Major 7.3 quake in Venezuela, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago

[malaise]

Last edited Tue Aug 21, 2018, 07:25 PM - Edit history (2)

Felt as far as Trinidad, Barbados.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7070544/venezuela-earthquake-magnitude-7-guiria/

Contrary to rumors across the region, there is no tsunami warning.

[B2G]

1. Is California next?

Seems to be moving around the ring.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. California is in the "Ring of Fire"

Venezuela and the Caribbean are not.

[B2G]

8. Yes but

There have been a lot of large quakes in the ring too.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. There are actually hundreds of thousands of earthquakes every single day.

We live on a seismically active planet. Check out my post #10 below. It will either reassure you, or make you freak out completely. I hope the former.

[B2G]

13. Not freaking out at all.

Just speculating. I'm not in California. I moved after the Loma Prieta quake in 89.

[Roland99]

9. Please no. I head there tomorrow for 10 days

[Renew Deal]

2. Looks like it's near a fault line

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000gez7#executive

[B2G]

3. Most earthquakes are. Nt

[malaise]

4. Serious damage in Trinidad

Just heard from a good friend

[B2G]

5. Yikes.

Would be really nervous if I was still living in California right now.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Okay, calm down everyone.

First off, earthquakes occur literally every single day on this planet. Even major ones are more common than you might think.
This graphic may help:



And those who are thinking an earthquake in the Caribbean means California is ready to blow, you need to learn more about earthquakes and plate tectonics. Two completely different plates and fault systems are involved.

[malaise]

12. 7.3 quakes do not happen everyday

But you are right re lots of minor quakes daily.

The tsunami alert is not true.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Right, not every day, but on average 18 quakes of magnitude 7 or better occur each year.

That's about one every couple of months.

Every year there are 150 quakes of magnitude 6 or stronger. That's about one every other day. Earthquakes not only happen, but are astonishingly common. We now hear of every single earthquake of magnitude 5 or so simply because they can be reported. Even ten years ago we were less likely to hear of relatively minor quakes. If this one in Venezuela had occurred 20 or more years ago, I bet none of us, unless we had relatives there, would have heard about it.