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Month: May 2017

Earthquake Report: Sulawesi, Indonesia

Posted on: May 29, 2017 Last updated on: May 29, 2024 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There was a series of earthquakes in Sulawesi, Indonesia earlier today, with a mainshock having a magnitude of M 6.8. This series of earthquakes is interesting as it does not occur on the main plate boundary fault, but on upper…
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Earthquake Report: El Salvador

Posted on: May 12, 2017 Last updated on: July 19, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There were a couple interesting earthquakes offshore of El Salvador “today.” These earthquakes occurred along the Middle America Trench, a low spot in the ocean formed by the subduction of the Cocos plate beneath the Caribbean plate (a convergent plate…
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Earthquake Report: Aleutian Trench

Posted on: May 11, 2017 Last updated on: May 11, 2017 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
Well, well, well. What have we here. We have some earthquakes that are related to each other and some earthquakes that are not. Less than 2 weeks ago there initiated a sequence of earthquakes along a fault splaying off of…
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Earthquake Report: Vanuatu!

Posted on: May 9, 2017 Last updated on: January 8, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There was an earthquake along the New Hebrides Trench this morning (my time in northern California). This earthquake is located deep, possibly below the subduction zone megathrust (but probably is a subduction zone earthquake). The hypocentral depth is 169 km,…
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Earthquake Report: Denali fault, British Columbia

Posted on: May 1, 2017 Last updated on: January 12, 2024 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
This is an interesting earthquake for a number of reasons. The epicenters of the largest earthquakes in this series (M 6.2 and M 6.3) align just off-strike from the Dalton section of the Denali fault (DF) which was mapped as…
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