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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
Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons
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
Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East
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
6.9 quake in California, close to the one that happened the other day.
Originally Posted by: JHutch
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
7.1That can't be an aftershock? Can an aftershock be larger than the original quake?
Originally Posted by: KevBrads1
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
5.1 Greek earthquake: Buildings collapse as powerful tremor shakes Athenshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49047793
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
Originally Posted by: DEW
Was it caused by a collective foot-stamping by long-haired teenagers after being told Boardmasters was cancelled?
Originally Posted by: Saint Snow
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.