The Earth shakes around half a million times a year

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The Earth shakes around half a million times a year
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The Earth shakes around half a million times a year

Seismic networks detect roughly 500,000 earthquakes worldwide every year. Only about 100,000 are strong enough for people to feel, and around 100 cause damage. In other words, the ground shakes somewhere about once a minute, and you almost never notice.

USGS
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Krakatoa made the loudest sound in recorded history

On 27 August 1883, the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa was heard as far away as Rodrigues Island, nearly 4,800 km away. Its pressure wave was picked up by barometers worldwide and circled the globe several times. The tsunamis that followed killed more than 36,000 people.

Britannica
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Mount Everest would vanish inside the Mariana Trench

The deepest known point in the ocean, Challenger Deep, lies roughly 10,900 m below the Pacific surface. Drop Everest in and its summit would still sit about 2 km underwater. Down there, the pressure is more than 1,000 times what you feel at sea level, roughly a tonne pressing on every square centimetre.

NOAA Ocean Service