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In reply to the discussion: Breaking News: Earthquake measuring 7.0 magnitude strikes Myanmar: USGS [View all]Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)37. hmm.
there are more registered because we have 30 times the number of sensors that we had in 1973, and more are reported. thus the increase in "total strength" (this means all added together).
using a timescale of 40 years means bubkiss when discussing geologic activity.
edit cause I can't add, but I do know rocks
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Breaking News: Earthquake measuring 7.0 magnitude strikes Myanmar: USGS [View all]
nolabels
Nov 2012
OP
Take a few billion tons of ice each off of Greenland and Antarctica...
Systematic Chaos
Nov 2012
#26
No, but I've noticed increase media attention towards them, which isn't the same thing. (nt)
Posteritatis
Nov 2012
#36
Umm...unless the earthshaking news is that Justin Bieber & his girlfriend broke up, you need the
Pachamama
Nov 2012
#20
No tsunami, too far inland. Here's the report from the Pacific Tsunami Center
Liberty Belle
Nov 2012
#24