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Category Archives: Indonesia
Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea
This morning (local time in California) there was an earthquake in Papua New Guinea with, unfortunately, a high likelihood of having a good number of casualties. I was working on a project, so could not immediately begin work on this … Continue reading
Posted in collision, earthquake, education, geology, Indonesia, pacific, plate tectonics
Earthquake Report: Bengkulu (Sumatra)!
Last night (my time) while I was tending to other business, there was an earthquake along the Sunda Megathrust. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.4 earthquake. This M 6.4 earthquake happened down-dip (“deeper than”) along the megathrust … Continue reading
Posted in asia, earthquake, education, geology, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, plate tectonics, subduction, sumatra
Earthquake Report: Sulawesi, Indonesia
There was a series of earthquakes in Sulawesi, Indonesia earlier today, with a mainshock having a magnitude of M 6.8. This series of earthquakes is interesting as it does not occur on the main plate boundary fault, but on upper … Continue reading
Posted in asia, earthquake, education, Extension, Indonesia, plate tectonics
Earthquake Report: Banda Sea
Earlier this week there was a moderate earthquake along a strike-slip fault that appears to adjoin the Banda/Timor/Java Arc with New Guinea. This strike-slip fault appears to cross oblique to the subduction zone that forms the Timor Trench to the … Continue reading
Posted in asia, australia, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, Indonesia, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction
Earthquake Report: Java Sea!
Last night as I was finishing work for the day, I noticed an earthquake in the Java Sea, just north of western Java. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.6 earthquake. This earthquake is extensional and plots very … Continue reading
Posted in collision, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, plate tectonics, subduction, sumatra
Earthquake Report: South Bismarck Sea
There was a moderately deep earthquake in the South Bismarck Sea last night. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. This earthquake has an exentional earthquake. Here, the Solomon Sea plate subducts northward beneath the South Bismarck plate to … Continue reading
Posted in Extension, geology, HSU, Indonesia, plate tectonics, subduction
Earthquake Report: Sumatra!
We just had a M = 7.8 earthquake southwest of the Island of Sumatra, a volcanic arc formed from the subduction of the India-Australia plate beneath the Sunda plate (part of Eurasia). Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. … Continue reading
Posted in asia, College Redwoods, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction, sumatra, Transform
Earthquake Report: India!
Today we had a good sized earthquake in eastern India, within the India-Burmese wedge (IBW). The IBW is a part of the convergent plate boundary between the India plate to the west and the Burma (part of Eurasia) plate to … Continue reading
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Earthquake Report: 2015 Summary M GT 7
Here I summarize the global seismicity for 2015. I limit this summary to earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to M 7.0. I reported on all but one of these earthquakes. Here are all the annual summaries: 2015 Earthquake … Continue reading
Earthquake Report: Nicobar Isles and Sumatra!
This past 24 hours include two large earthquakes in the region of the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone offshore of Sumatra. Here is a map using the USGS online GIS interface. Here are the two large earthquakes posted on the USGS websites: … Continue reading
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