A few days ago there was an earthquake at the beginning of my day. I noticed as I had received a message from the National Tsunami Warning Center. I went online and found that there was a magnitude 7.2 earthquake…
Earthquake Report: M 7.4 Drakes Passage
Yesterday my team was bringing to fruition weeks of planning (with lots of this preparation taking place in the last week) for a retirement celebration for Nick and my boss, Rick Wilson. Rick retired in Dec 2024 after 34 years…
Earthquake Report: M 6.7 New Zealand
As I was working on a report for this M 6.7 earthquake, the 28 March 2025 M 7.7 Sagaing fault earthquake hit. Here is the USGS page for the M 6.7 earthquake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pmem/executive So, for now, here is a brief…
Earthquake Report: M 7.7 Burma
Two nights ago as I was falling asleep there was a magnitude M 7.7 earthquake in Burma. I got up and thought about all the potential suffering. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pn9s/executive Upon viewing the earthquake location on the map (the epicenter), I knew…
Earthquake Report: M 7.6 Cayman Islands
This afternoon my time, there was a large earthquake in the Caribbean. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pcdl/executive This magnitude M 7.6 earthquake happened along a right-lateral transform plate boundary, the Swan Island fault. At transform plate boundaries, the plates moves side-by-side. The USGS earthquake…
Earthquake Report: M 7.1 Tibet
As i was travelling to a series of meetings to discuss subduction zones, particularly the Cascadia subduction zone, there was a large magnitude earthquake in TIbet. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000pi9w/executive The earthquake has a normal faulting earthquake mechanism, the result of extension. The…
Earthquake Report: M 7.3 Port Vila, Vanuatu
As I was ending my work day, an earthquake in the western Pacific happened. There was a magnitude M 7.3 earthquake offshore of Port Vila, Vanuatu https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000nzf3/executive The tectonics of Vanuatu is dominated by a subduction zone, a convergent plate…
Earthquake Report: M 7.0 northern California
My Experience for this Earthquake I was attending a meeting for work where we were discussing the ongoing development of a tool that we (the California Tsunami Program – the CA Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the California Geological…
Earthquake Report: M 6.8 Cuba
Yesterday there was a magnitude M 5.9 earthquake along the south coast of Cuba. Normally I would not take notice, but this event was located along a plate boundary fault. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000nr0n/executive The Septentrional–Oriente fault is a transform plate boundary where…
Earthquake Report: M 4.4 Mendocino triple junction
This past week has been a busy week for earthquakes in California. Both northern and southern. There was a M 4.4 earthquake sequence in Petrolia, CA. I contacted my friend Thomas Dunklin as these earthquakes were exactly underneath him (he…