Recent USGS Significant Earthquakes- M 5.8 - 11km SE of Lincoln, Montana 2017/07/23
- M 6.7 - 10km SSE of Bodrum, Turkey 2017/07/22
- M 4.2 - 12km N of Stroud, Oklahoma 2017/07/21
- M 6.6 - 204km NW of Auckland Island, New Zealand 2017/07/21
- M 7.7 - 198km ESE of Nikol'skoye, Russia 2017/07/20
- M 6.4 - 98km WNW of Camana, Peru 2017/07/19
- M 6.5 - 3km NNE of Masarayao, Philippines 2017/07/16
- M 6.0 - 35km NNW of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador 2017/07/16
- M 6.4 - 38km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2017/07/13
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Category Archives: asia
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: 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
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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Earthquake Report: Makran subduction zone (Pakistan)!
There was a good sized earthquake along the Makran subduction zone. This subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary where the Arabia plate subducts (goes beneath) northwards under the Eurasia plate. There has been one aftershock reported by the USGS. … Continue reading
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Earthquake Anniversary: Sumatra-Andaman 2004 M 9.2 & 2005 M 8.6
On 26 December 2004 there was an earthquake with a magnitude of M 9.2 along the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone (SASZ). This earthquake is the third largest earthquake ever recorded by modern seismometers and ruptured nearly 2,000 km of the megathrust … Continue reading
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Earthquake Report: Japan!
While I was returning from my research cruise offshore of New Zealand, there was an earthquake offshore of Japan in the region of the 2011.01.11 M 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake. Japan is one of the most seismically active regions on Earth. … Continue reading
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Earthquake Report: Japan!
There was an earthquake in Japan tonight (tomorrow morning there). Here is the USGS website for this M 6.2 earthquake. The earthquake was shallow and widely felt with moderate intensity, so some casualties are expected. In the map below I … Continue reading
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Earthquake Report: Bering-Kresla Shear Zone (Russia, west of Aleutians)
If there is an earthquake and nobody is there to feel it, did it shake? Here is the USGS website for the M 6.3 earthquake that occurred in the far western Aleutians, so far west, it is called Russia. Below … Continue reading
Posted in alaska, asia, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction, Transform
Earthquake Report: Burma!
Well, there was an earthquake about 6 hours ago in Burma. This M 6.8 earthquake was rather deep, which is good for the residents of that area (the ground motions diminish with distance from the earthquake hypocenter). Here is the … Continue reading
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Earthquake Report: Japan!
There continue to be earthquakes probably related to the 2011.03.11 Tohoku-Oki M 9.0 earthquake (the 4th largest earthquake recorded on modern seismologic instruments). Here are two excellent summary Earthquake Report pages associated with this region: The original Earthquake Report for … Continue reading
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