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M 5.2 - 145km E of Iquique, Chile
VI
DYFI?
Time 2020-01-08 08:47:44 (UTC)

Location 20.438°S 68.773°W
Depth 109.1 km

M 4.5 - 105km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina

Time 2020-01-07 17:21:19 (UTC)
Location 24.222°S 67.353°W
Depth 191.6 km

M 4.4 - 93km NW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina

Time 2020-01-07 16:26:41 (UTC)
Location 23.569°S 66.909°W
Depth 227.9 km

soo rotation of movement, plate force movement direction appears general behaviour to be bottom right to top left of the map

heading out to see well off the coast (hopefully)
possibly off the coast of peru ... hopefully if anything

something a little different right up at the top of the world

M 4.8 - North of Franz Josef Land

Time 2020-01-08 12:07:46 (UTC)
Location 86.266°N 37.206°E
Depth 10.0 km

M 4.4 - 72km NNW of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands

Time 2020-01-09 01:42:44 (UTC)
Location 58.395°S 26.761°W
Depth 221.8 km

M 5.4 - 76km NNE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
III
ShakeMapGREEN
PAGER
Time 2020-01-09 17:15:03 (UTC)

Location 56.064°S 26.722°W
Depth 35.0 km

not many quakes around this area
not very big but quite shallow and because of the lack of quakes it means there is likely to be buildings and land that has not settled.
i am guessing this probably did a small amount of damage

M 4.2 - 2km SSW of Orzesze, Poland
V
DYFI?
Time 2020-01-13 13:34:17 (UTC)

Location 50.133°N 18.771°E
Depth 5.0 km

M 5.0 - 4km SSE of Ishige, Japan
IV
DYFI?

Time 2020-01-13 19:53:47 (UTC)



Location 36.079°N 139.986°E

Depth 38.7 km



M 5.1 - 40km ENE of Kashima-shi, Japan

III
DYFI?

Time 2020-01-14 04:25:49 (UTC)



Location 36.078°N 141.074°E

Depth 35.0 km

4.6 in the desert not far from last year's earthquakes in Ridgecrest. About halfway between LA and Vegas. It was felt (weakly) in both places. 4.6 isn't very strong and little damage is expected.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.../executive

Large 7.5 offshore SW Alaska. Luckily it is an almost uninhabited area so damage and injuries are unlikely. There was some concern about a tsunami, but that didn't happen either.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.../executive

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.../intensity

We just had a mag 5.1 earthquake just east of where I live. 5.1 is a moderate earthquake but it should definitely be noticable and generate lots of conversation.

Except that I didn't feel anything!

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.../executive

Big Mag 7.8 earthquake in southeastern Turkey today. Reports of serious damage and many dead. The USGS estimates 1,000-10,000 dead.

Large aftershocks - one was mag 6.7, which is a pretty large earthquake in its own right

Reports that hospitals and government buildings in southern Turkish cities of Iskenderun and Antakya have collapsed. Reports that the Turkish government is unable to contact some smaller towns in the area of the quake center. Electricity and cell service out over a wide area.

People on Twitter asked Elon if SpaceX could send Starlink terminals. Elon says the Turkish government still hasn't approved Starlink, but SpaceX will send them as soon as the Turks permit it.

Many large buildings in Iskenderun are collapsed. Police and fire say they are unable to get into some parts of the city. Photos coming out of Iskenderun look really bad:

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/...8094761984

Cellphone video of the earthquake as it happened:

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1622438316007165954

https://twitter.com/Naveedawan78/status/...2408449024

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1622432605126774788

USGS Earthquake pages

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.../executive

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...jllz/pager

It was felt over a wide area, from the Turkish Black Sea coast, down through Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel. But the most serious damage seems to be in Turkey and down into Syria. There are reports of many collapsed buildings in Syria.

Turkey is appealing to a NATO disaster coordination thing for international aid. And Syria has appealed to the Arab league. The EU is sending search and rescue teams to Turkey. Britain has deployed about 75 search and rescue workers. Japan has sent a similar number. The US has promised aid, but hasn't provided any details as of yet.

Most of the aid is going to Turkey. But Syria isn't completely forgotten. Russia is sending aid to its Syrian ally.

The governor of Hatay Turkey says the situation is very bad in his province. Approx 1,200 buildings are collapsed there.

There have been many aftershocks, hundreds of them over a wide area (the Turks report 276 aftershocks). Some have been quite large, one a major mag 7.5 earthquake in its own right, making this essentially a double earthquake, with two in the 6-7 range (those are big earthquakes) and something like ten in the 5-6 range. Large aftershocks like these can be quite destructive, bringing down buildings weakened by the first quake and causing piles of rubble to settle, squashing people trapped in small voids underneath.

Here's rescue efforts at a collapsed building/pile of rubble in Antep, when another high-rise building collapses behind them.

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1622576128396255233

There are reports of fires burning out of control in some places, because firefighters can't get through the rubble and wouldn't have water if they did.



Here's the USGS writeup on the 7.5 one

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.../executive