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June 30, 2025 71 mins

Bruce and Sunny explore historical earthquake data across three different time periods while discussing the limitations of AI chatbots and current weather conditions. They analyze seven-day earthquake reports from 1999, 2019, and 2025, revealing surprising patterns in global seismic activity.

• Comparison of current southern Illinois weather (81°F with 78% humidity) with Phoenix, Arizona (95°F with only 14% humidity)
• Critical discussion of AI chatbots and why "artificial intelligence" is a misleading term - they're simply pattern-matching programs
• Introduction to the seven-day earthquake tracking system with downloadable spreadsheet
• Complete analysis of earthquake data from June 22, 2025, showing 2001 total earthquakes with 302 at magnitude 2.5+
• Historical earthquake comparison showing 2019 had significantly higher earthquake activity (3157 in seven days) than either 2025 or 1999
• New percentage analysis showing how the proportion of earthquakes at different magnitudes has changed over decades
• Discussion of geographic patterns showing consistent earthquake activity in the Philippines, Japan, New Zealand and Indonesia

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(00:01):
Hey Bruce, yes, Sunny.
Hey, why are libraries so tall?
Uh, because they were built thatway.
No, silly, because they havemany stories.
What's that sound?

(00:30):
It is the ugly cracking duckpodcast.
Yes, sir, thank you, sunny, forthat.
Whatever dimension you arehearing us from, whatever time
it is, you are welcome to joinus for the for a few moments.
Anyway, welcome to the uglyquacking duck podcast oh, I like

(00:54):
how you did that podcast.
That was pretty cool, brucewell, thank you, sonny, and I'm
glad to have you here againtoday.
Well, you ought to be.
I'm here all the time.
Well, I mean on the podcast.
Oh, okay, I get it.

(01:15):
Well, it is a Sunday afternoon.
No, no, it's not afternoon.
It's not even noon yet, goodgrief.
I woke up, got some coffee anddid my homework for the podcast,
and we are recording live,which there's no other way to
record.
You're either alive or you'renot, and if you're not, you're

(01:39):
not going to be recording.
So that's a misnomer, I guess,but we are recording our podcast
episode in our midwest southernillinois studio studio.
I like that too.
I like everything oh, now you'rejust being silly.

(02:02):
Yeah, I am, but I'm glad to behere.
It's been two weeks since werecorded when you been.
I've been here and there andeverywhere Been working.
It's been a busy week, busytime.
Yeah, we just kind of let it gofor two weeks.

(02:23):
We actually kept up with theearthquake, so our report's
going to be on spot, I guess wecould say.
But if you tuned in found us.
We're going to talk a littlebit about the weather first the

(02:46):
weather first why?
because it's hot, oh okay, yeah,so if you're from southern
illinois you know exactly whatI'm talking about.
The weather's been pretty warmand it's been that way mostly
all over the United States.
They're saying it's you know,july, august, weather in June,

(03:12):
which is kind of not common.
But you know, if you go backfar enough you'll find out it's
common.
It's just that it varies somuch people don't remember.
But yeah, I just kicked my plug.
Okay, I'm still going.
Oh boy, oh boy.
You better watch what you'rekicking.

(03:34):
You're going to shut us off.
I am, I really am, but anyway,yeah, the weather's been hot,
muggy, very humid, burning upall that moisture in the ground
that we've been getting for thelast few weeks or months.
Now it's looking like we'regoing to dry up a little bit.

(03:55):
Around here locally, they havecalled for rain several times
and it either just barely rainedor it didn't rain at all.
It went around us.
Now there was tornadoes andstorms, uh, in some of the
states, as there has been forthe past month, but for some

(04:22):
weird reason, it's going aroundus and we didn't get hardly any
rain this last week.
Uh, we got some.
What is today, sunday?
Uh, saturday morning, there wasa little bit come down, but it
was very little and it prettywell dried up.
Like I said, humidity is badand if you're in this area, you

(04:46):
already know that, but this isjust for the people that's
listening to us, it's not inthis general area so they can
compare their weather with oursand see what.
You know what's happening, man.
I find it interesting how youtell people about our local

(05:08):
weather like they don't knowwhat weather's like.
Well, I do it because they havedifferent weather some days and
they want to compare.
Plus it gives me something goodto talk about.
Okay, something good to talkabout.
Uh, okay.
Anyway, let's compare thisweather we're having right now

(05:29):
with Phoenix, Arizona.
I chose that city and statebecause it's really a different
type weather compared to what wehave here most of the time.
Yeah, most of the time.
Well, humbug.
Well, humbug, humbug, humbug,humbug, humbug, humbug, humbug.

