M6

M6.5 earthquake strikes offshore western Canada

Comparing Canada to California: A tale of two North American-Pacific transform plate boundaries

Sep 16 •

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M6.2 earthquake shakes Papua New Guinea

We look at the regional tectonic setting of this moderate earthquake

Sep 6 •

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M6.8 earthquake offshore Mindanao is delayed aftershock of 2023 M7.6

Largest aftershock since Dec. 3

Aug 3 •

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Swarm offshore Vancouver Island punctuated by M6.4 earthquake

A combination of oceanic transforms and a small deforming plate makes M6+ earthquakes common here

Jul 12 •

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M6.7 earthquake strikes between South Africa and Antarctica

A remote but fairly large transform fault earthquake beneath the Southern Ocean

Jul 11 •

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M6 earthquake beneath northern Venezuela was felt up to 700 km away

Part of a dense, deep cluster of seismicity associated with a lithospheric tear

Jun 23 •

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M6.4 earthquake shakes coast of Mexico, Guatemala

Normal-mechanism event in the sinking Cocos slab at the Middle America Trench

May 12 •

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Southern Japan shaken by M6.4 earthquake

A new earthquake joins the menagerie of Bungo Channel seismicity

Apr 18 •

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M6.9 earthquake shakes Papua New Guinea

Apparent "mantle quake" above the tip of a sinking slab

Mar 24 •

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Magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocks Java, Indonesia

An unusual shallow earthquake near Bawean Island was felt widely across Indonesia and surrounding areas

Mar 22 •

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M6.1 in sinking slab shakes Guatemala

A reminder of the high seismic hazard and risk faced by the region

Jan 27 •

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M6.4 earthquake shakes Afghanistan and neighboring countries

Deep source of intense seismicity likely associated with tearing of subducting slab

Jan 11 •

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