We are currently having a swarm of earthquakes along the political boundary which forms Greece and Albania. These earthquakes are just north of the western terminus of the North Anatolia fault (where it ends in Greece). To the north of…
Earthquake Report: South Bismarck Sea
There was a moderately deep earthquake in the South Bismarck Sea last night. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. This earthquake has an exentional earthquake. Here, the Solomon Sea plate subducts northward beneath the South Bismarck plate to…
Earthquake Report: Gorda Plate!
Last night, while I was preparing an online exam for my students to take while I am at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver Colorado, there were a couple earthquakes in the Gorda plate offshore of northern…
Earthquake Report: Solomon Islands
There was an earthquake along the South Solomon Trench earlier today (before I woke up). Here is the USGS website for this M 6.0 earthquake. Below is my interpretive poster for this earthquake. This map shows the slab contours (an…
Earthquake Report: Tanzania
Well, I am a little late preparing this report. I actually put it together over the weekend, but am only now uploading this. There was an interesting earthquake along the southwestern edge of Lake Victoria, in the East-Africa Rift (EAR)…
Earthquake Report: Bering-Kresla Shear Zone (Russia, west of Aleutians)
If there is an earthquake and nobody is there to feel it, did it shake? Here is the USGS website for the M 6.3 earthquake that occurred in the far western Aleutians, so far west, it is called Russia. Below…
Earthquake Report: Oklahoma!
Oklahoma is OK! Albeit a little shaken up. Early this morning there was an earthquake that started off their Labor Day Weekend. Here is the USGS website for this M 5.6 earthquake. There have been earthquakes of similar magnitude in…
Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault!
Well, I felt that one. The shaking lasted about 5-7 seconds in Manila, CA (where I live). Here is the USGS website for this M = 5.6 earthquake. This earthquake appears to have occurred along the Mendocino fault, a right-lateral…
Earthquake Report: New Zealand!
This was a very busy week for me, so I missed reporting on this series of earthquakes offshore the North Island of New Zealand. I did put together an interpretive Earthquake Report poster for these earthquakes for my general education…
Earthquake Report: New Britain!
We just had an earthquake in the New Britain region of the equatorial Pacific. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.7 (now M 6.8) earthquake. This is a very interesting earthquake for this region because it is very…