Are earthquakes happening more often or is it just the media?
May 03, 2010
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Earthquake Questions
Brazilian news have been reporting many earthquakes around the globe with emphazis on Haiti, Chile, Taiwan and now Mexico. It wasn’t like that last year or the years before. Is it only the media exploring disasters more fiercily or are we really facing a global catastrophe?
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9 comments
Mujer Alta on May 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
There are usually big quakes every week somewhere in the world. They’re usually in the west Pacific/Indian Ocean around south Asia and up the western Pacific around Japan. It seems to be the Western Hemisphere’s turn these past few months.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
The closer they are to where you live, the more your local media is going to report.
Sydd64 on May 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
it just the media
pattya22 on May 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
7.2 earthquake in southern California and phoenix just today. I definitely think that God is shaking us up a bit.
Greg M on May 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
There have just been a lot more "destructive" earthquakes recently than we usually have, which is why there is more coverage. The media only reports on earthquakes if they are in, or very close to the U.S., or if there are a lot of casualties and damages.
ven on May 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
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u can discover by yourself,
y media to hyype
andyg77 on May 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
This website gives the history back to 1970 or so and to me, it does look like we are in an upswing. Look at the charts down at the bottom to see this.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/qu…
I have also come across some reading which indicates there are people who believe that earthquakes do come in cycles. Quiet for a while and then rumbling for a while. They did not explain with a mechanism what might cause the cycles only that some felt in looking at the data that there are cycles. If they are right then we must be in an up-cycle.
The First Dragon on May 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
I think they are paying more attention to earthquakes because of the devastation of Haiti and the magnitude of the Chile earthquake.
Also, today we are having a "swarm" of earthquakes– that is, today and the last few weeks– which just happens now and then.
Leo on May 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
The biggest problem, according to geophysicists is that the tectonic plate shifts have increased the number of serious earthquakes in the past one-year an enormous amount and the rate is exponentially increasing. Scientists are blaming the Polar reversal and these will continue till 2012.Very rarely the Sun and the Earth simultaneously reverses polarity. That is exactly what is happening now. When this happens catastrophes happen in the earth. If history is a guide of anything, these earthquakes and volcanoes will continue to increase till 2012.
TDK on May 3, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Add another big earthquake to the list with a 7.8 hitting Indonesia!