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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer
It seems we are having more strong quakes and the plates are really shifting. I'm interested in seeing a map of the plates before the Bali quake a few years ago and now. Or even before the Haiti quake and now.
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It may seem that way, but we're not. None of the recent activity indicates any statistically significant deviation from historically recorded patterns of earthquakes. What has increased is the amount of development along active fault lines, so it magnifies the impact of quakes that in the past would not have affected major cities.