We just had an earthquake along the New Hebrides Trench in the western Pacific. Here is the USGS webpage for this M 6.9 earthquake. Below is my interpretive earthquake report poster. I plot the epicenters for earthquakes from the past…
Earthquake Report: Alaska Peninsula!
Last night we had a shallow crustal earthquake along the Alaska Peninsula. Here is the USGS website for this M = 6.2 earthquake. Below is my interpretive map where I use Google Earth and the kml (keyhole markup language) files…
Earthquake Report: Japan!
Today there was an earthquake offshore of southern Japan. Here is the USGS website for the M 6.0 earthquake. It is difficult to tell if this earthquake was on the megathrust or not. Below is my interpretive map. I plot…
Earthquake Report: Nikolski!
As I was writing my page on the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake (here), there was a M 5.7 earthquake along the Aleutian Trench east of the Amlia fracture zone. Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. The region…
Good Friday Earthquake: 1964/03/27 in Alaska
Today we commemorate the Good Friday Earthquake, which occurred on March 27, 1964. This is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on modern seismographic instruments. I summarize some of the information that we have about this earthquake, but this is…
Earthquake Report: Atka strikes again!
Today we had another cluster of seismic activity in the Aleutians, just west of the Amlia fracture zone. This series of earthquakes occurred just west of some earthquakes from last week or so. Here is my earthquake report for those…
Earthquake Report: Aleutians, Atka (near Amlia fracture zone)!
This morning we had a series of earthquakes along the Aleutian trench near Atka and the Amlia fracture zone. This is a very active part of this plate boundary and I summarize some of this below. The USGS has a…
Earthquake Report: Sumatra!
We just had a M = 7.8 earthquake southwest of the Island of Sumatra, a volcanic arc formed from the subduction of the India-Australia plate beneath the Sunda plate (part of Eurasia). Here is the USGS website for this earthquake.…
Earthquake Report: Bakersfield!
Today we had a M 4.9 earthquake northwest of Bakersfield in the middle of the southern San Joaquin Valley. At first, it looked like there were no faults here because I was looking at the USGS fault and fold database.…
Earthquake Report: Antarctic plate!
We just had an interesting mid-plate earthquake (not along a plate boundary). Hat Tip to Jascha Polet, who pointed out this is in the region of the 1998 M 8.1 earthquake, one of the largest strike-slip and mid-plate earthquakes ever…