Category Archives: earthquakes

Those clever Japanese have done it again – whilst seismologists look in increasingly unlikely places for a method of reliably predicting earthquakes, they’ve produced a little box which provides a timely warning of impending doom: A broadband and communications provider … Continue reading →

And it’s a big one – magnitude 8.0 according to the USGS. The preliminary moment tensor solution indicates a shallowly dipping thrust fault, with a rupture depth of 33 km. So this looks like a subduction thrust earthquake (the convergent … Continue reading →