News Lots of earthquakes lately

[ar81]

This is a list of earthquakes in the last 30 days.
They seem too many.
How much do we know about anticipating earthquakes?
If I am certain, at most you could anticipate them a few minutes ahead if you fill the area with sensors and a statistical software designed to analyze trends. Right?

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Actually, from what I understand, the amount of earthquakes in 2010 has been normal, the ones that have happened have just taken place closer to populated areas or somesuch than others so that they get more attention.

 

[Artlav]

Well, sometimes a large-scale earthquake can be predicted on the same day without much equipment - read about 1906 San Francisco quake, when there were rumblings and shakings hours before the 8.3 magnitude disaster.

A good monitoring network of various sensors can usually give you a warning that someplace around there a quake will happen some day around then.
I don't know the figures behind these somes, but apparently there is no method reliable enough so far.
There are also various speculations, ranging from plausibility of sattelite tracking of specific pre-quake dust clouds and all the way down to shamen and clairvoyants.

 

[Mojave]

It just seems like there are more earthquakes. Last time I checked the Rate of earthquakes is in fact normal like Zatnikitelman said. There have been a lot of low grade quakes lately making people believe that the number has spiked in 2010.

 

[Urwumpe]

They seem too many.

It seems you are pretty wrong.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

 

[statickid]

2010 is a chump compared to 2004 and 2007!:hmm:

 

[Urwumpe]

2010 is a chump compared to 2004 and 2007!:hmm:

Well, one third of the year is just over now. But this still means a lot of Earthquakes to happen before it becomes an unusual year.