North America

M4.1 earthquake rattles Tennessee

One of many earthquakes in the enigmatic Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone

May 10 •

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Earthquakes in west Texas

A post documenting continuing seismicity in this mainly anthropogenic seismic zone

May 5 •

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Magnitude 4.1 earthquake shakes Salt Lake City

What would G.K. Gilbert say?

May 2 •

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Magnitude 5.2 earthquake rattles San Diego

Was this a rupture of the shy but dangerous Elsinore Fault?

Apr 15 •

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M4.8 rattles Vancouver

Shallow crustal faulting above the Cascadia subduction zone

Feb 22 •

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Mw5.8 earthquake shakes western Nevada

A Walker Lane strike-slip event

Dec 10, 2024 •

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Numerous M5-6 earthquakes offshore the Aleutian Islands

We look at an interesting, if a bit remote, earthquake sequence along the subduction zone

Dec 9, 2024 •

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Magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes offshore Cape Mendocino, California

Reports of shaking >1,000 km away.

Dec 6, 2024 •

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

Shaking also reported in Jamaica and Florida

Nov 10, 2024 •

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M6.0 offshore Oregon lightly felt onshore

Not in any way related to the Cascadia subduction zone

Oct 31, 2024 •

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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, 2024 •

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

We examine a new earthquake paper in Nature Communications.

Sep 27, 2024 •

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