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Earthquake Report: Hokkaido!

Today we had an earthquake offshore of Hokkaido. This earthquake occurred near the 2003 Tokachi_oki earthquake, a M 8.3 earthquake that is responsible for one of the only direct observations of a seismogenic turbidity current. Here is my interpretive map.…

Earthquake Report: Cape Mendocino!

We just had a pair of earthquakes near the town of Petrolia (first oil well in CA drilled here, ergo the name). The first one I did not feel, but I did feel the quick jolt of the second one.…

Earthquake Report: India!

Today we had a good sized earthquake in eastern India, within the India-Burmese wedge (IBW). The IBW is a part of the convergent plate boundary between the India plate to the west and the Burma (part of Eurasia) plate to…

Earthquake Report: 2015 Summary M GT 7

Here I summarize the global seismicity for 2015. I limit this summary to earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to M 7.0. I reported on all but one of these earthquakes. Here are all the annual summaries: 2015 Earthquake…

Earthquake Report: San Bernardino (Devore)!

A couple days ago, I was on the road and did not yet have my laptop. Therefore I am reporting about this earthquake a few days afterwards… There has been a swarm of seismic activity in the San Bernardino area.…

Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault and Gorda plate!

We just had an earthquake along strike with the Mendocino fault zone. This region is seismically active and there were a number of MF earthquakes in 2015. Here is the USGS web page for today’s M = 4.5 MF earthquake.…

Earthquake Report: Tajikistan!

We just had an earthquake in Tajikistan with a magnitude of M = 7.2. Here is the USGS website for this earthquake. We had a M = 7.5 in Afghanistan in October of 2015, less than 2 months ago. That…

Earthquake Report: Southeast Indian Ridge!

While at the HSU Geology Club Rock Auction last night, there was a large earthquake south of the SE Indian Ridge, between the SE India Ridge and the Kerguelen Plateau. Here is the USGS web page for this M 7.1…

Earthquake Report: Argentina!

We just had an earthquake in Argentina! Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. At first, I thought, “oh, another deep earthquake.” I looked at the hypocentral depth The hypocenter is the 3-D location of the earthquake, while…

Earthquake Report: Deep in Peru, Update #1

There was an aftershock to the pair of M 7.6 earthquakes in Peru: an earthquake with magnitude M = 6.7 in Brazil. Here is the USGS web page for this earthquake. I reported about the M 7.6 earthquake pair here.…

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