Recent USGS Significant Earthquakes- M 3.8 - 9km NNE of Alum Rock, CA 2018/04/19
- M 6.8 - 11km NNE of Carandayti, Bolivia 2018/04/18
- M 5.3 - 29km SW of Santa Cruz Is. (E end), CA 2018/04/17
- M 4.5 - 27km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma 2018/04/17
- M 4.6 - 20km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2018/04/14
- M 6.2 - 54km SW of Ovalle, Chile 2018/04/13
- M 6.3 - 88km WSW of Porgera, Papua New Guinea 2018/04/09
- M 4.4 - 17km W of Humboldt Hill, CA 2018/04/04
- M 6.9 - 151km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 2018/04/03
- M 6.3 - 150km E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea 2018/04/01
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Monthly Archives: September 2015
2015.09.16 Chile Update #3
The aftershocks continue and will do so for weeks. Aftershocks from the 2011.03.27 Tohoku-Oki M 9.0 earthquake continue today. The decay rate for seismicity relates to characteristics of the fault called the b-value. The b-value can be determined/modeled in several … Continue reading
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Chile Historic Tsunami Comparisons
Here are three tsunami wave amplitude models from NOAA for three Great (magnitude > 8.0) earthquakes in Chile. Here are the USGS websites for the three earthquakes that generated these earthquakes, plus the one from 2015.09.16 not shown on the … Continue reading
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2015.09.16 Chile Update #2
Here I post some updates about the M 8.3 Great Earthquake in Chile and the associated tsunami observations and models. I have three earlier posts about this earthquake and tsunami event. First Post Update #1 Tsunami Observations Here is an … Continue reading
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Chile M 8.3 Earthquake: Tsunami Observations!
Here are a couple of videos that document the arrival of tsunami waves in the “mouth of Genio river at Wafer Bay, Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Cocos Island is a National Park located between Galapagos Islands and the continental coast … Continue reading
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2015.09.16 Chile Update #1
Here are some updates to this earthquake and tsunami. First, here is an updated map. I have included an illustration from Atwater et al. (2005) that shows the earthquake cycle at a subduction zone. A subduction zone is a convergent … Continue reading
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Great Tsunamigenic Earthquake offshore Chile!
[Additional information is posted in a supplementary post here.] Well, I was in the middle of a Quaternary Stratigraphy lab when this hit, so it took a while to get home. My delay pales in comparison to the probably large … Continue reading
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Gulf of California Earthquakes! (first update)
Here is an update to the early morning post… I have prepared an updated map that shows the fracture zones, spreading ridges, transform faults, and basins in the region of seismicity from the past 24 hours. Here is the map. … Continue reading
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Gulf of California Earthquakes! (first post)
We just had a few earthquakes in the Gulf of California (GOC). The results are early, so there is not a moment tensor plotted yet (updated map shows it now). The epicenters plot in the Farallon Baisn. The Gulf of … Continue reading
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Earthquake in Papua New Guinea!
In the last ~24 hours, we have had a few earthquakes in northeastern Papua New Guinea, all in the M 5 range. Here are the USGS web sites for these earthquakes: 2015.09.11 M 5.5 2015.09.11 M 5.3 2015.09.12 M 5.0 … Continue reading
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Kermadec trench earthquake!
Last night there were a few earthquakes along the Kermadec trench, which is a convergent plate boundary (subduction zone) where the Pacific plate subducts westward beneath the Australia plate. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.4 earthquake. Recent … Continue reading
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