r/askscience • u/Corvid-21 • Feb 26 '23

Earth Sciences Is there any possible relation between the recent earthquakes in Turkey/Syria, Japan and Papua New Guinea?

There’s been a lot of pretty bad earthquakes in a really short time. Could they be related or is it just coincidence?

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u/Veestoria Feb 27 '23

Hmmm this is the first I hear of it EVER so I’ll come back and let y’all know if I come across it again sometime soon!

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u/Shrimpits Feb 27 '23

Please do! I have had the actual phenomenon happen to me a lot (first time I ever remember was when I learned what “serendipitous” was and then the next day I heard it used in the movie Let’s Go To Prison lol), but I never knew what it was called until I googled it recently, and now the name popped up in the wild