Category Archives: pacific

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

2017/04/30
10:44 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Cotobato Trench, Philippines

Earlier in April (2017) there was some activity in 4 different regions of the Philippines. Based upon the low magnitudes and large epicentral distances, these earthquakes were most unlikely to be directly related to each other. A couple days ago, … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, geology, pacific, plate tectonics

2017/04/24
10:54 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: 1992.04.25 M 7.1 Petrolia

The 25 April 1992 M 7.1 earthquake was a wake up call for many, like all large magnitude earthquakes are. Here is my personal story. I was driving my girlfriend’s car (Jen Guevara) with her and some housemates up to … Continue reading →

Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, humboldt, mendocino, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, subduction, tsunami

2017/04/12
2:07 PM
by: Jay Patton

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

2017/03/29
2:54 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Kamchatka!

This earthquake happened last night as I was preparing course materials for this morning. Initially it was a magnitude 6.9, but later modified to be M 6.9. This earthquake happened in an interesting region of the world where there is … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction

2017/03/27
12:55 PM
by: Jay Patton

Good Friday Earthquake 27 March 1964

In March of 1964, plate tectonics was still a hotly debated topic at scientific meetings worldwide. Some people still do not accept this theory (some Russian geologists favor alternative hypotheses; Shevchenko et al., 2006). At the time, there was some … Continue reading →

Posted in alaska, education, geology, HSU, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction, tsunami

2017/03/26
8:30 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Bougainville and Solomons

In the past couple of weeks, there were some earthquakes in the equatorial western Pacific. Here are the USGS websites for the two largest earthquakes in the two regions. 2017.03.04 M 6.1 2017.03.19 M 6.0 The M 6.1 was a … Continue reading →

Posted in education, geology, HSU, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction