November, 2022 - Jay Patton online

Earthquake Report: M 6.1 Turkey

There was a damaging earthquake in Turkey yesterday, a magnitude M 6.1. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000irp8/executive The seismic hazards of this region of the Earth is dominated by a plate boundary fault, the North Anatolia fault (NAF). The NAF is a right-lateral strike-slip…

Earthquake Report M 7.0 Solomon Isles

The past couple of weeks have been busy from an earthquake perspective. There have been four M7 events. I am writing this report a few days late. But, better late than never! There was a magnitude M 7.0 earthquake offshore…

Earthquake Report: M 6.9 Sumatra

While I was travelling back from a USGS Powell Center Workshop on the recurrence of earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone, there was an earthquake (gempa) offshore of Sumatra. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000iqpn/executive There was actually a foreshock (more than one): https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000iq2d/executive I…

Month: November 2022

Earthquake Report: M 6.1 Turkey

Earthquake Report M 7.0 Solomon Isles

Earthquake Report: M 6.9 Sumatra

Earthquake Report: M 7.3 Tonga trench outer rise

Earthquake Report: M 7.6 Earthquake in Mexico

Earthquake Report: M 6.0 northeast Pacific Ocean