{"id":2663,"date":"2015-06-18T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2015-06-18T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:01:13","slug":"mid-atlantic-ridge-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2663","title":{"rendered":"Mid Atlantic Ridge Earthquake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (I was busy preparing revisions to a paper that was due, the 5th 18 hr day in a row) there was a large earthquake along a fracture zone (transform plate boundary) near the Mid Atlantic ridge (MAR). Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us20002qn7#general_summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USGS web site for this earthquake<\/a>.<br \/>\nWe recently had a couple other MAR earthquakes on <a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">~2015.05.24<\/a>. This Mw = 6.3 earthquake occurred northwest of St. Helena, where Napoleon spent his last years of his life (and experienced a <a href=\"http:\/\/srl.geoscienceworld.org\/content\/72\/6\/712.extract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">large earthquake<\/a> which is known as <a href=\"http:\/\/roelkvos.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/earthquake-on-sthelena.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napoleon&#8217;s Earthquake<\/a> on 1796.10.22).<br \/>\nHere is a map that shows yesterday&#8217;s Mw 7.0 earthquake, as well as the 2015.05.24 M = 6.3 earthquake (which has a compressional moment tensor). This occurred along an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/?title=List_of_fracture_zones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unnamed fracture zone<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150617_MAR\/20150617_MAR_interpretation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150617_MAR\/20150617_MAR_interpretation.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is a map that shows the fracture zones and recent (2015) seismicity to the north of the M 7.0 earthquake.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150524_MAR\/20150524_MAR_global_interpretation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150524_MAR\/20150524_MAR_global_interpretation.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is an animation from <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.iris.edu\/spud\/gmv\/10000305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRIS<\/a> that shows the M 7.0 seismic waves propagating through the USArray seismic network.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2663-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150617_MAR\/GMV_TA_Z_2015_06_17_125133.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150617_MAR\/GMV_TA_Z_2015_06_17_125133.mp4\">http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20150617_MAR\/GMV_TA_Z_2015_06_17_125133.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nYesterday (I was busy preparing revisions to a paper that was due, the 5th 18 hr day in a row) there was a large earthquake along a fracture zone (transform plate boundary) near the Mid Atlantic ridge (MAR). Here is&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=2663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mid Atlantic Ridge Earthquake!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2665,"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":[6,7,9,27,33,37],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150617_MAR_interpretation-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663"}],"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=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}