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M4.8 rattles Vancouver
Shallow crustal faulting above the Cascadia subduction zone
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Kyle Bradley
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Judith A Hubbard
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Mw5.8 earthquake shakes western Nevada
A Walker Lane strike-slip event
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Kyle Bradley
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Judith A Hubbard
5
Numerous M5-6 earthquakes offshore the Aleutian Islands
We look at an interesting, if a bit remote, earthquake sequence along the subduction zone
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Judith A Hubbard
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Kyle Bradley
1
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes offshore Cape Mendocino, California
Reports of shaking >1,000 km away.
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Kyle Bradley
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Judith A Hubbard
6
Cuba, already reeling from hurricane and power outage, struck by powerful M6.8 earthquake
Shaking also reported in Jamaica and Florida
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Judith A Hubbard
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Kyle Bradley
2
M6.0 offshore Oregon lightly felt onshore
Not in any way related to the Cascadia subduction zone
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Judith A Hubbard
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Kyle Bradley
7
Mw4.7 earthquake strikes within Death Valley
We propose a potential new strike-slip fault beneath the valley floor
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Kyle Bradley
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Judith A Hubbard
9
Does this machine learning model predict large earthquakes? Maybe not.
We examine a new earthquake paper in Nature Communications.
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Kyle Bradley
 and 
Judith A Hubbard
3
M6.5 earthquake strikes offshore western Canada
Comparing Canada to California: A tale of two North American-Pacific transform plate boundaries
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Judith A Hubbard
 and 
Kyle Bradley
5
M4.7 strikes near Malibu, California
Another moderate-sized event during a busy earthquake year in California
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Kyle Bradley
 and 
Judith A Hubbard
3
Montreal jolted by M3.8 earthquake - small by historical standards
Holy complex intraplate geology, Batman!
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Judith A Hubbard
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Kyle Bradley
5
M4.4 thrust earthquake rattles Los Angeles
We take a quick look at the geology of the faults in the epicentral region
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Kyle Bradley
 and 
Judith A Hubbard
4
M5.2 earthquake shakes south and central California
We take a look at the nearby 1952 M7.3 Kern County earthquake.
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Kyle Bradley
 and 
Judith A Hubbard
9
M4.9 earthquake near Barstow, California
Several M7+ earthquakes have occurred in this region - how does this one fit in?
 • 
Judith A Hubbard
 and 
Kyle Bradley
5
M4.9 west Texas earthquake presumed anthropogenic
Shaking reported by >1,600 people
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Judith A Hubbard
 and 
Kyle Bradley
1
Swarm offshore Vancouver Island punctuated by M6.4 earthquake
A combination of oceanic transforms and a small deforming plate makes M6+ earthquakes common here
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Judith A Hubbard
 and 
Kyle Bradley
1
M4.3 earthquake on Maacama Fault rattles Northern California
An evolving fault that both creeps and quakes
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Judith A Hubbard
 and 
Kyle Bradley
7
M4.9 earthquake at the Cierro Prieto geothermal field, Baja California, Mexico
A moderate earthquake in a huge geothermal energy field
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Kyle Bradley
 and 
Judith A Hubbard
1
M4.8 New Jersey earthquake shakes Northeastern United States
Largest earthquake in the region in 140 years
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Kyle Bradley
 and 
Judith A Hubbard
12
M4.9 earthquake shakes Idaho
Another strike-slip earthquake north of the Snake River Plain
 • 
Kyle Bradley
 and 
Judith A Hubbard
M4.7 earthquake rattles southern Texas
Earthquakes in this area are linked to fluid extraction - including a M4.8 in 2011
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Judith A Hubbard
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Kyle Bradley
M5.1 earthquake in Oklahoma felt more than 500 km away
More evidence for long-lasting anthropogenic seismicity
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Judith A Hubbard
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Kyle Bradley
1
M4.2 in San Bernardino shakes greater Los Angeles area
Let's take a closer look at the hazardous San Jacinto Fault
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Kyle Bradley
5
M5.3 earthquake shakes Fairbanks, Alaska
A fascinating set of faults criss-cross this area, illuminated by earthquakes
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Judith A Hubbard
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