Have any of the usual clowns showed up to tell us this is nothing unusual?
It's getting a bit tiring. I have something like 4 articles bookmarked that say quake activity is at an unusual level.
On a positive note, it is unlikely that we will have anything near the 9.2 soon. But the fact that there have been many quakes in diverse regions (hell, they had one in Scotland) which are normally not seismically active would give pause to anyone who had a brain.
I mean a brain, not a diploma.
Looking all around... don't see anyone... Hi DJF, no, not yet.
djf wrote: "But the fact that there have been many quakes in diverse regions (hell, they had one in Scotland) which are normally not seismically active would give pause to anyone who had a brain.
I mean a brain, not a diploma."
There are quakes in unusual areas. I didn't see the one in Scotland - if you have the info would you post it please? Did you see that there was a 5.4 quake in Canada - 62 miles from Quebec?
Seems the usual idiots have shown up to wet their panties over normal activity, though. :-)
It's getting a bit tiring. I have something like 4 articles bookmarked that say quake activity is at an unusual level.
And how many of them are from apocalyptikook sites? Religious apocalyptic types have a little problem with flat out lying, I've noticed.
On a positive note, it is unlikely that we will have anything near the 9.2 soon. But the fact that there have been many quakes in diverse regions (hell, they had one in Scotland) which are normally not seismically active
There are very few parts of the world that are totally seismically inactive.
The St. Lawrence Valley in Canada is quite seismically active and if you examine worldwide seismic hazard maps it's an area with high hazard, similar to the New Madrid area.
There have been several historical Magnitude 6+ quakes, quite damaging ones, in the St. Lawrence Valley.
And if you look at the Severnaya Zemlya maps on NEIC for the recent quake, it's right on top of a spreading ridge, a place where seismicity is routine, that has been quite seismically active since 1990.
The fact remains that there is an average of 18 Magnitude 7+ quakes a year, on average there's a magnitude 6-7 earthquake somewhere in the world every 2 to 3 days, and EVERY day there's an average of 3 to4 magnitude 5-6 earthquakes in the world.
We're over two months into the year and there's only been two M7+ quakes in the world this year....only a pace to have 12 of those when 18 is normal.
If we have, say, 2 M9+ quakes this year, or 4-5 M8-9 quakes (normally there's 1 of these a year) or something like 30 M7+ quakes, feel free to start screaming about unusual earthquake activity.
It's a weird egotistical desire of the simple-minded to believe they live in unique and unusual times. Hate to break it to you, but geologically, we don't. In the grand scheme of things even the M9.3 Sumatran Quake is perfectly routine and normal.