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…
Mendocino fault earthquake 1/28/15 1:08 PM local time
We just had a good sized shaker, probably on the Mendocino fault system. Today’s earthquake occurred on 1/28/2015 at 1:08 local time. The mainshock, an earthquake of magnitude Mw = 5.7, has an epicenter approximately 20 km due west 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.…
Earthquake report: Sumatra Outer Rise Earthquakes
The 2012 M 8.6 and M 8.2 Wharton Basin earthquakes happened shortly after I started preparing Earthquake Reports as earthjay. So, the material I had presented for this sequence was not very explanatory nor sophisticated (not that any of these…