There continue to be aftershocks in the M 4-5 range. These are aftershocks and triggered earthquakes (if they are generally on different faults) from the Mw 6.7 earthquake. Here is my page on this mainshock and here is the USGS…
Sandwich Earthquakes in Scotia, mmmmm
We have had a swarm of earthquakes near the Sandwich Islands along the Scotia subduction zone, an oceanic subduction zone. Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. Here is a map showing the regional tectonic setting with relative…
Earthquake offshore of the Sanriku Coast
We just had a good sized shallow compressional earthquake in the northern part of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake slip region. The USGS web page lists the magnitude at Mw 6.7. Here is a great summary of the tectonics of this…
Jan 31, 2015 Panama fracture zone shakes it up
There was another earthquake along the Panama fracture zone today, following a couple from earlier in the month. Today, there was a Mb 5.1, while on 1.16/2015 there was a Mw 6.6. There was a swarm along strike with the…
Earthquake along the South New Hebrides trench
We just had a swarm of shallow seismic activity along the arc above the South New Hebrides trench. The largest magnitude was a Mw 6.0. There was a very deep (~220km) Mw 6.8 just to the north about a week…
Stress Changes from Strike Slip Faults
One may ask what are the relations between the Mendocino fault (MF) and the Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ). Earthquakes on both fault systems are responding to the same plate motions. As the Gorda plate moves to the east, relative to…
Cascadia’s 315th Birthday
On this morning, 315 years ago, the Cascadia subduction zone fault ruptured as a margin wide earthquake. I here commemorate this birthday with some figures that are in two USGS open source professional papers. The Atwater et al. (2005) paper…
Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone 2014/12/26: Slip, Deformation, and Energy
Here is an update to my post earlier on the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone earthquake of 2004/12/26 (about a decade ago). This series of plots show the large variation in non unique slip models for this earthquake. The authors divide…
Boxing Day Earthquake: Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone 2014/12/26
The Decadal Anniversary is coming up and I will be posting some material regarding the earthquake and tsunami that changed the lives of millions. This Mw 9.15 earthquake, slightly smaller in magnitude than the M 9.2 Good Friday Earthquake of…
Earthquake along the New Britain trench (Solomon Isles and Papua New Guinea)
We just had an earthquake swarm along the subduction zone trench offshore of the Solomon Islands. Here is the USGS earthquake page for this Mw 6.8 subduction zone earthquake. Here is a map of the region with the recent swarm.…