100 Earthquakes in 8 Hours Worldwide Following 6.2 in Italy and 6.8 in Burma!

A massive increase in earthquakes has occurred worldwide in the past twenty four hours, in particular in the last eight hours with reports of 100 earthquakes. 58 of which are aftershocks from the powerful 6.2 magnitude quake to strike the town of Amatrice in Central Italy where at least 73 people have been reported dead and many others still trapped in the rubble. A few hours after the earthquake in Italy, a 6.8 struck Burma, Myanmar where some reports have said that citizens felt shaking in the area, but has not yet had any aftershocks in accordance to http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

This year many have noticed that earthquakes worldwide have been increasing without very much explanation and 2016 could go down as one of the most seismic years in earthquake history with 16,000 more earthquakes this year than average with magnitude ranges of 1.5-7. Google in fact has also installed earthquake updates within its website, so when people type into Google "Earthquakes", Google will show you the latest major earthquakes and they have probably done this as earthquakes are on a massive increase.

The increase in earthquakes around the world started around February-March this year and the earthquakes are continuing, getting higher in magnitude. Especially across the ring of fire we have been seeing many earthquakes, particularly in Japan (just a few days ago they had two 6.0 earthquakes) and the South Sandwich Islands (7.4 in magnitude just a few days ago) and Vanuatu which has seen many 6.0's and even 7.0's over the course of this year. Many have their own theories as to the increase in earthquakes around the world whether it is due to the magnetic field, biblical, solar flare activity increase and even lunar activity. Many have their different theories as to why we have seen seismic activity like nothing like it before, if you have your own theories then please let us in the comment section below!


We will keep you up to date on the increase of earthquake activity, but if you would like to know where the latest earthquakes are happening in the world LIVE, then go to this website here for more information: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

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                 Map from http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/                      24th August 2016



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