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Magnitude Mw6.4 #earthquake in the region of the #Mendocino triple junction, at northern end of the San Andreas fault, #California. Mechanism is strike slip; rupture may have occurred on any of the ~N-S or ~E-W fault plane as it's a tectonically complicated area.
Mechanism Geoscope IPGP: http://geoscope.ipgp.fr/index.php/en/catalog/earthquake-description?seis=nc73821036
@RobinLacassin such interesting information!
USGS got very similar mechanism, but puts hypocenter deeper (around 20km). This perhaps means that the #earthquake rupture happened in the Gorda tectonic plate beneath the upper N American plate. The small Gorda plate is plunging under N America along the #Cascadia #subduction zone.