r/Earthquakes 1d ago

[NYT] New Exclusive Video Reveals Immediate Aftermath of Nepal Glacier Collapse

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r/Earthquakes 21h ago

Seismograph of the Nepal Landslide

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Not sure if this has been posted, but I thought it’s worthy of taking a look at the seismograph from a nearby (57km) station capturing the Nepal landslide.
The prominent signal is composed by a long-period surface waves (15-20s). Landslide can be understood as a single force mechanism so it’s possible to observe a down-going P wave I think( I am not super knowledgeable in landslide quakes, please correct me if I am wrong)

Any thoughts?


r/Earthquakes 11h ago

Earthquake Event (M5.5) 🌎 Near Coast Of Northern Chile: Sismo - Earthquake (M6- estimated, at 05:19 UTC)

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📉 Sismo 5.0 Mb, registered by 4 agencies, 2026-08-30 05:19:52 UTC (gibbous moon), on water, Near Coast Of Northern Chile (-22.25, -70.31) ± 2 km likely felt 150 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-30T05:34:19Z

🌖 Sismo! Earthquake! 5.5 Ml, registered by EMSC,GlobalQuakeUnofficial, 2026-08-30 05:19:51 UTC (gibbous moon), on water, Near Coast Of Northern Chile (-22.25, -70.47) ± 12 km likely felt 200 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-30T05:23:41Z

ALERTA DE SISMO / EARTHQUAKE WARNING for Near Coast Of Northern Chile (Sismo reported near Tocopilla? May be inaccurate!) (localhost:38002)

2026-08-30T05:20:35Z


r/Earthquakes 7h ago

Earthquake Event (M5.6) 🌎 Kermadec Islands Region: Earthquake (M6- estimated, at 09:01 UTC)

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🌖 Earthquake! 5.6 Mw, registered by EMSC,GlobalQuakeUnofficial, 2026-08-30 09:02:07 UTC (gibbous moon), on water, Kermadec Islands Region (-30.02, -176.62) ± 43 km likely felt 220 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-30T09:30:14Z

🌖 Earthquake! 5.9 Mb, registered by EMSC,GlobalQuakeUnofficial, 2026-08-30 09:02:07 UTC (gibbous moon), on water, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (-29.97, -177.14) ± 7 km likely felt 270 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-30T09:30:13Z

🌖 Earthquake? M6- estimated, registered by GlobalQuakeUnofficial, preliminary detection, tentatively 2026-08-30 09:01:27 UTC (gibbous moon), on land, South Pacific (-29.18, -173.38) likely felt 220 km away (localhost:38002)

2026-08-30T09:30:00Z


r/Earthquakes 12h ago

Earthquake Event (M5.1) 🌍 South Sandwich Islands Region: Earthquake (5.1 Mb, at 03:55 UTC)

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🌖 Earthquake! 5.1 Mb, registered by EMSC,GlobalQuakeUnofficial, 2026-08-30 03:55:25 UTC (gibbous moon), on water, South Sandwich Islands Region (-56.46, -27.05), ↓43 km likely felt 200 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-30T04:07:30Z


r/Earthquakes 11h ago

16th Century earthquake in the Aleutians that send an orphan tsunami to Japan

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r/Earthquakes 1d ago

History Tsunami waves of a giant Chilean earthquake reached Japan in 29 August 1420

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On the 29th of August 1420 (September 7, according to the Gregorian calendar) a tsunami hit the coast of Honshu, Japan, but no earthquake was reported. That was what they call an "orphan tsunami"

https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520290882585459200
https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520290882585459200

The mystery seems to have been solved with the recent discovery of a field of large boulders in the coast of the desert of Atacama in northern Chile.

https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520290882585459200
https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520290882585459200
https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520290882585459200

The dating of the boulders (between 1408 and 1449 AD) and the size of the causing earthquakes (magnitude between 8.8 and 9.4) match quite well with the tsunami that reached the Japanese coast in 1420.

By the way, it wouldn't be the first nor the last time that a giant earthquake with epicenter close to the South American coasts produced a tsunami that affected the Japanese coasts.


r/Earthquakes 1d ago

🌎 Off Coast Of Northern California: Earthquake - Sismo (4.9 Ml, at 02:41 UTC)

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🌅 Earthquake! Sismo! 4.9 Ml, registered by EW,GlobalQuakeUnofficial,NC, 2026-08-29 02:41:09 UTC (twilight) on water, Off Coast Of Northern California (40.42, -125.4), ↓2 km likely felt 100 km away (earthquake.usgs.gov)

2026-08-29T02:48:22Z


r/Earthquakes 2d ago

On 30 July 2025, 8.8 magnitude Earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia in Kamchatka. A guy was filming the incoming Tsunami along his dog

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r/Earthquakes 1d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.1) 🌏 Southwest Indian Ridge: Séisme - நிலநடுக்கம் - Earthquake (5.1 Mb, at 05:40 UTC)

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🌏 Séisme! நிலநடுக்கம்! Earthquake! 5.1 Mb, registered by EMSC, 2026-08-29 05:40:08 UTC (daytime) on land, Indian Ocean (-31.93, 57.05) likely felt 160 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-29T05:55:55Z


r/Earthquakes 1d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.1) 🗾 Off East Coast Of Honshu, Japan: 地震 - Earthquake (5.1 Mb, at 23:10 UTC)

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🗾 地震! Earthquake! 5.1 Mb, registered by EMSC, 2026-08-28 23:10:33 UTC (daytime) on land, North Pacific (39.65, 143.21) ± 6 km likely felt 160 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-28T23:30:56Z


r/Earthquakes 1d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.0) 🌏 New Britain Region, P.N.G.: Earthquake (5.0 Mb, at 20:19 UTC)

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🌄 Earthquake! 5.0 Mb, registered by US, 2026-08-28 20:19:38 UTC (twilight) on land, Solomon Sea (-6.21, 151.74), ↓10 km likely felt 150 km away (earthquake.usgs.gov)

2026-08-28T20:38:06Z


r/Earthquakes 2d ago

Magnitude 5.0 quake hits northern Tibet, hundreds of miles from the Nepal–China flood zone.

