I was following the events of smaller earthquakes happening in Turkey yesterday evening, went to bed, and woke up to my house shaking in the greater Buffalo area. Then not even a few hours later here of another massive earthquake in Syria.
Now I know The United States Geological Survey has stated that there is no correlation and, obviously, coincidence is very possible…but I can’t **shake** this feeling that the two could be related. Can anybody explain why they *are not* related? Thanks!
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there are literally hundreds of Magnitude 2+ earthquakes every day. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
Earthquakes are the product of stress built up in the crust. The crust acts a bit like elastic so as tectonic plates gradually migrate at mm per year that deformation builds up stresses. Eventually fractures fail and the sudden release of energy triggers an earthquake. Now, in a local regional area the stress rearrangement can absolutely set off chains of aftershocks for days or weeks after a big event.
Across wider areas the impact is much much less. And if you’re not on the same fault system there’s basically no interaction at all. WNY is subject to lots of small scale seismic activity based on its underlying geology. What you have here is a coincidence.
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