Earthquake Report: Venezuela

Busy week! We just had a M 7.3 earthquake in northern Venezuela. Sadly, this large earthquake has the potential to be quite damaging to people and their belongings (buildings, infrastructure). https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000gez7/executive The northeastern part of Venezuela lies a large strike-slip…

Earthquake Report: Lombok, Indonesia

Well well. After a pretty seismically quiet first half of 2018, we have been catching up rapidly. The ultra deep Great Earthquake in Fiji. And now the Lombok sequence continues. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000gda5/executive The inhabitants and tourists in the Lombok, Indonesia region…