Earthquake Report: M 7.0 Papua New Guinea

This morning (my time) I received a notification from the National Tsunami Warning Center, the organization responsible for generating notifications for my locality (California). There was a magnitude M 7.0 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00rsi26z/executive This earthquake was almost…

Earthquake Report: M 7.8 in Turkey/Syria

We just had a severe earthquake in south eastern Turkey, northwestern Syria. We call this the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive Well, I learned tonight (14 Feb) that these M 7.8 and M 7.5 earthquakes have been named by the Turkey Minister…