Monthly Archives: November 2017

2017/11/30
5:23 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Delaware!

Today there was an earthquake in the state of Delaware, a region that does not have many mapped surface faults (I could not find any active faults in a couple hours of lit review). This area also does not have … Continue reading →

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2017/11/19
11:36 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Loyalty Islands Update #1

I just got back from one of the best conferences that I have ever attended, PATA Days 2017 (Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, and Archeoseismology). This conference was held in Blenheim, New Zealand and was planned to commemorate the 300 year anniversary … Continue reading →

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2017/11/09
1:01 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea!

Well. As I was preparing a job application at the library public wifi (the Airbnb I was staying at did not have wifi in my cabin, nor electricity for that matter), I prepared an interpretive poster for this earthquake. Interestingly, … Continue reading →

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2017/11/04
4:27 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Tonga!

Well, I was just getting ready for bed and saw the PTWC email notification. It took a couple minutes before the USGS email notification came through, but the earthquake was already listed on the website. By the time the ENS … Continue reading →

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2017/11/01
9:24 PM
by: Jay Patton

#Earthquake Report: Loyalty Islands

BOO! Happy Halloween/Samhain…. I am on the road and worked on this report while on layovers with intermittent internets access… Though this earthquake sequence spanned a day or so, so it is good that it took me a while to … Continue reading →

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