A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck the city of Mangya in northwest China's Qinghai province at 05:54 am Sunday (local time), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Prince Edward Islands region at 20:05:44 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 47.1 degrees south latitude and 33.4549 degrees east longitude.
Last week saw 3 M6 and 1 M7, the highest being the M7.3 in the Flores Sea, Indonesia.Last week saw 2 M6, with the biggest being a M6.5 close to the Antarctic. There was as discussed in this thread a sudden swarm of activity off the Oregon coast, which appears to have subsided...for the time being.
In the usual area, there were 38 out of 143 earthquakes worldwide equal to or greater than 4.5 and 1427 out of 1856 quakes of all sizes.
Percentage: 76.9%
6.2 quake strikes off coast of California
A strong, 6.2 earthquake has hit off the northern coast of California. Twitter has been flooded with reports of people describing the tremor, which reportedly came in waves.www.rt.com6.2 quake strikes off coast of California
20 Dec, 2021 20:29 / Updated 27 minutes ago
A strong, 6.2 earthquake has hit off the northern coast of California. Twitter has been flooded with reports of people describing the tremor, which reportedly came in waves.
The quake struck at 12:10 PST (20:10 GMT), approximately 38 kilometers west of the northern Californian community of Petrolia.
The earthquake was centered in the Pacific Ocean, according to reports, and state emergency services say they are monitoring any potential “secondary impacts.”
Weather services have warned that the quake has not made enough of an impact to issue any official tsunami warnings.
Witnesses have flocked to social media to describe the impact they felt, with many saying it was enough to wake them up.
This has become another swarm, mostly in Humboldt County (populated heavily by mask and jab loving blues). I'm seeing 64 in the last 24 hours (more accurately 12). The 6.2 was felt in SF and Redding (inland) according to local radio..M6.2 quake in California. No tsunami warning issued, and, according to the article below, the most people are reporting is being 'woken up' by it:
We’re about an hour and a half North of SF and didn’t feel a thing. Concerning nonetheless and glad to not be traveling far for the holidaysDon't know what folks were doing being "woken up" at 1pm but we were in Redding at the time and did not feel it.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted South Sandwich Islands region at 0551 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said
BEIJING, Dec. 22 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Dec, 2021) : An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted South Sandwich Islands region at 0551 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The epicenter, with a depth of 35 km, was initially determined to be at 57.7804 degrees south latitude and 25.2635 degrees west longitude.