7.5 scale 100 miles from New Caledonia at 0418 this morning. Some tsunami alerts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46450848

Did anyone feel a minor earthquake at 21.45 yesterday evening?
There is no evidence on our local seismometer but a couple of bars of soap had fallen to the floor.
[Better than into the toilet!]

Reported to BGS.

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/helicorder/heli_dir_shz/LMK_SHZ_GB_00.2018122300.gif

Roger

Not our fly boys doing a supersonic then?

3.6 quake around Crawley in the early hours of this morning.

There's recently been new oil drilling but not fracking but IMO no relevant.

I thought it was Reigate?

Apparently it was felt around here too, but I didn't notice and house is full of cracks anyway

I suppose its the same sort of shake as a lorry going past

Officially now 3.3 centred on Newdigate, about equidistant from Reigate and Crawley. I was originally relying on a Radio Sussex report -  suppose they reckoned that listeners would know Crawley as it's in Sussex but Reigate? That could be anywhere as it's over the border

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48876482 

Here's the BBC take on it, JH.

Stronger quake rattles Southern California

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48891511

Worth keeping an eye on it.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/seismograms

Roger

That can't be an aftershock? Can an aftershock be larger than the original quake?

Looks as though the 6.4 event was a foreshock

I don’t think this event would be classified as an aftershock and was probably triggered by the previous smaller quake. In a way I guess the first one was a “foreshock” to this quake.

Edit: You wrote your reply while I was typing mine. 

Have a quick look at the link I offered above and you will see what a lot is going on!
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/seismograms

Roger

5.1 Greek earthquake: Buildings collapse as powerful tremor shakes Athens
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49047793

Roger

Looks like a lot of mobile phones in use in the last post.

Mini-quake in Cornwall yesterday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-49286669

Was it caused by a collective foot-stamping by long-haired teenagers after being told Boardmasters was cancelled?

Cynic! My great-niece, about to go to her first proper festival, is quietly devastated by the cancellation.

Well she can rant at the crap British weather like the rest* of us

* apart from those in the SE, who are having a stunning summer apparently

Big earthquake in Albania last night, felt in many adjacent countries.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50555776

3.2 quake in Somerset (3.4 on some reports) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-50682105

Major earthquake (6.8) in Eastern Turkey at Sivrice, some distance east of Ankara, 20 fatalities and counting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51245088

If I read this correctly https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298907726_Lake_Hazar_Basin_A_Negative_Flower_Structure_on_the_East_Anatolian_Fault_System_EAFS_SE_Turkey

the area is part of a complex fault zone mainly associated with the East Anatolian fault and Lake Hazar just to the east of Sivrice has been created by a spreading of the earth's crust. Last significant earthquake in the area was in 2007.

Istanbul is the one everyone is fearing. Been a long time since a major quake 

On a different fault line, the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) - on which the successive quakes have been moving steadily westwards, and, as you say, Istanbul is the next stop. Just hope the present quake doesn't tickle up the NAF.