Temblor Webinars
RealtimeRisk: Worldwide dynamic seismic hazard forecasts for Los Angeles, Tokyo, and beyond. A webinar for the insurance, reinsurance, and ILS communities. Presented on July 31, 2020 …
Dual disaster planning, communication and reason for hope: a discussion with professor Sam Montano
By Tiegan Hobbs, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Seismic Risk Scientist, Temblor (@THobbsGeo) Sam Montano, professor of emergency management and disaster science, talks about COVID19 and what recovery might look like. Citation: Hobbs, …
Significant Idaho earthquake unlikely to cause unrest in Yellowstone
By Tiegan Hobbs, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Seismic Risk Scientist, Temblor (@THobbsGeo) Shinji Toda, Ph.D., IRIDeS, Tohoku University A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit a remote region of Idaho on March 31. Despite …
Earthquake strikes Utah amid COVID-19 pandemic
By Tiegan Hobbs, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Seismic Risk Scientist, Temblor (@THobbsGeo) As residents prepared for a pandemic, a magnitude-5.7 quake shook Salt Lake City, causing a chemical spill in the nearby …
Shaking on Mars Results in Good Vibrations On Earth
By Tiegan Hobbs, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Seismic Risk Scientist, Temblor (@THobbsGeo) After a year of operating, the largest marsquakes recorded by NASA’s InSight Lander are associated with a nearby volcanic province: …
Recovery Underway Following Damaging 24 January 2020 Elazığ Earthquake in Eastern Turkey
Haluk Eyidoğan, Ph.D., Professor of Seismology, Istanbul Technical University Tiegan Hobbs, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Seismic Risk Scientist, Temblor (@THobbsGeo) A destructive magnitude-6.8 earthquake in Turkey leaves thousands homeless. Preceded by foreshocks …
More unrest in the Caribbean as Jamaica is struck by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake
By Tiegan E. Hobbs, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Seismic Risk Scientist, Temblor (@THobbsGeo) A large earthquake in the Caribbean Sea, unrelated to the recent Puerto Rico earthquake, caused sinkholes and liquefaction. Despite …
Can science tell when a large earthquake will be followed by an even larger one?
Realtime aftershock statistics may be able to identify whether an even larger event is likely to follow, the authors of a new study argue. Additional prospective testing and more strategic public communication will be needed prior to deployment
Over 66 million people participate in international ShakeOut; prompts evaluation of personal preparedness
Tiegan Hobbs, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Seismic Risk Scientist, Temblor @THobbsGeo Across the planet, people dropped under their tables at 10:17am on 10/17 to practice what to do in the event of …
Indonesian “Black Swan” quake: a painful reminder of last year’s M 7.5 Palu shock
Just two days shy of the one-year anniversary of the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Indonesia, a major earthquake ruptured beneath the nearby island of Maluku on the morning of Thursday, September 26. Local agencies are reporting 20 dead and 2,000 displaced in the wake of this M 6.5 earthquake.
August 1, 2019, magnitude-6.8 Chile earthquake reveals stress is building on the megathrust
Tiegan Hobbs, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Seismic Risk Scientist, Temblor (@THobbsGeo) Sandwiched in the neighborhood of the 1960 M=9.5, 2010 M=8.8, 2015 M=8.3 and 1985 M=7.8 earthquakes, a M=6.8 earthquake went virtually unreported …
How Apollo 11s moonquakes changed our understanding of earthquakes
Apollo 11 was the first step for humankind, and a giant leap for seismology. Landing and deploying seismic sensors on the moon required significant advances in instrumentation and shaped the study of earthquakes. Now we know that both planets host tidally triggered earthquakes.
M 7.1 SoCal earthquake triggers aftershocks up to 100 mi away: What’s next?
The 50-km-long rupture has triggered widely dispersed aftershocks. However, almost none of these struck on the faults that the M 7.1 brought closer to failure: The major Garlock Fault; or the Blackwater, Panamint Valley, or Sierra Nevada Faults.
M 7.1 SoCal earthquake triggers aftershocks up to 100 mi away: What’s next?
The 50-km-long rupture has triggered widely dispersed aftershocks. However, almost none of these struck on the faults that the M 7.1 brought closer to failure: The major Garlock Fault; or the Blackwater, Panamint Valley, or Sierra Nevada Faults.
M 7.1 SoCal earthquake triggers aftershocks up to 100 mi away: What’s next?
