Earthquakes and Sunspots

It's been so long since I posted an earthquake list...but there are so many on the page today that I decided to go ahead and do it tonight. I'll catch up to my "normal" listing one of these days! :-)

41 (forty one) earthquakes listed on December 30 for BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO, ranging in size from 2.5 to 5.8. You know, that is a lot of earthquakes!!! And there were more for Baja California, Mexico over the next few days. I think it's called a 'swarm'. Someone somewhere we were at said that they saw on the news that someone important thinks it may be a precursor to "the big one" in California, but she was from California herself and said no, it was just a swarm. :-)

6.0 2009/12/31 09:23:26 PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE

6.2 2010/01/02 08:45:34 MARIANA ISLANDS REGION

6.6 2010/01/03 21:48:06 SOLOMON ISLANDS
7.2 2010/01/03 22:36:28 SOLOMON ISLANDS

6.7 2010/01/05 04:55:39 EAST OF THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
6.9 2010/01/05 12:15:36 SOLOMON ISLANDS
6.0 2010/01/05 13:11:43 SOLOMON ISLANDS

Plus earthquakes 2.5 and above, in
WESTERN MONTANA - 1
GEORGIA, USA - 1
SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA - 1
UTAH - 4
HAWAII - 2
OREGON - 1
OKLAHOMA - 1
SOUTHERN IDAHO - 1
plus many in California and Alaska

(I still find it interesting that there are so many earthquakes, tiny as they are, in Oklahoma. I wonder why they are happening? What is going on down there under the surface of the earth? Is it from all the oil and water being pumped out of the ground all these years? Or is something else secret going on? Or is it just "one of those unexplained things"? hmmmm.)

And on the sunspot front:

Sunspot number: 15
Updated 04 Jan 2010

Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 0 days
2010 total: 0 days (0%)
2009 total: 260 days (71%)
Since 2004: 771 days
Typical Solar Min: 485 days
Updated 04 Jan 2010
So the sun is spotty again, and from what I can tell from what little reading I've been able to do over the past few weeks, it looks like most, if not all of them, are from the new cycle. Maybe more auroras will be happening soon! (And of course the scare mongers are once again telling us that these could produce a flare that could wipe out our communication systems on earth. Seems to me that no matter what happens nowadays, someone is scared or unhappy about it.)