Updated map below. See additional more updated information about Gorda plate earthquakes in the Earthquake Report for the 10 January 2010 M 6.5 earthquake here. That was exciting. I counted over 40 seconds of motion in Manila. This is a…
I Just Uploaded My Dissertation
woot woot I will be submitting the remaining two papers in the coming weeks. I am still “on target” until then. Below are links to the two files I uploaded to the digital scholar. The final signature page needs to…
M 4.1 Gorda plate 2013/12/17
Good Morning Humboldt County! This earthquake awakened me early today after just a couple hours sleep. Very exciting and another wake up call to make sure I am prepared for a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake. The Cascadia subduction zone is…
Hookton Slough Coring
Tom Leroy and I went to my old coring site 01-BR-05 to make sure it was usable as a field trip stop for my class. We will be going here this coming Wednesday. Thanks Tom for helping me out. I…
M 7.1 Panguna, Papua New Guinea
Here is a deep one (currently) and a big one. There may be a local tsunami, but there are no focal mechanisms yet. Ill add those when they become available. Here is a screenshot from the
Ken Aalto Talk on the Franciscan Today 10/14/13
Today at HSU Founders Hall Room 25 at 5PM
Mw 4.9 Trinidad 2013.10.11
All right! That was exciting and a little bit scary. Most all earthquakes scare me because I recognize they might get bigger or trigger a bigger one. This earthquake is most likely on a northeast striking strike-slip fault in the…
Updated Dissertation Files
I have organized my three papers. These are in a state of flux and I hope to submit them to my committee shortly. Here is the draft of my first paper, I will be submitting this to Geosphere shortly. Here…
Latest Paper on Cascadia Seismoturbidites is now released
Our paper has recently been published online and open source. Please find this here. This paper is part of a Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences special issue on submarine paleoseismology. Spatially Limited Mud Turbidites on the Cascadia Margin: Segmented…
Draft Dissertation is online
I have placed my dissertation online here The main dissertation is a single document, but there are additional appendices that are separate links. I will defend my work at 2PM on Wed. May 29, 2013 in Burt Hall Room 193.…