As you might already know, I have the Motorola Droid smart phone. About a week ago while browsing through the Android Marketplace I stumbled upon a sweet app that shows you all the recent earthquakes on a map that happen around the world. Within the first hour after installing the app, it alerted me about 4 separate earthquakes in different parts of the world that had more than 5 magnitudes. For a moment I thought the world was coming to an end. So I did what any other person would have done, I rushed to my computer and started looking up earthquake data and came to the following conclusions:

Apparently, large earthquakes are happening all the time and it is not unheard of to have over 30 significant earthquakes (over 2.5) in a day. We only hear about earthquakes when they do insurmountable amounts of damage or have large death tolls. The earth is as dynamic as it was 2 million years ago, and 2 million years from now it will remain as dynamic (BTW: I have no facts to back that up).  It’s kind of cool when you think about it and take it all into perspective.