Category Archives: Transform

2017/09/22
9:32 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault! (northern California)

I was driving around Eureka today, running to the appliance center to get an appliance (heheh). I got a message from a long time held friend (who lives in Salinas, CA). They asked me if I was OK, given that … Continue reading →

Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, HSU, mendocino, strike-slip, Transform

2017/08/17
9:50 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Mid Atlantic Ridge (Chain fracture zone)

If there was an earthquake in the middle of the ocean, and nobody felt it… would it still be an earthquake? Maybe we need to get the Karl Popper out for a good read… There was a good sized shaker … Continue reading →

Posted in atlantic, earthquake, education, geology, plate tectonics, strike-slip, Transform

2017/08/08
11:47 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: China!

This morning (my time) there was a shallow earthquake in western China, near a region that was shocked by an M 7.9 earthquake in 2008 (the “Wenchuan Earthquake”). Here is the USGS website for this M 6.5 earthquake. Below is … Continue reading →

Posted in asia, earthquake, education, geology, plate tectonics, strike-slip, Transform

2017/07/20
6:16 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Turkey

We just had a good shaker in western Turkey. At the moment, there are over 400 reports of ground shaking to the USGS “Did you Feel It?” web page. The USGS PAGER report estimates that there may be some casualties … Continue reading →

Posted in collision, earthquake, education, europe, Extension, geology, plate tectonics, strike-slip, Transform

2017/07/18
10:00 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Bering fracture zone: UPDATE #1

Well, based upon a comment on twitter, I thought it prudent to review the seismicity of this region at the westernmost part of the western Aleutian Islands. For many years I considered this region part of the subduction zone that … Continue reading →

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

2017/06/18
3:45 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Westernmost Aleutian Arc

This earthquake happened a couple weeks ago, but was interesting and I have been looking forward to following up on this with a report. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.8 earthquake. The M 6.8 earthquake happened in … Continue reading →

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

2017/03/24
5:49 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Sumatra!

There were two interesting earthquakes near the northern tip of the Island of Sumatra whilst I was off on a field trip with some HSU geology students. So, I think it prudent to review these earthquakes now. These earthquakes happened … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, sumatra, Transform

2017/01/26
10:10 AM
by: Jay Patton

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

2017/01/01
9:52 AM
by: Jay Patton

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

2016/12/08
10:53 AM
by: Jay Patton

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