This morning (local time in California) there was an earthquake in Papua New Guinea with, unfortunately, a high likelihood of having a good number of casualties. I was working on a project, so could not immediately begin work on this…
Earthquake Report: ¡Oaxaca, Mexico!
There was just now an earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico between the other large earthquakes from last 2017.09.08 (M 8.1) and 2017.09.08 (M 7.1). There has already been a M 5.8 aftershock.Here is the USGS website for today’s M 7.2 earthquake.…
Earthquake Report: 1960 Valdivia, Chile M 9.5
In commemoration of the #EarthquakeCup, I have put together a summary for the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake, the M 9.5 1960 Valdivia, Chile Earthquake. The Peru-Chile trench is quite active and generated Great earthquakes (M>8) in 1985, 2010, 2014, and…
Earthquake Report: 1971 Sylmar, CA
This earthquake was the second earthquake in the state of CA to lead to major changes in how people in the state handled earthquake hazards and risk and today is the 47th anniversary of this earthquake. The first important earthquake…
Earthquake Report: Mendocino fault
Good Morning Humboldt County! I was in bed checking up on social media stuff and I checked my email. There were two emails from USGS ENS showing a M 5.0 near me. I had not felt it and when I…
Earthquake Report: Gulf of Alaska UPDATE #2
UPDATES Below is a list of all the reports associated with this earthquake sequence. Original Report Report Update #1 Report Update #2 I thought it would be interesting to see the seismicity with time. Perhaps this could help us learn…
Earthquake Report: Gulf of Alaska UPDATE #1
Well. What a firestorm of social media discusions about this earthquake. It seems that, like how we learn so much when earthquakes like this happen, the amount of interacting in public on social media has been growing earthquake by earthquake.…
Earthquake Report: Gulf of Alaska!
I was asleep in bed, trying to catch up to prevent myself from getting ill, when there was a large earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska (GA), offshore of Kodiak, Alaska. When I wakened, I noticed a fb message from…
Earthquake Report: Gulf of California
Today we had an earthquake with magnitude M 6.3 in the Gulf of California (GOC). The GOC is formed by transtension (extension along a strike-slip fault system) along the North-America-Pacific plate boundary. Transtension happens when the plate motion across a…
Earthquake Report: Peru Update #1
Well, I missed looking further into a key update paper and used figures from an older paper on my interpretive poster yesterday. Thanks to Stéphane Baize for pointing this out! Turns out, after their new analyses, the M 7.1 earthquake…