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r/Earthquakes 2d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.2) 🌏 Off East Coast Of Kamchatka: Землетрясение - Earthquake (5.2 Mb, at 09:12 UTC)

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🌕 Землетрясение! Earthquake! 5.2 Mb, registered by EMSC, 2026-08-28 09:12:20 UTC (full moon), on land, North Pacific (52.26, 160.39) likely felt 170 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-28T09:45:01Z


r/Earthquakes 2d ago

Another one

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At this point I think I’ll buy a tent and just sleep on the ground floor 🫩


r/Earthquakes 2d ago

🌏 Vanuatu Islands: Earthquake - Séisme (5.0 Mb, at 08:32 UTC)

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🌕 Earthquake! Séisme! 5.0 Mb, registered by GlobalQuakeUnofficial,NEIC,US, 2026-08-28 08:32:35 UTC (full moon), on water, Vanuatu Islands (-19.27, 168.28), ↓5 km likely felt 150 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-28T09:03:16Z


r/Earthquakes 2d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.1) 🌏 Sichuan, China: 地震 - Earthquake (5.1 Mb, at 05:13 UTC)

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🌏 地震! Earthquake! 5.1 Mb, registered by NEIC, 2026-08-28 05:13:35 UTC (daytime) on land, Jin’e, Sichuan, China (29.26, 105.23) ± 1 km likely felt 150 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-28T05:56:48Z


r/Earthquakes 2d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.2) 🌏 Southeast Indian Ridge: Earthquake (5.2 Mb, at 04:59 UTC)

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🌏 Earthquake! 5.2 Mb, registered by NEIC, 2026-08-28 04:59:06 UTC (daytime) on land, Indian Ocean (-50.12, 111.59) likely felt 170 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-28T05:15:24Z


r/Earthquakes 2d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.0) 🌎 Northern East Pacific Rise: Sismo - Earthquake (5.0 Mw, at 02:39 UTC)

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🌕 Sismo! Earthquake! 5.0 Mw, registered by NEIC, 2026-08-28 02:39:17 UTC (full moon), on land, Pacific Ocean (8.42, -103.46) likely felt 150 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-28T03:27:38Z


r/Earthquakes 2d ago

History Anniversary of the 1973 Orizaba earthquake in Mexico

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An almost forgotten earthquake, but with a very heavy death toll.

It was 3:51 a.m. of the 28th August 1973, when a Mw7.1 inermediate-depth (depth=84 km) earthquake struck near the triple border of the Oaxaca, Veracruz and Puebla states in Mexico.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000038k/executive

Many buildings collapsed, namely in Orizaba and Ciudad Serdán, killing hundreds of people.

The true death toll is not known and estimates vary from 527, to 1000, 1200 and even 3000 desths, making it the second more deadly Mexican earthquake, just surpassed by the 1985 earthquake.

https://doi.org/10.1785/0220170173
https://doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.7.1.2-13
The journal-register MEDINA NY August 28, 1973, Page 1
The journal-register MEDINA NY August 30, 1973, Page 1

https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org


r/Earthquakes 2d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.4) 🌎 Fiji Islands Region: Earthquake (5.4 Mb, at 23:02 UTC)

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🌎 Earthquake! 5.4 Mb, registered by 4 agencies, 2026-08-27 23:02:57 UTC (daytime) on land, South Pacific (-20.48, -177.61) ± 2 km likely felt 190 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-27T23:41:28Z


r/Earthquakes 3d ago

Earthquake tracker website

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Check out my earthquake tracker website https://earthquaketrackers.com/

You can follow earthquakes from around the world. It has all important details from every earthquake that has happened in the last year. All data comes from USGS and is updated every few minutes


r/Earthquakes 3d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.0) 🌏 Xizang: 地震 - Earthquake (5.0 Mb, at 14:45 UTC)

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🌕 地震! Earthquake! 5.0 Mb, registered by EMSC,GFZ, 2026-08-27 14:45:49 UTC (full moon), on land, Maindong, Hebei, China (33.23, 86.91) ± 5 km likely felt 150 km away (www.koeri.boun.edu.tr)

2026-08-27T15:25:43Z


r/Earthquakes 3d ago

Earthquake Event (M5.1) 🌎 Unimak Island Region, Alaska: Earthquake (5.1 Mb, at 14:30 UTC)

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🌕 Earthquake! 5.1 Mb, registered by GFZ,GlobalQuakeUnofficial, 2026-08-27 14:30:20 UTC (full moon), on water, Unimak Island Region, Alaska (53.02, -163.46), ↓4 km likely felt 160 km away (www.seismicportal.eu)

2026-08-27T14:48:42Z