[Skywise]

(08-17-2015, 10:14 PM)Duffy Wrote: I know it's all media hype but I don't know what's more disconcerting, the fact that their trying to portray to an audience that the Earth is coming apart at the seams, or that they have an insider at USGS who thinks a 5.6 sea quake is news worthy .

It's the same on this side of "the pond". A newsworthy event happens and the suddenly any event of that type is suddenly "newsworthy" regardless of its insignificance. I think they're just trying to cash in on the short attention span of the average viewer who gets reeled in by the hype.

BTW, the USGS is notoriously slow for updating it's maps on the weekend. It's not an entirely automatic process for events outside the US, and if no one is in the office.... BBC probably got the info from another source.

Brian