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Quake activity along the San Andreas fault is picking up

 
 
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Wed 5 Nov, 2014 08:16 pm
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4.6-magnitude earthquake in Nevada on November 4
The quake is the largest one recently in a swarm of some 240 earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 or greater that have occurred in that area since July, 2014.

Nevada earthquake November 4, 2014
Nevada earthquake November 4, 2014
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports a 4.6-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Nevada Tuesday night (November 4, 2014). They originally reported it as a 4.9-magnitude and later downgraded it. This earthquake is the largest one recently in an earthquake swarm that has been occurring in the sparsely populated northwest corner of Nevada, near the borders of Oregon and California, since July 2014. The quake hit at 11:23 p.m. on Tuesday, according to USGS, 191 miles (307 km) north of Carson City, Nevada. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal:

There have been 240 earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 or greater in that area since July 12.

The nearest homes are in Cedarville and Alturas in Modoc County, California … said A.J. McQuarrie, deputy director of Modoc County Office of Emergency Services.

Meanwhile, AP said only four people reported feeling the quake, with the nearest person in Cedarville, California, about 45 miles west.
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Sun 9 Nov, 2014 06:46 pm
Interview with Dr. Lucy Jones. Worth a read.

http://www.planningreport.com/2014/11/07/lucy-jones-advises-la-resiliency-and-big-one

In order to improve Los Angeles' earthquake preparedness, Mayor Eric Garcetti has brought in the US Geological Survey's world-renowned Dr. Lucy Jones as his Science Advisor for Seismic Safety, to create a resiliency report. In anticipation of this document's release, Jones spoke with TPR to describe its scope and purpose. She explained the particular risks facing the city during a natural disaster, from water to housing stock, with a focus on the economic repercussions of "The Big One."
Excerpts

You are quoted saying at a fall Red Cross Whole Community Resiliency panel: “Imagine America without Los Angeles…That really is a possibility.” What did you mean to convey?

I’m referring to economic viability. It’s not that we’re going to kill off everyone in LA.

Look around the world at previous, very big natural catastrophes. For example, San Francisco was the city of the West Coast before its 1906 earthquake. It had five times as many people as Los Angeles did before the earthquake. In the decade after 1906, the population of Los Angeles grew five fold as people abandoned San Francisco and came south. Now, Los Angeles is five times the size of San Francisco. In that case, a major financial hub became significantly less important. Obviously San Francisco rebounded, but it took them decades.

The city of New Orleans has lost substantially more money in lost GDP of the region since the hurricane than it lost in Hurricane Katrina itself. We see this over and over: Really big natural catastrophes can change the economy of a region.

People are resilient. They find ways to come back. But the disruption from the biggest events can permanently change an area. We’re looking at how to make Los Angeles a place where people still want to live and work.


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At the CityLab Conference in Los Angeles this fall—hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Aspen Institute, and The Atlantic—you shared that when the San Andreas earthquake happens in Southern California, we know where the electric systems, water systems, and gas lines that cross the fault will break. But that hasn’t gotten anybody to do anything about them. Could you elaborate?

It was probably an overstatement to say it hasn’t gotten anybody to do anything about that. Different groups have talked about it and are planning how to work together after the damage happens, but we haven’t actually made any of those changes.

When an earthquake happens, one side of a fault moves in respect to the other—a distance of a few feet in a moderate earthquake and many feet in a bigger one. We expect the San Andreas to move between 10 and 30 feet. If you have a pipeline crossing the fault and one side of it pulls 30 feet away from the other, it breaks.

Mountains surround Los Angeles. The San Andreas is along the edge of those mountains. To get through them, lifelines come through the passes together. We call those “lifeline corridors.” When the fault moves, all of those lifelines are going to be pulled 10 to 30 feet from the rest of the lifeline.

Our ShakeOut analysis at Cajon Pass concluded that we were going to have an explosion and crater. It would trigger wildfires, because two petroleum-product pipelines cross each other with a natural gas pipeline at the San Andreas. All three are going to break at the same location.

We know exactly where the pipelines cross the faults, how much the fault is going to be moving, and that none of these lifelines have been engineered to handle that offset so far. Therefore we know they are going to break.

