I’ve mention the Earthquake Watch widget on my iGoogle page. Great entertainment to follow the daily spread of tremors. A fairly common pattern that emerges. There’s always plenty of activity in the Indonesia area, always something in Greece/Turkey and Alaska. Generally something in California and somewhere in the Caribbean.

Today there’s a different pattern. There were small tremors all across Europe. There was a quake in the usually placid South America and the Sandwich Islands (the closest I’ve noticed to Antarctica), plus a couple in Japan.

The leader of the day? South Sandwich Islands. 6.5 magnitude about 6 miles down into the Earth.