The following story by Andrea Mustain was posted on the website Our Amazing Planet on June 28, 2012.
“If you’ve ever wondered where – and why – earthquakes happen the most, look no further than a new map, which plots more than a century’s worth of nearly every recorded earthquake strong enough to at least rattle the bookshelves.”
“The map shows earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater since 1898; each is marked in a lightning-bug hue that glows brighter with increasing magnitude.”
“The overall effect is both beautiful and arresting, revealing the silhouettes of Earth’s tectonic boundaries in stark, luminous swarms of color…” [read the full story]
Source Article from http://www.portlandonline.com/oem/index.cfm?a=403045
