{"id":2040,"date":"2014-11-21T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2014-11-21T13:19:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:19:35","slug":"another-earthquake-along-the-halmahera-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Another Earthquake in the Molucca Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just had another large earthquake in this region. <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/usb000syhz#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a> is the USGS page for this M 6.5 earthquake. This earthquake hypocenter is much deeper than what we might expect for a subduction zone interface earthquake in this region. The M 7.1 earthquake from about a week ago was downdip of this earthquake (deeper along the subduction zone fault) than today&#8217;s earthquake. <a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2035\">Here<\/a> is my page on the M 7.1 earthquake.<br \/>\nThis is a map of the region, showing the three largest magnitude earthquakes from the last couple of weeks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20141121_halmahera\/20141121_halmahera_illustration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20141121_halmahera\/20141121_halmahera_illustration.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is a generalized tectonic map showing how these plate boundaries are configured from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timcharlton.co.uk\/other-projects\/regional-tectonics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20141115_halmahera\/charlton_bhh_location_map.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20141115_halmahera\/charlton_bhh_location_map.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is a more detailed tectonic map with a cross section showing how these two opposing subduction zones are configured. This is from a Geological Society of America Special paper <a href=\"http:\/\/specialpapers.gsapubs.org\/content\/436\/11\/F2.expansion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20141115_halmahera\/F2.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20141115_halmahera\/F2.large.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWe just had another large earthquake in this region. Here is the USGS page for this M 6.5 earthquake. This earthquake hypocenter is much deeper than what we might expect for a subduction zone interface earthquake in this region. The&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Another Earthquake in the Molucca Sea&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[50,5,6,7,27,34,38],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}