Update: 12/28/22

 

A magnitude 6.0 struck 288 km southeast of Isangel, Vanuatu earlier. It had a focal depth of 10 km located in the South New Hebrides Trench between Vanuatu and Fiji. Later, a magnitude 5.6 struck the China-Kyrgyzstan border region. It was 92 km northwest of the city of Asku in China. It was also 10 km deep. I have not seen any reports of problems over there. It does not look like it struck a populous area. It was located in the Tian Shan Mountains. However, the USGS reports got VII on the intensity scale. There still may be a lot going on in the world within the coming days. A major earthquake may be looming somewhere. A magnitude 7.8 or greater somewhere cannot be ruled out. Regions I'm watching closely would be Vanuatu, the Banda Sea region(Indonesia), East Timor, parts of Central Asia such as northern India, western China, Nepal, or Myanmar, northern Ethiopia, the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Japan(Hokkaido, Bonin Islands, possibly Honshu), and the Kuril Islands. Africa is not the likeliest place for a big earthquake, but there has been activity going on in northern Ethiopia(and southern Eritrea). It is a divergent plate boundary, so that is not where the biggest earthquakes would happen. However, there have been large earthquakes recorded in the past in the Horn of Africa and Red Sea.

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