Major earthquake in the North Sea off Scarborough last night.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-38505158

Didn't feel it though the Glaisdale Seismic station mentioned is only about 6 miles away.
It's thought more than £10,000 in 2p pieces fell from little ledges in South Bay amusements. 

The 2008 Market Raisen quake was much stronger and gave us quite a jolt. Scary at the time as you wondered if it was a really big distant one or a modest one close by - or maybe some kind of explosion on Industrial Teesside to the north. Shaking continued for about a minute which is a long time when you are half considering dashing outside in case it gets worse.

 

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Another series of earthquakes in central Italy, max 5.7. No casualties or serious damage reported, but it must make the inhabitants feel worried.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-earthquake-today-2017-latest-tremors-shaking-rome-casualties-deaths-damage-aftershocks-a7532721.html

Weather footnote - local Mayor says roads blocked by snow even before earthquake!

 

EDIT

And now, tragically, the earthquakes are thought to have triggered this avalanche

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38674788 

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A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck near Papua New Guinea last night:

https://twitter.com/LastQuake/status/823028560743034881 

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Does anybody have any experience/knowledge of the MyShake project form Berkeley Seismological Lab' and Deutsche Telekom, and the MyShake android app.

My tablet keeps on playing little tunes in the middle of the night, presumably to announce another earthquake notification received. My wife is not amused.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100095hh#region-info 

A little larger and I may have noticed it.

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6.7 magnitude quake hits between Bodrum in Turkey & Kos.

Two people reported killed on Kos, over 100 injured. Injuries reported in Turkey. Large waves hit & flooded parts of the Turkish coast (enough to lift & move cars)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40677825

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The 8.1 quake off the Mexico west coast has been slow to attract attention. Severe local damage and dozens of people killed - and a shallow earthquake so that the shaking was intensified (and felt in Mexico city hundreds of miles away). Tsunamis of 3 feet already recorded, reports of larger ones may come in once communication re-established.

Sympathy for Mexico, with a simultaneous eartquake in the west and a hurricane in the east!!

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Another earthquake hits Mexico. 7.1 this time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41327593

 

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Well I guess this this solves the issue of any dodgy cladding (scroll down to the building)

https://twitter.com/Enrique_Acevedo

I wonder just how much some of these structures had been weakened by the previous quake. Nasty stuff.

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OMG, that poor woman sounds so distressed. Terrible.

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Bad situation - 200+ deaths and rising, including 20 children killed when school collapsed, which puts the lethality of hurricanes in the shade.

 

Although the quake was some distance south, I seem to remember from a previous quake that Mexico City is specially vulnerable, because much of it is built on the soft sediments of an old lake floor which allow earthquake waves to amplify.

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Another Mexico earthquake @ 6.1

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/23/americas/mexico-oaxaca-earthquake/index.html

 

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I see the EMSC are reporting a magnitude 7.6 quake in the Iran-Iraq Border region (now reported as 7.2 on USGS)

https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=629693 

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7.6 off the coast of Honduras. Possible tsunami impacting Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

8.0 off the coast of Alaska. Tsunami alert

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Alert now removed.

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Low risk of more than a local tsunami because earthquake was 'strike-slip' i.e. two plates moving horizontally past each other so no displacing large amounts of water.

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6.1 quake felt in Jakarta on Tuesday - http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/61-earthquake-strikes-off-java-in-indonesia

followed by another on Wednesday - http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/01/24/another-earthquake-hardly-felt-in-jakarta.html

 

A powerful quake struck Taiwan today (06/02/2018);

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42966916.

 

Having a busy time up in GrImsey. North Iceland.

 

Grímsey earthquake swarm
- 16.2.2018


Earthquake swarms are happening frequently in the vicinity of Grímsey. An earthquake swarm about 10-12 km North-East of Grímsey started on February 14. As of noon on February 16, over 1000 earthquakes have been detected.

Click on table link below.

• Table

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I take it the rest of the western side of UK felt that?

I think it's centred in S. Wales?

EDIT: Swansea , 4.9

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Yes, you’re right GW!

https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=649041 

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Didn't feel anything here. Must be too far away.

I slept through the 2008 one so I have yet to experience what an earthquake feels like.

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