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…
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…
Hookton Slough Coring
Tom Leroy and I went to my old coring site 01-BR-05 to make sure it was usable as a field trip stop for my class. We will be going here this coming Wednesday. Thanks Tom for helping me out. I…
Ken Aalto Talk on the Franciscan Today 10/14/13
Today at HSU Founders Hall Room 25 at 5PM
Mw 4.9 Trinidad 2013.10.11
All right! That was exciting and a little bit scary. Most all earthquakes scare me because I recognize they might get bigger or trigger a bigger one. This earthquake is most likely on a northeast striking strike-slip fault in the…
2013 Kinetic Madness Celebration
Please come to my Twelfth Annual Kinetic Madness Celebration THIS SAT AT NOON: manila beach bungalo. i have been celebrating the kinetic sculpture race since i moved to manila in 1996. the race rides directly in front of my house…
Paper Published: Seismoturbidite record as preserved at core sites at the Cascadia and Sumatra–Andaman subduction zones”
My paper has recently been published online and open source. Please find this here. This paper is part of a Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences special issue on submarine paleoseismology. Seismoturbidite record as preserved at core sites at the…
new paper on dynamic controls of seismicity
here’s an interesting publicy available summary of a new paper (today) that discusses how our views of fault zone properties are changing. kelin wang (and others) have discussed this before (theory and model), but now we have a large earthquake…
nhess sumatra and cascadia paper
Here is the latest revision to my paper: Patton et al., 2012 I discuss how the different margin settings led to different sedimentary systems. Jason R Patton1, Chris Goldfinger1, Ann E. Morey1, Chris Romsos1, Brandi Black1, Yusuf Djadjadihardja2, Udrekh Udrekh2…