Rocking here today

[Irish Rover]

Son Depremler
We've had a long series of earthquakes and tremors here since around 07.00 local today. I was on the boat anchored in around 2M for the two bigger ones at lunchtime which were about 5 miles away from me. The boat shook from the first one and i knew from previous experience it was a +4. The second one coming so soon worried me a bit as that's a bit unusual. I'm a glass half full guy and assuming the pressure release valve was activated and things won't get any worse. The glass half empty folks [of which there are many] are staying out of their homes and work places in case these are a precursor to the big one.
Anything with Kuşadası, Aydin, Izmir and Sisam(Samos Island) in the location column are all local to me.

 

[Bouba]

Earthquakes come in pairs..the shock and aftershock

 

[Clancy Moped]

Son Depremler
We've had a long series of earthquakes and tremors here since around 07.00 local today. I was on the boat anchored in around 2M for the two bigger ones at lunchtime which were about 5 miles away from me. The boat shook from the first one and i knew from previous experience it was a +4. The second one coming so soon worried me a bit as that's a bit unusual. I'm a glass half full guy and assuming the pressure release valve was activated and things won't get any worse. The glass half empty folks [of which there are many] are staying out of their homes and work places in case these are a precursor to the big one.
Anything with Kuşadası, Aydin, Izmir and Sisam(Samos Island) in the location column are all local to me.

What does it feel like when you're on the hook? Vibration or swell etc?

 

[capnsensible]

Try this: Quake info: Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - Aegean Sea, 6.8 km north of Kusadasi, Aydın, Turkey, on Tuesday, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:29 pm (GMT +3) - 27 user experience reports

I've only just scratched it a bit, masses in there!

 

[Irish Rover]

What does it feel like when you're on the hook? Vibration or swell etc?

Boat shaking - you could describe it as vibration I suppose - I assume it's the seabed under the anchor shaking and being transmitted to the boat via the chain. No swell where I was that I noticed. It was pretty calm but there are always occasional waves from bigger boats passing at speed in the bay particularly ferries and the coastguard.
There was a 6.9 here in the bay on 30 Oct 2020. We were anchored in the same place for that and we knew it was a biggy. We upped anchor immediately and headed for the marina arriving just the same time as the tail-end of the tsunami which caused huge damage up the coast in Seferihisar and Teos marina.

 

[Irish Rover]

Try this: Quake info: Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - Aegean Sea, 6.8 km north of Kusadasi, Aydın, Turkey, on Tuesday, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:29 pm (GMT +3) - 27 user experience reports

I've only just scratched it a bit, masses in there!

His population stats all wrong.

 

[Irish Rover]

Earthquakes come in pairs..the shock and aftershock

We've had enough pairs today to fill a dance hall.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Hopefully things on land are OK

 

[Bouba]

We've had enough pairs today to fill a dance hall.

I lived on a fault line for many years and the earth would rumble on a weekly basis…but a big one is a generational thing so odds are with you ???

 

[capnsensible]

His population stats all wrong.

Doesn't make hima bad person. Anyway I looked as far as the first three on wiki.....seems like that mebbe where the site gets its information from wiki agrees.

Did you see the bit where you can feed back if you felt the tremor?

 

[capnsensible]

Recent quakes above magnitude 3.0 worldwide (updated 14 minutes ago)

Past 24 hours	146 quakes | 111 quakes M3+ | 33 quakes M4+ | 2 quakes M5+
Past 7 days	1,083 quakes | 784 quakes M3+ | 273 quakes M4+ | 24 quakes M5+ | 2 quakes M6+
Past 30 days	4,783 quakes | 3,281 quakes M3+ | 1,359 quakes M4+ | 131 quakes M5+ | 11 quakes M6+ | 1 quake M7+
Past 90 days	17,917 quakes | 13,486 quakes M3+ | 3,998 quakes M4+ | 401 quakes M5+ | 28 quakes M6+ | 4 quakes M7+
Past 365 days	65,616 quakes | 48,206 quakes M3+ | 15,570 quakes M4+ | 1,703 quakes M5+ | 127 quakes M6+ | 10 quakes M7+

 

[capnsensible]

A maze ing.

 

[mjcoon]

Doesn't sound like it would be another argument to throw into the gimballed stove discussion...

 

[Irish Rover]

Hopefully things on land are OK

You wouldn't really expect structural damage below 5.5 or so. Biggest risk of injury is idiots panicking and jumping out windows or tumbling on the stairs in the rush to get out.

 

[Irish Rover]

Doesn't make hima bad person. Anyway I looked as far as the first three on wiki.....seems like that mebbe where the site gets its information from wiki agrees.

Did you see the bit where you can feed back if you felt the tremor?

I did see it and like so many other things on the Internet I ignored it - it was called the world wide WEB for a reason.

 

[capnsensible]

I did see it and like so many other things on the Internet I ignored it - it was called the world wide WEB for a reason.

Is it so people can share information on boaty forums?

 

[Stemar]

We upped anchor immediately and headed for the marina arriving just the same time as the tail-end of the tsunami

All I know about earthquakes comes from a few articles, plus the news when it hits the fan somewhere - enough to make quite happy to live in a geologically stable area, but why head for land? All my instincts would be to get out into deep water where any tsunami would be centimetres high rather than metres.

 

[Irish Rover]

All I know about earthquakes comes from a few articles, plus the news when it hits the fan somewhere - enough to make quite happy to live in a geologically stable area, but why head for land? All my instincts would be to get out into deep water where any tsunami would be centimetres high rather than metres.

Truthfully I wasn't thinking about a tsunami at that time. Our 16 year old daughter was at home doing online classes [covid] and, if you'll pardon the pun, she was more than a bit shaken by the experience so we were anxious to get home to her.

 

[capnsensible]

All I know about earthquakes comes from a few articles, plus the news when it hits the fan somewhere - enough to make quite happy to live in a geologically stable area, but why head for land? All my instincts would be to get out into deep water where any tsunami would be centimetres high rather than metres.

I hadn't realised just how unstable the entire planet is!

Earthquakes around the British Isles in the last 60 days

So thanks, OP, got me googling and learning a lot.

 

[phanakapan]

I’ve spent the last few years in Uzbekistan where minor earthquakes were a weekly occurrence- got quite blasé about them.. however a big one did flatten Tashkent in the 1960s, so it was always a little nerve wracking!