{"id":2565,"date":"2015-05-30T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T18:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2015-05-30T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T18:37:54","slug":"earthquake-in-izu-bonin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake in Izu-Bonin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early this morning (luckily I was not awake at the time) we had a really deep (~677km) M = 7.8 extensional earthquake along the Bonin Trench in the western Pacific. Here is the USGS page<\/a> for this earthquake.
\nHere is a map that shows the epicenter in red (due to the depth), along with the moment tensor for this earthquake. I also plot the general location of the 1944 T\u014dnankai<\/a> and 1946 and Nankai<\/a> Earthquakes. I also include a cross section for this subduction zone (also from the wikipedia page<\/a>).
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\nHere I have plotted the slab contours (Hayes et al., 2012).
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\nHere is a regional tectonic map from the wikipedia site on this region.
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\nThere is more about the regional tectonics on the USGS page here<\/a>.
\nHere is a map showing the general locations of the 1946 T\u014dnankai and 1944 Nankai Earthquakes.
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