You can engineer to prevent breaking. This was done for the first time with the Alaska pipeline. It crosses a major fault called the Denali, which is very similar to the San Andreas. The pipeline was engineered to handle up to 20 feet of offset on the fault. That earthquake happened in 2002. There was 18 feet of offset and the pipeline did not break.

We know we can do this. We just haven’t, because these lifelines coming into Los Angeles are as old as the rest of the city. They’ve been here for a long time.

That’s not under the purview of the Mayor of Los Angeles, because the fault does not run through the city. None of those locations fall within the mayor’s reach. But we’re part of the region and we are all going to be affected in an earthquake. So we’re trying to understand which ones could be retrofitted, which ones are at risk, and what the consequences are of those risks.

All of the electric generation in the Los Angeles basin is in natural-gas fired plants. We switched over to all natural gas because of our air quality issues—those are the cleanest. But the natural gas all comes across the fault in pipelines. that are in danger of being disrupted, which has a real effect on electricity for the city.

The other big concern is water. In Los Angeles, we get over 85 percent of our water from outside the region, all of which comes across the San Andreas Fault in four aqueducts. All of those are going to break in the earthquake. A recent analysis by engineers at the Department of Water and Power concluded it would take up to 18 months to repair the aqueducts broken in the earthquake. We don’t have that sort of water supply from the Los Angeles side of the fault. We’re looking at months to years with inadequate water supply after a big earthquake in LA.

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There are hundreds of possible faults in Southern California. That’s why we have the greatest concentration of earthquake risk. We’ve combined a lot of people with a lot of faults, which can lead to many buildings being destroyed.

Exactly what happens to the housing stock will depend very much on which earthquake we’re talking about. Northridge was not that large—it was only a 6.7. But it was particularly devastating because it was close to people. The strong shaking was on the northern edge of the City of Los Angeles, with moderately strong shaking in the city.

Say we now have a similar-sized earthquake. But instead of being at the edge of the city, it’s down in the main basin with the strong shaking in Downtown Los Angeles. That case has the potential to wipe out a significant percentage of the building stock.

The San Andreas fault is outside the densest urban development. It does run through cities like San Bernardino, Palmdale, and the Coachella Valley. The combination of a lot of people some ways away and some people right on top of the fault puts our estimate from that earthquake at 300,000 buildings damaged enough to lose at least 10 percent of their value. 1,500 would actually collapse.

That’s a pretty devastating picture. First, building codes aren’t retroactive. Whenever we figure out that a certain type of building does badly in an earthquake and change the building code to prevent its further development, that doesn’t get rid of the old buildings of that style (except in the one small location that actually had the really strong shaking in that particular earthquake.) We have tens of thousands of buildings in Los Angeles with known significant deficiencies, which are not allowed to be built anymore. They are still here, with those same problems, because we haven’t had strong shaking south of the Santa Monica Mountains since Los Angeles has been developed. The last strong earthquake in the area was in 1857 when there were only 4,000 inhabitants here.

Beyond that, our current building code does not try to protect the building. It solely tries to protect lives. We say philosophically, “If you choose to build a building that leads to big financial loss after an earthquake, that’s your financial choice to make. You just can’t kill people in the process.” We have said that the role of government is solely about protecting lives. If your building is a complete loss but didn’t kill anybody, we say it was a real success.

In looking at an isolated building, I get why that’s a reasonable stance for government. The problem occurs when you put large numbers of buildings together. Our standard is a 99 percent chance of not collapsing. That means we’re accepting the collapse of 1 percent of our code-compliant buildings.

Plus, many more of them would not be useable. For every collapse in previous earthquakes, we’ve had about 10 red tags (buildings so badly damaged you can’t allow anybody to be in them) and another 40 yellow tags (damaged enough that it’s dangerous and has to undergo repairs). 50 percent of our code-complaint buildings could potentially be yellow or red tagged in the worst earthquake.

