Does this look like many Earthquakes to you? Recent Earthquakes - Last 8-30 Days

[babsbunny]

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

Recent Earthquakes - Last 8-30 Days

[Brickbat]

1. How often do you check that page?

Because it looks like that pretty much every day, really.

[babsbunny]

2. Wow! My 1st time

I feel a little better. Thanks!

[Brickbat]

6. OK, sorry if I sounded snarky -- after I posted I thought I sounded brusque.

Seriously, the reason it seems like there are more earthquakes is because there's been a cluster in populated areas. It's human nature, then, to think that there are more and worse earthquakes.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. No.

So far this year, there's been one really big earthquake in Chile, and two moderately big earthquakes in China and Haiti, the last two of which were exacerbated by a lot of people living in really shitty houses right over the epicenter.

Then of course they all had aftershocks.

[MineralMan]

4. Looks like that map and list always looks.

Seriously. I've been watching earthquakes on that site for years. It always looks about like that.

[pscot]

5. It looks pretty typical

Check this out.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[Rex]

7. That is the Earth moving around, letting off steam.

Just as dynamic as your body.

[Birthmark]

8. Why would you possibly care...

...what it looks like to me? Look at the current data and compare it against this: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

[gateley]

9. I think the earth is constantly making adjustments, we're just not aware of all

that's going on.

Look at just this month in just the Pacific NW!

http://www.pnsn.org/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.htm

[JuniperLea]

10. The world map doesn't look too much different...

But the CA map has gone from having an average of 300 Earthquakes on the map at one time to over 2000...


I live in Los Angeles County, and I work on the 39th floor of a very tall skyscraper in Downtown LA... I look at those maps every day... oh, yes I do!


Keep track of the number... I know I am;)

[Auggie]

11. The USGS says it's normal:

S.F. Chronicle / 4-15-10

Big-quake activity not unusual, scientists say

First Haiti, then Chile, Mexico and now China - all pummeled by major earthquakes in just over three months.

As a seemingly steady stream of devastating scenes play across television screens, computer monitors and newspapers pages, many wonder if earthquakes are suddenly becoming more common. The answer, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, is no.

Worldwide, there have been an average of 16 magnitude 7.0 or greater earthquakes - the size that seismologists define as major - each year since 1900, according to the USGS.

The six major earthquakes that have struck in the first four months of this year may be just above average, but 2010 is still "well within the normal range," USGS researchers found.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/15/MNCS1CUP2R.DTL#ixzz0lDgguew9

[Lagomorph]

12. Plate Tetonics.....

look it up.

Big plates of rock, always moving...things shake a lot.

Even the animals sense it and often try to leave an earthquake zone before the big one. Humans, on the other hand just sit there and predict what all those "dumb" animals already know.

[MiniMe]

13. Link to a list of the earthquakes > 5.0 in the last week

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php

It really doesn't look too bad, pretty normal.