Here is a good sized earthquake swarm in the Andaman Sea. I am a little late posting this, I was otherwise detained. Here is the USGS webpage for the Mw 6.5 earthquake. The Andaman Sea is a region of back-arc…
Gorda plate earthquake animations
I have put together a couple animations of the earthquake epicenters preceding, during, and following the recent earthquake swarm in the Gorda plate. Here is the first page I put together for this M 6.8 earthquake. Here are some maps…
M 6.7 earthquake swarm in northern Chile! 2014/03/06
There was a really cool earthquake swarm in northern Chile. This swarm of earthquakes are at depths that places them near the subduction zone fault interface. This earthquake swarm is interesting for several reasons, the first of which is that…
M 5.2 Gorda plate earthquake 2014/03/13
This is a very cool earthquake! In the last few days, there was an earthquake swarm in the southeastern Gorda plate. This earthquake released accumulated strain along the faults in that region. A result of these earthquakes is that the…
M 6.4 in the south Sandwich Islands (mmmm sandwich) 2014/3/11
While we were all excited about the local Gorda earthquake, there was an another interesting M 6.4 strike slip earthquake in the region of a recent series of earthquakes in the Scotia Sea. Sometimes earthquakes change the local stress field…
Aftershocks from the M 6.8 Gorda plate earthquake
Here are some maps i have put together that show the accumulated aftershocks from the M 6.8 Gorda plate earthquake on Sunday night. There was one M 3.3 earthquake less than 30 minutes before the main shock. I draw the…
radio interview on KMUD, local news Monday 3/10/14
Carrie from KMUD news interviewed me for the local news broadcast on Monday 3/10/14 and rebroadcast the following morning. KMUD archives their local news online for one year. Here is a recording of the KMUD local news. My interview is…
landslide between Redway and Garberville
Here are some photos from a landslide possibly triggered by the M 6.9 earthquake. It would be difficult to determine if this was caused by the rainfall or by the earthquake. Given that there were only a few landslides across…
aftershocks from the M 6.8 Gorda plate earthquake from 2014/03/10
Here are some updated maps for this morning. There have been quite a few aftershocks. There are reports of landslides along the bluffs between Redway and Garberville. Here is a map that just shows these 22 earthquakes: Here is a…
M 6.8 Gorda plate earthquake 2014/03/10
Updated map below. See additional more updated information about Gorda plate earthquakes in the Earthquake Report for the 10 January 2010 M 6.5 earthquake here. That was exciting. I counted over 40 seconds of motion in Manila. This is a…