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We re back to talk about the 8.8 earthquake in chile this past weekend and what appears to be a recent flareup in seismic activity elsewhere around the globe. to help us nonscientists process what s going on here let s bring in lucy jones, a seismologist with the united states geological survey. right now we re looking at a usgs time lapse animation plotting earthquakes around the globe. there certainly seems to be a spike in seismic activity in the last week. seven weeks ago haiti was hit hard. lucy, is there a pattern here or is this purely random activity? the only pattern you re seeing is each earthquake tends to trigger aftershocks so there s going to be a lot of earthquakes right now as aftershocks to the chilean earthquake. over all we aren t seeing a significant clustering of earthquakes. ....

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