In the last ~24 hours, we have had a few earthquakes in northeastern Papua New Guinea, all in the M 5 range. Here are the USGS web sites for these earthquakes: 2015.09.11 M 5.5 2015.09.11 M 5.3 2015.09.12 M 5.0…
Kermadec trench earthquake!
Last night there were a few earthquakes along the Kermadec trench, which is a convergent plate boundary (subduction zone) where the Pacific plate subducts westward beneath the Australia plate. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.4 earthquake. Recent…
Aleutian subduction zone earthquake near the Amlia fracture zone!
Last night, as I was ending my day, there was a swarm of seismicity near the Amlia fracture zone. This morning, there were more earthquakes. This swarm is west of a swarm in early August 2015 near Nikolski. Here is…
Earthquake, Straight out of Compton!
An earthquake occured this morning in Compton! Initially a 3.2, is currently a M = 2.9, as reported by the USGS (here is their web page). Here is a map that shows the faults, the earthquakes from the past decade,…
Earthquake between the San Andreas and Maacama!
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…
Solomon Islands Earthquake!
Today we had another earthquake in this tectonically active region of the world. Initially posted as a magnitude 7.0, the USGS considers this a M = 6.6 earthquake. Here is a map showing the epicenter as an orange circle. I…
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 Update #1
Here is an update on the M = 7.0 New Guinea earthquake. Here is my first post about this earthquake. As I mentioned, there has been a flurry of seismic activity along the New Britain and Solomon trenches to the…
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…