Overview

• The Generalitat’s emergency coordination center reported a magnitude 2.1 event in Santa Pola on Sunday night that was felt by residents.
• USGS data show a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on September 13, prompting a tsunami alert.
• El Periódico publishes a continuously updated global map using USGS feeds to display quakes from the past 24 hours.
• Magnitudes are reported using established scales, including the 1935 Richter logarithmic scale and the more precise moment magnitude (Mw) scale.
• USGS records note the largest measured quake as Chile’s 1960 Mw 9.5 event and the deadliest on record as China’s 1556 disaster.