About 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean.
After an Islamic cleric blamed women who dress provocatively for earthquakes in 2010, 100,000 women joined for a “Boobquake” to test the theory. Nothing happened.
Tokyo has been destroyed from earthquakes and tsunamis from 1608 to 1945, on average, once every five years.
Southern California has about 10,000 earthquakes each year, though most are so small that they are never felt.
About 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean.
There are about 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage.