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Month: February 2018

Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea: Update #1

Posted on: February 26, 2018 Last updated on: February 26, 2024 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
The aftershocks are still coming in! We can use these aftershocks to define where the fault may have slipped during this M 7.5 earthquake. As I mentioned yesterday in the original report, it turns out the fault dimension matches pretty…
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Earthquake Report: Papua New Guinea

Posted on: February 25, 2018 Last updated on: September 5, 2023 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
This morning (local time in California) there was an earthquake in Papua New Guinea with, unfortunately, a high likelihood of having a good number of casualties. I was working on a project, so could not immediately begin work on this…
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Earthquake Report: ¡Oaxaca, Mexico!

Posted on: February 16, 2018 Last updated on: February 16, 2024 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
There was just now an earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico between the other large earthquakes from last 2017.09.08 (M 8.1) and 2017.09.08 (M 7.1). There has already been a M 5.8 aftershock.Here is the USGS website for today’s M 7.2 earthquake.…
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Earthquake Report: 1960 Valdivia, Chile M 9.5

Posted on: February 12, 2018 Last updated on: February 12, 2018 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 4
In commemoration of the #EarthquakeCup, I have put together a summary for the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake, the M 9.5 1960 Valdivia, Chile Earthquake. The Peru-Chile trench is quite active and generated Great earthquakes (M>8) in 1985, 2010, 2014, and…
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Earthquake Report: 1971 Sylmar, CA

Posted on: February 9, 2018 Last updated on: February 12, 2025 Written by: Jay Patton Comments: 0
This earthquake was the second earthquake in the state of CA to lead to major changes in how people in the state handled earthquake hazards and risk and today is the 47th anniversary of this earthquake. The first important earthquake…
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