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First China
Then Iceland
Now Taiwan ???
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n142165


is it a long string of earth quakes or is the media just over reporting since the China earth quake?

slow news week?

Slow news weeks lately. The one in China was notable, of course. The little jolts in Iowa and the UK last month probably didn't deserve the headlines they got.

First China
Then Iceland
Now Taiwan ???
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n142165


is it a long string of earth quakes or is the media just over reporting since the China earth quake?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008stag.php

If this is what is being talked about, it happened in the Philippines.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008stag.php

If this is what is being talked about, it happened in the Philippines.

yeah thats it. off coast ones I have a bad habit of doing it by distance to the national capitals.

ZOMG!!! ARMAGEDDON!!!

(Runs in circles.)

Slow news weeks lately. The one in China was notable, of course. The little jolts in Iowa and the UK last month probably didn't deserve the headlines they got.

The Iowa was notable because they are very, very rare in Iowa.

ZOMG!!! ARMAGEDDON!!!

(Runs in circles.)

I blame global warming for the earth quakes.

I blame global warming for the earth quakes.

Its manbearpig.

Month of the earth quakes ?!?! WTF.

I can hear the Month of the Earth (what is that, April?) quaking from here.

It's only natural that one large earthquake will trigger others within the region, if not globally but sure, let's pretend there's some meaning to it all.

It's only natural that one large earthquake will trigger others within the region, if not globally but sure, let's pretend there's some meaning to it all.

Hear, hear!
Just a slight correction though. A large earthquake here can trigger others all across the world.

Size and frequency of occurrence

Minor earthquakes occur nearly constantly around the world in places like California and Alaska in the U.S., as well as in Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan the Azores in Portugal, Turkey, New Zealand, Greece, Italy, and Japan,[4] Larger earthquakes occur less frequently, the relationship being exponential; for example, roughly ten times as many earthquakes larger than magnitude 4 occur in a particular time period than earthquakes larger than magnitude 5. In the (low seismicity) United Kingdom, for example, it has been calculated that the average recurrences are:
an earthquake of 3.7 - 4.6 every year
an earthquake of 4.7 - 5.5 every 10 years
an earthquake of 5.6 or larger every 100 years.

The number of seismic stations has increased from about 350 in 1931 to many thousands today. As a result, many more earthquakes are reported than in the past because of the vast improvement in instrumentation (not because the number of earthquakes has increased). The USGS estimates that, since 1900, there have been an average of 18 major earthquakes (magnitude 7.0-7.9) and one great earthquake (magnitude 8.0 or greater) per year, and that this average has been relatively stable.[5] In fact, in recent years, the number of major earthquakes per year has actually decreased, although this is likely a statistical fluctuation. More detailed statistics on the size and frequency of earthquakes is available from the USGS.[6]

Most of the world's earthquakes (90%, and 81% of the largest) take place in the 40,000-km-long, horseshoe-shaped zone called the circum-Pacific seismic belt, also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, which for the most part bounds the Pacific Plate.[7][8] Massive earthquakes tend to occur along other plate boundaries, too, such as along the Himalayan Mountains.

With the rapid growth of mega-cities such as Mexico City, Tokyo or Tehran, in areas of high seismic risk, some seismologists are warning that a single quake may claim the lives of up to 3 million people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake#Size_and_frequency_of_occurrence

Wikipedia, to be sure, but it makes the point that earthquakes are hardly rare.

Eh... "one crazy month occurs". This is like 2 cranes falling down in NYC - just bad luck, not really part of any real trend.

They call it the "ring of fire" for a reason...

ZOMG!!! ARMAGEDDON!!!

(Runs in circles.)

I agree, beg whatever God you worship for forgiveness and curl in a ball. BEG I TELL YOU, BEG!
*Curls in a ball and prays to The Most Glorious Hack*

I blame women. They've not got blamed for something in a LONG time.