Earthquakes
January 6th, 2008
I’m always amazed by the number of earthquakes recorded every day. It’s not so often that we hear about one, but they’re happening quite frequently in varying degrees. And varying depths.
The Earthquakes Hazards website (from the U.S. Geological Service) shows quakes in December as near to the surface as about six tenths of a mile (in Manitoba, Canada) to 414 miles down (near the Fiji Islands).
Dec. 30: eight quakes reported worldwide
Dec. 29: five
Dec. 28: 13
Dec. 27: 17
Dec. 26: 14
Details are here.
There’s a lot of fun stuff at that site. When was Michigan’s biggest earthquake? Aug. 10, 1947. 4.6 intensity. For Ohio, it was March 9, 1937 at 5.4.
Who’s behind Alaska with the biggest earthquake ever? Not California. Not Hawaii. It’s Arkansas.