How do you maintain an urban environment and keep a city going with so many buildings that can’t be occupied? The needs of society are different in an urban environment, with a lot of buildings together, than they would be for a building in isolation.
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Tue 11 Nov, 2014 10:02 pm
M4.0 - WESTERN MONTANA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.0
Date-Time
11 Nov 2014 22:33:23 UTC
11 Nov 2014 15:33:23 near epicenter
11 Nov 2014 16:33:23 standard time in your timezone
Location 47.949N 114.921W
Depth 5 km
Distances
50 km (31 mi) NE of Thompson Falls, Montana
53 km (32 mi) WSW of Kalispell, Montana
138 km (85 mi) NNW of Missoula, Montana
141 km (87 mi) E of Hayden, Idaho
265 km (164 mi) NW of Helena, Montana
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Thu 13 Nov, 2014 12:54 am
M4.5 - NEVADA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.5
Date-Time
13 Nov 2014 06:36:07 UTC
12 Nov 2014 22:36:08 near epicenter
13 Nov 2014 00:36:07 standard time in your timezone
Location 41.909N 119.681W
Depth 5 km
Distances
63 km (39 mi) ESE of Lakeview, Oregon
173 km (107 mi) E of Altamont, Oregon
177 km (109 mi) E of Klamath Falls, Oregon
184 km (114 mi) NNE of Susanville, California
304 km (188 mi) N of Carson City, Nevada
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Thu 13 Nov, 2014 12:55 am
M4.8 - KANSAS

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.8
Date-Time
12 Nov 2014 21:40:00 UTC
12 Nov 2014 15:40:01 near epicenter
12 Nov 2014 15:40:00 standard time in your timezone
Location 37.271N 97.624W
Depth 5 km
Distances
13 km (8 mi) S of Conway Springs, Kansas
40 km (24 mi) SW of Haysville, Kansas
43 km (26 mi) SW of Derby, Kansas
53 km (32 mi) SSW of Wichita, Kansas
200 km (124 mi) N of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Thu 13 Nov, 2014 01:01 am
Kansans clean up after magnitude-4.8 earthquake shakes
Wichita, southern part of state

