Jaime Casanova wrote:
> At Saturday, 02/27/2010 on 4:21 pm "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>>> Is there a higher then normal amount of earthquakes happening recently?
>>>
>> Re: the more frequent earthquakes, yeah I was thinking the same today. An
>> actual scientific study would be more useful than idle speculation though
>
> This is a technical list so i won't insist on this but those of you
> that wanna give a try can read Matthew 24:3, 7, 8 and Luke 21:11
I find these links useful:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2009/ ...
I note
an 8.1 in Samoa in Sep 2009
no 8.x's in 2008
an 8.5 in Sumatra Sep 12 2007
an 8.0 in Peru, Aug 2007
an 8.1 in Solomon Islands Apr 2007
an 8.1 in Kuril Islands Jan 13 2007
an 8.3 in Kuril Islands Nov 2006
an 8.7 in Sumatra, March 2005
an 8.1 in Macquarie Island Dec 2004
an 8.3 in Hokkaido Japan, Sep 2003
So yeah, if we're counting 8.8+'s this year's worse than usual;
but 2005's 8.7's close.
But if we're counting anything over 8.0, 2007's up there as well.
