We just had an earthquake with a USGS magnitude of M 6.5 along the subduction zone formed by the convergence of the Solomon Sea plate on the south and the South Bismarck plate on the north. Here is the USGS…
Earthquake Report: Banda Sea
Earlier this week there was a moderate earthquake along a strike-slip fault that appears to adjoin the Banda/Timor/Java Arc with New Guinea. This strike-slip fault appears to cross oblique to the subduction zone that forms the Timor Trench to the…
Earthquake Report: Alaska
We had an earthquake a few days ago along the Cook Strait west of Anchorage, Alaska. This earthquake happened nearby a couple earthquakes from the past 2 years that have similar senses of motion along faults that seem to be…
Earthquake Report: EOTD Chile M 8.8 2010.02.27
Earthquake of the Day: 2010.02.27 M 8.8 Maule, Chile. There was an earthquake with a magnitude of M 8.8 on this day in 2010. I have prepared an interpretive poster that shows the extent of ground shaking modeled for this…
Earthquake Report: Makran subduction zone (Pakistan)!
There was a good sized earthquake along the Makran subduction zone. This subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary where the Arabia plate subducts (goes beneath) northwards under the Eurasia plate. There has been one aftershock reported by the USGS.…
Radio Show Material: KHUM with Lyndsey Battle
Radio Show KHUM with Lyndsey Battle I prepared this material to prepare for a radio show that I participated in with Lyndsey Battle on KHUM. Here is the page on the KHUM website for this radio show. Here is a…
Earthquake Report: 1700 Cascadia subduction zone 317 year commemoration
Today (possibly tonight at about 9 PM) is the birthday of the last known Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) earthquake. There is some evidence that there have been more recent CSZ earthquakes (e.g. late 19th century in southern OR / northern…
Earthquake Report: Bougainville! (western equatorial Pacific)
Last night (my time) we had a large earthquake along a plate boundary that is one of the most tectonically active regions in the world. There was an earthquake with a magntude of M 7.9 along the San Cristobal Trench…
Earthquake Report: Celebes Sea!
Catching up on some earthquake reports on a Friday night. This earthquake happened on 2017.01.10 in a region to the west of the Molluca Strait. I have reported on Molucca Strait earthquakes several times before as this is a very…
Earthquake Report: Arctic!
Well, I put this and my next earthquake report together shortly after these earthquakes happened, but I was otherwise busy before I could present them online. There was an earthquake in the Arctic on 2017.01.08, along the channel of one…