There was a M 3.6 earthquake near Concord, CA. This earthquake was felt widely across the S.F. Bay area. The two earthquakes plotted in the map below are both just southeast of the 2014 August Napa earthquake. The Napa earthquake,…
New Britain stays seismically active
We just had five M~5 earthquakes along the New Britain trench. The New Britain trench is formed by the subduction of the oceanic Solomon Sea microplate beneath the oceanic South Bismark microplate to the north. Here are the USGS web…
Earthquakes in Los Angeles
We have had a number of small earthquakes in the Los Angeles Basin in the past month. These three earthquakes appear aligned with the Newport Inglewood fault system, the fault that ruptured in 1933 for what is generally called the…