Category Archives: earthquakes

Friday focal mechanisms

A brief summary of the past two week’s significant earthquakes, and their tectonic context. Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geophysics

Friday focal mechanisms

A brief summary of the week’s large earthquakes and their tectonic context.
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Categories: earthquakes, geology, tectonics

Creeping fault segments are showing their age

Do faults get weaker as they get older?
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Categories: earthquakes, geology, paper reviews, tectonics

Old tectonic scars run deep: the magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Ontario

The location of yesterday’s earthquake in Canada was controlled by tectonic processes that operated, and ceased, hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Categories: deep time, earthquakes, geohazards, geology, structures, tectonics

The seismic non-pocalypse

Why seismically, 2010 is not as out of the ordinary as some people think – and why the question is actually the wrong one to be asking anyway.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology