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Category: gorda

Earthquake Report: Gorda Rise

Posted on: May 30, 2020 Last updated on: May 30, 2020 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
It was a busy week (usual, right?). The previous week I was working on getting a house remodel done so someone could move in (they have been sleeping on couches for 6 months, so want to get them in asap).…
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Earthquake Report: Mendocino triple junction

Posted on: March 18, 2020 Last updated on: March 18, 2024 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
Well, it was a big mag 5 day today, two magnitude 5+ earthquakes in the western USA on faults related to the same plate boundary! Crazy, right? The same plate boundary, about 800 miles away from each other, and their…
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Earthquake Report: Salt Lake City

Posted on: March 18, 2020 Last updated on: March 18, 2024 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
As I was waking up this morning, I rolled over to check my social media feed and moments earlier there was a good sized shaker in Salt Lake City, Utah. I immediately thought of my good friend Jennifer G. who…
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Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault

Posted on: March 9, 2020 Last updated on: March 9, 2020 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
I was in Humboldt County last week for the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group meeting. I stayed there working on my house that a previous tenant had left in quite a destroyed state (they moved in as friends of mine).…
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Earthquake Report: Gorda plate

Posted on: January 6, 2020 Last updated on: January 2, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
On 10 February 2010 there was an earthquake with a magnitude of M 6.5, within the Gorda plate. This event was feld widely in the region, as well as statewide. In Humboldt County, we even made t-shirts about this quake.…
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Earthquake Report: Mendocino triple junction

Posted on: June 23, 2019 Last updated on: June 23, 2019 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 2
Well, I was on the road for 1.5 days (work party for the Community Village at the Oregon Country Fair). As I was driving home, there was a magnitude M 5.6 earthquake in coastal northern California. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73201181/executive I didn’t realize…
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Earthquake Report: Blanco fracture zone

Posted on: August 22, 2018 Last updated on: August 23, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
As I was getting ready for school today, I noticed the M 6.2 notification from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. People can sign up for the USGS ENS so that they can get emails when the USGS broadcasts this information.…
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#Earthquake Report: Gorda plate

Posted on: July 24, 2018 Last updated on: July 24, 2018 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 3
Over the past night and morning, there was a sequence of earthquakes within the Gorda plate due west of Crescent City. Some people even felt these earthquakes, culminating (so far) with a M 5.6. There was a Gorda plate earthquake…
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Earthquake Report: Gorda plate!

Posted on: March 23, 2018 Last updated on: March 23, 2018 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 2
I was at a workshop to develop a unified strategy for research and monitoring in the Klamath River estuary (led by the Yurok Tribe, Andreas Krauss) yesterday and missed feeling the first of two M 4.6-4.7 earthquakes. I was presenting…
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Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault! (northern California)

Posted on: September 22, 2017 Last updated on: September 22, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
I was driving around Eureka today, running to the appliance center to get an appliance (heheh). I got a message from a long time held friend (who lives in Salinas, CA). They asked me if I was OK, given that…
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