Hi All. EQF got me to thinking about the number of major quakes that have occurred around the earth in the year 2001. What I found was that there 14 major quakes (M>7.0 M>7.9) and one great quake (M>8.0 M>8.9.)

One of the other things I found was that there were some years the number of quakes didn’t make it out of the single digit category. They ranged from a low of 5 to a high of 23.

There were a number of years that didn’t have any great quakes, but there was a year that had 4.

Not much can be made of such a small list of quakes, but there doesn’t seem to be any pattern that would tell you where the next major quake could strike. Take Care…Don in creepy town

Date Location Magnitude
Jan. 1 Mindanao, Philippines 7.5
Jan. 9 Vanuatu Islands 7.0
Jan. 10 Kodiak Island region, Alaska, U.S.A. 7.1
Jan. 13 Off coast of Central America 7.7
Jan. 26 Gujarat, India 7.7
Feb. 13 Southern Sumatera, Indonesia 7.4
Feb. 24 Northern Molucca Sea 7.1
June 3 Kermadec Islands, New Zealand 7.2
June 23 Near coast of Peru 8.4
July 7 Near coast of Peru 7.6
Aug. 21 East of North Island, N.Z. 7.0
Oct. 12 South of Mariana Islands 7.0
Oct. 19 Banda Sea 7.5
Nov. 14 Qinghai-Xinjiang, China 7.8
Dec. 12 South of Australia 7.1

• Number Of Quakes Per Year