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Tag Archives: aftershocks
Friday Focal Mechanisms: before and after the M8 Santa Cruz Islands quake
On Tuesday night American time (Wednesday lunchtime local time), a magnitude 8 earthquake occurred near the Santa Cruz Islands, a set of small islands east of the Solomon Islands. In this region, the Australian plate is subducting to the north-east … Continue reading
Friday Focal Mechanism: M 7.4, Oaxaca, Mexico
The largest earthquake to hit the planet this week was in Mexico, which was shaken on Tuesday by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake. The epicentre was in the Oaxaca region about 300 kilometres southwest of Mexico city, and the rupture was … Continue reading
Friday focal mechanisms: aftershocks in eastern Turkey
Almost a fortnight after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Eastern Turkey, the region continues to suffer from aftershocks, and there were two pretty big ones earlier this week: a magnitude 5.2 on Tuesday, and then a magnitude 5.6 on Wednesday. … Continue reading
More large aftershocks rattle Christchurch: will it ever end?
Analysis of the ongoing earthquake sequence. Continue reading
Earthquake location matters, part eleventy
It’s been a month since the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami rattled then swamped northern Honshu, and Japan continues to be rattled by sizeable aftershocks. A magnitude 7.1 shock last Thursday initially set off further tsunami alerts but the rupture turned … Continue reading