(05:51):
Are you sure about all that,Sonny?
No, why don't you introduceyourself, bruce, so I can.
All right, we will do that Again.
We're recording in our studiohere in southern illinois and I
am bruce, and with us we haveour co-host yeah, I am, I'm

(06:14):
sunny hi, sunny, hi, bruce, yeah, we, uh, we bring you podcast,
uh, episodes.
Try to do them at least everytwo weeks.
Sometimes we get another weekor weekly, but who knows.
We just try to do it for sureevery two weeks.

(06:35):
And this is episode 112, andwe're glad to have you aboard
again.
No matter what dimension you'relistening to us from or what
time zone you're in, we're here,be with us today.
Oh boy, oh boy.

(06:56):
Hey, guess what?
Today, right now, it's 81degrees and sunny.
Here in our local area, thehumidity is 78.
Now we're talking some yuck.
That's the type of humiditywhen you walk outside.
You just kind of feel likeyou're in a shower.

(07:17):
Um, it's just kind of dampfeeling and sticky, and if
you're out there very long, yep,it feels that way.
Wind today is six miles an hourfor now and the air quality is
still good, but it's at 45coming up there.
And, uh, we're looking atphoenix according to my weather

(07:41):
map.
Now, I don't know, I don't haveanybody locally that's emailed
me or letting me know what'shappening, but if you do, and
you're listening to this podcast, start doing that so we'll have
some actual eyewitness reports.
But right now what we're seeingis it's 14% humidity at Phoenix

(08:05):
Arizona, with 95 degrees andsunny there.
They're actually getting anextreme warning from the sun, or
extreme heat warning, sothey're expecting a lot of heat

(08:27):
today.
Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck.
Their humidity is 14%, theirwind is 2 miles an hour and
their air quality is really goodit's 17.
That's why a lot of people, Ithink, want to move that to the
desert, but it's 17.
That's why a lot of people, Ithink, want to move that to the
desert, but it's still hot,extremely hot, yeah, extremely

(08:56):
extremely hey.
What's the moon gonna do today?
All right, the.
What's the moon going to dotoday?
All right, the moon.
Tell us the moon.
You're being very dramatic today.
I'm always dramatic and you knowthat.

(09:18):
Well, maybe so, maybe so.
And sunrise was at 534 am today.
Sunset's going to be at 823 pm.
That's for southern IllinoisHumidity.
I already told you that the UVindex is 9 of 11.
So there must not be much cloudcover to block the UVs, so

(09:43):
we're getting a big boost ofthat.
Um, the moon rise will be at 10am this morning, really.
Moon set will be at 11 33 pmand it is in the waxing crescent
stage, present stage.

(10:05):
Yay, well, thank you, sonny.
And that's been the weatherfrom the local studio here at
Southern Illinois.
Hey Bruce what was all thathomework you was doing earlier.
Oh, that wasn't homework.

(10:25):
Well, I guess it was.
I was doing some backgroundchecking on our earthquakes.
Yeah, and I seen you get thecalculator out.
What was that all about?
Well, I started doing somepercentages on our numbers, so
we'll get to that in a fewminutes.

(10:47):
All right, I'm interested inyour numbers.
It makes you sound smart.
I'm a long ways from that.
Anybody ever hears me talkthey'll know I'm a long ways
from that, but thank you forthat.
What attitude adjustment.

(11:08):
Oh, you're so welcome.
I wish you were sincere.
Well, you know, I am of course.
Oh, I know something, not sure,that's what it is.
You know what, sonny?
I've come across a little bitof weird information about
chatbots.

(11:30):
Chatbots, isn't that AI?
Well, you know they use AI,saying artificial intelligence,
and I think that's a misleadingname.
Oh, you do, do you.
Why do you do that or say that,or think that?

(12:08):
Well, AI stimulated intelligence, that means something that is
thinking and considering and onand on like that.
But really they're using thatto describe programs, software
programs that just engulfinformation that's given to them

(12:33):
and then just digest that andspits it back out.
So garbage in, garbage out iswhat you have Anytime you have
that kind of stuff.
It's it's like at the beginningof the computer uses.
I was around back then.
You know I'm not saying anything, just saying that oh, you're

(12:57):
not saying you're old, you'rejust saying you was around when
computers got excited well, theydidn't get excited, but the
world got excited over computers.
Yeah, I remember when I was inschool that they had a few
schools with a computer learning, training, education, however

(13:18):
you want to put that, and thosepeople would go to those classes
and they would have these longpunch cards and pencils in their
pockets, every one of them thatwent to those classes.
You know that's how theycommunicated with those
computers and they have grownquite a bit.

