Category Archives: alaska

2019/04/05
10:28 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: central Aleutians

A couple days ago, in my inbox, there was an email from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center about an earthquake along the Aleutian Islands, near Rat Island, Alaska. However, this earthquake was not along the megathrust subduction zone fault there … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, earthquake, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction

2019/03/26
10:22 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Northern Alaska

At shortly before 13:30 today in northern Alaska there was a large earthquake, with a magnitude of M=5.1. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak0193wxcfea/executive Many of us are familiar with the Good Friday earthquake, a megathrust subduction zone earthquake. This earthquake has a birthday tomorrow, … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, plate tectonics

2018/12/31
12:45 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: 2018 Summary

Here I summarize Earth’s significant seismicity for 2018. I limit this summary to earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to M 6.5. I am sure that there is a possibility that your favorite earthquake is not included in this … Continue reading →

Posted in africa, alaska, arctic, asia, atlantic, caribbean, cascadia, collision, earthquake, education, geology, Indonesia, landslides, mediterranean, mexico, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction, Transform, tsunami, volcanoes

2018/12/20
11:08 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Bering Kresla / Pacific plate

We just had a large earthquake in the region of the Bering Kresla fracture zone, a strike-slip fault system that coincides with the westernmost portion of the Aleutian trench (which is a subduction zone further to the east). At first, … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, asia, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction, Transform, tsunami

2018/12/01
1:11 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Alaska

What a day. I started by waking up about 5:43 AM (about, heheh), which was 17 minutes before my alarm was set. I had a job interview at 8:30. I went to the interview for a position working on tsunami … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, earthquake, Extension, geology

2018/08/21
2:30 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Alaska Update

Thanks to Jamie Gurney, I took a looksie at the Kaktovik earthquake sequence again. He had interpreted this sequence to possibly represent an extensional step over in a right-lateral (dextral) strike-slip tectonic fault system. I do not include much background … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, arctic, College Redwoods, earthquake, education, geology, plate tectonics, strike-slip

2018/08/16
12:43 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Andreanof Islands, Aleutians

Well, yesterday while I was installing the final window in a reconstruction project, there was an earthquake along the Aleutian Island Arc (a subduction zone) in the region of the Andreanof Islands. Here is the USGS website for the M … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, College Redwoods, earthquake, education, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction, tsunami

2018/08/12
3:11 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: northern Alaska

Well, I awakened shortly after this M 6.4 earthquake hit the northern part of Alaska, along the north Slope, north of the Brooks Range. My inbox has had a lower frequency of USGS ENS notifications since Kilauea has settled down … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, College Redwoods, earthquake, education, geology, plate tectonics, strike-slip

2018/01/24
2:03 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Gulf of Alaska UPDATE #2

I thought it would be interesting to see the seismicity with time. Perhaps this could help us learn about the fault sources associated with this earthquake sequence. I am not sure it worked as some issues cannot be dealt with … Continue reading →

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

2018/01/23
7:38 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Gulf of Alaska UPDATE #1

Well. What a firestorm of social media discusions about this earthquake. It seems that, like how we learn so much when earthquakes like this happen, the amount of interacting in public on social media has been growing earthquake by earthquake. … Continue reading →

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