Jessica, don't pay attention to doomsayers on Yahoo. The earth experiences thousands of earthquakes per yer. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is where some 90% of the world's earthquakes occur. There has been nothing unusual about seismic activity this year, and actual scientists don't expect anything unusual leading up to 2012. There's no reason to, because all the 2012 doomsday and disaster claims are fiction.
NASA's David Morrison has actually been fielding 2012-related questions at Ask an Astrobiologist for quite some time. NASA doesn't discuss earthquakes in particular, because it is a space agency. 2012 claims in general have been addressed to any reasonable extent, in my opinion.
Scientists with NASA and other organizations are really in a catch-22 with 2012. If they don't say anything, doomsayers accuse them of covering up the "truth." If they do say something about it, doomsayers accuse them of lying to cover up the "truth." Aside from costing a lot of money that NASA probably doesn't have, a television special is unlikely to be of much help. It might even make the doomsayers and conspiracy theorists crazier.
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I realize that Indonesia is in the Ring of FIre and prone to quakes…ALso isn't the average of 7.0-7.9 quakes 15 yearly and we are at 17 or 18 now??
An average, by definition, will have half the values below the mean and half of them above it. Seventeen, eighteen or even a few more quakes is not anything out of the ordinary. We've also only kept records for about a century, which on geologic time scales really isn't long enough to glean any meaningful trends from such an average.
Jessica (guest) 30 Sep 2010 00:43
