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Earthquake Report: M 6.8 Morocco

This evening (my time) there was an earthquake in Morocco. Magnitude 6.8, rather shallow, reverse or thrust (compressional) mechanism. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000kufc/executive This M 6.8 earthquake happened in the Atlas Mountains, a compressional system with south dipping reverse faults on the north…

Earthquake Report: Kantō, Japan

Today marks 100 years since the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/iscgem911526/executive I am putting together the basics and will update over the next few months. This earthquake generated strong ground shaking, triggered landslides, induced liquefaction, generated tsunami, and (sadly) caused…

Earthquake Report: M 7.1 Indonesia

Yesterday on my way home from a Phil & Graham Lesh show, I got a tsunami notification alert from the National Tsunami Warning Center. There was a magnitude M 6.9 earthquake offshore of Indonesia and there was no tsunami threat…

Earthquake Report: M 7.7 Loyalty Islands

I am catching up with this today as I have been busy with other things. I am still behind on those things, but wanted to get this put together since I am currently working on a project that includes tsunami…

Earthquake Report: M 5.5 Lake Almanor

As I was socializing with my coworkers at our weekly social hour, my colleagues noted that they were getting an Earthquake Early Warning. Soon after they reported feeling the ground shake. After refreshing the USGS earthquakes map webpage a few…

Earthquake Report: M 7.1 Sumatra, Indonesia

As I completed the Earthquake Report for yesterday’s M 7.1 earthquake along the Kermadec Trench, I tweeted the report and interpretive poster to notice a colleague had tweeted about a magnitude M 7.1 earthquake about an hour earlier. So, I…

Earthquake Report: M 7.1 Kermadec

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…

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