsunami

2019/07/14
8:01 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Halmahera, Indonesia

Well, yesterday I was preparing some updates to the Ridgecrest Earthquake following my field work with my colleagues at the California Geological Survey (where I work) and the U.S. Geological Survey. We spent the week documenting surface ruptures associated with … Continue reading →

Posted in collision, earthquake, education, geology, Indonesia, plate tectonics, tsunami

2019/06/15
10:57 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Kermadec Trench

There was just an earthquake associated with the plate boundary that forms the Kermadec Trench, a deep oceanic trench that extends north from New Zealand, towards the Fiji Islands. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000417i/executive A minor tsunami (~25 cm in size) has been recorded … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, education, geology, New Zealand, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction, tsunami

2019/05/14
9:20 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: New Ireland

This region of Earth is one of the most seismically active in the past decade plus. This morning, as I was preparing for work, I got an email notifying me of an earthquake with a magnitude M = 7.5 located … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, Extension, geology, landslides, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction, Transform, tsunami

2018/12/31
12:45 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: 2018 Summary

Here I summarize Earth’s significant seismicity for 2018. I limit this summary to earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to M 6.5. I am sure that there is a possibility that your favorite earthquake is not included in this … Continue reading →

Posted in africa, alaska, arctic, asia, atlantic, caribbean, cascadia, collision, earthquake, education, geology, Indonesia, landslides, mediterranean, mexico, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction, Transform, tsunami, volcanoes

2018/12/20
11:08 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Bering Kresla / Pacific plate

We just had a large earthquake in the region of the Bering Kresla fracture zone, a strike-slip fault system that coincides with the westernmost portion of the Aleutian trench (which is a subduction zone further to the east). At first, … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, asia, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction, Transform, tsunami

2018/10/16
1:17 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake/Landslide/Tsunami Report: Donggala Earthquake, Central Sulawesi: UPDATE #1

We continue to learn more each day as people collect additional information. Here is my initial Earthquake Report for this M 7.5 Donggala Earthquake. In short, there was an earthquake with magnitude M = 7.5 on 2018.09.28. Minutes after the … Continue reading →

Posted in College Redwoods, earthquake, education, geology, Indonesia, landslides, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, tsunami

2018/09/28
4:56 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia

Well, around 3 AM my time (northeastern Pacific, northern CA) there was a sequence of earthquakes including a mainshock with a magnitude M = 7.5. This earthquake happened in a highly populated region of Indonesia. This area of Indonesia is … Continue reading →

Posted in College Redwoods, earthquake, education, geology, Indonesia, plate tectonics, strike-slip, tsunami