Category:Types of earthquake

*

• Megathrust earthquakes (6 C, 2 P)

B

• Buried rupture earthquakes (61 P)

D

• Doublet earthquakes (58 P)

E

• Earthquake clusters, swarms, and sequences (2 C, 59 P)
• Earthquake swarms (12 P)

S

• Strike-slip earthquakes (1 C, 75 P)
• Supershear earthquakes (32 P)

T

• Tsunami earthquakes (24 P)

V

• Volcano tectonic earthquakes (9 P)

• Types of earthquake

A

• Aftershock

B

• Blind thrust earthquake
• Buried rupture earthquake

C

• Cryoseism

D

• Deep-focus earthquake
• Depth of focus (tectonics)
• Doublet earthquake

F

• Foreshock

I

• Interplate earthquake
• Intraplate earthquake

M

• Mainshock
• Megathrust earthquake

R

• Remotely triggered earthquakes
• Ring-shaped seismicity structures

S

• Skyquake
• Slow earthquake
• Submarine earthquake
• Supershear earthquake
• Earthquake swarm

T

• Tidal triggering of earthquakes