BY DION LEFLER - THE WICHITA EAGLE

11/12/2014 3:58 PM | Updated: 11/12/2014 10:49 PM

The Rev. Bryce Hansen, the minister at Conway Springs’ United Methodist Church, said he was
writing a Bible study unit Wednesday afternoon when he experienced his first earthquake.
“It was weird,” he said. “Everything was rattling, the books were shaking.”
He was in the middle of writing about the second coming of Jesus and the end of the world when
the ground started shaking.
“That was kind of ironic,” he said.
Wichita and south-central Kansas were shaken by a sustained and moderate-strength earthquake
at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday. The magnitude-4.8 earthquake had its epicenter eight miles south of
Conway Springs in Sumner County, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its website
(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000swru#summary).
The earthquake had a depth of 3.4 miles.11/12/2014 Kansans clean up after magnitude-4.8 earthquake shakes Wichita, southern part of state.
It was felt by observers throughout Kansas and most of northern and central Oklahoma, the
USGS reported. Seismographs in Taylorsville, N.C., and Erie, Pa., also recorded the Kansas quake.
“Slammed all of the inside doors here at the library,” said Cynthia Berner, director of Wichita
Libraries. “So much for shhhh.”
In Conway Springs, there was no discernible damage beyond the decorative top on a bottle of
tequila that fell from a shelf at the town liquor store. But a lot of people were shaken.
Most of the damage from the quake appeared to be in the tiny town of Milan, about 10 miles
southwest of Conway Springs.
Police and fire officials set up hazard tape around the town’s former post office, which is now used
for storage, and a brick schoolhouse now used as a community center.
Structural damage was visible at both sites. Argonia Fire Chief Scott Spinks, whose department
serves that city and Milan, said Argonia also was shaken hard.
He said firefighting gear tumbled off shelves at the firehouse, and he had to catch the TV as it
started falling to the floor.
Spinks said the area has had minor shaking before.
“It was exciting then, but now there’s damage to property,” he said.
At Howard and Terry Yale’s home in Milan, just about everything that had been on a shelf wound
up on the floor, and they spent their Wednesday night picking things up.
Terry Yale, the city clerk in Milan, threw out two large buckets of broken glass. Among the debris
were pieces of her mother-in-law’s china and antique glassware that her grandmother had left to
her.
“That’s something you can’t replace,” she said as she picked up half a coffee cup from the china
set.
The floor of the walk-in pantry was a haphazard pile of canned goods, and the floor of the
bathroom was strewn with shampoo bottles, toiletries and medicine.11/12/2014 Kansans clean up after magnitude-4.8 earthquake shakes Wichita, southern part of state
After the quake rolled through, “every cabinet in this house was open,” she said.
The Yales said they tried to buy earthquake insurance after the tremors started a few months
ago. They were told that “until we had 60 days with no tremors, we can’t get it,” Howard Yale
said.
Homeowner Orin Dodez, who lives next door to the damaged Milan library building, was cleaning
up glass and trying to fix his propane heater at about 6 p.m. He said the quakes started around
August, and he has carefully noted them on a wall calendar.
“They’ve been generally getting larger, higher magnitude than it was before,” he said. “This was
the biggest one yet.”
He said he’s starting to worry about the structural integrity of his home because he’s seeing
evidence of tilt in the floors. He said he has lived in the house for 25 years and never felt a quake
until August.
“It’s something that I hadn’t expected,” he said.
Like many of his neighbors, Howard Yale blames the recent rash of quakes on fracking activity
near the town. He said that for the past few months, he has seen tanker trucks carrying large
amounts of water to drilling sites nearby.
“You can put two and two together,” said Howard Yale, a retired Boeing toolmaker. “You just can’t
put all that water undergound under high pressure and not expect something to happen.”
A task force appointed by Gov. Sam Brownback to investigate increased seismic activity in the
state said in a report earlier this fall that there is insufficient research available to say what has
caused the increase in the number of quakes. The group asked for more monitoring situations to
gather more information.
On Wednesday, Brownback announced that the state would buy a six-station portable seismic
network to monitor increased seismic activity in Harper, Sumner and Barber counties. According
to a news release, the Kansas Geological Survey expects the monitoring stations will cost about
$85,000 and will be operational in early 2015.11/12/2014 Kansans clean up after magnitude-4.8 earthquake shakes Wichita, southern part of state
Before Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center had
recorded 93 earthquakes in Kansas in 2014, ranging from magnitudes of 1.3 to 4.3, nearly all in
Sumner, Harper and Barber counties.
The strongest earthquake in Kansas’ recorded history was a magnitude-5.1 quake in Manhattan
in 1867, the USGS said.
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Thu 13 Nov, 2014 01:04 am
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Intensifying earthquake swarm strikes with two M4.7 and 50-plus M3 earthquakes in past week

Nevada Seismological Laboratory at University of Nevada, Reno continues to monitor ongoing activity in northwest Nevada
Published on Nov 12, 2014 - 6:20:53 PM

By: Nevada Seismological Laboratory


RENO, Nev. November 12, 2014 - Two 4.7 magnitude earthquakes and more than 50 3.0 or greater magnitude earthquakes mark an uptick in seismic activity one week after a 4.6 magnitude earthquake struck far northwest Nevada on Nov. 4, 2014. The activity in the past week is more than in previous months combined.

This ongoing swarm is located about 40 miles southeast of Lakeview, Ore., and 40 miles northeast of Cedarville, Calif. During the past week, the University of Nevada, Reno’s Nevada Seismological Laboratory, in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey and seismic network operators in Washington and Oregon, has recorded six earthquakes larger than magnitude 4.

The largest two events (M4.7) occurred just after midnight Nov. 6 and Nov. 7. A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck the area this morning, Nov. 12, at 6:42 a.m. This recent activity marks an increase in both magnitude and number of events for this swarm that began five months ago. In total, there have been 101 earthquakes larger than 3.0, the largest being magnitude 4.7, and eight earthquakes have been larger than magnitude 4.0.

“The Nevada Seismological Laboratory is in contact with local residents in hopes of deploying instruments near the swarm in the upcoming week,” Graham Kent, director of the lab, said. “Residents of northwest Nevada have expressed an eagerness to help as they are feeling the daily barrage of M3 and M4 earthquakes.”

The activity resembles the 1968 Adel, Ore., swarm, which also lasted several months and included three events of approximately magnitude 5. The Adel swarm caused moderate damage. Another comparison is the 2008 Mogul-Somersett swarm in northwest Reno that involved an increasingly vigorous series of earthquakes during a two-month period leading to a magnitude 5 event. The Mogul sequence also caused moderate local damage.