The 50-km-long rupture has triggered widely dispersed aftershocks. However, almost none of these struck on the faults that the M 7.1 brought closer to failure: The major Garlock Fault; or the Blackwater, Panamint Valley, or Sierra Nevada Faults.
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rips northwest from the M6.4 just 34 hours later
Ross S. Stein, Ph.D., Tiegan Hobbs, Ph.D., Chris Rollins, Ph.D., Geoffrey Ely, Ph.D., Volkan Sevilgen, M.Sc., and Shinji Toda, Ph.D. The M 6.4 earthquake loaded the site where the …
Earthquake Just North of Cascadia is Felt Along Canada’s West Coast
While it wasn’t the ‘Big One’, activity near the Revere-Dellwood Fault at the northern end of the Cascadia Subduction Zone is a reminder to Canadians to be prepared for shaking.
Earthquake early warning system challenged by the largest SoCal shock in 20 years
Tiegan Hobbs, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Seismic Risk Scientist, Temblor (@THobbsGeo) Chris Rollins, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Michigan State University Citation: Hobbs, T.E. and Rollins, C., (2019), Earthquake early warning system challenged …
The first Marsquake is recorded
Mars InSight Lander: Marsquakes, Breakthroughs, and Breakdowns
Terremoto en El Salvador: Un Evento Moderado en un Área de Riesgo Sísmico Extremo
Debido a su ubicación costa afuera y una profundidad moderada, el temblor del jueves provocó pocos daños. Pero varios indicios sugieren que la suerte de El Salvador no durará por mucho más. Este evento también resalta el creciente número de terremotos extensionales grandes: una tendencia global con implicaciones de peligro importantes.
El Salvador Earthquake: A Moderate Event in An Area of Extreme Seismic Risk
Because of its offshore location and moderate depth, Thursday’s shock did little damage. But many indications suggest that El Salvador will not stay so lucky for long. This event also highlights the increasing number of large extensional earthquakes: a global trend with important hazard implications.
Se siente intense terremoto en Perú a lo largo de Sudamérica
Un fuerte terremoto de Mw 8.0 sacudió a Perú a las 2:41 am hora local este domingo 26 de mayo de 2019, desde un epicentro dentro de la Reserva Nacional de Pacaya-Samiria en la selva tropical del Amazonas.
Deep earthquake in Peru is felt along the length of South America: More to follow?
A magnitude-8.0 quake shook deep below the Amazon Rainforest in Peru, causing extensive liquefaction and shaking from Colombia to Chile.
Large Earthquake in Papua New Guinea re-ruptures major fault in just 19 years: More to follow?
A magnitude-7.5 quake broke the same fault that produced a magnitude-8.0 quake in 2000, an extraordinarily short recurrence time that also broke all our rules
About Temblor
Temblor, Inc. is a catastrophe modeling company specializing in seismic hazard and risk assessment. Founded in 2014 by former USGS scientists Ross Stein and Volkan Sevilgen, Temblor’s mission is to raise awareness of seismic risk. We serve the insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked security communities, and mortgage lenders.
Temblor is different from other cat modelers. Our models build on recent published and independently-tested scientific analyses to provide an independent, unbiased, and transparent assessment of risk. Our products include dynamic hazard and loss forecasts after large earthquakes; the first globally consistent insurance loss model; stochastic event sets; and the highest-resolution global site amplification model available today. Additionally, we calculate a building-level Temblor Earthquake Score, which folds in all factors that impact loss into one number for risk pricing and selection.
Temblor provides both its clients and the public with accurate, accessible, and understandable information about earthquakes. Temblor Earthquake News publishes breaking earthquake news, in-depth analyses, and expert reporting on the latest developments in natural hazards research. Our articles are written by scientists, science journalists, and leading international researchers.
Team Temblor
Volkan leads Temblor’s scientific programming and technology development. Ross S. Stein is Temblor CEO and cofounder, Adjunct Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University, USGS Scientist Emeritus, and President of the Tectonophysics section of the American Geophysical Union.
How good is earthquake early warning?
By Elisabeth Nadin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks New research reveals that Earthquake Early Warning networks provide a timely warning of impending shaking more often than not. …
Did Tuesday’s M=7.9 Kodiak earthquake nudge the Alaskan Megathrust closer to failure?
The Alaskan Megathrust was responsible for the M=9.2 Good Friday earthquake in 1964.
M=7.9 Alaska earthquake strikes off the coast of Kodiak Island, triggering a tsunami and questions
Last night’s M=7.9 earthquake was an unusual outer rise strike-slip event.