For this Earthquake Watch we are very pleased to have a contribution about the 2025 Santorini – Amorgos seismic sequence, by Dr. Andreas Karakonstantis, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Patras and National and the Kapodistrian University of Athens. He obtained his Ph.D. in seismology in 2017. Does life move in circles? That is an excellent question to ask, especially in our case rega ...[Read More]
For this Earthquake Watch we are very happy to have Yesim Cubuk-Sabuncu write about the seismicity around the recent eruptions in the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland! Yesim is a postdoctoral researcher in seismology at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Service and Research Division since 2019. She obtained her Ph.D. in Geophysical Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey in 2016. L ...[Read More]
Contribution about the September 2023 M 7.0 earthquake in Al Haouz, Morocco, by Dr. Nacer Jabour, Head of the National Geophysics Institute (CNRST) in Rabat, Morocco, Abdelillah Tahayt, from the Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essadi University in Tanger, Morocco, and Mohamed Kasmi, Lahcen Hni, Youssef Timoulali, Mohamed Menzhi, from the National Geophysics Institute (CNRST) in Rabat, Morocco. A m ...[Read More]
Assoc. Prof. Dr Onur Tan from Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa outlines the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes for the Earthquake Watch. February 6, 2023, was a catastrophic day for Turkey. The most destructive earthquake in the last century, Mw 7.8, hit the eastern part of the country at 04:17 local time. Unexpectedly, the second Mw 7.5 mainshock shook the region nine hours later. The mainsh ...[Read More]
Contribution about the September 2022 M 6.6 and M 6.8 earthquakes in South-East Taiwan Dr.Yifan Yin , recent graduate at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at the Earth Sciences department of ETH Zürich. On 17 September 2022, a magnitude 6.6 quake shook the southern-east Taiwan. The merely 8.6 km deep quake was widely felt across the island. Sixteen hours later, a magnitude 6.8 shallow quake fo ...[Read More]
Dr. F. Ramón Zúñiga, from the Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, outlines the 19 September 2022 Mw7.7 Coalcomán, Mexico earthquake for the last Earthquake Watch of the year. On September 19th, barely one hour after the national drill commemorating the damaging earthquakes of September 19th, in 1985 and 2017, another strong earthquake was widely felt in Mexico. It cause ...[Read More]
Dee Ninis, an Earthquake Geologist and Seismologist from the Seismology Research Centre of Australia, outlines the 22 September 2021 Mw5.9 Woods Point, Australia earthquake for the first Earthquake Watch of the year. On 22 September, 2021 at 09:15 AEST (2021-09-21 23:15 UTC) a moderate earthquake of Mw 5.9 near Woods Point, Victoria, shook southeast Australia. Felt reports were received from as fa ...[Read More]
One year ago, we started a series of blog posts synthesising the main results and discussions about the most significant earthquakes recorded recently, previously called “Earthquake of the month” and now known as “Earthquake Watch.” In our first edition, we reported on the 2020 Simeonof earthquake M 7.8 that occurred in Alaska (read here), and today we return to the same region with another intere ...[Read More]
On May 21, a major shallower earthquake (M7.3) hit Central China at 18:04 UTC in the southern Qinghai province (Figure 1). Until this date, this event is the largest onshore earthquake during 2021. The so-called Qinghai earthquake’s hypocenter is located in a remote area near the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, which is formed due to the collision between the India Plate and the Eurasia ...[Read More]
March 2021 was a busy month for Geoscientists from the seismic sequence in Iceland and their apparent migration towards the emergence of the new volcano Fagradalsfjall, the onshore, shallow earthquake M6.3 in Thessaly (Greece) on March 3rd (the largest in Europe during 2021), and other major shallow earthquake M6.0 in Algeria on March 18th. For this EQ-Watch we focus on the seismic sequence in New ...[Read More]