Category: Earthquake Map

One chance in 30,000 sounds small until you compare it to one in a million

Por Germán Acosta Cervantes, Traductor al Español de Temblor

Germán Acosta, Temblor’s Spanish translator, tells what it was like experiencing Tuesday’s M=7.1 earthquake in Mexico City

We have to accept the idea that several times a year, we’ll get an alert when shaking is very light

Una pregunta persiste en todas nuestras mentes, sobre si el terremoto de M=8.1 en Chiapas, de alguna forma, desencadenó el sismo de M=7.1, doce días después y a 600 km (360 mi) de distancia.

Based on coulomb stress calculations, the two events are likely unrelated

El terremoto de M=7.1 de hoy, en el sur de la Ciudad de México, resultó en un daño importante a lo
largo de la ciudad.

The location of last night’s earthquake along the Santa Monica fault zone is susceptible to M=6.8 earthquakes.

Today’s earthquake struck along the Hayward Fault, which has a 33% chance of rupturing in a M=6.7+ earthquake by 2043, according to the USGS.

This region in Idaho could experience up to a M=7.3 earthquake

Had last week’s earthquake been shallower or to the northwest or southeast the effects could have been catastrophic.

The USGS estimates that economic losses could exceed $1 billion

Today’s earthquake caused moderate damage close to the epicenter.

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Today’s M=4.5 earthquake struck just north of the capital city of Lisbon.

Despite the earthquake’s magnitude, it did not cause any major damage.

Only light shaking was felt in the capital city of Manila.

So far, there are 19 confirmed fatalities from the earthquake in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan.

This morning’s earthquake was widely felt throughout the capital city which is home to over 7 million people.

Yesterday’s M=5.3 earthquake struck underneath Lake Edward in western Uganda.

Since 1944, there have been two large, damaging earthquakes around the city of San Juan

Το ελληνικό νησί της Κω υπέστη σοβαρές ζημιές στο σεισμό της 21ης Ιουλίου M = 6.6.

Deprem Bodrum’un 600 yillik deprem sessizligini bitirdi

The shock ended 600 years of seismic sleep at the ancient castle town

Today’s M=5.8 earthquake is likely a late aftershock of the 2011 M=9.0 Tohoku quake

A M=6.2 earthquake struck approximately 12 hours prior to the M=7.7 earthquake off the Commander Islands

New mapping performed by the California Geological Survey reveals several fault traces in Southern California.

Today’s earthquake was felt in five states in the Midwest

This area in Papua New Guinea is highly seismically active due to subduction at the New Britain Trench.

The supercomputer simulations attempt to capture the role of ‘fault contagion’ in earthquake sequences, as an update to the official California seismic hazard model

These two earthquakes give clues to the next earthquake in the ongoing Philippine sequence.

Today’s M=6.5 earthquake in the Philippines, along the Philippine Fault Zone, was the largest to strike the Leyte Province since 1998.

Today’s M=5.8 earthquake in western Montana was felt as far as Seattle and Portland, over 730 km away.

El terremoto del día de ayer de M=5.9 costa afuera de Chile ocurrió en una región que sometida a estrés positivamente en el terremoto de Maule de 2010 de M=8.8

Yesterday’s M=5.9 earthquake offshore of Chile occurred in a region that was positively stressed in the 2010 M=8.8 Maule earthquake.

Today’s M=6.0 earthquake resulted in widespread shaking around Ecuador.

Scientists now know that a tectonic event did not trigger the landslide and fatal tsunami in Greenland 11 days ago.

The active earthquake swarm west of Reno, Nevada is located in an area susceptible to M=6+ quakes

The earthquakes over the weekend, occurred at the tips of quakes in 1906 and 1812.

A las 6:13 hora local, un sismo de magnitud M=6.8 ocurrió frente a la costa oeste de Guatemala, el cual fue fuertemente sentido en El Salvador y México

Today’s M=6.8 earthquake off the coast of Guatemala is the second large earthquake to hit the country in the last eight days.

Today’s M=3.3 earthquake likely occurred on a structure associated with the Hayward Fault, which runs through the East Bay

Today’s M=3.2 earthquake was felt in Atlanta, over 200 km away

While the earthquake over the weekend was tectonic in nature, Greenland also experiences glacial earthquakes.

Yesterday’s M=4.4 earthquake was just 15-20 km from the epicenter of the 1959 M=7.3 Hebgen Lake earthquake.

In addition to the typical mainshock-aftershock sequence, there is a prominent streak of seismicity offshore of Guatemala

A pesar de la magnitud del sismo, se reportan daños moderados y una persona herida.

Despite the earthquake’s magnitude, only moderate damage was sustained, and there is only one reported injury.

Today’s M=6.3 earthquake caused significant damage to the Greek island of Lesbos, a popular tourist destination.

In addition to volcanic eruptions, Hawaii’s Big Island is also susceptible to moderate-large earthquakes.

Yesterday’s M=3.7 earthquake occurred in the Walker Lane Fault System, which is similar to California’s San Andreas Fault System.

Mientras que el terremoto del día de hoy de M=5.6 ocurrió sobre la placa en proceso de subducción, en esta región también son comunes temblores de la corteza superficiales.

While today’s M=5.6 earthquake occurred on the subducting slab, shallow crustal quakes are also common in this region.