(13:42):
Grown quite a bit.
Now we, you know, just typeinto the keyboard, send the
information in or talk and givethem information.
Big change.
But they're not artificiallyintelligent.
They are still digesting theinformation given to them.

(14:03):
For now, not saying it won't gothat way, but anyway, I ran
across this little article.
Let me read something about it.
Okay, large language models aresophisticated computer programs
that process and generatenatural language, providing the
foundation for tools likeOpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's

(14:30):
Gemini.
By finding patterns in thesequence of words and sub-words
prefixes, for example in massiveamounts of text, these models
can predict the most likely nextword in a generated sequence

(14:52):
and repeat this prediction untilthe output is complete.
Did you catch that littlephrase?
By finding patterns in thesequence of words and sub words.
Then they go back and predictwhat's most likely next word and
generate sequences and repeatthis prediction until the output

(15:16):
is complete.
Ai chatbots are usuallyfriendly interfaces that act as
intermediaries between users andthe LLM framework or the large
language model framework.
Now this is what I thought wasinteresting the temperature

(15:40):
parameter.
Insufficient data or inadequatetraining LLMs may hallucinate,
generate false or misleadinginformation.
Due to the complexity nature oftransformer architecture,

(16:04):
explicitly identifying what ledto the hallucination is often
impossible.
Bruce, what did you just read?
I read what I think says thatthey spit out a bunch of garbage
, misleading information, andthey actually hallucinate.
And that's not really ahallucination like we think of

(16:26):
it, they're just misinformingand they're calling it because
of temperature parameters, whichaffects the electronics in the
machine and the transformers,and because they have inadequate

(16:47):
training, they're not gotenough and they don't have
enough information to make thedecision, and because they've
been trained improperly.
So basically, garbage in,garbage out.
We're not getting artificialintelligence.

(17:11):
We're getting answers that havepredictive design to them and
they're generating a sequence ofthat prediction over and over
and over and over again.
And you know what happens whenyou do something over and over

(17:33):
again it starts getting warped.
If you copy something over andover and over and over again
especially if you guys remembercopying the old vcr tapes well,
after two or three generationsthey got very bad results on
that last tape.

(17:54):
That's what we're seeing andit's going to continue unless
they come up with a better wayof doing it.
But anyway, there's noartificial intelligence.
What I'm trying to tell you.
Are you sure about that?
I am, I am, I am.
All right, we'll hold you tothat.

(18:17):
All right, but they are good atcompiling information, just like
in the old days at compilinginformation.
Just like in the old days.
I remember when we had newcomputers at work and stuff like
that and they'd say thesecomputers don't make mistakes.
People putting the informationin makes mistakes and reading

(18:41):
that information coming out, youmake a mistake, but the
computers don't.
But the computers did.
Yeah, it may have been becausesomebody inputted the wrong
information or read theinformation wrong when it come
out, but it's still the samemistake.
They're not free from makingmaking mistakes.

(19:01):
They're just trying to completethe mathematical formula that's
been given to them and anywaythey're still doing that too
today.
Didn't you just get an emailfrom Apple, or at least a couple

(19:26):
days ago?
I did.
Boy, you're awful sneakylooking over my shoulder.
Oh, maybe.
Okay, at least you admit it.
Yeah, on June 26th I receivedan email from Apple Podcasts and
it told me that Apple Podcastsare celebrating 20 years.

(19:49):
It's a milestone and it wasjust a thank you for being with
them, which I appreciate that Ithink it's pretty neat that
they're still around doingpodcasts Pretty cool.
But that's what that email wasabout.
Thank you for noticing, sonny.

(20:11):
You're very welcome, Bruce.
I like being nosy.
I noticed.
So when are we going to do theearthquakes, Bruce?
Well, I'm glad you asked becauseI think we ought to do that now
.
Everybody's probably patientlywaiting.

(20:31):
Now, if you're a new listener,we do a seven-day earthquake
report.
We've added a few steps to that, but if you'd like to keep
track of these reports so you'llhave a visual of what we're
talking about, go to our webpage, theuglyquackingduckcom, and

(20:57):
there's links at the top of thepage or along the left side says
pages.
Go to either one and click onsupport our podcast, and then
that will bring up a page thathas value for value mentioned.

(21:20):
In it you can read about ourvalue for value, and then it's
got links to buy me a coffee.
Support with PayPal.
There's a cash app.
You can click on that or notclick on it, but scan it.
You can help us out with cashapp.
Or below that, in blue, there'sa button that's set at 222.

