Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/23
By: Lee Hsin-Yin
Taipei, Nov. 23 (CNA) There is no evidence to indicate that the number of strong
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earthquakes across the world will increase significantly next year, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Thursday, countering a prediction by seismic experts in the United States.
“There has not been any concrete pattern so far to which we can refer to predict the number of earthquakes in the future,” said Lin Tzu-wei (林祖慰), a section chief at the bureau’s Seismology Center.
Roger Bilham, professor emeritus at the University of Colorado in Boulder, told the British media earlier this month that there will be a significant surge in the number of severe earthquakes next year.
“So far we have only had about six severe earthquakes,” Bilham was quoted as saying. “We could easily have 20 a year starting 2018.” [FULL STORY]
