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Environment & Energy

caraher

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3. Upon close inspection...

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 05:04 PM

Jul 2013

it looks like what they did was something like a daily plot of the cumulative total of quakes. (maybe weekly; but clearly with finer time resolution than yearly or monthly)

So I think there's some convenience involved in making a plot that way... though given the raw data it would be pretty simple to break into annual "bins"

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What a peculiar way to graph the data caraher Jul 2013 #1

Yeah I was wondering about that too. limpyhobbler Jul 2013 #2

Upon close inspection... caraher Jul 2013 #3