(21:45):
A row of ducks.
You can pay us with Satoshi,which is a Bitcoin portion, but
what we're looking for right atthis time.
If you'll scroll down past that,it will have a spreadsheet
already in view.

(22:06):
If you'll go to the top rightcorner, there's a print button.
Just click print.
If you want to keep adownloaded, you can go to the
left of the printer and justclick on that and it will
download it.
Or there's a blue button belowthe drawing, the printout, or
whatever you want to call it.

(22:27):
Just click on that downloadbutton and either way it will
download it so you can have anactual sheet.
So if you haven't got oneprinted, pause this, go print
one.
Go print one or download it.

(22:52):
With a certain programs you cango in and edit it so you can
fill it out later.
But it'd be better if you printit.
That way you can keep yourcopies in a file and date them
and see what they look like.
But this is what we're going touse to keep track here on the
studio of our earthquake report.
So pause it, go print it andthen join us again when you get

(23:16):
it printed.
Now, bruce, when you firststarted doing this, we just did
the seven-day, but you've addedsome since then, right?
Right, you are, I did.
So what we're going to do rightnow we're going to go back

(23:37):
seven days from last week.
I wrote down last week'snumbers, which was on the 22nd.
So what we're going to do,we're going to go back seven
days, on the 22nd, and give thatreport.
So if you are ready, on yourpaper, you print it out where it

(24:00):
says earthquake seven-dayreport.
Underneath that it has a dateWrite in 6-22-25.
So June the 22nd, we're goingto do that report.
And if you're ready, it saysall magnitudes and that's what
we start out with.

(24:21):
All magnitude Seven-day reportis going to be 2001.
So you, in one of those boxesunderneath all magnitudes right,
2001, yay, and then 2.5magnitudes, you're going to
write 302, 302 or 302, all right.

(24:48):
And then to the right of thatit says 4.5 magnitudes or over
4.5 and plus, uh, right down 97.
Now what I'm just telling youis, for the last seven days
there was 2001 earthquakes ofall magnitudes.

(25:09):
There was 302, 2.5 and plusmagnitudes and 97, 4.5 and over
magnitudes.
Now the next column has 6.0 andover.
So there's only one for thislast report and it was in japan.

(25:38):
So if you'll write down 6.0,that's what major ones?
There's a bunch there.
There was 97, 4.5 and above,which means 4.5, 4.67895, and

(25:58):
then 512, 5.152.
All those all the way up to sixand over magnitudes were in
that 97 count, but only one ofthem was 6.0 and over, and that

(26:28):
location on the next rightcolumn, was Japan.
So write Japan down.
So that's what your report'sgoing to look like.
You've got the date, you've gotthe all magnitude number, the
2.5 number, the 4.5 numbernumber, the 2.5 number, the 4.5
number, the 6-0 magnitudelisting and the location for

(26:51):
each one of those.
So that's how you do it.
And the next couple lines thatwe're going to do.
I'm just going to read them out.
Hopefully you followed me.
If you got lost, go back andlisten to it again.
But we're going to move on nowbecause I started doing

(27:14):
something a couple weeks ago andwe're going to continue it.
See what it looks like.
So what we did we went back to2019.
And I just picked a year and Idon't know why I picked that one
, but I did.
So we went back 6-22-2019-2019.

(27:42):
So put that in your next dateunderneath your 22nd, 25 date,
and then I'm going to give youthe seven-day report for that
and you can write that down.
So if you're ready, if you'renot, pause, but if you're ready,
I'm going to read them off toyou.
So the all magnitude runs 3,157.

(28:06):
Yeah, you heard that right.
For the seven-day report, 622back, which goes back to the
15th I believe, is 3,157.
The 2.5.
Magnitude and above Number was562.

(28:36):
And the 4.5.
Comes out at 226.
So, although I justaccidentally pulled 2019 out of
the sky and started recordingthem numbers, it appears that
year had a lot larger amounts ofearthquakes.

(29:00):
That's what our reporting hasshowed so far and if you go back
the last couple episodes andwrite them numbers down, you'll
have the records that I've gotand you'll start seeing a
pattern there.
Now let's go to the 6.0 and overearthquakes and there were

(29:26):
several.
We're going to read them out toyou and you're going to write
them down right along with me.
See, I'm filling out one ofthem sheets.
I just got a notebook I wrotethem all down with, but I'm
filling out one of those sheetsright along with you.
So the first one out the doorwas a 6.1 earthquake yeah, 6.1,

(29:59):
indonesia.
And then the next one out thegate was a 6.2, in the Bahama
region.
6.2, in the Bahama region, orthe Bahama area, which is south,

(30:25):
south of the United States.
And then the next one out was a6.3.
We had one at the CrematicIslands.

