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Magnitude

Is this normal?

Each day's count, and the last ten complete years for comparison. Counts are compared at the magnitude the networks catch reliably: M2.5+ in the US, M4.5+ elsewhere — below that, a country's total mostly measures how many seismometers it has.

Earthquakes per day

Ten years at

Aftershock sequences

Big earthquakes are followed by many smaller ones, close by and decaying with time. Each sequence here is a main shock plus every event inside its Gardner–Knopoff space–time window. Pick one to see its decay.

Aftershocks per day

What the sequence says

The shape of the shaking

Small earthquakes vastly outnumber large ones, in a ratio so steady it has a law; energy works the other way round; and depth says what kind of fault you're looking at.

Magnitude vs frequency

Where the energy went

Depth

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