Status & Contact Info
Dr. Jason R. Patton "earthjay" is currently living in Arcata, CA.
He was most recently teaching classes at Humboldt State University, Dept. of Geology. and is available for geological consulting.
Contact him at:
quakejay at gmail.comChicken the Cat
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Recent pOsts
- Earthquake Report: Channel Islands Update #1 2018/04/07
- Earthquake Report: Channel Islands 2018/04/05
- Earthquake Report: Bolivia! 2018/04/05
- Earthquake Report: New Britain 2018/03/29
- Earthquake Report: New Britain 2018/03/26
- Earthquake Report: Gorda plate! 2018/03/23
- Earthquake Report: Malawi & Mozambique 2018/03/08
- Earthquake Report: New Ireland! 2018/03/08
- Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea: Update #1 2018/02/26
- Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea 2018/02/25
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
Paleoseismicity
Trembling Earth
Goldfinger
Landslide Blog
American Geophysical Union
Cascadia GeoSciences
- Cascadia GeoSciences 2012/05/23
Jay’s Research Cruise Blog
- Last Night on the R/V Tangaroa 2016/11/21
- Sunset 2016/11/19
- Earthquake Response Cores 2016/11/18
Jay’s Pages
- Professional
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- Education
- Downloads
- Oral Presentations
- 10/30/12 C. R. Mendocino Coast
- 4/29/13 HSU Dept. Geology Student Colloquium
- North Coast User Group (GIS) 2013.10.16
- 3/23/15 HSU Dept. Geology Student Colloquium
- Rotary Silverton: 2015
- DSCA: 2015.12.08
- Science on Tap Humboldt 2016.04.06
- USGS Menlo Park: 2016.06.29
- Friends of the Arcata Marsh 2016.07.22
- Wild Wines 2016.08.28
- Poster Presentations
- GIS Data
- Other Downloads
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- Recreation
- House Remodeling
- Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2003 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2004 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2005 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2008 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2009 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2010 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2012 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2013 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- 2015 Kinetic Sculpture Race, Humboldt
- OrIgon Country Fair
- Winter Solstice at the Beach Bungalo
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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Earthquake Report: Nevada!

Well, this is an interesting series of earthquakes. They occurred in a region that has not had any earthquakes (given the USGS NEIC database). However, as Jascha Polet pointed out on twitter, there was a swarm to the east in … Continue reading
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Earthquake Anniversary: Sumatra-Andaman 2004 M 9.2 & 2005 M 8.6

On 26 December 2004 there was an earthquake with a magnitude of M 9.2 along the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone (SASZ). This earthquake is the third largest earthquake ever recorded by modern seismometers and ruptured nearly 2,000 km of the megathrust … Continue reading
Posted in asia, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, Indian Ocean, plate tectonics, subduction, sumatra, tsunami
Earthquake Report: Chile!

Last night we had a large earthquake in the southern region of the 1960 M 9.5 Valdivia earthquake. Below are some USGS websites for the three large earthquakes for this region that I mention in my interpretive poster. Based on … Continue reading
Posted in earthquake, education, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction, tsunami
Earthquake Report: Bougainville!

Early this morning my time there was a large earthquake along the San Cristobal Trench, a segment of a convergent plate boundary formed by the subduction of the Solomon Sea plate eastwards beneath the Pacific plate. There was an M … Continue reading
Posted in earthquake, education, geology, HSU, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction
Earthquake Report: Solomons!

Yesterday there began a swarm of seismic activity along the southern Solomon trench. What began with a M 7.8 earthquake on 2016.12.08, there have been many aftershocks including a M 6.9 this morning (my time). Below is my interpretive poster … Continue reading
Posted in earthquake, education, geology, HSU, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction, tsunami
Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault Update #1

Today is one of my busiest days of the semester. I am administering a final and my two classes are presenting their video projects. Then, we had this M 6.5 earthquake in the wee hours and a M 7.7 (prelim … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, HSU, humboldt, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, Transform
Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault!

I was awake and just logging into my laptop, still in bed, when I first felt some movement. The movement was slight and not impulsive, so I thought it was a small earthquake. Then the shaking reappeared. This is when … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, HSU, humboldt, mendocino, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, subduction, Transform
Earthquake Report: Petrolia (CA)

This morning there was a good shaker that was widely felt across the region. I did not feel it. I was probably driving at the time, or grading papers, which can have the same sense-deadening effect. Here is the USGS … Continue reading
Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, HSU, mendocino, pacific, plate tectonics, San Andreas, strike-slip, Transform
Earthquake Report: Japan!

While I was returning from my research cruise offshore of New Zealand, there was an earthquake offshore of Japan in the region of the 2011.01.11 M 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake. Japan is one of the most seismically active regions on Earth. … Continue reading
Posted in asia, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, HSU, Japan, plate tectonics, tsunami
Earthquake Report: New Zealand Post # 02

Here is the first update on the 2016.11.13 (UTC) Mw 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake and associated fault ruptures, ground shaking, and other geologic effects. I will be preparing several more posts on this subject. I was invited to participate on a … Continue reading
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