Haiti, Chile, Turkey, Hawaii, and Indonesia.

[blackshark121]

What do these countries have in common?

They've each been hit by an earthquake. Is anyone else, at the very least, startled by how many Earthquakes have been occurring? Let's take a look at a tectonic plate map.

Spoiler: The Map

Hawaii isn't on a plate edge, but the others are near an edge. It's barely been over two months, yet we've had 5 major earthquakes. Anyone else a bit apprehensive?

 

[Pingieking]

You forgot Taiwan. Not exactly a country, but did have a sizable earthquake a few days after the Haiti quake. The the Filiponi plate on the map is wrong, because it actually stretches to the west a bit more and forms the eastern coast of Taiwan. The Hawaii quake was probably volcano induced.

OT: A bit intrigued by the frequency of the quakes, but they don't seem to be related and it's not statistically impossible to have these occur through coincidence. So not overly concerned at this point.

 

[Aedrial]

I live in Melbourne so hopefully any plate shifting won't affect me too badly... =P

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

I live in Melbourne so hopefully any plate shifting won't affect me too badly... =P

If the quake is large enough... yeah. your screwed

 

[mrbones228]

I live in Melbourne so hopefully any plate shifting won't affect me too badly... =P

High five for living in Australia

...Anyway, we did have a minor earthquake a few days ago, in NSW some were.

 

[captainkrunch]

perhaps blizzard paid god to advertise the coming of cataclysm?

 

[DustyDrB]

Man. My city (Charleston) is build on soft ground with old buildings and is right on the coast. We would just vanish off the map if a strong earthquake hit. And we're over fault lines, so...yeeaa.

 

[Therumancer]

It's interesting, and definatly fodder for some of the 2012 theories, but really I think it's no big thing overall. I mean things were relatively quiet for quite a while, I think we're overreacting now that things are getting busy again and we're reminded rather soberingly that massive natural disasters do indeed happen.

 

[gbemery]

You also forgot about Japan and if you take it back to December you have the American Samoa earthquakes and tsunamis. I am not worried in the least. Earthquakes are more common place then you think. Just to give you an idea of how many happen look here http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php and that is just in one week.

 

[dmase]

So I'm not one of those people who thinks the world is gonna end when the magnetic polls shift, but wiki puts up a good argument that magnetism has a lot to do with tectonic movements. Putting two and two togethor the upcoming magnetic polar shift corresponding to an increase in earthquakes it just makes sense. And yet I still don't believe that a mega earthquake is gonna destroy humanity :] yay.

 

[Aesir23]

I'm in Winnipeg and we're no where near any fault lines as far as I know. The fact that I've never experienced so much as a minor tremor (seen a funnel cloud though) seems to back that up. But I'm not sure.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

I say it is mostly plate movement. I mean, all of the places hit (except Hawaii, but that may just be a volcano) are near plate edges, so it might just be plate movement.

anyways, I am on the East Coast US. I am not worried.

This. Even the East Coast US part.

 

[Karlaxx]

Heh. If a Midwest earthquake happens I am f-u-c-k-e-d.

 

[VampiresDontSparkle]

[small]God's punishment for homosexuality![/small]

In all seriousness, though, we're all going to die anyway. Might as well make it interesting. (Though I have to say, I'd prefer to die of old age, after having lived a long and fulfilling life...)

 

[Viper1265]

Well seeing as how I've pretty much grown up with talk about being over due for "The Big One", I sure hope that the next major earthquake isn't off the Juan de fuca plate or I'm screwed.

 

[manaman]

Hawaii is active volcanically, they have earth quakes for that reason. Hawaii is also not a country. It's a state.

California, and Washington states have fairly large earthquakes on a constant basis. Less then a decade ago there was a 6.9 quake about thirty miles south west of where I was.

My not mention Mexico as well they had a 6.9 quake not to long ago.

Not like quakes are anything new. Large quakes happen all the time, a 6.2 was called the big one in L.A. knocked over many a freeway. Japan has been hit with some of the largest ever recorded earthquakes. A massive quake of basically accountable strength off the coast of Washington cause a Tsunami that buried a forest here in Washington, the wave was estimated to be well over 100 feet tall, of course that was before anyone lived here. The wave reached Japan, as well.

This is nothing new, I wonder why everyone keeps acting like it is.

 

[iriemage]

I live in Hawaii and I didn't even feel this most recent quake. And yes, Hawaii has earthquakes because it is volcanically active.