For reference, the Mogul sequence included three earthquakes larger than magnitude 4, just half of the magnitude 4s in the past week alone in the current Sheldon National Antelope Refuge swarm. The current swarm is more reminiscent of a series of shallow earthquakes outside of Hawthorne, Nev., in 2011, where a similar number of magnitude 4 or greater earthquakes struck over a four-month-long period.

Following any sequence of earthquakes similar to what is occurring in northwest Nevada, there is a small increase in the probability of a significantly larger event. Whether a larger event will occur in the northwest Nevada swarm cannot be predicted or forecast. However, large earthquakes can happen anywhere in Nevada, and citizens are encouraged to take steps to prepare for the potential for strong ground shaking.
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Thu 13 Nov, 2014 01:12 am
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M4.8 - NEVADA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.8
Date-Time
13 Nov 2014 06:36:07 UTC
12 Nov 2014 22:36:08 near epicenter
13 Nov 2014 00:36:07 standard time in your timezone
Location 41.882N 119.662W
Depth 0 km
Distances
66 km (40 mi) ESE of Lakeview, Oregon
175 km (108 mi) E of Altamont, Oregon
179 km (110 mi) ESE of Klamath Falls, Oregon
182 km (112 mi) NNE of Susanville, California
301 km (186 mi) N of Carson City, Nevada
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Fri 14 Nov, 2014 08:59 pm
Globe with Earthquake Location
M7.3 - MOLUCCA SEA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 7.3
Date-Time
15 Nov 2014 02:31:42 UTC
15 Nov 2014 10:31:42 near epicenter
14 Nov 2014 20:31:42 standard time in your timezone
Location 1.885N 126.509E
Depth 46 km
Distances
154 km (95 mi) NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia
155 km (96 mi) ENE of Bitung, Indonesia
155 km (96 mi) NW of Ternate, Indonesia
167 km (103 mi) W of Tobelo, Indonesia
1070 km (663 mi) SW of Koror Town, Palau
Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 0.0 km; Vertical 6.2 km
Parameters Nph = 116; Dmin = 155.9 km; Rmss = 1.13 seconds; Gp = 20°
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Sat 15 Nov, 2014 01:26 am
M4.5 - WESTERN MONTANA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.5
Date-Time
15 Nov 2014 06:58:48 UTC
14 Nov 2014 23:58:48 near epicenter
15 Nov 2014 00:58:48 standard time in your timezone
Location 48.414N 114.287W
Depth 8 km
Distances
3 km (1 mi) E of Whitefish, Montana
24 km (14 mi) N of Kalispell, Montana
162 km (100 mi) SE of Cranbrook, Canada
172 km (106 mi) N of Missoula, Montana
264 km (163 mi) NW of Helena, Montana
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Sun 16 Nov, 2014 05:10 pm
M6.7 - OFF EAST COAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, N.Z.

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 6.7
Date-Time
16 Nov 2014 22:33:21 UTC
17 Nov 2014 10:33:22 near epicenter
16 Nov 2014 16:33:21 standard time in your timezone
Location 37.842S 179.759E
Depth 35 km
Distances
178 km (110 mi) ENE of Gisborne, New Zealand
244 km (151 mi) E of Whakatane, New Zealand
307 km (190 mi) NE of Napier, New Zealand
310 km (192 mi) E of Rotorua, New Zealand
573 km (355 mi) NE of Wellington, New Zealand
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Mon 17 Nov, 2014 10:49 pm
Interesting article...

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/worldwide-surge-great-earthquakes-seen-past-10-years-n233661


A few excerpts and a map:


http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_43/734261/cascadia-subduction_e1c38355485ffdb336f3f73a987c46cb.nbcnews-ux-520-700.jpg


Quote:
The annual number of “great” earthquakes nearly tripled over the last decade, providing a reminder to Americans that unruptured faults like those in the northwest United States might be due for a Big One.

Between 2004 and 2014, 18 earthquakes with magnitudes of 8.0 or more rattled subduction zones around the globe. That's an increase of 265 percent over the average rate of the previous century, which saw 71 great quakes, according to a report to the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America this week in Vancouver, British Columbia.

