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Category Archives: humboldt
Earthquake Report: Mendocino triple junction

Well, it was a big mag 5 day today, two magnitude 5+ earthquakes in the western USA on faults related to the same plate boundary! Crazy, right? The same plate boundary, about 800 miles away from each other, and their … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, humboldt, mendocino, mendocino, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, strike-slip, subduction, Transform
Earthquake Report: Salt Lake City

As I was waking up this morning, I rolled over to check my social media feed and moments earlier there was a good sized shaker in Salt Lake City, Utah. I immediately thought of my good friend Jennifer G. who … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, humboldt, mendocino, mendocino, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, strike-slip, subduction, Transform
Earthquake Report: Mendocino triple junction

Well, I was on the road for 1.5 days (work party for the Community Village at the Oregon Country Fair). As I was driving home, there was a magnitude M 5.6 earthquake in coastal northern California. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73201181/executive I didn’t realize … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, College Redwoods, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, HSU, humboldt, mendocino, mendocino, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, strike-slip, subduction, Transform
Earthquake Report: Gorda plate!

I was at a workshop to develop a unified strategy for research and monitoring in the Klamath River estuary (led by the Yurok Tribe, Andreas Krauss) yesterday and missed feeling the first of two M 4.6-4.7 earthquakes. I was presenting … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, humboldt, plate tectonics, strike-slip
Earthquake Report: 1992.04.25 M 7.1 Petrolia

The 25 April 1992 M 7.1 earthquake was a wake up call for many, like all large magnitude earthquakes are. Here is my personal story. I was driving my girlfriend’s car (Jen Guevara) with her and some housemates up to … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, humboldt, mendocino, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, subduction, tsunami
Earthquake Report: 1700 Cascadia subduction zone 317 year commemoration

Today (possibly tonight at about 9 PM) is the birthday of the last known Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) earthquake. There is some evidence that there have been more recent CSZ earthquakes (e.g. late 19th century in southern OR / northern … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, HSU, humboldt, oregon, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, subduction, Transform, tsunami, washington
Earthquake Report: 2016 Summary Cascadia

Here I summarize the seismicity for Cascadia in 2016. I limit this summary to earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to M 4.0. I reported on all but five of these earthquakes. I put this together a couple weeks … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, HSU, humboldt, mendocino, mendocino, oregon, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, strike-slip, subduction, Transform, tsunami
Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault Update #1

Today is one of my busiest days of the semester. I am administering a final and my two classes are presenting their video projects. Then, we had this M 6.5 earthquake in the wee hours and a M 7.7 (prelim … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, humboldt, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, Transform
Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault!

I was awake and just logging into my laptop, still in bed, when I first felt some movement. The movement was slight and not impulsive, so I thought it was a small earthquake. Then the shaking reappeared. This is when … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, HSU, humboldt, mendocino, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction, Transform
Earthquake Report: Laytonville (northern CA)!

This morning there was another earthquake in northern CA between the San Andreas (SAF) and Maacama faults (MF). This region has been active for the past few years, with earthquakes in the M 3-4 range. Most recently, there was a … Continue reading
Posted in earthquake, education, geology, HSU, humboldt, mendocino, mendocino, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, strike-slip, Transform