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Some scientists say that more earthquakes are NOT immanent, but others strongly disagree. Are we in the midst of a worldwide plague of quakes? Three major quakes–the December 2004 Sumatra quake, the February 2010 Chile quake and now Sendai in Japan–have struck over the past 6 years. The March 19-25 edition of New Scientist warns us that "This presents a horrifying possibility: that there is a link between these megaquakes and that, as a result, more could strike."
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It isn’t just war in the Sudan that is tearing apart Africa, it’s earthquakes as well. Cracks began to be seen years ago, but it recent months they’ve increased, meaning that the continent is breaking apart in slow motion.

On the Before it’s News website, Axel Bojanowski quotes geologist Cynthia Ebinger as saying, "The volcano was bubbling over; flaming-red lava was shooting up into the sky." The fissures began appearing years ago. But in recent months, seismic activity has accelerated in northeastern Africa as the continent breaks apart in slow motion. Researchers say that lava in the region is consistent with magma normally seen on the sea floor — and that water will ultimately cover the desert.
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There is increasing scientific speculation that some earthquakeactivity may belinked by complex and little-understood processes,but little or no evidence that quakes in one part of theworld may result in seismic activity elsewhere.Nevertheless, since the recent 7.8 quake that devastatedSichuan Province in China, the world has experienced anexceptional number of tremors. The latest is a return ofmini-quake swarms to the Reno, Nevada area. This is thethird such swarm to unfold in the area this year.
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An unusual swarm of earthquakes has been going on off the coast of Oregon. The same thing happened 3 years ago. This is something that often occurs before a volcano erupts, except there are no volcanoes in the area. How can scientists spot underwater quakes? They LISTEN, using underwater microphones.

There have been over 600 quakes recently, and seismologists don’t understand what’s going on. They think the quakes could be cuased by molten rock pulling away from the earthquake faults on the ocean floor off the coast.

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