8.8 Earthquake in Chile - Tsunami Created

[froggie71]

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Nope, I wrote about it in post #12. Mother Nature is definitely ticked off.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

I'm watching live coverage on CNN.com right now. It's really interesting!

A lot of scientists are thinking that an increase on earthquakes here on earth are related to the solar minimum (lack of sunspots on the Sun). There seems to be a correlation between those two things historically. I believe that at this time there are no visible sunspots; interestingly, we've also had an increase in strong earthquakes.

 

[Chicken Fruit]

I thought the one in tokyo was a 6.3? I didnt know about the one in agentina...

Four major earth quakes in 6 weeks? The earth is not happy with man at the moment.

 

[OccamsTazer]

Whew. I'm going to agree that Mother Nature is ticked off.

 

[Chicken Fruit]

Here it is not three months into the year and I think we're already almost a quarter way into the average 17 major earth quakes globally. Granted most of them happen and have happened in the ocean. But still... there's 10 months left to the year... at this rate...

I think there's been four or five 7.0 or greater quakes already this year already. yeesh.

here's a fun site, it lets you see whats going on in real time, and in the last hour and beyond.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

 

[Goose and Fig]

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More like 244 in 7 days! http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

 

[Goose and Fig]

a ha Chicken Fruit- we must have been on the same page at the same time

 

[Chicken Fruit]

lol, yeah i think so! I was trying to find how many major earth quakes (over 7.0) happen yearly. 17 is average. Total is 200,000 a year of any measurable magnitude. How many of those have we had already? just in total.. i didnt find that.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

this is a cool site.

 

[Goose and Fig]

The table won't show up correctly- but we've had 2 over 7.0, and 18 between 6.0 and 6.9. The ones from yesterday and today are not on there though.

It's at the bottom of that page on a chart.

 

[ponygal12]

Yeah, I'm in Hawaii right now. Nothing big happened. We sat glued to the tv for like 2 hours because we had to evacuate.