Re: 5.2 earthquake hit southern Spain,

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I watched a program last night that said the rate of large volcanic eruptions and earthquakes seemed to be picking up over the last 2,000 years, a cycle that has been increasing since the end of the last Ice Age. This reminded me of charts and other articles I have read that seem to indicate that over the last few million years anyway that the peak of ice ages seemed to be periods of light volcanic activity where the interim warm periods saw more.

The theory is that as the ice ages end, the oceans get heavier and the land also springs up once the ice was all gone. This is believed by some to be the cause of increased activity. If true, we should be seeing more activity because we have not yet reached the historic highs seen between past ice ages. Indeed heavy volcanic activity might shift the balance back toward the next ice age. This could be several volcanoes going off within a few years of each other of one of the super volcanoes erupting.

In a message dated 5/11/2011 9:42:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

At least 10 people were killed after a magnitude-5.2 earthquake hit southern Spain, near the town of Lorca.