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 

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.

No reports of damage yet https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51287493

Surprising for this magnitude, even though it was a sideslip on the fault

Reports just come in of a richter scale 6.0 earthquake on Crete in the Eastern Meditarranean.

Reports just come in of a richter scale 6.0 earthquake on Crete in the Eastern Meditarranean.

Just wondering what part of the island has this affected - quite a nasty jolt and capable of causing quite a bit of damage and maybe some deaths as well ?

John

Can't see where else to slip this in, but it is interesting in a seismic kind of way...
Coronavirus lockdown affects seismic noise from humans
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-52509924

Roger

Any links to that Gavin?

Just wondering what part of the island has this affected - quite a nasty jolt and capable of causing quite a bit of damage and maybe some deaths as well ?

John

See https://www.emsc-csem.org/#2 &
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/2020/05/02/12h51/magnitude6-Greece-quake.html.

So far not heard it caused significant if any damage, but we find out later.

There has just been a magnitude 5.6 (IMO reported magnitude) quake in SW Iceland (about 25km S of Reykjavik). It is in an area that has been quite active this year and has several interlinked volcanic systems. At present I don’t know if it is tectonic or magmatic.

USGS have revised it to magnitude 5.5.

No current sign of any eruption.

Could be bad

A powerful earthquake has struck off Turkey's Aegean coast, north of the Greek island of Samos, officials said.

The 7.0 magnitude tremor, about 17km (11 miles) off the coast of western Izmir province, was felt as far away as Athens and Istanbul, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

There was no word on casualties but images from the Turkish city of Izmir showed buildings that had collapsed.