This earthquake swarm is pretty interesting. We clearly have lots to learn about the tectonics of this region. One of the biggest mysteries yet to be solved is what fault the mainshock occurred on. The M 7.1, reported about early…
Panguna, Papua New Guinea: subduction zone earthquake
This looks to have shaken people up, just by looking at the intensity map below. These are generated automatically and take some assumptions that simplify the results (so the real shaking is probably not what the shake map intensity maps…
SCEC Animation of earthquakes in Southern CA 1983-2003
Here is an animation from the Southern California Earthquake Center that shows earthquake hypocenters in relation the SCEC fault model. By clicking on the map below, you will download a 24 mb avi file. Some browsers may open the video.
SCSN animation of the seismic waves from the Puente Hills Thrust fault
The Southern California Seismic Network published this animation. Robert Graves, with the URS corporation, created the simulation. The San Diego Super Computer Center also helped. They are all given proper credit in the animation. The animation shows the simulated seismic…
northern Chile M 8.2 earthquake series animations
As I mentioned in my earlier post, there were some foreshocks and have been aftershocks, related to this M 8.2 earthquake on the subduction zone fault offshore of northern Chile. This story may not yet be over… The aftershocks are…
all right, another M 6.2 aftershock in Chile
While I was writing my post about the M 7.6 aftershock, we got a M 6.2 aftershock. A M 6.2, while still large, is much smaller than a M 7.6. Each step in earthquake magnitude (e.g. from M 5 to…
large magnitude aftershock in northern Chile
There have been many aftershocks in the region of the 4/1/14 M 8.2 subduction zone earthquake offshore Iquique, Chile. There was a swarm of earthquakes up to M 6.7 in the weeks prior to the current main shock, here is…
M 8.2 northern Chile tsunamis recorded at tide gages
Here are some plots from PMEL comparing model predictions with observations at several tide gages in the Pacific Basin. Crescent City, CA Los Angeles, CA Honolulu, HI Hilo, HI Kahului, HI
Tsunamis in the region of the M 8.2 northern Chile earthquake
Today we had a M 8.2 subduction zone earthquake in northern Chile. I have placed some records of this tsunami here. Here is the National Tsunami Warning Center tusnami travel time map for this tsunami. Here is the National Tsunami…
M 8.2 earthquake in northern Chile
Alright. Lets hope not many people are harmed as a result of this earthquake and likely large tsunami. We all know what to do. Drop, duck, cover, and hold on. Run to high ground. Stay there. Check back here for…