There was an earthquake in Japan tonight (tomorrow morning there). Here is the USGS website for this M 6.2 earthquake. The earthquake was shallow and widely felt with moderate intensity, so some casualties are expected. In the map below I…
Earthquake Report: Java Sea!
Last night as I was finishing work for the day, I noticed an earthquake in the Java Sea, just north of western Java. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.6 earthquake. This earthquake is extensional and plots very…
Earthquake Report: New Britain!
Last night there was a magnitude M 6.9 earthquake associated with the subduction zone that forms the New Britain Trench (where the Solomon Sea plate subducts northwards beneath the South Bismarck plate). The day before there was a M 6.4…
Earthquake Report: Greece/Albania
We are currently having a swarm of earthquakes along the political boundary which forms Greece and Albania. These earthquakes are just north of the western terminus of the North Anatolia fault (where it ends in Greece). To the north of…
Earthquake Report: Gorda Plate!
Last night, while I was preparing an online exam for my students to take while I am at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver Colorado, there were a couple earthquakes in the Gorda plate offshore of northern…
Earthquake Report: Solomon Islands
There was an earthquake along the South Solomon Trench earlier today (before I woke up). Here is the USGS website for this M 6.0 earthquake. Below is my interpretive poster for this earthquake. This map shows the slab contours (an…
Earthquake Report: Tanzania
Well, I am a little late preparing this report. I actually put it together over the weekend, but am only now uploading this. There was an interesting earthquake along the southwestern edge of Lake Victoria, in the East-Africa Rift (EAR)…
Earthquake Report: Bering-Kresla Shear Zone (Russia, west of Aleutians)
If there is an earthquake and nobody is there to feel it, did it shake? Here is the USGS website for the M 6.3 earthquake that occurred in the far western Aleutians, so far west, it is called Russia. Below…
Earthquake Report: Oklahoma!
Oklahoma is OK! Albeit a little shaken up. Early this morning there was an earthquake that started off their Labor Day Weekend. Here is the USGS website for this M 5.6 earthquake. There have been earthquakes of similar magnitude in…
Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault!
Well, I felt that one. The shaking lasted about 5-7 seconds in Manila, CA (where I live). Here is the USGS website for this M = 5.6 earthquake. This earthquake appears to have occurred along the Mendocino fault, a right-lateral…