Status & Contact Info
Dr. Jason R. Patton "earthjay" is currently living in Arcata, CA.
He was most recently teaching classes at Humboldt State University, Dept. of Geology. and is available for geological consulting.
Contact him at:
quakejay at gmail.comChicken the Cat
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Recent pOsts
- Earthquake Report: Channel Islands Update #1 2018/04/07
- Earthquake Report: Channel Islands 2018/04/05
- Earthquake Report: Bolivia! 2018/04/05
- Earthquake Report: New Britain 2018/03/29
- Earthquake Report: New Britain 2018/03/26
- Earthquake Report: Gorda plate! 2018/03/23
- Earthquake Report: Malawi & Mozambique 2018/03/08
- Earthquake Report: New Ireland! 2018/03/08
- Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea: Update #1 2018/02/26
- Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea 2018/02/25
Recent USGS Significant Earthquakes
- M 3.8 - 9km NNE of Alum Rock, CA 2018/04/19
- M 6.8 - 11km NNE of Carandayti, Bolivia 2018/04/18
- M 5.3 - 29km SW of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA 2018/04/17
- M 4.5 - 27km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma 2018/04/17
- M 4.6 - 20km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2018/04/14
- M 6.2 - 54km SW of Ovalle, Chile 2018/04/13
- M 6.3 - 88km WSW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea 2018/04/09
- M 4.4 - 17km W of Humboldt Hill, CA 2018/04/04
- M 6.9 - 151km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 2018/04/03
- M 6.3 - 150km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea 2018/04/01
Paleoseismicity
Trembling Earth
Goldfinger
Landslide Blog
American Geophysical Union
Cascadia GeoSciences
- Cascadia GeoSciences 2012/05/23
Jay’s Research Cruise Blog
- Last Night on the R/V Tangaroa 2016/11/21
- Sunset 2016/11/19
- Earthquake Response Cores 2016/11/18
Jay’s Pages
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- Education
- Downloads
- Oral Presentations
- 10/30/12 C. R. Mendocino Coast
- 4/29/13 HSU Dept. Geology Student Colloquium
- North Coast User Group (GIS) 2013.10.16
- 3/23/15 HSU Dept. Geology Student Colloquium
- Rotary Silverton: 2015
- DSCA: 2015.12.08
- Science on Tap Humboldt 2016.04.06
- USGS Menlo Park: 2016.06.29
- Friends of the Arcata Marsh 2016.07.22
- Wild Wines 2016.08.28
- Poster Presentations
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- Other Downloads
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- Recreation
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- Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2003 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2004 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2005 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2008 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2009 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2010 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2012 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2013 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2015 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- OrIgon Country Fair
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Category Archives: collision
Earthquake Report: Channel Islands Update #1

Well well. There was lots of interest in this M 5.3 earthquake offshore of Ventura/Los Angeles, justifiably so. Southern California is earthquake country. Here is an update. There was lots of information that I was trying to incorporate and I … Continue reading
Posted in collision, earthquake, education, geology, los angeles, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, strike-slip
Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea: Update #1

The aftershocks are still coming in! We can use these aftershocks to define where the fault may have slipped during this M 7.5 earthquake. As I mentioned yesterday in the original report, it turns out the fault dimension matches pretty … Continue reading
Posted in collision, earthquake, education, geology, pacific, plate tectonics
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: 1971 Sylmar, CA

This earthquake was the second earthquake in the state of CA to lead to major changes in how people in the state handled earthquake hazards and risk and today is the 47th anniversary of this earthquake. The first important earthquake … Continue reading
Posted in collision, earthquake, education, geology, los angeles, plate tectonics, San Andreas
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
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
Posted in asia, collision, earthquake, education, geology
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
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
Earthquake Report: Arctic!

Well, I put this and my next earthquake report together shortly after these earthquakes happened, but I was otherwise busy before I could present them online. There was an earthquake in the Arctic on 2017.01.08, along the channel of one … Continue reading
Posted in arctic, collision, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, plate tectonics
Earthquake Report: 1994 Northridge!

Today is the anniversary of the 1994 M 6.7 Northridge Earthquake. I was living in Arcata at the time (actually in my school bus in a driveway to save money). I remember calling my mom from a pay phone to … Continue reading
Posted in collision, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, los angeles, plate tectonics, San Andreas