• Question: why is there so many earth quakes at the moment

    Asked by webber13 to Alan, Caspar, Diana, Murray, Sarah on 24 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Alan Winfield

      Alan Winfield answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      I’m sorry I can’t answer that. You need a geologist! I suggest you head over to the Potassium zone and ask David Pyle – he studies volcanoes and should be able to help you.

    • Photo: Caspar Addyman

      Caspar Addyman answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      I don’t know. I suspect it is just a random thing.

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 24 Mar 2011:

      we aren’t experiencing an abnormal level of earthquakes, the amount being experienced is perfectly normal. it is just that now they are reporting all quakes in the media, even the ones that do little or no damage.

Comments

  • Photo: webber13

    webber13 commented on :

    thats ok thank you

    • Photo: David

      David commented on :

      There actually aren’t any more earthquakes than usual (or average) at the moment. It’s just that there have been several unusually damaging quakes (Haiti last year; Christchurch, New Zealand this year), and two of the seven largest quakes of the past 50 years in Chile (Feb 2010) and Japan (March 2011). With these sorts of things, once there’s been one event, the media tend to pick up on subsequent events. So after a big quake, it sounds as though they are suddenly happening everywhere, when in fact they have been happening all the time, and we just haven’t heard about most of them.