The 6.0 magnitude earthquake in the north Pacific was recorded just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, intriguing scientists for its location far from fault lines.
Many residents were given several seconds’ warning before the shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck east of San Jose this week.
Hough said a handful of people in California reported to USGS feeling “weak shaking” around the time of the earthquake, but she said it’s hard to confirm if that was a direct result of the oceanic quake. She said she expects this earthquake could trigger more research about intraplate seismic activity and any lingering effects, but otherwise she called it “not that big a deal.”
“The expectation is that it’s just an oddball, kind of black swan event that’s in the middle of the Pacific,” Hough said. “But people will be keeping an eye on it.”led to scientists finding an underwater volcano, but Hough said that was after detecting repeated earthquakes and movement, which she has seen no sign of in this case.
But she said it does underscore how some earthquake activity remains difficult to predict or explain, noting that a 6.0 earthquake near Chicago or on the East Coast could cause real damage. “These oddball, intraplate earthquakes can pop up where we haven’t seen them in human lifetimes,” Hough said. “An unlikely place isn’t a problem if it’s in the middle of the north Pacific or well offshore — an unlikely quake close to people is a problem.”
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