A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck beneath the Aeolian Islands (Lipari Islands), north of Sicily, on October 9. Another earthquake of a similar magnitude struck off the Gulf of Hammamet, about 50 kilometres southeast of Nabeul, Tunisia, on October 13. No damage was reported in both cases. In the Mediterranean, no earthquake exceeded magnitude 5.3 in October. Across the globe the strongest earthquake occurred near the coast of Nicaragua in Central America. It registered a magnitude of 7.3. Readers are invited to join the University of Malta’s Seismic Monitoring and Research Unit Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/uom.smru to receive regular posts about earthquakes and volcanoes.