Because my article Japan today, Jerusalem tomorrow made such a large splash, I wanted to post the the most up-to-date, accurate and relevant data from the USGS:<\/p>\n

National Geophysical Data Center<\/a><\/p>\n

1 AD to 1000: 15 earthquakes 7.0 or higher (NGDC)<\/p>\n

(One every 66 years)<\/p>\n

1000 to 1800: 114 7.0 or higher (NGDC)<\/p>\n

(One every 7 years)<\/p>\n

1800 to 1900: 115 7.0 or higher (NGDC)<\/p>\n

(One every 10 months)<\/p>\n

(1935 Richter Scale invented)<\/p>\n

1900 to 1980: 774 7.0 or higher (NGDC)<\/p>\n

(One every 37 days)<\/p>\n

United States Geological Survey<\/a><\/p>\n

1980 to 2000: 255 earthquakes 7.0 or higher (USGS \/NEIC)<\/p>\n

(One every 28 days)<\/p>\n

2000 to 2008: 127 earthquakes 7.0 or higher (USGS \/ NEIC)<\/p>\n

(One every 26 days)<\/p>\n

2009: 17 earthquakes 7.0 or higher (USGS \/ NEIC)<\/p>\n

(One every 21 days)<\/p>\n

2010: 20 earthquakes 7.0 or higher (USGS \/ NEIC)<\/p>\n

(One every 18 days)<\/p>\n

2011: 6 earthquakes 7.0 or higher in 3 months (USGS \/ NEIC)<\/p>\n

(One every 15 days)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because my article Japan today, Jerusalem tomorrow made such a large splash, I wanted to post the the most up-to-date, accurate and relevant data from the USGS: National Geophysical Data Center 1 AD to 1000: 15 earthquakes 7.0 or higher (NGDC) (One every 66 years) 1000 to 1800: 114 7.0 or higher (NGDC) (One every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelstrumpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelstrumpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelstrumpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelstrumpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelstrumpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joelstrumpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelstrumpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelstrumpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelstrumpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}