Here are some maps i have put together that show the accumulated aftershocks from the M 6.8 Gorda plate earthquake on Sunday night. There was one M 3.3 earthquake less than 30 minutes before the main shock. I draw the…
radio interview on KMUD, local news Monday 3/10/14
Carrie from KMUD news interviewed me for the local news broadcast on Monday 3/10/14 and rebroadcast the following morning. KMUD archives their local news online for one year. Here is a recording of the KMUD local news. My interview is…
landslide between Redway and Garberville
Here are some photos from a landslide possibly triggered by the M 6.9 earthquake. It would be difficult to determine if this was caused by the rainfall or by the earthquake. Given that there were only a few landslides across…
aftershocks from the M 6.8 Gorda plate earthquake from 2014/03/10
Here are some updated maps for this morning. There have been quite a few aftershocks. There are reports of landslides along the bluffs between Redway and Garberville. Here is a map that just shows these 22 earthquakes: Here is a…
M 6.8 Gorda plate earthquake 2014/03/10
Updated map below. See additional more updated information about Gorda plate earthquakes in the Earthquake Report for the 10 January 2010 M 6.5 earthquake here. That was exciting. I counted over 40 seconds of motion in Manila. This is a…
I Just Uploaded My Dissertation
woot woot I will be submitting the remaining two papers in the coming weeks. I am still “on target” until then. Below are links to the two files I uploaded to the digital scholar. The final signature page needs to…
Landslide or Fault Tip?
there were some early reports that used the fault tip movement as a measure of the slip on the fault during the 11 march 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. amazing measurements made with hi res bathy data. i saw a phenomenal 3-D…
M 4.1 Gorda plate 2013/12/17
Good Morning Humboldt County! This earthquake awakened me early today after just a couple hours sleep. Very exciting and another wake up call to make sure I am prepared for a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake. The Cascadia subduction zone is…
Simuelue Swarm 2013/12/01-02
Here is a series of earthquakes in the region of the 2005 great Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone earthquake. These earthquake epicenters plot very close to the epicenter of the 2005 earthquake. The island just northwest of today’s earthquake is named Simeulue.…
M7.0 in the South Atlantic
How exciting! This earthquake is on the other side of the Scotia plate from the earthquake swarm from last week. This M7.0 earthquake appears to have slipped along a fault associated with the North Scotia Ridge (NSR). The NSR is…