Earthquake Up-date! Pity Papua-New Guinea...

Given the recent unprecedented and historic little Earthquake in Maryland, I've been thinking about Earthquakes even more than usual lately.

Below the radar of most of us in the United States has been a series of serious and curious quakes centered around the Island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. This map shows the quakes over the past week. They start with a magnitude 7.3 quake and then include, aftershocks of 6.3, 5.6, 5.3, 5.3, 5.1, 5.0, 5.0, 4.8, 4.7, 4.3. Add to this day old map today's quakes of 5.1 and 4.3. It's a lot of seismic activity in one acute region over the course of 8 days....

But it is also a very isolated place on the planet, so it goes below our radar. Yet, it is not without its greater meaning to the whole. Even if we still don't understand it all.