By LISA SIMPSON STRANGE Glasgow Daily Times GLASGOW —
Earthquakes happen every single day in countries all over the
world. On Friday March 5 there were 374 separate quakes,
according to Michael May, Ph.D., P.G., from the Department of
Geography and Geology at Western Kentucky University. May spoke
to members of the noon Horse Cave Rotary Club on March 8, on the
topic of “Putting Recent Global Seismic Activity into
Perspective.” “People always ask, ‘Can we predict earthquakes?’
I can say with 100 percent certainty there will be an earthquake
today, just don’t ask where,” he told club members. There have
been a number of earthquakes in the headlines recently,
according to May. There was a 7.0 magnitude quake in Haiti on
Jan. 12; a powerful magnitude 8.8 one on Feb. 27 and another
registering 6.6 on March 5, both in Chile; a 7.0 quake in Japan
on Feb. 26; one measuring 6.0 in Turkey on March 8; and a 3.7
magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault at the
Mississippi River on March 1. The strength of earthqua