BUT! While the count is going down the Average Magnitude is going UP!
But the MOST worrisome is the number of 6.0 and is going where?
Disturbing Quake Trends
March 2, 2010
George Ure
Urban Survival
My friend Tony Ring has been slicing and dicing earthquake data again...and his latest charts give all the more reason to expect that our "4-5 more Great Quakes" forecast for this year will come to pass.
Consider these charts, starting with the count of quakes is going down:
BUT! While the count is going down the Average Magnitude is going UP!
But the MOST worrisome is the number of 6.0 and is going where?
I hope you saw where the "Chile quake may have tipped Earth's axis" which obviously could set off a whole series of follow-on quakes, so the linguistics - which may have seemed far-out in January when I told you about them - are now coming into focus as something to get serious about planning for. Have you done any real quake prepping?
And then there's the ugly question I should repeat: How many countries can be severely shaken without busting the global economy? What would an 8.0 do in India, Taiwan, or Japan...nations that the US depends on to support its formerly lavish lifestyle that's already receding?
Remember the Chilean quake may have agricultural and food impacts when you're debating about whether to put in a garden this year.
Quake Fallout: Broken Promises
Also, we're hearing back-channel (informally) from relief group sources that a number of countries which said they would step up with aid for Haiti are not coming through on their promises, but the MSM isn't saying anything about it because it would not be 'PC' and might embarrass a few countries. As it should.
Meantime, Chile is scrambling to get aid distributed. The good news: Thanks to good engineering of buildings, the Chilean quake which was what, 500 times larger than Haiti's? Has only resulted in around 700-800 deaths, at least so far.
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Friends up in Okie-lahoma are wondering about the 4.1 shaker up at Sparks on Saturday. My imagination, or is something moving in mid-continent?
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We still have either four or five great quakes to go this year (either Haiti-sized loss of life or over 8.0) depending on how you read the predictive linguistics. But headlines cause a certain kind of 'echo-effect' too, so wer;ll just count as they come.
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