Flurry of Earthquakes in Peru, Virginia & Colorado Not Connected
Natalie Wolchover, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer
Date: 24 August 2011 Time: 05:01 PM ET
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| Earthquakes in the world in the past 7 days. CREDIT: USGS |
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake in northern Peru today (Aug. 24) was the third major temblor to shake the Americas in less than 48 hours. A magnitude 5.8 quake hit Virginia yesterday, and a magnitude 5.3 event rumbled under Colorado the day before.
One might naturally wonder if there’s a trend here — if the Peru, Colorado andVirginia earthquakes are connected. But experts say there isn’t, and they aren’t.
“The question comes up all the time,” said David Schwartz, an earthquake geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), “but these three earthquakes are completely unrelated.”
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