In the past week, there has been a series of earthquakes in the New Britain trench. The largest quakes are M = 6.7 & 6.8. Now we might call those foreshocks to today’s M = 7.5 earthquake de Cinco de…
Earthquake Pair in New Britain
Good Morning New Britain. Today we had a second M = 6.8 earthquake in as many days. Here are the USGS web pages for the 2015.04.30 and 2015.05.01 earthquakes. Here is my quick post from yesterday’s earthquake. Here is a…
Molucca Earthquake
This region is a seismically active region. Today we had a M 6.2 earthquake. Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. Last November, there were a series of large magnitude compression aearthquakes. Here are some posts about these…
Earthquake near Siberut, Indonesia: Sumatra Megathrust
Yesterday (I was busy getting a Mt. St. Helens field trip together, here is the link for that) we had an earthquake with a magnitude M = 6.1. While this is not a large earthquake, it is notable because this…
another earthquake in the east Java / Timor region of Indonesia
We had another earthquake in this region today. This is an interesting area of the world since this is a place where there is a transition between subduction to the west and collision to the east. The Island of Timor…
Indonesia Strikes Again
A deep earthquake has occurred probably within the downgoing Indo-Australia plate. The moment tensor shows oblique extension (part strike-slip, part normal). The depth aligns with the depth of the plate given the Hayes et al. (2012) slab models (which ends…
Earthquake report: Sumatra Outer Rise Earthquakes
The 2012 M 8.6 and M 8.2 Wharton Basin earthquakes happened shortly after I started preparing Earthquake Reports as earthjay. So, the material I had presented for this sequence was not very explanatory nor sophisticated (not that any of these…