Tag Archives: intraplate earthquakes

Why do we get earthquakes a long way from plate boundaries?

There’s already a lot of good info out there about this week’s magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Melbourne, Australia. I wanted to dig a little more into the broader reasons you can get earthquakes like this in places you might not … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, tectonics

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

Categories: earthquakes, geology, structures, tectonics