So there was a 6.4 earthquake near Puerto Rico today and the funny thing is this earthquake shows me how much people really pay attention to what is going on in the world today, even though because of mass media, social media and the news media people say the world is getting smaller.
The reason I say it's funny is because on social media I keep hearing people comment on how rare an earthquake like this is in this region, it seems people either forget easily or they don't know their geography let alone their geology. This is actually a very seismic active zone of the world, it was only 4 years ago to the day that a major 7.0 earthquake destroyed Haiti, there was another earthquake (3.1) right on the beach in Puerto Rico earlier today almost directly along a line from this one.
There was also a 5.0 earthquake off the coast of Cuba on January 9th, I think that in some ways all the "mass", as in so much information that is constantly passing in front of our eyes and through our brain every minute of every waking hour that we miss things mainly because what does catch our eyes today are the things catastrophic and that is what we remember.
M6.4 - 57km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico 2014-01-13 04:01:04 UTC
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