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 3.6 - 0km SE of Amherstburg, Canada 2018/04/20
- M 3.8 - 9km NNE of Alum Rock, CA 2018/04/20
- M 4.4 - 17km W of Humboldt Hill, CA 2018/04/20
- M 4.7 - 22km WNW of Petrolia, 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
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
- Science
- Earthquake Reports
- 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
- Oral Presentations
- 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: March 2018
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
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
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
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
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