It’s clear that recent "great" earthquakes "triggered" related major quakes, says study author Thorne Lay, distinguished professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

“If we look at all earthquake magnitudes, the past 10 years is not unusual in terms of the rate of events; the rate increases are just seen for events with magnitudes larger than 7.5 or so," he said. "This suggests that great events were ‘catching up’ on the plate boundary motions in several regions with fortuitous similar timing.”

And by fortuitous, Lay means that he thinks it’s just coincidence that all those big earthquakes happened over the last 10 years.



Quote:
Related quakes strike along same faults

So Lay isn’t suggesting that an earthquake in Japan or Sumatra is going to trigger a big one in the Cascadia subduction zone, the line along the coasts of Washington, Oregon and northernmost California where the oceanic plates dive under the continental plate.

But, he says, a big earthquake at one end of a subduction zone might trigger others further down along the same fault. “This happened in Sumatra, where the great 2004 event activated the adjacent 2005 event, and those two activated a slightly more distant 2007 event,” he said.

So what does that mean for the Cascadia subduction zone?

“The offshore fault appears to be fully locked up by friction, with strain building up until the next large earthquake rupture releases it,” Lay says.



Quote:
Every 500 years ... or so

One of the researchers scoping out Cascadia’s history of ancient earthquakes is Benjamin Horton, a professor in the department of marine and coastal science at Rutgers University.

Horton has trenched and cored in the muds along the the coasts of British Columbia and the northwest United States looking for evidence of earthquakes big enough to trigger massive tsunamis. And he’s found evidence of 12 major earthquakes over a 6,000-year period, an average recurrence interval of 500 years. But that’s just an average, he says, adding that the time between big quakes could be anywhere from 350 to 1,000 years.

“Cascadia is a really interesting story because there are no written records of a large earthquake there,” Horton says. “The last time it ruptured was January 26, 1700 A.D., over 300 years ago. The European colonizers hadn’t reached the West Coast yet. We know about it because of the tsunami that resulted from it hit Japan, where historical records of samurai talk about an orphan tsunami, which means a tsunami without a parent earthquake.”

Those records helped scientists figure out that the 1700 earthquake was a whopper.

“It was somewhere between 8.9 and 9.2” and may have ruptured along a 600-mile span of the western U.S. and Canada, Horton says. “It’s very analogous to the Sumatra event of 2004.”

And that fits right in with magnitudes seen in subduction zone earthquakes.

“The size of earthquakes is related to the surface area of the fault that slips,” Shearer said. “The San Andreas Fault and other transform, or strike-slip, faults are very long but not very wide as they cut vertically through the earth’s brittle upper crust. In contrast, subduction zone faults are both long and wide as they cut at a very shallow angle through the crust. Thus the surface area for the fault slip can be much larger for subduction zone earthquakes than for transform faults and the corresponding magnitudes for subduction zone earthquakes can be much greater. The largest transform fault earthquakes are about magnitude 8.5, whereas subduction zone [earthquakes] can be as large as magnitude 9.5.”
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Thu 20 Nov, 2014 12:51 am
M4.5 - CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.5
Date-Time
20 Nov 2014 06:26:49 UTC
19 Nov 2014 22:26:49 near epicenter
20 Nov 2014 00:26:49 standard time in your timezone
Location 36.809N 121.535W
Depth 6 km
Distances
4 km (2 mi) S of San Juan Bautista, California
12 km (7 mi) WSW of Hollister, California
12 km (7 mi) ENE of Prunedale, California
18 km (11 mi) NE of Salinas, California
196 km (121 mi) S of Sacramento, California
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Thu 20 Nov, 2014 09:55 am
Here is a quake location not seen every day...

