Earthquake Report: Idaho!

Well Well Well Yesterday there was a very interesting magnitude M 6.5 earthquake that ruptured in central Idaho, near the Sawtooth fault. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70008jr5/executive Idaho lies in the intersection of several different physiographic provinces. Physiographic provinces are areas of Earth that…

Earthquake Report: Northern Alaska

At shortly before 13:30 today in northern Alaska there was a large earthquake, with a magnitude of M=5.1 (now M 5.0). https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak0193wxcfea/executive Many of us are familiar with the Good Friday earthquake, a megathrust subduction zone earthquake. This earthquake has…

Earthquake Report: Guatemala and Mexico

This morning (my time) there was a moderately deep earthquake along the coast of southern Mexico and northern Guatemala. Here is my Temblor article about this M=6.6 earthquake and how it might relate to the 2017 M=8.2 quake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000jbub/executive Offshore…