Category Archives: pacific

2017/09/08
1:22 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Chiapas, Mexico Update #1

Well, after about 4 hours sleep, my business partner woke me up to talk about the fire alarms we were installing in a rental (#safetyfirst). Now that I have had some breakfast, I here provide some additional observations that people … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, education, geology, mexico, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction, tsunami

2017/09/08
3:44 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Chiapas, Mexico

While I was spending time with my friend Steve Tillinghast (he is getting married on Saturday), there was a Great Earthquake offshore of Chiapas, Mexico. This is one of four M 8 or greater earthquakes ever recorded along the subduction … Continue reading →

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

2017/08/27
11:32 AM
by: Jay Patton

#Earthquake Report: North Bismarck plate

Well, what have we here? We have an interesting crustal earthquake in the North Bismarck plate. Why is it interesting? This is an interesting earthquake because of its orientation and mechanism. This region of the world is one of the … Continue reading →

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

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

2017/07/18
10:00 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Bering fracture zone: UPDATE #1

Well, based upon a comment on twitter, I thought it prudent to review the seismicity of this region at the westernmost part of the western Aleutian Islands. For many years I considered this region part of the subduction zone that … Continue reading →

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

2017/07/17
9:08 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Western Aleutians

We just had an earthquake along the western Aleutian Islands, very close to the international date line. In this region places often have more than two names, depending upon who drew the map. The majority of the Aleutian Islands are … Continue reading →

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

2017/06/22
10:26 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Guatemala

This morning we had an earthquake offshore of Guatemala with a magnitude M = 6.8. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. This earthquake occurred to the east of a sequence from about a week ago. Here is my … Continue reading →

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

2017/06/18
7:50 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Guatemala

There was a really cool earthquake sequence a few days ago on and offshore of Guatemala. Offshore of Guatemala in the Pacific Ocean, the Cocos plate subducts beneath the North America and Caribbean plates (NAP & CP). The transform plate … Continue reading →

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

2017/06/18
3:45 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Westernmost Aleutian Arc

This earthquake happened a couple weeks ago, but was interesting and I have been looking forward to following up on this with a report. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.8 earthquake. The M 6.8 earthquake happened in … Continue reading →

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

2017/06/11
12:40 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Trinidad, California

Early this morning, I was awakened by a mild jolt. I thought, well, seems like a M 3+- nearby. I did not get out of bed. The main shaking lasted a couple of seconds, though it seemed that there was … Continue reading →

Posted in cascadia, earthquake, geology, gorda, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, strike-slip, subduction