I am currently taking a break following an excellent Seismological Society of America Meeting in San Juan Puerto Rico. I presented a couple posters and one talk on the results from our USGS Powell Center meeting where we developed a…
Earthquake Report: M 7.0 Papua New Guinea
This morning (my time) I received a notification from the National Tsunami Warning Center, the organization responsible for generating notifications for my locality (California). There was a magnitude M 7.0 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00rsi26z/executive This earthquake was almost…
Earthquake Report: M 6.8 Ecuador
This morning my time there was a magnitude M 6.8 earthquake in Ecuador. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pt23077000/executive I got a notification that there would not be a tsunami to reach the west coast of the USA. Because of the depth and magnitude, there…
Earthquake Report: M 7.0 Kermadec
Tonight (my time) there was a tsunami notification for a magnitude M 7.1 earthquake along the Kermadec subduction zone. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000jkbd/executive My cat is not letting me complete this report. So, I will add some more stuff over the next few…
Earthquake Report: M 7.8 in Turkey/Syria
We just had a severe earthquake in south eastern Turkey, northwestern Syria. We call this the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive Well, I learned tonight (14 Feb) that these M 7.8 and M 7.5 earthquakes have been named by the Turkey Minister…
Earthquake Report: M 7.0 Vanuatu
Early this morning (my time) I got a notification from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center that there was no tsunami threat from an M 7.2 earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands. Tsunami Info Stmt: M7.2 Vanuatu Islands 0433PST Jan 8: Tsunami…
Earthquake Report: M 6.4 Gorda plate
Initial Narrative Well, it has been a very busy week. I had gotten back from the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Chicago late Saturday night. I had one day to hang out with my cats before I was to…
Earthquake Report: M 6.1 Turkey
There was a damaging earthquake in Turkey yesterday, a magnitude M 6.1. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000irp8/executive The seismic hazards of this region of the Earth is dominated by a plate boundary fault, the North Anatolia fault (NAF). The NAF is a right-lateral strike-slip…
Earthquake Report M 7.0 Solomon Isles
The past couple of weeks have been busy from an earthquake perspective. There have been four M7 events. I am writing this report a few days late. But, better late than never! There was a magnitude M 7.0 earthquake offshore…
Earthquake Report: M 6.9 Sumatra
While I was travelling back from a USGS Powell Center Workshop on the recurrence of earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone, there was an earthquake (gempa) offshore of Sumatra. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000iqpn/executive There was actually a foreshock (more than one): https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000iq2d/executive I…