Category Archives: collision

2018/04/07
11:53 AM
by: Jay Patton

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

2018/02/26
1:21 PM
by: Jay Patton

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

2018/02/25
5:55 PM
by: Jay Patton

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

2018/02/09
2:00 PM
by: Jay Patton

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

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
7:48 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 →

Posted in asia, collision, earthquake, education, geology

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

2017/07/20
6:16 PM
by: Jay Patton

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

2017/01/19
11:51 PM
by: Jay Patton

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

2017/01/17
11:32 AM
by: Jay Patton

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