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Category Archives: earthquakes
Why did North Carolina experience a magnitude 5.1 earthquake yesterday?
The location of this earthquake seems a little odd because North Carolina is about as far as it’s possible to get from an active plate boundary – thousands of km from the mid-Atlantic spreading ridge to the east and the … Continue reading
Two reflections on the largest earthquake yet recorded, 60 years later.
It has been 60 years since a magnitude 9.5 earthquake struck the Chilean coast near Valdivia. The stats for this earthquake remain pretty mind-blowing even today. It is still the largest earthquake ever recorded – over 20% of the Earth’s seismic energy … Continue reading
At subduction zones, feeding a complicated plate means you get complicated earthquake behaviour out
What drives the occurrence of slow-slip events on subduction zones: “earthquakes”: that involve strain release over days and weeks rather than seconds? A new paper…doesn’t really answer that question, but it shows why it’s so complicated to answer. The study uses … Continue reading
Earthquakes of 2018
Just as I did in 2016 and 2017, I thought I’d begin the new year with a look back at the earthquake activity in the last. According to the catalogue maintained by the USGS, the Earth’s ever-grinding tectonic plates produced … Continue reading
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