M 5.9 in East Of Kuril Islands on 07 Aug 2022 13:40 UTC

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11 years and 5 months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, supported by the wedding ring left by her husband

2022-08-11T07:33+0200tellerreport (en)

[NHK] It has been 11 years and 5 months since the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on the 11th. A woman in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, who lost her husband in the tsunami, used her wedding ring left by her husband as support. 11 days will be 11 years and 5 months since the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Moderate tremor of magnitude 4.4 just reported 49 km northeast of Barranca, Peru

2022-08-10T13:53+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake near Kefamenanu, Kabupaten Timor Tengah Utara, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, was reported only 12 minutes ago by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide.

Moderate magnitude 4.8 quake hits 69 km northwest of Kefamenanu, Indonesia early evening

2022-08-10T13:26+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake near Kefamenanu, Kabupaten Timor Tengah Utara, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, was reported only 12 minutes ago by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide.

Light mag. 4.8 earthquake - Timor-Leste: TIMOR REGION, INDONESIA, on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 11:03 GMT

2022-08-10T13:26+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

Moderate magnitude 4.8 quake hits 69 km northwest of Kefamenanu, Indonesia early evening A magnitude 4.8 earthquake near Kefamenanu, Kabupaten Timor Tengah Utara, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, was reported only 12 minutes ago by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), considered one....

Magnitude 3.4 earthquake hits Sohag city

2022-08-09T06:02+0200digitpatrox (en)

A photograph taken on July 15, 2022 exhibits a wheat subject close to Mariupol in Donetsk area, amid the continued Russian army motion in Ukraine. (Photograph by STRINGER / AFP) (Photograph by STRINGER/AFP through Getty Photographs) The stations of the Nationwide Seismic Community of the Nationwide....

August 8, 2022 Magnitude 3.4 earthquake hits Sohag city

2022-08-08T17:37+0200egyptindependent (en)

A photo taken on July 15, 2022 shows a wheat field near Mariupol in Donetsk region, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images) The stations of the National Seismic Network of the National Research Institute of Astronomy....

6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Kuril Islands

2022-08-08T11:36+0200menafn (en)

- The Peninsula) QNA. Moscow: An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale hit of f Shikotan island of the Kuril Islands located in the Far East of Russia. According to the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS), the earthquake epicenter was located 117 km to the....

Earthquake hits Roshtkhar in Razavi Khorasan province

2022-08-08T11:30+0200irna (en)

The earthquake occurred at 12:15 local time at Monday noon, and at the depth of 8 kilometers, a provincial official said. Hossein Bahoush, governor of Roshtkhar county, told IRNA on Monday that the earthquake took place at the depth of 8 kilometers in Kal Soheh resort of Fathabad village near Roshtkhar city.

6 Magnitude earthquake strikes off Kuril Islands

2022-08-08T10:43+0200thepeninsulaqatar (en)

Moscow: An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale hit of f Shikotan island of the Kuril Islands located in the Far East of Russia. According to the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS), the earthquake epicenter was located 117 km to the east of the town of....

Significant magnitude 5.4 earthquake 135 km southwest of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea

2022-08-08T08:14+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake near Kokopo, Kokopo District, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 17 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide.

Moderate earthquake of magnitude 4.3 just reported 25 km east of Ishqoshim, Afghanistan

2022-08-08T06:53+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

Just 19 minutes ago, a 4.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Ishqoshim, Ishkoshim, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Monday, August 8th, 2022, at 9:30 am local time, at an intermediate depth of 140 km below the surface.

Moderate magnitude 4.3 earthquake 14 km east of Miyako, Japan

2022-08-08T03:18+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 occurred in the morning on Monday, August 8th, 2022, at 9:47 am local time near Miyako, Miyako-shi, Iwate, Japan, as reported by Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED). According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a moderately shallow depth of 46.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 was recorded off the coast of the Kuril Islands

2022-08-08T02:20+0200tellerreport (en)

2022-08-08T00:18:22.201Z. An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 occurred off the coast of the Kuril Islands. This was reported in the Sakhalin branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “Earth tremors of magnitude 6.0 were registered on August 8 at 00:40.

Notes from Central Taiwan: Tsunami of need

2022-08-07T18:51+0200taipeitimes (en)

Similarly, a 2015 study of coral boulders on Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼), “Coral boulders along the coast of the Lanyu Island, offshore southeastern Taiwan, as potential paleotsunami records,” identified several out of place coral boulders that were likely due to tsunamis. “The largest boulder on the island, at Site 14, has a long axis of 7.

Significant magnitude 6.0 earthquake 112 km east of Shikotan, Russia

2022-08-07T16:17+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

Russia was shaken near Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, by an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 only 16 minutes ago, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, late at night on Sunday, August 7th, 2022, at 11:40 pm local time.

Very strong mag. 6.0 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 183 km east of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, on Sunday, Aug 7, 2022 at 10:40 pm (GMT +9) - information

2022-08-07T16:17+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

Russia was shaken near Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, by an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 only 16 minutes ago, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, late at night on Sunday, August 7th, 2022, at 11:40 pm local time.

15:43Leggera scossa di terremoto all’ora di pranzo a San Felice del Benaco

2022-08-07T16:10+0200quibrescia (it)

San Felice del Benaco . L’Istituto nazionale di geologia e vulcanologia ha segnalato una scossa di terremoto di intensità molto lieve (magnitudo 2), verificatasi alle 12,42 di questa domenica a San Felice del Benaco. L’epicentro è stato quattro chilometri est del paese a nove chilometri di pr of ondità .

Moderate yet deep magnitude 5.4 quake hits 126 km east of Madang, Papua New Guinea around noon

2022-08-07T06:41+0200volcanodiscovery (en)

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake near Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, was reported only 22 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey, considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide. The earthquake occurred at an intermediate to considerable....

Un séisme de magnitude 6,0 secoue la côte centrale de Taïwan

2022-08-06T14:51+0200news-24 (fr)

TAIPEI, Taïwan (AP) – Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,0 a secoué Taïwan lundi matin. Aucun dommage ou blessé n’a été signalé dans l’immédiat. Le séisme a frappé à 09h05 à une pr of ondeur de 6,8 kilomètres (4,2 miles) dans le comté de Hualien, à mi-chemin sur la côte est de l’île, a indiqué le Bureau météorologique central de Taïwan.

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