North America

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

Shaking also reported in Jamaica and Florida

Nov 10 •

Judith A Hubbard

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M6.0 offshore Oregon lightly felt onshore

Not in any way related to the Cascadia subduction zone

Oct 31 •

Judith A Hubbard

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Mw4.7 earthquake strikes within Death Valley

We propose a potential new strike-slip fault beneath the valley floor

Oct 25 •

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Judith A Hubbard

Does this machine learning model predict large earthquakes? Maybe not.

We examine a new earthquake paper in Nature Communications.

Sep 27 •

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Judith A Hubbard

M6.5 earthquake strikes offshore western Canada

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

Sep 16 •

Judith A Hubbard

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M4.7 strikes near Malibu, California

Another moderate-sized event during a busy earthquake year in California

Sep 12 •

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Judith A Hubbard

Montreal jolted by M3.8 earthquake - small by historical standards

Holy complex intraplate geology, Batman!

Sep 1 •

Judith A Hubbard

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M4.4 thrust earthquake rattles Los Angeles

We take a quick look at the geology of the faults in the epicentral region

Aug 13 •

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Judith A Hubbard

M5.2 earthquake shakes south and central California

We take a look at the nearby 1952 M7.3 Kern County earthquake.

Aug 7 •

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Judith A Hubbard

M4.9 earthquake near Barstow, California

Several M7+ earthquakes have occurred in this region - how does this one fit in?

Jul 30 •

Judith A Hubbard

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M4.9 west Texas earthquake presumed anthropogenic

Shaking reported by >1,600 people

Jul 23 •

Judith A Hubbard

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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 •

Judith A Hubbard

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