I have here placed the moment tensors for the large magnitude earthquakes along the New Britain trench for the time period from 2000 through March 2015. Note that the Mw 8.0 has a strike-slip moment tensor. There is a transform…
New Britain Earthquake Tsunami Update
The tsunami threat has now passed. There has been a single record of this tsunami so far. This is from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center here. If one is ever interested in looking up information about tsunami warnings, watches, or…
Earthquake in the New Britain trench
We just had a large magnitude earthquake in the New Britain region, probably on the megathrust (subduction zone fault). There was a swarm of seismic activity in this region in July and August of 2010. Further to the southeast, there…
Earthquake in the New Britain trench
We just had a large magnitude earthquake in the New Britain region, probably on the megathrust (subduction zone fault). There was a swarm of seismic activity in this region in July and August of 2010. Further to the southeast, there…