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Meghan S. Miller, Professor of Geophysics, Australian National University

Are earthquakes becoming more common? Here’s what the numbers say

Magnitude 5+ earthquakes in the past 30 days. Geoscience Australia, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY

Whenever there’s a series of destructive or notable earthquakes, scientists get asked the same question: are earthquakes becoming more frequent?

Over the past three months, multiple large earthquakes have occurred near population centres around the world, resulting in devastating impacts to people and infrastructure:

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