Earthquake off the coast of Yemen: Update II

More small quakes off the coast of Yemen.  If I'm reading the seismology maps (earthquakes) correctly, this appears to be fairly common.  The Arabian peninsula, up to parts of Turkey, is on its own tectonic plate, so it makes sense that there would be quakes along the edges.

Earthquake off the coast of Yemen: Update I: Clusters Suck

There have been more earthquakes near Yemen.  The first appears to have happened on Sunday, followed by several others.  There have been so many that's I'm having trouble getting them all organized, so if you're interested, go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/search/ and type in Yemen, in the search field.  There's less than a dozen, so far, and all of them are around 5.0.  I found a list of all the earthquakes for the past week, and there are around 30 of them near the Yemeni coast.  Most of them happened on Sunday.  They were mostly in the 4.5 - 5.0 range.  If you count the ones closer to Djibiouti, then there are even more of them.  No word on any high waves.  No idea on when this will stop either.  I am not an earthquake or tsunami expert, but I would be a bit nervous if I lived on the coast.  At least the worst appears to be over now.


Edit: updated post

Earthquake off the coast of Yemen

There was a 4.7 earthquake off the coast of Yemen not long ago (h/t @yemenwatch).  Here's the map.  No further news yet.


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