Swarm of earthquakes strike Kodiak Island region in Alaska; no ...

This is horrible! I graduated from West Anchorage High School in 1981. I remember native Alaskans telling me about the horrors of the 1964 earthquake. I saw pictures of 4th street in Anchorage where half of the road was gone. My high school sits on top of mountain overlooking Cook Inlet. The scenery is beautiful. I am afraid some day there will be an earthquake and level that area. There was an earthquake in Irving today, too. It was felt from parts of north Irving all the way over to Fort Worth and Grand Prairie. We had a small earthquake here last October during Halloween. There are a lot of Californians that have moved here that are mocking us because we don't know how to deal with earthquakes. Who would ever would have thought Texas would have earthquakes? If we had a bad one, lots of people would die because we aren't prepared for it. One man said his daughter became so frightened this morning that she started throwing us. As soon as the tremors stopped, she quit throwing up.

A SWARM of earthquakes? Not a Flock of earthquakes? Not a Gaggle of earthquakes? Not a School of earthquakes? Hello - is there an Editor about??? How about a SERIES of earthquakes?!?

Just thinking about it really shakes me up!

I think the people that labelled this a "swarm" of earthquakes are on
shaky groundy.

I understand that since this happened the cows up there are producing milk shakes

...and the favorite item at grocery stores there is "Shake and Bake"

This article originated in the Anchorage Daily News, run by a bunch of Californians who can't tell a mosquito from a moose. As much as I would like to pin something on them and call them the truly stupid people they are, swarm is a term used in connection with earthquakes. Earthquake swarms are events where a local area experiences sequences of many earthquakes striking in a relatively short period of time. The length of time used to define the swarm itself varies, an event may be on the order of days, weeks, or months. They are differentiated from earthquakes succeeded by a series of aftershocks by the observation that no single earthquake in the sequence is obviously the main shock. Earthquake swarms are one of the events typically preceding eruptions of volcanoes. Hopefully, this won't be a precursor to anything.

Why are the earthquakes a "swarm" and not a "herd", "flock",...

Thank you for the knowledgeable reply.

Alaska wrote:

This article originated in the Anchorage Daily News, run by a bunch of Californians who can't tell a mosquito from a moose. As much as I would like to pin something on them and call them the truly stupid people they are, swarm is a term used in connection with earthquakes. Earthquake swarms are events where a local area experiences sequences of many earthquakes striking in a relatively short period of time. The length of time used to define the swarm itself varies, an event may be on the order of days, weeks, or months. They are differentiated from earthquakes succeeded by a series of aftershocks by the observation that no single earthquake in the sequence is obviously the main shock. Earthquake swarms are one of the events typically preceding eruptions of volcanoes. Hopefully, this won't be a precursor to anything.

iknowthatguy wrote:

Thank you for the knowledgeable reply.<quoted text>

I wish more people who responded to news articles had "knowledgeable" replies rather than the "negative" ones we could all do without.

WELL BREAK out THE FLY SWATTERS AND THE RAID. SWARM'S OF EARTHQUAKES , THAT IS RICH. MUST BE A LIB-ITE REPORTER REPORTING..HOW ABOUT A TIDE OF OR OOZING OF OR GAGGLE OF OR FLOCK OF OR BUNCH OF OR (NOW IN A LOUD AND DEEP VOICE) A SHAM-WOW OF EARHQUAKES.

Pearl wrote:

A SWARM of earthquakes? Not a Flock of earthquakes? Not a Gaggle of earthquakes? Not a School of earthquakes? Hello - is there an Editor about??? How about a SERIES of earthquakes?!?

I was thinking the same thing about there being "swarms of earthquakes," but look up swarm in the dictionary and you will find that it is the correct word for the earthquakes that occurred.

God must mad at Alaska for being too conservative.

Bobby Jindal says we should stop spending money on ridiculous things like volcano monitoring. Shortly after Jindal's statement, Mount Redoubt blow up in Alaska, home state of Sara Palin. Nothing like saying the right thing at the right time.