(30:46):
You're going to start hearing alot of these same locations
over and over and over again.
They're all on fault lines.
There are areas that give you alot of earthquakes.
And then there was another 6.3in Russia.
Now, russia is a big area, Irealize that.

(31:10):
So if you're familiar withAlaska, alaska has a tip that's
south and it kind of leanstowards the west.
If you follow that point overto Russia, russia has a tip that
goes south also and that arearight there on the east coast of

(31:36):
that tip is where thisearthquake was.
And then there was another 6.4,not another.
There was a 6.4 next and it wasin the Maug Island region,

(31:59):
m-a-u-g.
Maug Island region.
I forgot where that was.
Mog Island region I forgotwhere that was.
I was thinking it was some ofthe island area above Australia.

(32:20):
I'm not positive on that, butthat's what I was thinking.
There is a group of islands.
They're called different names,but that's where you see a lot
of earthquakes over the years.
Like I said, they're underdifferent names.
It's according to what portionof that area it hits in.

(32:49):
I'm trying to look thePhilippines, papua New Guinea, a
lot of those little islands arearound that area, basically
south of Japan, southeast ofJapan and north of Australia.

(33:14):
In that sea area there's allkinds of earthquakes, over and
over and over again every year,and every day and every month.
And the next one out of thedoor was another 6.4.
Believe it or not, in Russia,same location again.
That area is on the fault line,so we see a lot of activity

(33:42):
there.
And then one more it was 7.3 inthe Banda B-A-N-D-A-C, 7.3.

(34:05):
I think you made that up.
What did you say that was, andwhere is it?
Well, I didn't make it up.
I read it off the earthquakemap.
It is the Banda B-A-N-D-A-C.
They received a 7.3.
They received the 7.3.

(34:32):
Now, this was in 2019 on theseven-day report from 622.
But the band of c is down thereby indonesia, indonesia, and
that area towards the west, thewater towards the west of
indonesia.
So you go, it's right in thatarea.
It was not made up.
All right, I guess I'll believeyou for now.

(34:56):
Well, you're so sweet.
Anyway, that is the report from2019.
And, like I said before, itshows higher numbers than before
or the past or this year.
There we go, and I chose onemore year to go back to and that

(35:16):
was 2000, or 1999.
1999.
Why I chose that, I don't know.
So let's go back and look at theseven-day report for 6-22 on
that, and I gave you the wrongnumbers.

(35:36):
Holy smokes, I flubbed up onthat.
Well, I have to apologize.
I just went over my notes and,yes, I did.
I read off the wrongcombination of numbers.
Okay, so what we're going to dois we're going to leave the

(35:56):
6-22-2019, the all earthquakes,all magnitudes, which was
correct at 3157.
The 2.5562 is correct and the4.5226 is correct.
But what I did is I covered upthe 6.0 and above numbers with

(36:21):
my paper I was writing on and Iread the 6-29-2019, so I jumped
ahead a week.
So if you'll just circle thosenumbers and the locations for
the 6.0 and over, for the 6.0and over, and where the location

(36:48):
Starts, that gray line abovethem, right in 6.29.
2019.
And that's going to be, it'sgoing to be hard to track.
I mean, if later on, If youwant to reprint this and correct

(37:09):
this mistake, you'll know whereto go to get that.
I'm not going to do it now withyou, I'm not going to repeat
that information, but it'scorrect.
But the date is 6 29 2019.
We went seven days back fromthere and that's what I was
going to read to you later on.
So I'm going to redo that on mynew sheet later on.

(37:38):
But hopefully you've got twopapers.
So when I start out that newlist, if you do not, um, pause
this again and go print anotherpaper for now.
So, because we're going to needthat in a couple minutes, but
for now we're going to go to 6221999 and we're going to start

(38:05):
reading that because I got thatone also wrote down.
So 6 29 1999.
We're going to go back sevendays and give you that report.
Are you ready?
All right, here we go, get mypapers jostled around here a
little bit and we'll get itgoing oh, you messed up, did you

(38:30):
?
that's all right, bruce, we'reall used to it by now well,
thank you for something, I'm notsure what, but let's begin I
don't want to keep everybody onhere forever on, uh, 622 2000 or
1999 now I'm all um messed up,can't talk right, but anyway 622

(38:56):
10, 1999 put that in the thirddate down, and then all the all
column.
Next one over to the right fromthe date is 2196, 2 196

(39:18):
earthquakes of all magnitude.
The next one is a 2.5 columnand it was 470.
And then the next one was a 4.5column and it was 106.
And then we're going to go tothe 6.0 and over column.

