Jason R. Patton @earthjay@qoto.org

#EarthquakeReport for the M7.4 #Earthquake in #Taiwan

updated poster and tide gage plot
also intensity and ground failure interpretive figures

learn more here: https://earthjay.com/?p=11904

#EarthquakeReport for M 7.4 #Earthquake in #Taiwan

reverse mechanism
possibly slip on an east dipping fault (?)
strong ground shaking felt widely
landslides & liquefaction
modest local #Tsunami

updated poster & report here: https://earthjay.com/?p=11904

#EarthquakeReport for M7.4 & M6.5 #Earthquake in #Taiwan

sadly people are injured and worse

Reverse (Compressional) mechanism
Strong ground shaking
Interpretive Poster

Learn about regional tectonics from 2022 report: https://earthjay.com/?p=10450

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sbcakx/executive

#EarthquakeReport for M7.4 #Earthquake in #Taiwan

small sized #Tsunami recorded at Ishigakajima to the east of Taiwan

Learn about regional tectonics from 2022 report: https://earthjay.com/?p=10450

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sbcakx/executive

#EarthquakeReport for M7.4 & M6.5 #Earthquake in #Taiwan

Major aftershock is shallower and maybe more damaging (?) based on @USGS_Quakes PAGER alert

Learn about regional tectonics from 2022 report:
https://earthjay.com/?p=10450
7.4
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sbcakx/executive
6.5
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000m9gc/executive

#EarthquakeReport for M7.4 #Earthquake in #Taiwan

Reverse (Compressional) mechanism
Strong ground shaking

Learn about regional tectonics from 2022 report:
https://earthjay.com/?p=10450

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sbcakx/executive

#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2017 M 6.6 #Earthquake offshore of #Kamchatka

reverse (compressional) earthquake mechanism
north of Pacific plate slab (?) so interesting earthquake in complicated tectonic region

learn more: https://earthjay.com/?p=5200

#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2017 M5.7 #Sismo #Terremoto #Earthquake in the #GulfOfCalifornia #MarDeCortés offshore of #Mexico

right-lateral strike-slip (moving side-by-side) earthquake
overlapping fracture zones & spreading ridges

learn more about the https://earthjay.com/?p=5210

#EarthquakeReport for $OTD in 1964 M9.2 #Earthquake in #Alaska

2nd largest eq recorded on modern instruments
generated coseismic (during the earthquake) vertical land motion
triggered a transpacific #Tsunami

read more https://earthjay.com/?p=3833

#EarthquakeReport for M6.4 #Earthquake near #Vanuatu #Fiji

Strike-slip (right-lateral?) related to transform fault (?) along the Central Spreading Ridge in North Fiji Basin

Read 2017 report for tectonic background https://earthjay.com/?p=4761

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000m86i/executive

#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2019 M 5.0 #Earthquake in #Alaska

normal (extensional) oblique (strike-slip) earthquake mechanism
interesting location with historical analogue (1958 M 7.1)

learn more: https://earthjay.com/?p=8403

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.9 #Gempa #Earthquake in #PapuaNewGuinea

oblique-normal (extensional and strike-slip)
strong shaking
chances for landslides and liquefaction

report with interpretive posters: https://earthjay.com/?p=11869

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.9 #Earthquake #Gempa in #PapuaNewGuinea

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000mksx/executive

oblique normal (strike-slip with component of extension) near (though shallower) the location of M 7.0 on 2 April 2023

interpretive poster

2023 report here: https://earthjay.com/?p=10964

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.9 #Earthquake #Gempa in #PapuaNewGuinea

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000mksx/executive

high intensity
@USGS_Quakes model suggests high chance for liquefaction

learn about liquefaction and read 2023 report here: https://earthjay.com/?p=10964

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.9 #Earthquake #Gempa in #PapuaNewGuinea

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000mksx/executive

oblique normal (strike-slip with component of extension) near (though shallower) the location of M 7.0 on 2 April 2023

read 2023 report here: https://earthjay.com/?p=10964

#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2020 M 5.7 #Earthquake in #Utah

felt widely
normal (extensional) mechanism
associated with the Wasatch fault
@USGS_Quakes model suggests chance for liquefaction

learn more: https://earthjay.com/?p=9401

#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2023 M 7.0 #Earthquake along the #Kermadec trench

outer rise normal (extensional) earthquake (not on subduction zone megathrust fault)
generated tsunami

learn more: https://earthjay.com/?p=10902

#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2011 M 9.1 #Earthquake offshore of #Japan

megathrust subduction zone earthquake
generated transpacific #Tsunami
triggered landslides & induced liquefaction
strong shaking felt widely

learn interactively here: https://earthjay.com/?p=9773

#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2017 M 6.3 #Earthquake in #NewBritain #PapuaNewGuinea

reverse/thrust (compressional) earthquake mechanism
possibly (?) on megathrust subduction zone fault

learn more: https://earthjay.com/?p=5142

#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2021 M7.3/7.4/8.1 #Earthquake along Kermadec trench

each earthquake generated #Tsunami as evidenced by tide gage data

learn more https://earthjay.com/?p=9955