Today is the commemoration of the 1994 M 6.7 Northridge Earthquake. I was living in Arcata at the time (actually in my school bus in a driveway to save money). I remember calling my mom from a pay phone to…
Earthquake Report: Explorer plate!
In the past 2 days there have been a few earthquakes in the Explorer plate region along the Pacific-North America plate boundary. On March 19 of this year there was a series of earthquakes in this same region (to the…
Earthquake Report: North Fiji Basin!
We just had a large earthquake along the West Fiji Ridge, one of the spreading ridges that forms the North Fiji Basin. Here is the USGS website for this M 7.2 earthquake. This earthquake was relatively shallow and, probably since…
Earthquake Report: 2016 Summary Cascadia
Here I summarize the seismicity for Cascadia in 2016. I limit this summary to earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to M 4.0. I reported on all but five of these earthquakes. I put this together a couple weeks…
Earthquake Report: 2016 Summary
Here I summarize the global seismicity for 2016. I limit this summary to earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to M 7.0. I reported on all but two of these earthquakes. There were no earthquakes as large as an…
Earthquake Anniversary: Sumatra-Andaman 2004 M 9.2 & 2005 M 8.6
On 26 December 2004 there was an earthquake with a magnitude of M 9.2 along the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone (SASZ). This earthquake is the third largest earthquake ever recorded by modern seismometers and ruptured nearly 2,000 km of the megathrust…
Earthquake Report: Chile!
Last night we had a large earthquake in the southern region of the 1960 M 9.5 Valdivia earthquake. Below are some USGS websites for the three large earthquakes for this region that I mention in my interpretive poster. Based on…
Earthquake Report: Bougainville!
Early this morning my time there was a large earthquake along the San Cristobal Trench, a segment of a convergent plate boundary formed by the subduction of the Solomon Sea plate eastwards beneath the Pacific plate. There was an M…
Earthquake Report: Solomons!
Yesterday there began a swarm of seismic activity along the southern Solomon trench. What began with a M 7.8 earthquake on 2016.12.08, there have been many aftershocks including a M 6.9 this morning (my time). Below is my interpretive poster…
Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault Update #1
Today is one of my busiest days of the semester. I am administering a final and my two classes are presenting their video projects. Then, we had this M 6.5 earthquake in the wee hours and a M 7.7 (prelim…