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Earthquakes this Year
What is up with all these earthquakes? I don't remember so many earthquakes in such a short amount of time. Here's a list of "Major Earthquakes" this year, if I counted right, there have been 26 so far... yikes! From 2010 Significant Earthquake and News Headlines Archive :
Magnitude 6.9 SOUTHERN QINGHAI, CHINA April 13, 2010 Magnitude 6.3 SPAIN April 11, 2010 Magnitude 6.8 SOLOMON ISLANDS April 11, 2010 Magnitude 7.7 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA April 06, 2010 Magnitude 7.2 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO April 04, 2010 Magnitude 4.4 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA March 16, 2010 Magnitude 6.7 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE March 16, 2010 Magnitude 6.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN March 14, 2010 Magnitude 6.9 LIBERTADOR O HIGGINS, CHILE March 11, 2010 Magnitude 6.1 EASTERN TURKEY March 08, 2010 Magnitude 6.8 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA March 05, 2010 Magnitude 6.6 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE March 05, 2010 Magnitude 8.8 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE February 27, 2010 Magnitude 7.0 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN February 26, 2010 Magnitude 6.9 CHINA-RUSSIA-NORTH KOREA BORDER REGION February 18, 2010 Magnitude 3.8 ILLINOIS February 10, 2010 Magnitude 5.9 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA February 04, 2010 Magnitude 6.2 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA February 01, 2010 Magnitude 5.9 HAITI REGION January 20, 2010 Magnitude 4.0 OKLAHOMA January 15, 2010 Magnitude 7.0 HAITI REGION January 12, 2010 Magnitude 6.5 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA January 10, 2010 Magnitude 4.1 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA January 07, 2010 Magnitude 6.8 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 05, 2010 Magnitude 7.1 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 03, 2010 Magnitude 6.6 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 03, 2010 These are here in the U.S.:
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04-14-2010, 06:30 PM | #2 |
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I swear I had nothing to do with any of them.
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04-14-2010, 06:33 PM | #3 |
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04-14-2010, 06:38 PM | #4 |
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04-14-2010, 06:45 PM | #5 |
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Looks like about an average year so far.
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04-14-2010, 08:05 PM | #6 |
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Its the media darling though...the other year it was hurricanes, before that it was shark attacks...locusts are next
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04-14-2010, 08:11 PM | #7 |
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Location: Colorado
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Lorena, as Foz posted, nothing more than usual. It's just the ever-increasing modes and pervasiveness of media communications (in knowing everything that's going on everywhere every single second) that creates the perception without perspective.
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