Category Archives: subduction

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. A minor tsunami (~25 cm in size) has been recorded at … Continue reading →

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

2019/06/14
9:38 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Chile

This morning (my time) there was a magnitude M 6.4 earthquake offshore of Chile. While it was in the correct location to possibly cause a tsunami, the magnitude was too small. The major plate boundary here is the megathrust subduction … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, education, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction

2019/05/26
1:05 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Peru

Just a moment ago, there was an intermediate depth Great Earthquake (magnitude M≥8.0) beneath Peru. I was heading to bed at about 1:10 local time (Sacramento, CA) when I noticed a tweet from Dr. Anthony Lomax (presenting his first motion … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, education, Extension, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction

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

2019/05/06
9:10 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea

Earlier today, there was an intermediate depth beneath eastern Papua New Guinea (PNG). With a magnitude M = 7.2, this is one of the largest earthquake so far in 2019. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. Today’s earthquake … Continue reading →

Posted in collision, earthquake, education, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction

2019/04/05
10:28 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: central Aleutians

A couple days ago, in my inbox, there was an email from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center about an earthquake along the Aleutian Islands, near Rat Island, Alaska. However, this earthquake was not along the megathrust subduction zone fault there … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, earthquake, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction

2019/03/02
6:57 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Peru

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, education, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction

2019/02/23
1:45 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Ecuador

Well, as I was getting up this morning, my social media feed was abuzz about the intermediate depth earthquake in Peru. While it was quite deep (

Posted in earthquake, education, plate tectonics, subduction

2019/02/01
11:06 PM
by: Jay Patton

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. Offshore of … Continue reading →

Posted in caribbean, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, mexico, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction

2019/01/20
7:09 PM
by: Jay Patton

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. I also took the opportunity to create an interpretive poster in portrait format to help with people using … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction