Last night (my time) as I was winding down, I heard my phone go ‘tinggggg.’ A few moments later I got up and learned of a M 7.5 earthquake offshore of the west coast of Japan. This place has had…
Earthquake Report: M 7.2 Alaska
This is a brief report that includes an interpretive poster and a plot of tide gage data that show a tsunami generated by this M 7.2 earthquake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000kg30/executive I don’t always have the time to write a proper Earthquake Report.…
Earthquake Report: M 7.6 offshore of the Philippines
This morning (my time) I was awakened by the tsunami notification that I get on my phone. I lept into action. I get tsunami notifications so that I can respond to these potential tsunami events that may impact the coast…
Earthquake Report: Banda Sea
The other evening (my time) I and many others noticed a series of earthquakes in the Banda Sea region. As is typical, people want as much information about these earthquakes as possible as soon as possible. There were two quakes…
Earthquake Report: M 6.9 Papua New Guinea
Early this morning my time, there were several earthquakes in and offshore of Papua New Guinea. The two main earthquakes are magnitude M 6.7 and 6.9. 2023.10.07 M 6.7: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000ldqd/executive 2023.10.07 M 6.9: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000ldqf/executive There are several different interpretations for…
Earthquake Report: M 6.8 Morocco
This evening (my time) there was an earthquake in Morocco. Magnitude 6.8, rather shallow, reverse or thrust (compressional) mechanism. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000kufc/executive This M 6.8 earthquake happened in the Atlas Mountains, a compressional system with south dipping reverse faults on the north…
Earthquake Report: Kantō, Japan
Today marks 100 years since the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/iscgem911526/executive I am putting together the basics and will update over the next few months. This earthquake generated strong ground shaking, triggered landslides, induced liquefaction, generated tsunami, and (sadly) caused…
Earthquake Report: M 7.1 Indonesia
Yesterday on my way home from a Phil & Graham Lesh show, I got a tsunami notification alert from the National Tsunami Warning Center. There was a magnitude M 6.9 earthquake offshore of Indonesia and there was no tsunami threat…
Earthquake Report: M 7.7 Loyalty Islands
I am catching up with this today as I have been busy with other things. I am still behind on those things, but wanted to get this put together since I am currently working on a project that includes tsunami…
Earthquake Report: M 5.5 Lake Almanor
As I was socializing with my coworkers at our weekly social hour, my colleagues noted that they were getting an Earthquake Early Warning. Soon after they reported feeling the ground shake. After refreshing the USGS earthquakes map webpage a few…