Number of “Great” Earthquakes Triples In Last Decade

Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

The number of major earthquakes around the world has almost tripled in the last 10 years.

Eighteen earthquakes with a magnitude of 8.0 or greater has struck around the globe since 2004, compared to 71 great earthquakes during the previous 100 years.

The information was released at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America.

“If we look at all earthquake magnitudes, the past 10 years is not unusual in terms of the rate of events; the rate increases are just seen for events with magnitudes larger than 7.5 or so,” said Thorne Lay of the University of California Santa Cruz. “This suggests that great events were ‘catching up’ on the plate boundary motions in several regions with fortuitous similar timing.”

“The last 10 years have been interesting for seismologists because we have learned that great subduction zone earthquakes occur in many different ways and there do not seem to be any simple rules to predict the kind of behavior to expect,” Peter Shearer, a professor of geophysics at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, told NBC News. “Thus we can’t reliably assess at this point whether the Cascadia subduction zone will eventually break mostly in a single giant earthquake or a series of large earthquakes.”

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    • The information you are requesting can be found on the USGS website: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

      This website captures data from all earthquakes and offers a searchable archive.

      The count for earthquakes for 2014 is currently 99,491. There have been a total of 395,115 earthquakes in the past 10 years. These numbers indicate nearly 1/4 of earthquakes for the past 10 years have occurred in 2014.

  1. we ARE IN THE LAST OF THE LAST OF DAYS.The bible is just as it says that this will be coming into our live time. We need to proclaim that JESUS is coming soon so that the unsaved will be brought into the kingdom of GOD through HIS SON JESUS. HE is the only way.
    The church need to wake up and stop living in the fog of this earth blinding the servants of the LORD.
    I can’t wait to see my SAVIOR and LORD. Now is the time to prepare and get ready for whatever that is going to take place next. We are not to be in fear, worry, or anxiety over the things of this world.

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