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Category: plate tectonics (page 10)

Earthquake Report: Peru

Posted on: January 14, 2018 Last updated on: January 14, 2018 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 1
We had a damaging and (sadly) deadly earthquake in southern Peru in the last 24 hours. This is an earthquake, with magnitude M 7.1, that is associated with the subduction zone forming the Peru-Chile trench (PCT). The Nazca plate (NP)…
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Earthquake Report: Burma!

Posted on: January 11, 2018 Last updated on: March 31, 2025 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 4
There was an earthquake in Burma today! The epicenter plotted very close to the Sagaing fault (SF), a major dextral (right-lateral) strike-slip fault system, part of the plate boundary between the India and Eurasia plates. This fault system accommodates much…
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Earthquake Report: Berkeley, CA (Hayward fault)

Posted on: January 4, 2018 Last updated on: January 4, 2018 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There was an earthquake last night (local time) in Berkeley, aligned with the Hayward fault. The Hayward fault is one of the synthetic sister faults to the San Andreas fault, the major player in the dextral (right-lateral, strike-slip) plate boundary…
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Earthquake Report: 2017 Summary

Posted on: December 30, 2017 Last updated on: December 30, 2017 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
Here I summarize Earth’s significant seismicity for 2017. I limit this summary to earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to M 6.5. There were only 6 earthquakes greater than or equal to M 7.0 in 2017 (compared to 17…
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Earthquake Report: Iran

Posted on: December 30, 2017 Last updated on: December 1, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
A couple weeks following the earthquake in eastern Iraq, there was a sequence of earthquakes in central eastern Iran. These earthquakes are too distant to be related. The Iranian sequence includes a M 6.1 foreshock on 2017.12.01 and two M…
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Earthquake Report: Laytonville (northern CA)!

Posted on: December 14, 2017 Last updated on: December 13, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
This morning there was a small earthquake in a region of northern California between two major faults that are part of the Pacific-North America plate boundary. The M 4.3 earthquake occurred between the San Andreas fault (SAF) to the west…
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Earthquake Report: Caroline Ridge Update #1

Posted on: December 9, 2017 Last updated on: December 9, 2017 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
Well, there was an earthquake this morning (my time) that may help us select a fault plane solution. Recall that these fault plane solutions (moment tensors and focal mechanisms) have two possible fault planes. We need additional information (like fault…
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Earthquake Report: Caroline Ridge

Posted on: December 8, 2017 Last updated on: December 10, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There was an earthquake sequence beginning 2017.12.08 along the northern flank of Caroline Ridge in the western Pacific Ocean, near the intersection of the Mariana and Yap trenches. The two largest earthquakes, M 6.5 and M 6.4, are both strike-slip…
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Earthquake Report: Loyalty Islands Update #1

Posted on: November 19, 2017 Last updated on: October 31, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
I just got back from one of the best conferences that I have ever attended, PATA Days 2017 (Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics, and Archeoseismology). This conference was held in Blenheim, New Zealand and was planned to commemorate the 300 year anniversary…
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Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea!

Posted on: November 9, 2017 Last updated on: November 7, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
Well. As I was preparing a job application at the library public wifi (the Airbnb I was staying at did not have wifi in my cabin, nor electricity for that matter), I prepared an interpretive poster for this earthquake. Interestingly,…
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