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I'm a total noob when it comes to geology, so sorry if this is a dumb question.
I live on the Ring of Fire so earthquakes are never far from my thoughts. I go to the USGS earthquake page often just to check out how our Earth is doing.
Lately I've notice a cluster of quakes just north of Puerto Rico. Here's a screen shot I took just now:
A couple observations:
These are very small quakes - in the 2.0 to 3.5 range (one 6.4 is buried in there)
They vary in depth - from 3 km to over 90 km.
The screen shot just shows the last 7 days but it's been like this for months.
I don't see any similar thing happening elsewhere on the planet. Maybe Adak comes close, but nowhere near this spot.
So, what's going on north of Puerto Rico??
I live on the Ring of Fire so earthquakes are never far from my thoughts. I go to the USGS earthquake page often just to check out how our Earth is doing.
Lately I've notice a cluster of quakes just north of Puerto Rico. Here's a screen shot I took just now:
A couple observations:
These are very small quakes - in the 2.0 to 3.5 range (one 6.4 is buried in there)
They vary in depth - from 3 km to over 90 km.
The screen shot just shows the last 7 days but it's been like this for months.
I don't see any similar thing happening elsewhere on the planet. Maybe Adak comes close, but nowhere near this spot.
So, what's going on north of Puerto Rico??