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No because they are so frequent, no one has thought about naming them.

Bad ones can usually be refered to by their geographical location, because of frequent references in the media, but the names are not official.

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Earthquakes are named by where the location of the epicenter is at the time the quake hits.

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Earthquake is named earthquake because this time is quake

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