M6

Cuba, already reeling from hurricane and power outage, struck by powerful M6.8 earthquake

Shaking also reported in Jamaica and Florida

Nov 10 •

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Mw6.2 offshore of southern Chile

An apparent megathrust earthquake in an unusual location

Nov 8 •

M6.0 offshore Oregon lightly felt onshore

Not in any way related to the Cascadia subduction zone

Oct 31 •

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Mw6.0 earthquake shakes eastern Türkiye

A triggered event on the East Anatolian Fault between the 2020 Elazığ and 2023 Pazarcık earthquakes.

Oct 16 •

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M6.2 earthquake shakes the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica

An unusual earthquake along a fascinating part of the Middle America Trench

Oct 13 •

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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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