(39:42):
And I've got these right.
I'm reading them on the rightpage now.
Uh, we had a 6.3 and it was inmexico.
Mexico, just south of theborder, is what they used to say

(40:04):
on that commercial 6.3.
And the next one, out of thegoal post, out of the gate, is a
6.4.
And it was in the Philippines,which is another set of islands
that gets hit a lot, another setof islands that gets hit a lot.

(40:27):
And then the next one was a 7.0, and it was also in Mexico.
And it was the beginning of thisseven-day report.
Or, if you go back to the lastepisode, it was the end of the
seven-day report I gave for6-15-20, or 6-15-1999.

(40:55):
So it kind of overlappedbecause it was on the last day
and this one was on thebeginning day, but we had three
um in 1999.
So, because it's the end of themonth, on this episode, next
week is july the fourth weekend.

(41:18):
Thursday yeah, friday isactually july the fourth, so
most of the fireworks and stuffwill probably be on that next
weekend.
But I don't know if we'll bebringing you an episode or not.
We'll have to see how timeallows don't you have to work
thursday?
no, wait a minute.
Friday, the 4th of july, you'reoff thursday.

(41:41):
That's really going to mess upthe podcast if we try to record.
Yes, it will, yes, it will.
So I probably won't do anepisode next week.
We'll skip it and do anotherone two weeks.
We'll see what happens.
But okay, back to the report I'mgiving the earthquake seven-day

(42:03):
report column.
You go all the way down.
You got one more date leftthere.
I want you to write 30 days.
So we're going back 30 days andgiving you the all magnitude
report for each one of thesedates for that month.
For each one of these dates forthat month.

(42:25):
We're just going to do it atthe end of the month, that
episode, whatever day that fallson.
That's when we're going to doit.
We're not going to do it everyweek.
So the 30-day report for thismonth, which is in June 2025,

(42:54):
that would be a total of 9,762earthquakes, and then for 6 of
2019, that month was a total youready for this 12,686.

(43:25):
And then the last one.
You can write this downanywhere.
By the the way, however youwant to be neat, the last one is
going to be may 1999, for thatmonth is going to be 6 990.
All right, you havesuccessfully written down the

(43:47):
seven-day report as I have gaveit, and that was for last week.
We didn't have an episode lastweek, but I went ahead and wrote
down the numbers to keep us upto date.
Now we're going to give thereport for now, our seven-day

(44:11):
report for this month, or notthis month, for this week.
And this week ends in 29, sowe're going to go to 629.
25 is the first date on thereand the all magnitudes was 2225.

(44:35):
And the 2.5 magnitudes was 336.
And it looks like I've left thelines off this last copy.
I don't know what happened.
Oh, this is one of my previouscopies.
Never mind.

(44:56):
The 4.5 and over was 114.
The 6.0s we had a 6.1 and itwas in the philippines.
There you go.
We're having a lot of trafficin the philipp.
May not be a very comfortableisland to live on.

(45:19):
Then we had a 6.2 and thesouthern mid-Atlantic ridge.
That's just one of those faultlines out in the ocean.
Southern Atlantic no,mid-atlantic Ridge.

(45:43):
I'm just going to write downAtlantic Ridge because I don't
have a lot of room.
And then we had another 6.2.
Which was east of thePhilippines.
So it was just out there in theocean close to the Philippines.

(46:03):
And then we had a 6.6, was inScotia.
6.6 was in Scotia, s-c-o-t-i-a.
Scotia Islands no, scotia SeaI'm sorry, forgive me Scotia Sea

(46:45):
, and that is south.
Well, actually, west of the tipof South America is what they
consider Scotia Sea.
So if you look on a map, gojust a hair west of the tip of
South America and right there itis, that whole area south and
southwest of South America andthat's a lot of south.
But there you go.
That's the report for 6 29 2025and let's go move on to 6 um 22

(47:11):
2019.
So write that on the book.
I just broke my pencil.
I just sharpened it too, allright, and we're at 6-29-2019.
All magnitude earthquakes was29-74.

(47:32):
No 79.
29-79.
As you can see, theseearthquakes just seem to be more
, no matter what we're lookingat, more than this year.
The 2.5 column will be a 562.
That's quite a bit more.

