Well, there was an earthquake about 6 hours ago in Burma. This M 6.8 earthquake was rather deep, which is good for the residents of that area (the ground motions diminish with distance from the earthquake hypocenter). Here is the…
Earthquake Report: Italy
There was a M 6.2 earthquake in Italy tonight. Here is the USGS website for today’s earthquake. There is lots of information about the tectonics of this region. I can hardly do justice to all the people who have worked…
Earthquake Anniversary: M 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) Earthquake
An anniversary is for the Gorkha (Nepal) Earthquake from 1 year ago. I have several Earthquake Reports listed below. These include a variety of observations and comparisons with historic and prehistoric earthquakes that I compiled. USGS slip models: http://earthjay.com/?p=2478 First…
Earthquake Report: Taiwan Update #1
People have been busy documenting the damage from the M 6.4 earthquake in Taiwan. Here is my initial Earthquake Report for this earthquake. Here are a couple news sources on the damage. There appears to be a few large buildings…
Earthquake Report: Taiwan!
We just had an earthquake in southern Taiwan. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.4 earthquake. In April 2015, there was a series of earthquakes in the northeast of Taiwan. Here is my earthquake report for those earthquakes.…
Earthquake Report: India!
Today we had a good sized earthquake in eastern India, within the India-Burmese wedge (IBW). The IBW is a part of the convergent plate boundary between the India plate to the west and the Burma (part of Eurasia) plate to…
Earthquake Report: Tajikistan!
We just had an earthquake in Tajikistan with a magnitude of M = 7.2. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. We had a M = 7.5 in Afghanistan in October of 2015, less than 2 months ago. That…
Earthquake Report: Greece!
Late last night (my time) there was an earthquake in Greece with a USGS magnitude of M = 6.5. Here is the USGS web site for this earthquake. Greece is at the intersection of a complex configuration of plate boundaries.…
Afghanistan Earthquake: Update #1
There have been several data updates following the earthquake yesterday. I presented my first summary about this M = 7.5 earthquake here. There are a number of sources of information regarding the casualties from this devastating earthquake posted on this…
Earthquake in Afghanistan!
There was a large magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan today (M = 7.5). There have been reported thousands of deaths so far. Here the USGS websites for the largest earthquakes so far: 2015/10/26 M 7.5 2015/10/26 M 4.8 2015/10/26 M 4.4…