Category Archives: Extension

2020/01/12
11:43 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Puerto Rico!

Welcome to the next decade of the 21st century. We may look back a decade to review the second most deadly earthquake in the 21st century, from the magnitude M 7.0 Haiti Earthquake on 12 Jan 2010. I put together … Continue reading →

Posted in caribbean, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, tsunami

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

2019/03/26
10:22 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Northern Alaska

At shortly before 13:30 today in northern Alaska there was a large earthquake, with a magnitude of M=5.1. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak0193wxcfea/executive Many of us are familiar with the Good Friday earthquake, a megathrust subduction zone earthquake. This earthquake has a birthday tomorrow, … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, plate tectonics

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. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000jbub/executive Offshore … Continue reading →

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

2018/12/20
11:08 AM
by: Jay Patton

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, … Continue reading →

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

2018/12/01
1:11 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Alaska

What a day. I started by waking up about 5:43 AM (about, heheh), which was 17 minutes before my alarm was set. I had a job interview at 8:30. I went to the interview for a position working on tsunami … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, earthquake, Extension, geology

2018/07/29
11:39 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Blanco fracture zone

Well, so exciting to have more earthquakes to write about! This summer has been a low seismic summer. The entire year actually. There was an earthquake within the Gorda plate a few days ago, but these M 5.3 and M … Continue reading →

Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip

2018/07/24
9:42 AM
by: Jay Patton

#Earthquake Report: Gorda plate

Over the past night and morning, there was a sequence of earthquakes within the Gorda plate due west of Crescent City. Some people even felt these earthquakes, culminating (so far) with a M 5.6. There was a Gorda plate earthquake … Continue reading →

Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, gorda, pacific, plate tectonics

2018/03/08
3:46 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Malawi & Mozambique

Busy day today. This is my second earthquake report today. This report is about a M 5.6 earthquake along the Malawi Rift (MR) system, part of the larger East Africa Rift (EAR) extensional plate boundary. The EAR is currently the … Continue reading →

Posted in africa, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, plate tectonics