Are we having more earthquakes lately?
No one is responding to my previous question so I decided to ask this other question, which is almost certain to generate more attention. I think there are more earthquakes lately. Now on a similar note, here’s my previous question:
Okay, I’m a little bit of an earthquake nut, and I visit the USGS website at least once a day, to check out all the most recent seismic activity. Recently I noticed some discrepancies on their "Earthquake Facts and Statistics" page, here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/e…
Under the 2010 column, about a week ago I think it was, the numbers had been changed. Under the 8.0+ column, it showed 2 instead of just 1. That’s what caught my attention. I knew there had only been the 8.8 in Chile this year, no others. I checked the big list for the year just to be sure, and there was just that one. Then I noticed all the other numbers under the 2010 column were different too. It was really strange. By the next day it had been fixed, but then a couple days later it was back to those same bogus numbers again (then fixed again the next day).
Has anyone else ever noticed this happening, or perhaps have any explanation for how this happened?
43 minutes ago – 4 days left to answer.
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5 comments
Gary B on August 24, 2010 at 1:21 am
The numbers are changing PROBABLY because they are performing a software upgrade that has been poorly tested. in MY field of employment, this happens often — WAY more often than it should!.
Not worru, so long as the data gets fixed — eventually. With a project that size, it may take 2-3 WEEKS before everything settles down.
Other than that, NO, we are NOT having more earthquakes than normal. The number of qwuakes this years is well within the bounds of "normal".
Ellen on August 24, 2010 at 1:21 am
It certainly seems like there are a lot more over the last few years , when i was small you hardly heard about them. I can’t help but think it is God showing us he is angry for what we have don to this earth
belyen on August 24, 2010 at 1:21 am
here in the Philippines we have encountered several earthquake last month of July. somewhere in Visayas and Mindanao (I think somewhere in Luzon too).
Barry Lynch on August 24, 2010 at 1:21 am
well i live in ireland and everything is fine here no more earthquakes than usual in fact none.
Liz (rambling zanzibar) on August 24, 2010 at 1:21 am
I noticed we are having them "rare" places like SE Canada? June 2010
http://www.news.com.au/world/rare-earthquake-strikes-canada/story-e6frfkyi-1225883537158
Washington DC July 2010
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2004187
Western Australia April 2010
"earthquakes in one place after another"…..
http://www.colinandrews.net/2012-EarthChanges-QuakeWesternAustralia.html
Wisconsin February 2010
no major fault lines?
http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/84000977.html