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Earthquake Report: Ecuador

Posted on: June 30, 2017 Last updated on: June 29, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 1
Earlier today there was a moderate sized earthquake (M 6.0) along coast of Ecuador. This earthquake happened in the region of the 2016.04.16 M 7.8 subduction zone earthquake. Based upon the depth and our knowledge of this region, this earthquake…
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Earthquake Report: El Salvador

Posted on: May 12, 2017 Last updated on: July 19, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There were a couple interesting earthquakes offshore of El Salvador “today.” These earthquakes occurred along the Middle America Trench, a low spot in the ocean formed by the subduction of the Cocos plate beneath the Caribbean plate (a convergent plate…
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Earthquake Report: Vanuatu!

Posted on: May 9, 2017 Last updated on: January 8, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There was an earthquake along the New Hebrides Trench this morning (my time in northern California). This earthquake is located deep, possibly below the subduction zone megathrust (but probably is a subduction zone earthquake). The hypocentral depth is 169 km,…
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Earthquake Report: Denali fault, British Columbia

Posted on: May 1, 2017 Last updated on: January 12, 2024 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
This is an interesting earthquake for a number of reasons. The epicenters of the largest earthquakes in this series (M 6.2 and M 6.3) align just off-strike from the Dalton section of the Denali fault (DF) which was mapped as…
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Earthquake Report: Chile Update #1

Posted on: April 24, 2017 Last updated on: April 24, 2017 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
Well, I thought more to compare this ongoing earthquake sequence with the 1985 M 8.0 earthquake. This, in context with the 2010 and 2015 earthquakes. My initial report based upon the M ~4-5.9 swarm is here and my report on…
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Earthquake Report: Chile!

Posted on: April 24, 2017 Last updated on: April 24, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
Well, we had another earthquake in the region of a recent (yesterday and the day before) swarm offshore of Valparaiso, Chile (almost due west of Santiago, one of the largest cities in Chile). My previous report on the M 4-5…
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Earthquake Report: Chile!

Posted on: April 23, 2017 Last updated on: April 24, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There have been a number of earthquakes along the subduction zone offshore of Chile. These have happened near the boundary of two Great Earthquakes from 2010 and 2015. This region may be a segment boundary along the subduction zone, albeit…
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Earthquake Report: Gulf California!

Posted on: March 30, 2017 Last updated on: March 30, 2017 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There was an earthquake yesterday in the Gulf of California nearby a series of earthquakes that happened in 2015 and earlier in 2013. The 2017 and 2013 earthquakes are happening along a fault that forms the Carmen Basin and the…
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Earthquake Report: Cape Mendocino Region

Posted on: March 6, 2017 Last updated on: March 6, 2024 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
We just had an interesting earthquake in the region of the Mendocino triple junction. Recent earthquakes in this region show different fault plane solutions, owing to complexity of this area. In 1983 there was an earthquake ~10 km to the…
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Radio Show Material: KHUM with Lyndsey Battle

Posted on: February 4, 2017 Last updated on: February 4, 2017 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
Radio Show KHUM with Lyndsey Battle I prepared this material to prepare for a radio show that I participated in with Lyndsey Battle on KHUM. Here is the page on the KHUM website for this radio show. Here is a…
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