Monthly Archives: March 2018

2018/03/29
4:23 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: New Britain

Well, those earthquakes from earlier, one a foreshock to a later one, were foreshocks to an earthquake today! Here is my report from a couple days ago. The M 6.6 and M 6.3 straddle today’s earthquake and all have similar … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, education, geology, plate tectonics, subduction

2018/03/26
9:13 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: New Britain

The New Britain region is one of the more active regions in the world. See a list of earthquake reports for this region at the bottom of this page, above the reference list. Today’s M 6.6 earthquake happened close in … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, education, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, subduction

2018/03/23
11:52 AM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Gorda plate!

I was at a workshop to develop a unified strategy for research and monitoring in the Klamath River estuary (led by the Yurok Tribe, Andreas Krauss) yesterday and missed feeling the first of two M 4.6-4.7 earthquakes. I was presenting … Continue reading →

Posted in cascadia, earthquake, education, geology, gorda, humboldt, plate tectonics, strike-slip

2018/03/08
3:46 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: Malawi & Mozambique

Busy day today. This is my second earthquake report today. This report is about a M 5.6 earthquake along the Malawi Rift (MR) system, part of the larger East Africa Rift (EAR) extensional plate boundary. The EAR is currently the … Continue reading →

Posted in africa, earthquake, education, Extension, geology, plate tectonics

2018/03/08
12:43 PM
by: Jay Patton

Earthquake Report: New Ireland!

We had an M 6.8 earthquake near a transform micro-plate boundary fault system north of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea today. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. The main transform fault (Weitin fault) is ~40 km to the … Continue reading →

Posted in earthquake, education, geology, pacific, plate tectonics, strike-slip, Transform