Earthquakes! – May 8, 2019
The Earth is an active place and every day, earthquakes happen somewhere on the planet. The National Earthquake Information Center (Golden, Colorado) locates about 12,000 – 14,000 earthquakes worldwide each year! On average, magnitude 2 and smaller earthquakes happen several hundred times a day worldwide. The bigger ones (magnitude 7) happen once a month somewhere in the world.
Check out the link below to find your “birthquake” – the most powerful earthquakes on your birthdate. Mine was a magnitude 5.5 in the South Sandwich Islands. My husband’s was a magnitude 7.2, south of the Fiji islands.
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