October 02, 2026

Weekly Earthquake Watch: The Planet Had a Busy Week

By The Discovery Wire

Illustration by The Discovery Wire

The planet had a busy week. Here's the seismic log, straight from the public USGS-tracked feeds:

• Largest this week: magnitude 6.6 near La Roche in the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
• Largest today: magnitude 5.6 near Tamarindo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
• Total: roughly 929 earthquakes of magnitude 1.5 or greater in the last seven days

That's not unusual — the Earth rings like a bell, constantly. Most of these happen far from anyone, deep in the ocean or along remote plate boundaries.

A note on what this is and isn't: this is a roundup, not a forecast. Nobody can predict earthquakes — not us, not anyone. We're just reading the instruments out loud.

Quick question: have you ever actually felt an earthquake? Where were you?

Source: USGS-tracked public earthquake feeds, week ending Oct 2, 2026 — read the original report