Earthquake Report: Central China – Tibetan Plateau

Wow, we are lucky that a region of central China is sparsely populated because this M 7.3 earthquake could have caused many more to suffer. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000e54r/executive Tectonic Background Central China here, part of the Tibetan Plateau, is dominated by the…

Earthquake Report: Southern California

Late last night there was a sequence of earthquakes in southern California. The mainshock is a M 4.5 earthquake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38695658/executive This temblor was widely felt across the southland (including by my mom, who was warned by earthquake early warning). This…