Wow. The Ring of Fire is really on fire today (earthquakes)

[gauguin57]

The red rings show today's earthquakes; the yellow ones are from the past two weeks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It is aptly named, is it not?

[dipsydoodle]

3. Da da da da da da da da

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhf9U5Wf3Q :hi:

[begin_within]

8. I like Wall of Voodoo's version

Even though June Carter Cash wrote it, Johnny's isn't my favorite version. But thanks for bringing up one my favorite oddball songs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVZm46iln5I

[dipsydoodle]

12. Off topic

He was good though. I think this is pretty cool : Rodney Crowell - I Walk The Line (Revisited)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHsbLHetprY

[Loudmxr]

2. Inevitability mixed with surprise. That is what makes them so much fun.

[Ghost Dog]

4. Would be interesting to test the hypothesis that there is a causal relationship

between solar activity and earthquakes.

[malaise]

5. Did you read that the Haitian earthquake was caused by a new fault

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7945642/Haiti-earthquake-caused-by-new-fault-line.html
<snip>
Its unclear how dangerous the new, unmapped fault might be or how it's discovery changes the overall earthquake hazard risk for Haiti, said Eric Calais, a professor of geophysics at Purdue University in Indiana.

He said the analysis shows that most, if not all, of the geologic movement that caused January's magnitude-7.0 earthquake occurred along the newly uncovered fault, not the well-documented Enriquillo fault.

He said that suggests Haiti's seismic zone is far more complex than scientists had anticipated.

"If there are other faults capable of producing earthquakes besides the Enriquillo and this new one we need to know about them. We need to go after them," he said.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. Unkown faults -- those are teh scary ones

Both the Loma Prieta and Northridge quakes here in CA occurred on previously unknown faults. That is one reason I am so adamantly opposed to additional nuclear plants here -- you really do not know what you are building on top of here. (I hate nuke plants anyway.)

[hobbit709]

6. About average. Roughly 275 quakes a day worldwide that can be felt

[gauguin57]

10. I look at that earthquake map nearly every day, and there are a lot more red rings on it today ..

... than there often are. I'm not saying it's WAY out of the ordinary ... there's just a lot more red on there than many days when I look at that map.

[hobbit709]

11. That's the thing about average.

You can have 50 or so a day for 4 days and then a 1000 on one day

[Roon]

7. I have one thing to say about earthquakes...

it's nobodies fault.

[gauguin57]

9. ... or everybody's fault! Actually, Roon, that is the post of the month.

Yes! Something that is no one's fault, that no one can claim is the Republicans' fault or the Democrats' fault or Obama's fault ... it's just the Earth's "fault" (pun intended).

[xchrom]

14. Lol! Nt

[Silent3]

15. And someone on DU is absolutely sure that CAPITALISM is to blame!

Or maybe about 50-100 someones. :evilgrin:

[Dover]

16. Hmmm. Your map is so much more alarming to look at than this one >

Not nearly as much red:




http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/