THE BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE EVER
The sun is freaking out: its causes and effects
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A 500% increase in Earth's volcanic activity between 1875 and 1993.
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But here's the why of the when:
Earth Perihelion (Closest point of Earth's orbit to Sun)
January 3 2007 20h universal time
the first article to understand the effect of the sun and the moon orbit's on earthquake occurence and strengh.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0523_050523_moonquake_2.html
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The Earth and moon are closest together at perigee once a month. The Earth and sun are closest together at perihelion once a year. Perihelion currently occurs in early January. Maximum gravitation force occurs when a syzygy and perigee occur on the same day as perihelion
second one
http://www.direct.ca/trinity/tidalquake/index.htm
Now even with the two 7+ eq in taiwan there's still missing 5 earthquakes greater than 7 to reach the yearly average of 17.
But let us not consider these as a earthquake of 7.0 is 1000 times stronger (energy release) than a 9.0 earthquake.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/topics/calculator.php
1997 12 05 - Near East Coast of Kamchatka - M 7.8
1997 12 05 - Near East Coast of Kamchatka - M 7.8*
1998 04 25 - Balleny Islands Region - M 8.1
1998 05 03 - Southeast of Taiwan - M 7.5*
1999 09 20 - Taiwan - M 7.6
1999 09 30 - Oaxaca, Mexico - M 7.5*
2000 11 16 - New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea - M 8.0
2000 11 17 - New Britain region, Papua New Guinea - M 7.6*
2001 06 23 - Near the Coast of Peru - M 8.4
2001 07 07 - Near the Coast of Peru - M 7.6*
2002 11 03 - Denali Fault, Alaska - M 7.9 (largest of the year)**
2002 11 03 - Denali Fault, Alaska - M 7.9*
2003 09 25 - Hokkaido, Japan Region - M 8.3
2003 11 17 - Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska - M 7.8*
2004 12 23 - North of Macquarie Island - M 8.1
2004 12 26 - Sumatra-Andaman Islands - M 9.1
2005 03 28 - Northern Sumatra, Indonesia - M 8.6
2005 07 13 - Tarapaca, Chile - M 7.8
2006 05 03 - Tonga - M 7.9
2006 11 15 - Kuril Islands - M 8.3
2006 12 26 - Taiwan - M 7.1*
*biggest EQ occuring after the first one in time
The second biggest earthquake ever recorded, the 9.1 event of december 26th of 2004, has been followed by the seventh of its kind, the 8.6 event of march 28th of 2005. These extremly powerfull events have occur in a incredibly short period of 4 month. Now the 8.3 event of november 15th of 2006 prove, without a doubt there's still more energy release for a 2 year period then ever before in recorded history of earthquake. The only exception is for the period of 1960 to 1965 were 4 of the 12 biggest EQ occured.
For the big picture now: the sun (99.86% of the mass in the Solar System) due to the increase in cosmic dust is fueling the 500% increase in Earth's volcanic activity between 1875 and 1993 and even more up to now is nothing more needed to trigger the next glaciation. Its no coincidence the glaciation cycle of about 100 000 years is ending. Plus the biggest volcano of all, Yellowstone, working in synergy with all of the others, have increase their overall activity. With these cycles peaking up there's no reasons why the EQ should go back down.
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