Earthquake

Date

Latitude

GCMT

Longitude

GCMT

Depth

km

Magnitude

Mw

Figure

Number

Long-Term Slip

Rate, mm/a

Calilfornia, southern

1857 Jan 9

35.7

−120.3

14

7.9

33 and 34

33

California, northern

1906 Apr 18

38.0

−123.0

12

7.8

1 and 32

28

Guatemala

1976 Feb 4

15.1

−89.78

16

7.5

30 and 31

<21

Macquarie Ridge

1989 May 23

−52.15

160.41

15

8.0

4

27

Luzon, Phillipines

1990 July 16

15.97

121.23

15

7.7

16 and 17

~9 to 17

Balleny region

1998 Mar 25

−62.99

148.94

29

8.1

22

Ceram Sea

1998 Nov 29

−2.03

125.00

16

7.7

25 and 26

Sumatra, Southern

2000 Jun 4

−4.73

101.94

44

7.8

14 and 15

Indian Ocean, South

2000 Jun 18

−13.47

−97.17

15

7.9

23

Qinghai, China

2001 Nov 14

35.80

92.91

15

7.8

20 and 21

12

Alaska, Denali Fault

2002 Nov 3

63.22

−144.89

15

7.8

7 and 8

10

Macquarie Ridge

2004 Dec 23

−49.91

161.25

28

8.1

5

Sichuan, China

2008 May 12

31.44

104.10

13

7.9

18 and 19

~4

Sumatra, off Northern

2012 Apr 11

2.35

92.82

46

8.6

27 and 28

Sumatra, off Northern

2012 Apr 11

0.90

92.31

55

8.2

27 and 28

Southeast Alaska

2013 Jan 5

55.69

−134.97

14

7.5

9

52

Pakistan

2013 Sept 24

26.70

65.04

12

7.8

2

<38

Scotia Sea

2013 Nov 17

−60.49

−45.32

24

7.8

6

12

Sumatra, off Southwest

2016 Mar 2

−4.75

94.22

37

7.8

29

New Zealand

2016 Nov 13

−42.03

173.85

19

7.8

11 to 13

35

Kommandorsky Islands

2017 Jul 17

54.13

169.78

23

7.8

10

51

Cayman Trough, west

2018 Jan 10

17.56

−83.86

16

7.5

3

21

Alaska, Gulf

2018 Jan 23

56.22

−149.12

34

7.9

24

Cayman Trough, east

2020 Jan 28

19.33

−79.55

24

7.7

3

~16

Slip Rates from references

plus DeMets

et al.

[13]

and Field

et al.

[14]