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Category: New Zealand

Earthquake Report: Indonesia

Posted on: June 24, 2019 Last updated on: August 30, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
I had been making an update to an earthquake report on a regionally experienced M 5.6 earthquake from coastal northern California when I noticed that there was a M 7.3 earthquake in eastern Indonesia. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us600044zz/executive This earthquake is in a…
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Earthquake Report: Kermadec Trench

Posted on: June 15, 2019 Last updated on: March 16, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There was just an earthquake associated with the plate boundary that forms the Kermadec Trench, a deep oceanic trench that extends north from New Zealand, towards the Fiji Islands. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000417i/executive A minor tsunami (~25 cm in size) has been recorded…
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Earthquake Report: Kermadec

Posted on: September 11, 2018 Last updated on: September 6, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
The earthquakes continue, every day. Today, there was a large earthquake associated with the subduction zone that forms the Kermadec Trench. This earthquake was quite deep, so was not expected to generate a significant tsunami (if one at all). There…
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Earthquake Report: Kaikōura, New Zealand Post # 01

Posted on: November 26, 2016 Last updated on: November 13, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 2
This is the first of several posts about a complex earthquake series that happened along the northern end of the South Island in New Zealand. I was at sea on the R/V Tangaroa collecting piston cores offshore along the Hikurangi…
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Getting ready for the cruise!

Posted on: November 8, 2016 Last updated on: November 8, 2016 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 4
2016.11.09 Getting ready for the cruise! My main research cruise blog page is here: http://humboldt-jay.blogspot.com. We will be heading to sea to search for submarine landslide deposits called turbidites. There are several ways that these landslides can be triggered. Earthquakes…
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Earthquake Report: New Zealand!

Posted on: September 1, 2016 Last updated on: September 1, 2016 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
This was a very busy week for me, so I missed reporting on this series of earthquakes offshore the North Island of New Zealand. I did put together an interpretive Earthquake Report poster for these earthquakes for my general education…
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Earthquake Report: Antarctic plate!

Posted on: February 23, 2016 Last updated on: February 23, 2016 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
We just had an interesting mid-plate earthquake (not along a plate boundary). Hat Tip to Jascha Polet, who pointed out this is in the region of the 1998 M 8.1 earthquake, one of the largest strike-slip and mid-plate earthquakes ever…
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Earthquake Report: Macquarie – New Zealand

Posted on: February 15, 2016 Last updated on: February 15, 2016 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 2
There was an earthquake along the plate boundary between the Australia plate to the west and the Pacific plate to the east, just south of New Zealand. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.2 earthquake. Yesterday on 2015/02/14…
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