Tonight we had a small earthquake offshore of northern California, northwest of Trinidad. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake with a magnitude of 3.2. At first glance, this earthquake appears to be close to the location of the…
Mendocino fault earthquake!
We just had a M = 4.3 earthquake along the Mendocino fault zone. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. There were some earthquakes of similar magnitude along the MF recently in January 2014 and April, 2015. This earthquake…
Earthquake in Bayside (northern California)!
We just had a small earthquake in northern California. Here is the USGS website for the M = 3.4 earthquake. If you felt it, please go to the USGS “Did You Feel It?” website to fill out a report! This…
Earthquake mini-swarm near La Pine, OR!
Over the past day or so, there has been a swarm of seismicity in the La Pine area. La Pine is on the east side of the Cascade mountain range, a magmatic arc related to the Cascadia subduction zone. As…
10/23/2015 Inaugural Cascadia GeoSciences Present
You’re invited to come network with old friends and colleagues, meet new ones, enjoy a locally-made beverage, maybe learn something and share your local knowledge with others. Cascadia GeoSciences presents: A Research Presentation by Todd B. Williams and Dr. Jason…
Cascadia subduction zone: Tectonic Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest
IRIS and the US Geological Survey have recently produced an educational video about tectonic earthquakes in the region of the US Pacific Northwest. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation. The Video YT link for the embedded video…
Plate Tectonics: 200 Ma
Gibbons and others (2015) have put together a suite of geologic data (e.g. ages of geologic units, fossils), plate motion data (geometry of plates and ocean ridge spreading rates), and plate tectonic data (initiation and cessation of subduction or collision,…
Crescent City Tsunami Deposits: Sand Mine Marsh, 1700 A.D. Cascadia subduction zone earthquake generated tsunami
I collected some cores in the Crescent City region. The sedimentary evidence of the 1700 A.D. Cascadia subduction zone earthquake and tsunami is preserved in these cores. Watch the video below. Here is a composite of the two cores that…
Springfield Earthquake!
It took me a couple days to catch up with things, so I missed posting about this earthquake until now. We had a Mw = 4.2 earthquake northeast of Eugene on the morning of 2015.07.04. Here is the USGS web…
Redding Earthquakes: 1945-2015
There have not been many earthquakes since 1945 in this region. Below is a map that shows the largest earthquake as a M = 5.4 earthquake from 1998.11.26. Here is the USGS query that I used to create this map.…