On 01 March 2019 there was an intermediate depth earthquake near the border of Peru and Bolivia. In the past century, this is the first earthquake in this area at this depth. There are some historic quakes to the east,…
Earthquake Report: Guatemala and Mexico
This morning (my time) there was a moderately deep earthquake along the coast of southern Mexico and northern Guatemala. Here is my Temblor article about this M=6.6 earthquake and how it might relate to the 2017 M=8.2 quake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000jbub/executive Offshore…
Earthquake Report: Chile
There was a very interesting earthquake in central coastal Chile yesterday. I spent some time putting together a Temblor article about it. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000j6hy/executive I also took the opportunity to create an interpretive poster in portrait format to help with people…
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…
Earthquake Report: Philippines
Earlier there was an earthquake in the Philippines. This magnitude M = 7.0 earthquake is related to the subduction zone that forms the Philippine trench (where the Philippine Sea plate subducts beneath the Sunda plate). Here is the USGS website…
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,…
Earthquake Report: Explorer plate
Last night I had completed preparing for class the next day. I was about to head to bed. I got an email from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center notifying me that there was no risk of a tsunami due to…
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…
Earthquake Report: New Britain!
Just a few hours ago there was a subduction zone megathrust earthquake along the New Britain Trench in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean. In this region of the world, the Solomon Sea plate and the South Bismarck plate converge to…
Earthquake Report: Kermadec
The earthquakes continue, every day. Today, there was a large earthquake associated with the subduction zone that forms the Kermadec Trench. This earthquake was quite deep, so was not expected to generate a significant tsunami (if one at all). There…