(47:59):
And the 4.5 column will be 200200 earthquakes for that number.
That's a lot.
Now, the 6.0 I'm going to giveyou, if you want to write it
over your locations, is for the6-22-2019 numbers, because I

(48:23):
already gave you these 6.0s onthe other report and hopefully
you wrote it down and kept themthat way so you can adjust them
back around the other way lateron if you want to correct that
or just remember those two datesare reversed, so 6-29-2019,.

(48:43):
That seven-day report hadseveral, but not as many as the
6-29 report, but not as many asthe 629 report.
So we're going to go right now6.1 coming out of the gate, and
that was in chromatic islands,basically New Zealand.

(49:11):
If you want to know wherethat's at, chromatic or New
Zealand, write that down.
It was a 6.1 and I'm gonna stopand sharpen my pencil because I
broke the tip right off of thatthing.
I like using a pencil in case Iwrite something down wrong, I

(49:36):
can erase it.
All right, we got a sharpenededge already and we are good to
go.
And the next one up is a 6.2and it fell in new zealand.
So they have quite a bit ofactivity over in that island.
And then the 6.3 occurred andit was in Indonesia.

(50:12):
Now, most of the time, unlessthey're building up for an
earthquake or having lesserearthquakes after they have one,
these earthquakes don't fall ina line like I'm reading them.
They happen at different daysor hours during that seven-day

(50:34):
report.
But I just write them down.
I try to write them down inorder.
The next one out was a 6.4,because we're more worried about
what's happening?
What size than the hour theyhappened 6.4 in New Zealand, 6.4
in New Zealand we see a lot ofactivity on that fault line and

(51:03):
then another 6.4 and it was inJapan, and then a 6.3 was in the
Crematic Island region.

(51:28):
So that whole region right overby New Zealand is just getting
hammered and that's all.
So we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 onJune, the 22nd 2019, that report

(51:57):
which I just read you, and then, if you go back on your other
paper, the 6, 29 2019 7 dayreport which I read you, that
one earlier had 1 2 3, 4, 5 6, 7earthquakes.
That one earlier had one, two,three, four, five, six, seven

(52:19):
earthquakes.
So write it down the dates ontop for 6-22-2019, on top of
your location page portioncolumn, whatever you want to say
.
That way you can identify.
That group I just gave you wasactually from the other report

(52:40):
and the other report I gave youwas from today.
Okay, there you go.
All right, we're going to goback over to the date column and
we're going to write down6-29-1999.
And to hit it off, to start itoff.

(53:06):
To begin it off, there was 1633, 1,633 all-magnitude
earthquakes that seven-dayreport for 1999.
For the 2.5 and over was 480.
And for the 4.5 and over was 93.

(53:34):
The 4.5 and over was 93.
Seems to be that year had lessearthquakes all the way around.
Every time we've done thereport Now there may be a change
, but even less than we'rehaving now.
2019 seems to be a higher number, and then 2025.

(53:56):
I'm going to have to go back inand do some calculating, but
what I've seen over the years onthese reports, you'll have one
seven-day report that is higherin all magnitudes but lower in
the 6.0 and above, which meansyou have a lot of little ones

(54:18):
going off.
And then the next week will belower all magnitudes or little
ones going off, and then highernumber of 6.0 and over.
So, if we take that to the year, maybe that's what we're seeing
now.
We had a high one in 2019, butit's it was low in 1999, it was

(54:46):
high in 2019, which is 10 yearsapart, and then it was it's kind
of low again on 2025.
So I'll have to that's morethan 10 years I'll have to go
back and figure these up and seeif that same pattern holds true
and I'll let you guys know.

(55:08):
Maybe I can get that done bythe next episode.
But back to the report for 1999.
If we want to do the six andover report, we only had one,
and it was in Fiji, on the FijiIsland.
Not heard that one very often.

(55:34):
We've had them, though, but nota whole lot.
All right, that's the reports,and I gave you the 30-day report
actually too early.
I should have put it on thispaper.
So if you want to copy it overto this one, it doesn't matter.
But we've got one more thing togo over with you today, and

(56:00):
then I'll leave you alone, baby.
But what I did is I looked atthese numbers and I thought you
know what probably would help usto see what we're dealing with
is if I went back and figured anamount for a percentage for

(56:25):
these earthquakes and I did that, these off to you and you can
write them down wherever youwant to, wherever you got room,
I guess you could say and justput them, put a percentage sign
after it or put them inparentheses, however you want to
do it.

(56:46):
But what I did is I took the2.5 number and figured what
percentage of the wholemagnitude count number.
It was in the same way with a4.5 how many, how much of a
percentage it was of the allmagnitude count.

