I have organized my three papers. These are in a state of flux and I hope to submit them to my committee shortly. Here is the draft of my first paper, I will be submitting this to Geosphere shortly. Here…
This is a map of modeled tsunami sea surface elevations.
People have been promoting ignorance and I am exhausted at explaining to each of them regarding this. The ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima Power Plant in northeast Japan is horrible. However, we as a society could want to be the…
M 6.8 on the South Island of New Zealand
here is a big earthquake! M = 6.8, now a 6.5 depth = 10km pretty shallow (may change). it ruptured part of the Marlborough fault zone (part of the Alpine fault system). the moment tensor fits the fault map, a…
M 4.7 Earthquake along Lake Toba, Sumatera
There was a M=4.7 earthquake today in central Sumatra along the Sumatra fault system. Interesting that it is following the 6.1 further to the north just a few days ago. in the map below, the earthquakes associated with the M…
AGU 2012 Sumatra Poster
Here is my poster for the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting. I discuss the sedimentary settings in Sumatra and Cascadia as they control turbidite deposition. Patton et al., 2012 (48 MB pdf file) Patton et al., 2012 (Low Resolution 7 MB…
press release for our USGS turbidite professional paper
Greetings, Here is a link to the press release for the USGS professional paper that details the earthquake record of the Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) as recorded in the deep sea as turbidites. I worked largely on the radiocarbon analyses…