Mrs. Prince of Space
Yeah, when I’m in Alabama we rarely get ‘quakes. Right now I’m in Papua, Indonesia and we sit on the convergence of three plates. Often we’ll get something that feels strong to us, but doesn’t make the 4.5 cut off list. That tells me that much of what we feel is the epicenter.
One time I took my sixth graders to the seismology office. They told me we get an average of 50 quakes a day, the overwhelming majority are too small for humans to feel.