This is why, when you live in a place with recurent “small” eartquakes, one day, you will get the BIG one…

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Posted by frounze

11 Comments

  1. Competitive_Dare4898 on

    It does not mean one day you will get a big one. It can mean you will get 10 small ones. No need to scare people for nothing. You can get a big one in 1000 years or maybe not even. The sun will die at some point as well no need to dwell on that

  2. I think reality is the other way around though. It’s better to have many small ones because then the probability that all that energy is released in a large one decreases. I’m not an expert though.

  3. Far_Associate_8890 on

    Probably that’s why Larnaca has already installed road signs with tsunami evacuation routes. It’s the first city in Europe or Mediterranean to be tsunami ready.

  4. Correction: When you live in a place with recurrent “small” eartquakes, you are **less likely*** to get a big one.

    Source: primary school science.

  5. Ioannis_suppp on

    Depends on the type of tectonic plate boundary. Small earthquakes are an indicator, specially in Japan because they have a convergent tectonic plate which cause volcanic activities as well.

  6. Wrong. Lots of small earthquakes mean you avoid having a single monumental event