Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Are earthquakes on increase?

I don't know why but I felt office building was shaking today. Though there was no earthquake news but somebody shouted earthquake and all of a sudden all people were feeling it. We checked twitter, news and found that earthquake hits Sumatra, Indonesia. But why we sitting in Delhi felt the tremors. Nobody knows it, maybe it can be psychological.

But the question remains. There is no earthquake in Delhi but still few people felt it. And the real news about earthquake came after 10 minutes that too in Indonesia. Don't you think that these earthquakes are now on the increase? Few months ago only there was earthquake in Delhi. According to this website http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

This above website gives all the recent earthquake happenings around the world and its information.

Magnitude  2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
8.0 to 9.9  1 1 0 1 2 1
7.0 to 7.9  14 15 13 14 14 10
6.0 to 6.9  146 121 127 140 141 140
5.0 to 5.9  1344 1224 1201 1203 1515 1693
4.0 to 4.9  8008 7991 8541 8462 10888 13917
3.0 to 3.9  4827 6266 7068 7624 7932 9191
2.0 to 2.9  3765 4164 6419 7727 6316 4636
1.0 to 1.9  1026 944 1137 2506 1344 26
0.1 to 0.9  5 1 10 134 103 0
No Magnitude  3120 2807 2938 3608 2939 864
Total  22256 23534 27454 31419 31194 30478
Estimated Deaths 231 21357 1685 33819 228802 88003



Magnitude  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
8.0 to 9.9  2 4 0 1 1 1 0
7.0 to 7.9  9 14 12 16 23 19 4
6.0 to 6.9  142 178 168 144 151 185 30
5.0 to 5.9  1712 2074 1768 1896 2069 2276 485
4.0 to 4.9  12838 12078 12291 6805 10303 13315 2460
3.0 to 3.9  9990 9889 11735 2905 4326 2791 432
2.0 to 2.9  4027 3597 3860 3014 4624 3643 653
1.0 to 1.9  18 42 21 26 39 47 18
0.1 to 0.9  2 2 0 1 0 1 0
No Magnitude  828 1807 1922 17 24 11 4
Total  29568 29685 31777 14825 21560 22289 4086
Estimated Deaths 6605 712 88011 1790 320120 21953 113































































































































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