Just two days before Christmas Christchurch is experiencing another swarm of earthquakes, reaching up to magnitude 6.0. The first one was shallow 5.8 magnitude quake just before 2pm.The quakes caused ground liquefaction, a significant rock fall and damage to a
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck south of the Kermadec Islands today at 10:10:08 UTC with epicenter located 130 km (80 miles) South of L’Esperance Rock, 386 km (239 miles) SouthWest of Raoul Island and 734 km (456 miles) NorthEast of Auckland, New Zealand (32.604°S,
Strong magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Papua New Guinea today at 05:04:56 UTC and was located 89 km (55 miles) SSW of Lae, New Guinea, 123 km (76 miles) ENE of Kerema, New Guinea and 221 km (137 miles) NNW of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (7.518°S, 146.767°E).
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit Gorontalo Minahasa, Sulawesi in Indonesia today at 07:52:11 UTC (15:52:12 Local time). Epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) South of TenggaraGorontalo, Sulawesi and 260 km (161 miles) Southwest of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia (0.010°N,
Magnitude 4.7 earthquake hit Montenegro today at 17:04:45.0 UTC (18:04:45 Local time) 6 km south of Pljevlja and 94 km north from Podgorica (43.31 N ; 19.34 E) with epicenter at depth of 10 km according to EMSC. Seismology Institute of Montenegro (SZCG) recorded
Mggnitude 6.2 earthquake hit South Sandwich Islands region today at 09:54:55 UTC (07:54:55 AM Local Time). Epicenter was 104 km (64 miles) NW of Visokoi Island, South Sandwich Islands and 354 km (219 miles) NNW of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands (55.980°S,
A very strong earthquake magnitude 6.5 occurred near Iguala Mexico at 07:47 PM local time (01:47:26 UTC). Luckily the hypocenter was at a depth of 64.9 km (40.3 miles) according to USGS with epicenter 42 km (26 miles) SW of Iguala, Guerrero, 56 km (34 miles) ESE
A strong earthquake of 6.1 grades affected some localities on the north of Chile and caused panic among the inhabitants. The local newspapers informed that a lot of people where in the shopping malls and escaped asap to open places, thinking that it was a stronger
Magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit Kepulauan Sula region of Indonesia at 13:38:28 UTC 266 km (165 miles) SSW of Ternate and recently awaken Gamalama volcano in Molucca Sea, Indonesia, 311 km (193 miles) NW of Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia and 792 km (492 miles) N of Dili,
The massive waves were triggered by a devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan last March and crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, gave the sea floor a huge shove toward Honshu, Japan’s largest island. But until now it has been unclear how
