Saturday morning (2015.08.29), residents in Fort Bragg were awakened by a M 3.6 earthquake along a fault that lies between the San Andreas fault (SAF) to the west and the Maacama fault (MF) to the east. Here is the USGS…
Earthquake near the Santa Cruz Islands (western Pacific)!
Yesterday we had a large magnitude earthquake along a plate boundary that connects the South Solomon trench with the New Hebrides trench. This region had a swarm of earthquakes in May. Here is the USGS website for the M 6.6…
New Guinea Earthquake Update #2
There have been a few more data products produced for this earthquake (that has not had any aftershocks). IRIS has produced some educational material, called “teaching moments” (or, could be called, learning moments, heheh). However, their data are often poorly…
New Guinea Earthquake!
Moments ago we had a large magnitude earthquake (M = 7.0) on land in northeastern New Guinea, Indonesia. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. Here is a preliminary map that shows estimates of ground shaking intensity based upon…
Earthquake in the Solomons!
While I was away from the office, we had a M 6.7 earthquake near the Solomon Islands. Here is a link to the USGS website for the M = 6.7 and M = 6.0 earthquakes. While the epicenter plots near…
Los Angeles: Newport Inglewood Earthquake!
Last night, we had another earthquake on the Newport Inglewood fault (NIF) system. This fault ruptured in 1933, which led to Long Beach adopting the most strict building codes in the nation. Later, these codes were adopted by the state,…
Borneo Earthquake!
We had an extensional earthquake in northwest Borneo today. The region is an old accretionary prism, probably still active. Here is the USGS web page for this M 6.0 earthquake. Here is a map that shows where today’s earthquake is,…
Errata for Phantom Earthquakes: USGS
There have been a couple of reported earthquakes that have since been removed from the database. This happens when seismic waves are incorrectly interpreted by the computers, typically from the results of larger magnitude earthquakes. These large magnitude earthquakes can…
Blanco Fracture Zone: 2000 – 2015 Seismicity Animation
I put together an animation that includes the seismicity from 1/1/2000 until 6/1/2015 for the region near the Blanco fracture zone, with earthquake magnitudes greater than or equal to M = 5.0. The map here shows all these epicenters, with…
New Britain Strikes Again!
In the past week, there has been a series of earthquakes in the New Britain trench. The largest quakes are M = 6.7 & 6.8. Now we might call those foreshocks to today’s M = 7.5 earthquake de Cinco de…