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BabaRa
17th November 2013, 16:29
November 17, 2013 – SOUTH AMERICA – A powerful 7.8 magnitude undersea earthquake struck in the Scotia Sea, a remote region in the far south Atlantic near Antarctica, US earthquake monitors reported Sunday. The quake struck at 0904 GMT in the ocean some 893 kilometers (550 miles) southwest of Grytviken, South Georgia, and 1,140 kilometers (710 miles) southeast of Ushuaia, Argentina, said the US Geological Survey, which monitors earthquakes worldwide. This is the second major earthquake to strike the region in 24 hours. Today’s earthquake was preceded by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake. –The News, TEP

Calz
18th November 2013, 06:44
16 over 5.0 in the last 2+ days (mostly aftershocks of course yet strong ones).

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/world/M5/

Calz
19th November 2013, 05:27
Looks intersting from dutchsince. I cannot view or post the vids from work but have a look at the site if so inclined ...

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11/18/2013 — Large Earthquake Swarm the result of X-Class Solar Flare Arrival

Posted on November 18, 2013 by sincedutch

This is profound. A direct link between an arriving solar flare, and a large earthquake swarm.

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On November 10, 2013 .. a directly Earth facing X-Class flare occurred.

seen here:


http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/11182013-large-earthquake-swarm-the-result-of-x-class-flare-arrival/