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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I was in the San Francisco Bay area last weekend to see Phil Lesh (the bassist for the Grateful Dead) and many others at the 4th Sunday Daydream at McNears Park along the bay. Phil came down ill so was…

A few days ago (as I write this) there was a magnitude M 7.1 earthquake offshore of Japan. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nith/executive The plate tectonics of Japan is dominated by compressional forces. Convergent plate boundaries are where plates move towards each other. In…

Stand By: Earthquake Report in Progress ;-) A few weeks ago there was a magnitude M 7.1 earthquake to the southwest of today’s M 6.8 earthquake. I will describe both earthquakes a bit here. 11 July 2024 M 7.1: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000myfa/executive…

Well, as I was driving to town to pay a bill (as we all do), I got my alert of a M 4.5 (later changed to 4.9) earthquake in southern California. I immediately drove back to the office to prepare…