M4.3 - ALABAMA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.3
Date-Time
20 Nov 2014 10:25:31 UTC
20 Nov 2014 04:25:32 near epicenter
20 Nov 2014 04:25:31 standard time in your timezone
Location 32.950N 88.017W
Depth 5 km
Distances
17 km (10 mi) NW of Eutaw, Alabama
50 km (31 mi) SW of Tuscaloosa, Alabama
51 km (31 mi) SW of Northport, Alabama
71 km (44 mi) SSE of Columbus, Mississippi
173 km (107 mi) WNW of Montgomery, Alabama
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Sun 23 Nov, 2014 03:20 pm
M5.4 - OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 5.4
Date-Time
23 Nov 2014 11:01:25 UTC
23 Nov 2014 02:01:25 near epicenter
23 Nov 2014 05:01:25 standard time in your timezone
Location 43.798N 128.408W
Depth 10 km
Distances
332 km (205 mi) WNW of Bandon, Oregon
341 km (211 mi) W of Coos Bay, Oregon
414 km (256 mi) W of Roseburg, Oregon
420 km (260 mi) W of Corvallis, Oregon
446 km (276 mi) WSW of Salem, Oregon


M4.9 - OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.9
Date-Time
23 Nov 2014 12:50:49 UTC
23 Nov 2014 03:50:50 near epicenter
23 Nov 2014 06:50:49 standard time in your timezone
Location 43.859N 128.131W
Depth 10 km
Distances
312 km (193 mi) WNW of Bandon, Oregon
320 km (198 mi) W of Coos Bay, Oregon
393 km (243 mi) WNW of Roseburg, Oregon
396 km (245 mi) W of Corvallis, Oregon
423 km (262 mi) WSW of Salem, Oregon


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Mon 1 Dec, 2014 12:43 am
M4.7 - ARIZONA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.7
Date-Time
1 Dec 2014 05:57:38 UTC
30 Nov 2014 22:57:38 near epicenter
30 Nov 2014 23:57:38 standard time in your timezone
Location 34.977N 111.740W
Depth 10 km
Distances
12 km (7 mi) N of Sedona, Arizona
13 km (8 mi) NNE of West Sedona, Arizona
25 km (15 mi) SSW of Flagstaff, Arizona
36 km (22 mi) NE of Cottonwood, Arizona
172 km (106 mi) N of Phoenix, Arizona
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Mon 1 Dec, 2014 11:29 pm
M6.3 - MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 6.3
Date-Time
2 Dec 2014 05:11:31 UTC
2 Dec 2014 13:11:32 near epicenter
1 Dec 2014 23:11:31 standard time in your timezone
Location 6.138N 123.168E
Depth 617 km
Distances
102 km (63 mi) WSW of Sangay, Philippines
107 km (66 mi) WSW of Kalamansig, Philippines
133 km (82 mi) SW of South Upi, Philippines
146 km (90 mi) ESE of Isabela, Philippines
920 km (570 mi) E of Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
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Wed 3 Dec, 2014 11:50 pm
M4.6 - NEVADA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.6
Date-Time
4 Dec 2014 05:24:54 UTC
3 Dec 2014 21:24:55 near epicenter
3 Dec 2014 23:24:54 standard time in your timezone
Location 41.975N 119.811W
Depth 16 km
Distances
50 km (31 mi) ESE of Lakeview, Oregon
161 km (99 mi) E of Altamont, Oregon
165 km (102 mi) E of Klamath Falls, Oregon
186 km (115 mi) NNE of Susanville, California
312 km (193 mi) N of Carson City, Nevada
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Butrflynet
 
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Fri 5 Dec, 2014 10:34 pm

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 4.1
Date-Time
6 Dec 2014 02:16:07 UTC
5 Dec 2014 18:16:07 near epicenter
5 Dec 2014 20:16:07 standard time in your timezone
Location 36.797N 121.512W
Depth 6 km
Distances
5 km (3 mi) SSE of San Juan Bautista, California
11 km (6 mi) WSW of Hollister, California
14 km (8 mi) E of Prunedale, California
18 km (11 mi) NE of Salinas, California
198 km (122 mi) S of Sacramento, California
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Butrflynet
 
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Sat 6 Dec, 2014 11:59 am
BORDER REGION

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 5.8
Date-Time
6 Dec 2014 17:21:52 UTC
6 Dec 2014 12:21:53 near epicenter
6 Dec 2014 11:21:52 standard time in your timezone
Location 8.049N 82.695W
Depth 36 km
Distances
18 km (11 mi) E of Punta de Burica, Panama
32 km (19 mi) SE of Puerto Armuelles, Panama
45 km (27 mi) SW of Pedregal, Panama
50 km (31 mi) SW of David, Panama
258 km (159 mi) SE of San Jose, Costa Rica
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