A whole lotta shaking going on
There has been a spate of earthquakes recently. Some people have said that the ring of fire is waking up. I dismissed this because the area covered is huge. The Pacific Ocean
covers 30.5% of the entire Earth's surface and more than the Earth's surface area covered by land (29.2%).
And then, we had Tuesday's 8.2 quake in Chile. Now we just had a 5.8 near Panama, a 5.6 in Honshu (home of the March 2011 9.0 disaster), a 6.4 in Chile and a 7.8 follow-up in Chile.
Here is a
map that shows the magnitude and location. There has also been quite the storm of 2.5 to 3.5 temblors in Alaska.
Posted by DaveH at April 2, 2014 8:14 PM