The tsunami threat has now passed. There has been a single record of this tsunami so far. This is from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center here. If one is ever interested in looking up information about tsunami warnings, watches, or…
Earthquake in the New Britain trench
We just had a large magnitude earthquake in the New Britain region, probably on the megathrust (subduction zone fault). There was a swarm of seismic activity in this region in July and August of 2010. Further to the southeast, there…
Earthquake in the New Britain trench
We just had a large magnitude earthquake in the New Britain region, probably on the megathrust (subduction zone fault). There was a swarm of seismic activity in this region in July and August of 2010. Further to the southeast, there…
Chile earthquakes in the 2010 slip region
We had a small flurry of earthquake activity in Chile today, along the subduction zone there. Today’s activity is in the the region of the 2010 earthquake sequence. The largest magnitude earthquake in today’s sequence is a M = 6.2.…
Molucca Earthquake
This region is a seismically active region. Today we had a M 6.2 earthquake. Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. Last November, there were a series of large magnitude compression aearthquakes. Here are some posts about these…
Lake Almanor: Indian Valley fault activity
There was an earthquake swarm in this region in 2013. The largest magnitude earthquake had a magnitude of M = 5.7. Here is the USGS page for that earthquake. “Today” we got a M = 3.8 earthquake in this same…
Earthquakes in Chile: Between the 2010 and 2014 Slip Patches
There have been a few earthquakes in the region between the 2010 and 2014 Chile subduction zone earthquakes. This is a seismic gap that has not had a Great earthquake since 1977, a ~M = 8.5 earthquake that spanned the…
Moderately Deep Focus Earthquake in Colombia
There was a moderately deep focus extensional earthquake beneath Colombia today. Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. Here is a map that shows the epicenter as a green dot. Historic earthquake epicenters are plotted in grey. The…
Earthquake near Siberut, Indonesia: Sumatra Megathrust
Yesterday (I was busy getting a Mt. St. Helens field trip together, here is the link for that) we had an earthquake with a magnitude M = 6.1. While this is not a large earthquake, it is notable because this…
another earthquake in the east Java / Timor region of Indonesia
We had another earthquake in this region today. This is an interesting area of the world since this is a place where there is a transition between subduction to the west and collision to the east. The Island of Timor…