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unpluggedcord t1_j9muq2h wrote

Reply to comment by notunek in Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Tajikistan, near border with China by Papppi-56

I wouldn’t read to much into it. The quakes are an unpredictable thing and anything happening right now is just recency bias and media.

In San Francisco at the Cal Academy of Sciences(some of the research there is mainly quake related because of the founders), check out the planetarium.

They show a worldview of all quakes in real time and then do some filtering where they show 5+ and 7+ on the day and then do some expanding where it’s on the whole year.

These things happen. All. The. Time. You’re only hearing about the ones near people.

(They also have a fake house built on a shake table that simulates the 1906 and 1989 quakes and it’s insane. They only do 30 seconds of the 1906 one because it’s really terrifying.)

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the_than_then_guy t1_j9mxd6n wrote

Every time there's a major earthquake, other earthquakes become visible on social media and people start wondering if there's something going on. It happens every time.

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BasenjiBob t1_j9qh5rj wrote

My mom was pregnant with me during Loma Prieta. (My dad was actually at the World Series game that day.) Cell phones weren't a thing and they weren't able to get in touch with each other for nearly 12 hours after quake. They were both sure the other one was dead. (My mom drove on the highway that collapsed every day to commute. Luckily she stayed late at work that day since my dad was at the game with his brother.)

When they did finally both get home, my mom's first words were "I'm ok, but I'm afraid that the baby might be scrambled eggs."

I was born 5 months later and to this day my dad still sometimes calls me "scrambled eggs."

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