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Took a few classes in Geology. Earth a moving planet.

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake
Affected country: Svalbard and Jan Mayen
409 miles from Tromsø, Norway · Aug 7, 6:57 AM

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5.9 in Lombok

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Magnitude 3.0 earthquake
4 miles from Mammoth Lakes, CA · Aug 9, 10:22 AM

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2.3 magnitude earthquake 7 km from Aguanga, California, United States
about 13 hours ago

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Magnitude 6.4 earthquake
85 miles from Prudhoe Bay, AK · Aug 12, 7:58 AM

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At least 24 injured after 5.0 magnitude earthquake jolted Yuxi, China.

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Scientists complete mission to map fast-moving fault off Alaska (and Canada)

With a slip rate of more than 2 inches per year, this fault may be one of the fastest-moving strike-slip faults in the world. (For comparison, the San Andreas fault in central California slips about an inch to an inch-and-a-half each year.) Movement between the tectonic plates at the fault line has generated six earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater within the last century. One of those earthquakes, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake near Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958 triggered a landslide that sent water 1,720 feet up an adjacent mountainside, one of the highest recorded runups of a tsunami — a rapidly rising turbulent surge of water often choked with debris.

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Remarkable movement between tectonic plates.

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Magnitude 4.4 earthquake
9 miles from Anza, CA · Aug 14, 6:24 PM

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Trump officials open door to fracking in California. Will fracking increase the number and severity of earthquakes in California?

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Another large Earthquake has shaken Lombok 6.3 magnitude.
A large Earthquake in Fiji. usgs 8.2 reading.

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Induced earthquakes (USGS): Seismicity can be induced at distances of 10 miles or more away from the injection point and at significantly greater depths than the injection point.

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Trump officials open door to fracking in California. Will fracking increase the number and severity of earthquakes in California?

Makes me wonder to what extent Trump is advocating California fracking because they overwhelmingly voted against him by millions in 2016?

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Induced earthquakes (USGS): Seismicity can be induced at distances of 10 miles or more away from the injection point and at significantly greater depths than the injection point.

Both fracking and deep wastewater pumping have been associated with earthquakes in the Midwest.

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There was a further 6.9 magnitude Earthquake impacting Lombok yesterday.

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Magnitude 4.4 earthquake
83 miles from Prudhoe Bay, AK · 2:33 AM