{"id":713,"date":"2013-08-30T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2013-08-30T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T18:54:01","slug":"m-7-0-on-the-aleutian-subduction-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"M 7.0 on the Aleutian subduction zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another pretty big earthquake. Those on the islands of Adak and Atka probably got shook pretty strongly.<br \/>\nThe moment tensor shows a compressional earthquake and this is consistent with this setting on a subduction zone. If this EQ lies on the subduction zone fault, then it shows the dip of the subduction zone is about 22 degrees +-.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/moment_tensor_20130830_adak.png\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"M=7.0 Aleutian Moment Tensor\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/moment_tensor_20130830_adak.png\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nhere is a map<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/aleutians_20130830_1135.PNG\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"M=7.0 Aleutian\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/aleutians_20130830_1135.PNG\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is a cool animation for the earthquake from NOAA PMEL. This earthquake is highly unlikely to generate a tsunami, but these scientists do this for all earthquakes that could generate a tsunami.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/andr1.mpeg\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"> http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/andr1.mpeg <\/a><br \/>\nhere is a map with the USGS shakemap overlay:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/aleutians_shakepmap_20130830_1135.PNG\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"M=7.0 Aleutian\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/aleutians_shakepmap_20130830_1135.PNG\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhere is a map with historic earthquakes plotted as grey circles:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/aleutians_historic_20130830_1135.PNG\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"M=6.5 NW south Island\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/aleutians_historic_20130830_1135.PNG\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is the USGS page: <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/usb000jdt7#summary\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/usb000jdt7#summary <\/a><br \/>\nHere is the USGS map for the region:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/aleutian_tsum.pdf\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/aleutian_tsum.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/earthjay.com\/earthquakes\/20130830_aleutians\/aleutian_tsum.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nHere is another pretty big earthquake. Those on the islands of Adak and Atka probably got shook pretty strongly. The moment tensor shows a compressional earthquake and this is consistent with this setting on a subduction zone. If this EQ&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/?p=713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;M 7.0 on the Aleutian subduction zone&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":[7,34,38],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthjay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}