The image you see above shows earthquake activity in Asia as of 12:54 Greenwich Mean Time, these days called UTC, coordinated universal time—thus at 7:54 Eastern Standard Time in the United States. So many earthquakes have taken place in or near Japan that the symbols marking them almost obliterate central Japan on this map. The map is courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and available here. Clicking through that link will show the most current map.
As I’ve noted a year ago January, we live on a violent earth. That post is accessible here. The image shown today for Asia records 288 earthquakes over the last week. The world map, of which this is just a piece (available here) shows 449 quakes for the same period.
I keep track of the sun and of earthquakes on LaMarotte by way of maintaining my humility while enlarging my perspective. We’re tiny and the world is great and unfathomable.
Filed under: Disasters, Environment Tagged: | Earthquakes, Japan
