Category Archives: asia

2018/01/11
1:30 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Burma!

There was an earthquake in Burma today! The epicenter plotted very close to the Sagaing fault (SF), a major dextral (right-lateral) strike-slip fault system, part of the plate boundary between the India and Eurasia plates. This fault system accommodates much … Continue reading →

Posted in asia, collision, earthquake, education, geology, Indian Ocean, plate tectonics, strike-slip

2017/12/30
7:52 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Iran

A couple weeks following the earthquake in eastern Iraq, there was a sequence of earthquakes in central eastern Iran. These earthquakes are too distant to be related. The Iranian sequence includes a M 6.1 foreshock on 2017.12.01 and two M … Continue reading →

Posted in asia, earthquake, education, geology, middle east, plate tectonics

2017/12/30
7:48 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Iraq

A month and a half ago, I was attending the PATA conference and an earthquake hit Iran and Iraq the night before our first field trip. Thus, I did not have the time to address this earthquake at the time. … Continue reading →

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2017/08/13
12:25 PM
by: Jay Patton

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

2017/08/11
5:44 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Philippines!

There was a deep focus earthquake in the Philippines today. This shaker was located near the city of Manila (I live in Manila. Manila, California). The hypocenter was quite deep (168 km) so (a) had lesser shaking due to the … Continue reading →

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

2017/08/08
7:24 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: China #2!

We had another earthquake in China today! This one along the northern Tian Shan Mountains, on the other side of the orogenic wedge from the earthquakes from earlier today. This M 6.3 earthquake is along a thrust fault, while the … Continue reading →

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

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

2017/05/29
4:51 PM
by: Jay Patton

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

2017/04/12
2:07 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Philippines

I put these together earlier this week for me classes and finally have a moment to write about these earthquakes. The Philippines region has been quite active lately, as it frequently is. I show below a series of earthquakes from … Continue reading →

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

2017/03/05
3:43 PM
by: Jay Patton

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 →

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