Category Archives: subduction

2018/04/05
12:54 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Bolivia!

A couple days ago there was a deep focus earthquake in the downgoing Nazca plate deep beneath Bolivia. This earthquake has an hypocentral depth of 562 km (~350 miles). We are still unsure what causes an earthquake at such great … Continue reading →

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2018/03/29
4:23 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: New Britain

Well, those earthquakes from earlier, one a foreshock to a later one, were foreshocks to an earthquake today! Here is my report from a couple days ago. The M 6.6 and M 6.3 straddle today’s earthquake and all have similar … Continue reading →

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2018/03/26
9:13 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: New Britain

The New Britain region is one of the more active regions in the world. See a list of earthquake reports for this region at the bottom of this page, above the reference list. Today’s M 6.6 earthquake happened close in … Continue reading →

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2018/02/16
7:56 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: ¡Oaxaca, Mexico!

There was just now an earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico between the other large earthquakes from last 2017.09.08 (M 8.1) and 2017.09.08 (M 7.1). There has already been a M 5.8 aftershock.Here is the USGS website for today’s M 7.2 earthquake. … Continue reading →

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2018/02/12
12:43 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: 1960 Valdivia, Chile M 9.5

In commemoration of the #EarthquakeCup, I have put together a summary for the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake, the M 9.5 1960 Valdivia, Chile Earthquake. The Peru-Chile trench is quite active and generated Great earthquakes (M>8) in 1985, 2010, 2014, and … Continue reading →

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2018/01/24
2:03 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Gulf of Alaska UPDATE #2

I thought it would be interesting to see the seismicity with time. Perhaps this could help us learn about the fault sources associated with this earthquake sequence. I am not sure it worked as some issues cannot be dealt with … Continue reading →

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2018/01/23
7:38 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Gulf of Alaska UPDATE #1

Well. What a firestorm of social media discusions about this earthquake. It seems that, like how we learn so much when earthquakes like this happen, the amount of interacting in public on social media has been growing earthquake by earthquake. … Continue reading →

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

2018/01/23
11:41 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Gulf of Alaska!

I was asleep in bed, trying to catch up to prevent myself from getting ill, when there was a large earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska (GA), offshore of Kodiak, Alaska. When I wakened, I noticed a fb message from … Continue reading →

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2018/01/15
12:14 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Peru Update #1

Well, I missed looking further into a key update paper and used figures from an older paper on my interpretive poster yesterday. Thanks to Stéphane Baize for pointing this out! Turns out, after their new analyses, the M 7.1 earthquake … Continue reading →

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2018/01/14
7:55 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Peru

We had a damaging and (sadly) deadly earthquake in southern Peru in the last 24 hours. This is an earthquake, with magnitude M 7.1, that is associated with the subduction zone forming the Peru-Chile trench (PCT). The Nazca plate (NP) … Continue reading →

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