EARTHQUAKE FINDINGS
Jul 08 2002
Clifford E Carnicom
From an investigative search of earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater conducted through the National Earthquake Information Center, World Data Center for Seismology, Denver (http://eqint.cr.usgs.gov), the following results have been obtained:
Global Search
Magnitude Range : 6 to 10
Date Range : 01/01/1980 to 12/31/89
Number of Earthquakes : 1085
Date Range : 01/01/1990 to 12/31/1999
Number of Earthquakes : 1515
This represents an increase of 40% in the number of higher magnitude earthquakes recorded in the most recent decade examined relative to the previous decade.
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