Recent USGS Significant Earthquakes- M 7.1 - 1km ESE of Ayutla, Mexico 2017/09/22
- M 3.8 - 12km ENE of Albion, Illinois 2017/09/22
- M 3.6 - 5km NW of Westwood, CA 2017/09/22
- M 8.1 - 87km SW of Pijijiapan, Mexico 2017/09/22
- M 6.1 - 281km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan 2017/09/21
- M 3.3 - 3km NNE of East Foothills, California 2017/09/21
- M 6.4 - 85km NNW of Isangel, Vanuatu 2017/09/21
- M 5.3 - 15km E of Soda Springs, Idaho 2017/09/20
- M 6.3 - 109km NE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea 2017/09/20
- M 4.3 - 12km SSE of Medford, Oklahoma 2017/09/16
- Paleoseismicity
- Date change: Technical Workshop on Internet Macroseismology in Ljubljana, Slovenia, now from 14-15 November, 2017
- 5th International Colloquium on Historical Earthquakes, Paleoseismology, Neotectonics and Seismic Hazard, 11-13 October, 2017, Hannover, Germany
- Papers on harbours & archaeoseismology in the Med
- 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
Daily Archives: 2017/06/12
Earthquake Report: Turkey!
We had a couple of earthquakes in western Turkey today (in the Aegean Sea offshore of the Island of Lesbos, part of Greece). The M 6.3 earthquake shows evidence for extension (normal fault), based on the moment tensor (read below). … Continue reading
Posted in earthquake, europe, Extension, geology, plate tectonics