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…
Earthquake Report: M 7.1 Sumatra, Indonesia
As I completed the Earthquake Report for yesterday’s M 7.1 earthquake along the Kermadec Trench, I tweeted the report and interpretive poster to notice a colleague had tweeted about a magnitude M 7.1 earthquake about an hour earlier. So, I…
Earthquake Report: M 7.1 Kermadec
I am currently taking a break following an excellent Seismological Society of America Meeting in San Juan Puerto Rico. I presented a couple posters and one talk on the results from our USGS Powell Center meeting where we developed a…
Earthquake Report: M 7.0 Papua New Guinea
This morning (my time) I received a notification from the National Tsunami Warning Center, the organization responsible for generating notifications for my locality (California). There was a magnitude M 7.0 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00rsi26z/executive This earthquake was almost…
Earthquake Report: M 6.8 Ecuador
This morning my time there was a magnitude M 6.8 earthquake in Ecuador. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pt23077000/executive I got a notification that there would not be a tsunami to reach the west coast of the USA. Because of the depth and magnitude, there…
Earthquake Report: M 7.0 Kermadec
Tonight (my time) there was a tsunami notification for a magnitude M 7.1 earthquake along the Kermadec subduction zone. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000jkbd/executive My cat is not letting me complete this report. So, I will add some more stuff over the next few…
Earthquake Report: M 7.8 in Turkey/Syria
We just had a severe earthquake in south eastern Turkey, northwestern Syria. We call this the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive Well, I learned tonight (14 Feb) that these M 7.8 and M 7.5 earthquakes have been named by the Turkey Minister…
Earthquake Report: M 7.0 Vanuatu
Early this morning (my time) I got a notification from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center that there was no tsunami threat from an M 7.2 earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands. Tsunami Info Stmt: M7.2 Vanuatu Islands 0433PST Jan 8: Tsunami…
Earthquake Report: M 6.4 Gorda plate
Initial Narrative Well, it has been a very busy week. I had gotten back from the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Chicago late Saturday night. I had one day to hang out with my cats before I was to…
Earthquake Report: M 6.1 Turkey
There was a damaging earthquake in Turkey yesterday, a magnitude M 6.1. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000irp8/executive The seismic hazards of this region of the Earth is dominated by a plate boundary fault, the North Anatolia fault (NAF). The NAF is a right-lateral strike-slip…