How many earthquakes per day is “normal”?

[ditcherman]

Latest Earthquakes

earthquake.usgs.gov

Was just glancing at the latest headlines and there were three about earthquakes, made me curious, and I found this link.
Wondered if anyone knew what the “average” was.

Is it doomsturbation time yet?

 

[actaeon277]

2.5s are nothing

 

[ditcherman]

2.5s are nothing

Well there’s 49 on the list ranging from 2.5 to 6.0, with quite a few in the 4-5 range.

But it looks like 40-50 per day is kinda average, just surprised me.

 

[SmileDocHill]

Opened the thread for the interesting title... staying to see where the term "doomsterbation" steers the conversation. Lol!

 

[OkieGirl]

If you are curious about them...there's a YouTuber that's a bit of a tin hatter but puts out some interesting/curious content on the subject. Do a search on dutchsinse and it should pop up. He's got some interesting content about the offsetting earthquake activity that I hadn't really heard of before - seems a seismic event on one side of the globe will cause an offsetting event on the other side of the globe. Kinda interesting...

 

[Mij]

Similar to predicting the weather, physics, hydrodynamics, temperature, atmospheric pressures, stress, strain, plate tectonics, earth’s internal physics, gravity pull, just a very few dynamics in play at the time. Trying to predict these things have made a lot of guy’s rich. Mostly PhD’s. And they don’t have a clue.

See poisson’s equation.

Think: Chinese handcuffs, where you stick your fingers in the tube, then try to pull them out, and it gets tighter. Good luck if you can figure it out. I tried for a decade.

Quote. “Is it time for doomsturbation time yet”? Don’t know, but we’ve been here (earth) for 4.5 billion years. You’re guess is as good as mine.

 

[ditcherman]

Opened the thread for the interesting title... staying to see where the term "doomsterbation" steers the conversation. Lol!

Well, it is INGO.
Some people get off on spreading fear, or fear itself.

 

[ditcherman]

Similar to predicting the weather, physics, hydrodynamics, temperature, atmospheric pressures, stress, strain, plate tectonics, earth’s internal physics, gravity pull, just a very few dynamics in play at the time. Trying to predict these things have made a lot of guy’s rich. Mostly PhD’s. And they don’t have a clue.

See poisson’s equation.

Think: Chinese handcuffs, where you stick your fingers in the tube, then try to pull them out, and it gets tighter. Good luck if you can figure it out. I tried for a decade.

Quote. “Is it time for doomsturbation time yet”? Don’t know, but we’ve been here (earth) for 4.5 billion years. You’re guess is as good as mine.

Sorry about your Chinese handcuff problem.
I’ll remember that if I ever come cow rustlin’ up your way.

Weathermen (and other predictors) are the only ones that get paid whether they’re right or wrong! Drives me nuts. They say one of everything so they can play the tape back of them saying the right thing after the fact. We have to commit to doing something based on their word.
Can you tell my sons hay just got rained on again?

Anyway, I digress (see avatar).

 

[BJHay]

The interesting thing to me is that the Richter Scale is logarithmic.

A magnitude 2 is 10x the power of a magnitude 1 quake. A magnitude 3 is 100x and a 4 is 1000x

 

[Alamo]

Many small quakes over time is better than saving up for a single big one at 0430. Ask me how I know.

 

[indyblue]

I wonder how much the recent supermoon affects the rate.

 

[bwframe]

4th Minor Earthquake in a Month Registers Near Indiana Border

A 2.5 magnitude earthquake registered west of the state border in Lawrencville, Illinois just past midnight Sunday.

wibc.com