Yesterday’s earthquake occurred along the San Jacinto Fault, which is capable of M=7.5 earthquakes.

The ongoing seismic swarm in Western Turkey is in an area undergoing active continental extension.

Today’s earthquake in Svalbard occurred in a region with almost no historical seismicity.

Yesterday’s earthquake occurred near a portion of the San Andreas Fault which has not ruptured since 1857.

Big Sur, California faces similar vulnerabilities to Kaikoura, New Zealand, which was devastated in an earthquake last November.

當地時間5月24日台灣西南部發生一起芮氏式規模5.0地震。在該地震發生前的33小時内，當地陸續發生了一系列前震。

Today’s M=5.0 earthquake in Taiwan was preceded by 5 foreshocks.

While the San Andreas shows almost not signs of seismic activity in Northern California, two of its sister faults show significant seismicity.

The recent seismic swarm took place beneath the Seattle Fault Zone, which is susceptible to large, damaging earthquake.

Los terremotos del día de ayer ocurrieron en una parte altamente activa del Golfo de California, donde existe una ruptura más rápida que en otras partes del Golfo.

Yesterday’s earthquakes occurred in a highly active part of the Gulf of California where there is more rapid rupture than other parts of the Gulf.

Last night’s M=4.1 earthquake off the coast of Santa Barbara occurred in an area where a quake could produce a tsunami.

Today’s M=5.3 earthquake occurred along eastern Taiwan’s most seismically active fault.

The M=5.8 earthquake on Saturday caused up to 70% damage in 14 villages.

By David Jacobson, Temblor See earthquakes in El Salvador Click for English version   Esta mañana (12 de mayo de 2017), un terremoto M=6.2 golpeó hoy cerca de la costa …

Today’s M=6.2 earthquake offshore of El Salvador caused light shaking in the capital city of San Salvador.

Today’s M=5.4 earthquake in western China occurred on a spectacular normal fault in the Tashkurgen Valley.

The recent earthquakes along the Aleutian Islands in Alaska have occurred in an area susceptible to M=7.5 quakes.

By David Jacobson, Temblor Click here for English version See earthquakes in Peru   A las 3:08 a.m. tiempo local, golpeó un terremoto de M=5.4 en el norte de Perú …

Today’s earthquake in Peru occurred inland of an area along the Peru-Chile Trench where large megathrust earthquakes are not as likely.

Today’s M=5.8 earthquake in Tajikistan is likely an aftershock of a M=5.9 quake two days ago.

Last night’s M=3.1 earthquake was widely felt in both Santa Monica and West Los Angeles.

A M=6.2 earthquake at 4:31 a.m. local time was followed by a M=6.3 less than two hours later.

Today’s M=6.8 earthquake occurred in a region that has seen 4 other M=6.6+ earthquake in the last 90 years.

By David Jacobson and Ross Stein, Temblor See earthquakes in Chile Click here for English version   Desde el 22 de abril de 2017, ha estado en proceso un enjambre …

Due to earthquakes in 2010, 2015, and a swarm in the last week, a M=8.3 earthquake is more likely to strike offshore of Chile.

A M=6.9 earthquake offshore of Chile, near the cities of Valparaiso and Santiago follows an intense seismic swarm that started two days ago.

Santiago, la capital de Chile, se encuentra a otros 100 km (60 millas) tierra adentro, donde se sintió más ampliamente el sismo más grande.

A series of eight M~5 shocks has just occurred on or near the megathrust surface 30 km (18 mi) offshore the major port city of Valparaiso, Chile.

Türkiye’nin batısında, 5 büyüklüğünde iki deprem birbiri ardına bir saat içinde hissedildi.

Today, two M=5 earthquakes shook western Turkey within one hour of each other.

By David Jacobson, Temblor See earthquakes in Peru   El día de ayer, a las 12:49 p.m., hora local, un terremoto de M=6.0 sacudió el norte de Perú y se …

Yesterday’s M=6.0 earthquake likely occurred on a blind thrust fault deep in the Amazon Rainforest.

The location of yesterday’s M=3.7 earthquake was within the Geysers Geothermal Field, which is the site of numerous induced earthquakes.

This morning’s M=5.6 earthquake was widely felt over the Lesser Antilles.

This earthquake struck only 4 days after a M=5.9 rattled the northern part of the Philippines.

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Saturday’s M=5.9 was felt 100 km north of the epicenter in the capital city of Manila, which is home to over 1.5 million people.

A bill passed by the House of Representatives would allocate funding towards an earthquake early warning system for the Pacific Northwest.

Had today’s M=6.1 quake been underneath a populated center, the effects could have been much worse.

Team Temblor took a trip to the Hayward Fault with USGS paleoseismologist David Schwartz.

This morning’s earthquake occurred at a transitional point between the Santa Cruz Mountains and creeping sections of the San Andreas Fault.

Yesterday’s M=5.7 quake in the Gulf of California occurred in an area where tectonic forces are causing Baja California to move farther from mainland Mexico.

Today’s M=6.6 earthquake shook one of the most seismically active regions on earth.

The Mendocino Triple Junction is one of the most seismically active regions on earth, while the Northern San Andreas is extremely quiet.

While most people think of volcanoes when they think Hawaii, the region is also very seismically active.