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

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

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

6.9 quake in California, close to the one that happened the other day.

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

7.1

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

7.1

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

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

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?

 

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.

 

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