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    Default 8 earthquakes since friday

    talking about all the efects of global warming like snowing in some places that shouldn't be, now i'm scared as hell since it's been 8 shakes since this friday and two of then reached a magnitude of 5.1, the first one this friday, and the second this morning at 10:30 pm. living on a seismic zone and having a few shakes a year it's not unusual, but this has gone too far :S 8 shakes in 4 days it's something that had never happened and im so scared right now.

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/shakemap/sc/shake/
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    Default Re: 8 earthquakes since friday

    Well, that is either a good thing -- stress is being slowly relieved -- or a bad thing - THE BIG ONE IS COMING!

    Of course, you might be lucky and it's just a volcano creeping up.

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    Default Re: 8 earthquakes since friday

    that was exactly what i was talking about with my aunt. we're packing right know in case a big one comes and we must evacuate. i've never been this scared
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    Default Re: 8 earthquakes since friday

    Wow! I hope it's just the earth 'burping'. Make sure you let us know you're okay, missfoxxy. *prays for you*

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    Default Re: 8 earthquakes since friday

    Deogol has a point regarding stress relief. Besides, are small quakes really uncommon? Most of those you listed are minor quakes, and now that we have so much measuring equipment (unlike previously in history) we are measuring more quakes because we have the equipment to do it, not necessarily because they are more frequent.

    http://www.geocities.com/twitlet.geo/EQRisk_1-1-01.html


    The National Earthquake Information Center now locates about 12,000 to 14,000 earthquakes worldwide each year, or 35 a day on average.

    Frequency of Earthquakes Worldwide


    Description Magnitude Annual Average

    Great 8 or higher --- 1
    Major 7 - 7.9 --- 18
    Strong 6 - 6.9 --- 120
    Moderate 5 - 5.9 --- 800
    Light 4 - 4.9 --- 6,200
    Minor 3 - 3.9 --- 49,000
    Very Minor 1 - 3 --- 9,000 (daily)






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    Default Re: 8 earthquakes since friday

    no it's not uncommon to have 1 or 2 earthquakes here in Mexicali specially when the weather starts to change. but 2 or 3 daily since friday, that's too many and so not normal
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    Did you feel the ground shake? Those numbers sound scary but I'm not sure what they mean. I would still like to live in California again, regardless.

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