This is a photo of the centre of Florence, Italy. I took this photo about a month after the devastating earthquake in the area.
The city is beautiful, so I thought I’d take a moment to capture a few of the highlights of the city. It’s the oldest in the world and in it you could see a beautiful city that is only a couple of miles away.
This is a photo of the centre of Florence, Italy. I took this photo about a month after the devastating earthquake in the area.
The earthquake that hit Florence last year killed close to one thousand people. The earthquake in 2008 killed over 5,000. This year, the death toll has already surpassed that of the 2008 earthquake. That is the highest death toll that a major earthquake has ever been recorded in Italy.
At the time of this posting I’m assuming that as the most recent earthquake in Italy the earthquake that killed over a thousand people was the second largest in the world. The average amount of earthquakes that have occurred in the world in the last decade is around 5,000-5,500.
When you hear the term “major earthquake”, you might think that there is a particular scale that all of these earthquakes fall within, but it’s not the case. The scale of an earthquake is determined by the size of the rupture it causes. For example, the largest earthquake ever recorded, the magnitude 9.0 earthquake in the island of Tohoku in Japan, was a magnitude 9.0 quake that caused massive damage in Japan.
But it gets better. The main reason that there are so many earthquakes in the world is because there is a lot of fault line activity on the planet. All of these faults are in the same long arc, which is called the Pacific arc. The Pacific arc has been active for hundreds of thousands of years and it is still in a state of active volcanic activity.
The main reason this is a major earthquake is because there are so many faults on the planet that can make it happen. The main reason that there are so many earthquakes is because there are so many faults on the planet and these faults act like volcanoes. In other words, the fault line activity on earth is like the volcano activity of the world. When a big volcano erupts, it’s a huge shock to the system. So a fault line can cause a real shock.
This is why the Earth is so unstable. And every earthquake is followed by a tsunami. The same thing goes for volcanoes.
The earthquake and volcano analogy is a great one because it highlights the fact that even the earth’s largest earthquakes are the result of small, tiny faults. When one fault system crumbles, the effect can be felt throughout the world.
