Last night we had a shallow crustal earthquake along the Alaska Peninsula. Here is the USGS website for this M = 6.2 earthquake. Below is my interpretive map where I use Google Earth and the kml (keyhole markup language) files…
Earthquake Report: Japan!
Today there was an earthquake offshore of southern Japan. Here is the USGS website for the M 6.0 earthquake. It is difficult to tell if this earthquake was on the megathrust or not. Below is my interpretive map. I plot…
Earthquake Report: Nikolski!
As I was writing my page on the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake (here), there was a M 5.7 earthquake along the Aleutian Trench east of the Amlia fracture zone. Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. The region…
Good Friday Earthquake: 1964/03/27 in Alaska
Today we commemorate the Good Friday Earthquake, which occurred on March 27, 1964. This is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on modern seismographic instruments. I summarize some of the information that we have about this earthquake, but this is…
Earthquake Report: Aleutians, Atka (near Amlia fracture zone)!
This morning we had a series of earthquakes along the Aleutian trench near Atka and the Amlia fracture zone. This is a very active part of this plate boundary and I summarize some of this below. The USGS has a…
Earthquake Report: Antarctic plate!
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…
Earthquake Report: New Zealand!
Early on Valentines, those in New Zealand got a valentine from mother Earth. Here is the USGS website for this M 5.8 earthquake, which was felt broadly across the region. This earthquake, and an M 4.1 aftershock, occurred in the…
Earthquake Report: Chile!
The aftershocks from the 2015.09.16 M 8.3 Chile earthquake continue. Today was an earthquake with magnitude M = 6.3. Here is the USGS website for today’s earthquake. I presented a comprehensive review of Chile’s historic seismicity, as well as the…
Earthquake Report: Taiwan Update #1
People have been busy documenting the damage from the M 6.4 earthquake in Taiwan. Here is my initial Earthquake Report for this earthquake. Here are a couple news sources on the damage. There appears to be a few large buildings…
Earthquake Report: Taiwan!
We just had an earthquake in southern Taiwan. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.4 earthquake. In April 2015, there was a series of earthquakes in the northeast of Taiwan. Here is my earthquake report for those earthquakes.…