Early this morning, we had a M 7.1 earthquake in the Cook Inlet of Alaska. Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. Due to the magnitude and depth for this earthquake, there is no tsunami risk for CA/OR/WA.…
Hoax Alert: Cascadia Buoy!
Today there was a bantering about a buoy several hundred miles offshore of Oregon. A website had posted a hoax about how the buoy data suggested that there was movement along the Cascadia subduction zone. These hoaxes happen rather frequently.…
Earthquake Report: Cuba!
We just had three earthquakes on the southern boundary of Cuba. Here are the USGS websites for these earthquakes: 2016.01.17 M 4.6 2016.01.17 M 5.1 2016.01.17 M 5.1 These do not have USGS moment tensors, but I suspect that they…
Earthquake Report: Hokkaido!
Today we had an earthquake offshore of Hokkaido. This earthquake occurred near the 2003 Tokachi_oki earthquake, a M 8.3 earthquake that is responsible for one of the only direct observations of a seismogenic turbidity current. Here is my interpretive map.…
Earthquake Report: Cape Mendocino!
We just had a pair of earthquakes near the town of Petrolia (first oil well in CA drilled here, ergo the name). The first one I did not feel, but I did feel the quick jolt of the second one.…
Earthquake Report: India!
Today we had a good sized earthquake in eastern India, within the India-Burmese wedge (IBW). The IBW is a part of the convergent plate boundary between the India plate to the west and the Burma (part of Eurasia) plate to…
Earthquake Report: 2015 Summary M GT 7
Here I summarize the global seismicity for 2015. I limit this summary to earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to M 7.0. I reported on all but one of these earthquakes. Here are all the annual summaries: 2015 Earthquake…
Earthquake Report: San Bernardino (Devore)!
A couple days ago, I was on the road and did not yet have my laptop. Therefore I am reporting about this earthquake a few days afterwards… There has been a swarm of seismic activity in the San Bernardino area.…
Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault and Gorda plate!
We just had an earthquake along strike with the Mendocino fault zone. This region is seismically active and there were a number of MF earthquakes in 2015. Here is the USGS web page for today’s M = 4.5 MF earthquake.…
Earthquake Report: Tajikistan!
We just had an earthquake in Tajikistan with a magnitude of M = 7.2. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. We had a M = 7.5 in Afghanistan in October of 2015, less than 2 months ago. That…