Officials with the Alaska Earthquake Information Center say the amount of quakes activities in 2014 surpassed previous record years.
Alaska Earthquake Information Center Senior Seismologist Natasha Ruppert…
Ruppert: “In July we had two magnitude 6 earthquakes in southeast Alaska, in June we had a magnitude 7.9 in Aleutian Islands so overall I would say that this year brought more events in 6-7 magnitude range but they are all in different parts of the state and there is no real direct connection between these different events.”
According to the data there were 40,686 earthquakes in Alaska and bordering parts of Canada in 2014.
This new high sped right past the previous record of 32,000 earthquakes in 2003 and was significantly higher than the 28,000 quakes recorded in 2013.
Officials reasoned that there are several reasons for the increase, including a greater number of seismometers and better technology, but there were also just must more earthquakes last year.
