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Dec 21, 2022 - 9:13pm
RPnate1 wrote:
Hey all! Nate, here. Just wanted to let you all know that RP headquarters and the team are all ok. It has been quite the experience. Our office escaped all damage, however my personal house was pretty trashed inside. Lot's of broken stuff and no power for about 16 hours. My kids and I were able to get things cleaned up and we were thankful we were fairly well prepared with generators and other supplies. Alanna, William, and the rest of the team are all ok and faired well. Thanks for the concern and thanks for listening!
Hey all! Nate, here. Just wanted to let you all know that RP headquarters and the team are all ok. It has been quite the experience. Our office escaped all damage, however my personal house was pretty trashed inside. Lot's of broken stuff and no power for about 16 hours. My kids and I were able to get things cleaned up and we were thankful we were fairly well prepared with generators and other supplies. Alanna, William, and the rest of the team are all ok and faired well. Thanks for the concern and thanks for listening!
Great video! The similarity to Kaikoura struck me immediately and had me chasing up Kaikoura and triple junction.. and came up with "Triple junction kinematics accounts for the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake from Xuhua Shi et al. which invokes a separate plate on the accretionary edge of the convergent margin starting from Kaikoura and extending all the way up to Tonga. How has this been received in the community? Does it have any credence?
Lots to unpack in this paper. I understand the desire to create a microplate between the volcanic arc and the subduction zone (essentially the forearc and the accretionary wedge) but then we could also invoke the same here in Cascadia land. It is clear, from paleomag and geodetics, that our forearc is moving at a different relative velocity from the backarc (North America) much like what these authors see in NZ. There are indeed great similarities between the two tectonic systems and they are really complex. NZ's is much more seismically potent as it produces waaaay more significant eqs. than ours. Thanks for pointing out this paper.
Hey all! Nate, here. Just wanted to let you all know that RP headquarters and the team are all ok. It has been quite the experience. Our office escaped all damage, however my personal house was pretty trashed inside. Lot's of broken stuff and no power for about 16 hours. My kids and I were able to get things cleaned up and we were thankful we were fairly well prepared with generators and other supplies. Alanna, William, and the rest of the team are all ok and faired well. Thanks for the concern and thanks for listening!
Thank you for the update! Happy to see that you all made it through with only minor damage. Cheers.
Hey all! Nate, here. Just wanted to let you all know that RP headquarters and the team are all ok. It has been quite the experience. Our office escaped all damage, however my personal house was pretty trashed inside. Lot's of broken stuff and no power for about 16 hours. My kids and I were able to get things cleaned up and we were thankful we were fairly well prepared with generators and other supplies. Alanna, William, and the rest of the team are all ok and faired well. Thanks for the concern and thanks for listening!
Great video! The similarity to Kaikoura struck me immediately and had me chasing up Kaikoura and triple junction.. and came up with "Triple junction kinematics accounts for the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake from Xuhua Shi et al. which invokes a separate plate on the accretionary edge of the convergent margin starting from Kaikoura and extending all the way up to Tonga. How has this been received in the community? Does it have any credence?
Here's a little information about the Mendocino Triple Junction (MTJ) area that just spawned this earthquake. One reason we are one of most seismically active areas in US.
Fascinating Geoff. I didn't realize that the subduction was moving north like that. Thank you for the rabbit hole...
2:30 something last night, MyShake yelled at me "EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKE" and the little indicator told me it was a 6.3 and I should DROP! COVER! HOLD ON!
but we were 200 miles from the epicenter, so didn't feel a thing. And I'd forgotten I'd installed the app. But, it seems to work.
Here's a little information about the Mendocino Triple Junction (MTJ) area that just spawned this earthquake. One reason we are one of most seismically active areas in US.
It was a significant event that caused large accelerations in the area of Ferndale (reported 0.9 g - If an acceleration exceeds 1 g that means it is flying). There doesn't seem to be a lot of structural damage except for Fernbridge that crosses the Eel River and connects Ferndale to the rest of the world. It is an amazing bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... so I'm hoping it is a settlement/liquefaction problem with the approaches and not the main span. A great source of information is https://earthjay.com (he is currently traveling to the area but will have information within the next 24 hours). It appears to be an earthquake in the oceanic Gorda plate which is subducting beneath North America. It is a common earthquake source. We had a similar event exactly one year prior to this one (just a coincidence).
It was a significant event that caused large accelerations in the area of Ferndale (reported 0.9 g - If an acceleration exceeds 1 g that means it is flying). There doesn't seem to be a lot of structural damage except for Fernbridge that crosses the Eel River and connects Ferndale to the rest of the world. It is an amazing bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... so I'm hoping it is a settlement/liquefaction problem with the approaches and not the main span. A great source of information is https://earthjay.com (he is currently traveling to the area but will have information within the next 24 hours). It appears to be an earthquake in the oceanic Gorda plate which is subducting beneath North America. It is a common earthquake source. We had a similar event exactly one year prior to this one (just a coincidence).
Happy to see that you all made it through with only minor damage. Cheers. 
