Category Archives: mexico

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

2018/01/19
7:06 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Gulf of California

Today we had an earthquake with magnitude M 6.3 in the Gulf of California (GOC). The GOC is formed by transtension (extension along a strike-slip fault system) along the North-America-Pacific plate boundary. Transtension happens when the plate motion across a … Continue reading →

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

2017/09/23
11:35 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Chiapas Earthquake Update #2

Well, we had a really interesting earthquake today. There was a M 6.1 earthquake in the North America plate (NAP) to the north of the sequence offshore of Chiapas, with the M 8.1 mainshock. Here is the USGS website for … Continue reading →

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

2017/09/20
10:44 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Puebla, Mexico Update #1

Well, the responses of people who are in the midst of a deadly disaster have been inspiring, bringing tears to my eyes often. Watching people searching and helping find survivors. This deadly earthquake brings pause to all who are paying … Continue reading →

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

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

2016/04/29
8:52 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: East Pacific Rise and Middle America Trench

Yesterday we had an earthquake along the Clipperton fracture zone (CFZ), a transform plate boundary that offsets the northern East Pacific Rise (EPR). I was busy grading so did not get to this until today. Here are the four large … Continue reading →

Posted in College Redwoods, geology, HSU, mexico, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction, Transform, Uncategorized

2016/01/21
11:43 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Rivera fracture zone, Mexico!

We just had an earthquake offshore of Colima, Mexico. This earthquake appears associated with the Rivera fracture zone (RFZ), a transform plate boundary separating the Rivera plate to the north and the Pacific plate to the south. The RFZ connects … Continue reading →

Posted in College Redwoods, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, mexico, strike-slip, Transform