Major recent earthquakes across the globe probably not linked

The past decade has been plagued with what seems to be a cluster of large earthquakes, with massive quakes striking Sumatra, Chile, Haiti and Japan since 2004. Some researchers have suggested that this cluster has occurred because the earthquakes may be 'communicating' across large distances, possibly triggering each other. But a new analysis concludes that the cluster could just as well be the result of random chance.

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