(57:07):
So that's what I'm going toread you and we're going to
start with the, the 622, 25numbers and we're going to read
that to you.
So if you figure the 302, seeif I can read this.
I got my light turned off.
Okay, the 302 number, which is2.5 and over that number, was

(57:35):
15.09% of the total and the 4.5number was 4.85% of the total
and 6.0 over that percentage ofthe total 4.5 numbers was 1.03%,

(58:11):
2.03%.
So we had basically 1%, whichis 1, of that 97% to date.
Okay, that was 6-22-25.
If we'll go to the 6-22-2019,.
I did the same thing.

(58:32):
The 2.5 was a 17.65% of the 4.5count.
So I'm hoping this one willgive you a better view of what

(59:18):
we're reading you, what numberswe're reading you.
Let's do the 1999 622 count.
That's also on that page.
And if I took off too fast andit took you a minute to get that
paper to write it down, withpause it, go back and get it and
rewind till you get to thiscount.

(59:40):
But we're on the 22 page, 622page, and we're going to do 622,
1999 and the 2.5 count was21.40%, 21.40% and the 4.5 was

(01:00:05):
4.83% and I hope my math is goodand the 6.0 count was 2.83% of
the 4.5 and over number.
So there you go and if you'llnotice, you can see right off

(01:00:35):
the bat how the numbers look andI might be able to put these in
a graph later on and graph themout and see what the graph
looks like.
Maybe I can post that orsomething.
But right now that's wherewe're at and let's do the 629.
Boy, I can't talk.

(01:00:56):
You never could Bruce.
Very true, very true, okay.
6-29-2025.
We had, let me get it here.
The 2.5 over magnitude count ofthat total number is 15.10%.

(01:01:25):
15.10%, so 15% basically, andthe 4.5 is 5.12, so basically
5.12 or 5%.
And the 6 and over was 3.5%,3.51 to be exact percent.

(01:01:52):
And then we'll jump down to the2019 count of 6-22-2019.
We had 18.87%.

(01:02:23):
Was the 2.5% I've got too manyno 2.5 and over count was 18.87%
of the total.
There you go, that's a mouthful.
And the 4.5 count was 6.17%, orbasically 6% of the total count

(01:02:44):
, and the 6.0 and above countwas 3.5%.
6-29-1999.
That seven-day report.
I've already gave you thenumbers.
I'm just going to give you thepercentage 2.5 and over.
That number ends up being29.39% of the total.

(01:03:11):
29.39% of the total, 29.39.
And then the why is that sohigh?
I'm going to have to go backand refigure that.
I guess it's so high becausewe've got a higher percentage of

(01:03:33):
lower earthquakes, which is agood thing.
That's probably what we'regoing to have to look for when
we have a lesser amount.
I wonder if the earthquakes goup.
Anyway, we'll look into that.
It's 29.39, and then the 4.5and over was 5.70%, almost 6.

(01:04:03):
The total of that is a 1.18% ofthe 4.5 numbers.

(01:04:27):
All right, I got it all to you.
Sit down after you finish thispodcast and look those numbers
over and see what you think.
Hopefully I've calculated allof them right.
If I messed up and read thewrong number and put it in there
, like I more commonly do, thenmaybe a little bit off.
But I'm not going to go backand check them, we'll just move

(01:04:49):
on to the next week and so onand so forth.
But anyway, that gives apercentage to look at.
Not only do we see the numbernow, but we can see a percentage
of the total which I'm lookinglower earthquakes, the 2.5
earthquakes and above, whichgoes all the way from 2.5 to 4.5

(01:05:31):
, is a different number than Ithought it would be to.
4.5 is a different number thanI thought it would be.
That is really weird.
But in 1999, we had apparentlymore low earthquakes and smaller

(01:05:54):
amount of total, which bringsthat percentage up high and that
that shows up.
See that what?
That's what it's going to tellus, hopefully.
Anyway, that's a seven dayreport with new add-ons and

(01:06:15):
we're going to try to do thatfrom now on to give you a better
view of what we've got andafter we do this for several
months, we may start doing it ina not a spreadsheet, but a
scale and a graph, and hopefullythat will give you a better

(01:06:39):
view of everything.
So there you go.
Anything you want to say, sonny.
That was a lot of numbers.
I bet you bored everybody todeath.
Well, I hope not.
And the first time doing that.
It always takes longer, but wewent over an hour or two.
Man Too long, Too long.

(01:07:01):
Yes, it is Too long.
Yeah, that's.
One reason I want to do itevery week is because it keeps
the episode down, because you'repushing out way too much
information, don't give meenough time to talk about the
news and other things going on,and I know there's a lot of
political stuff happening and wepurposely have not talked about

(01:07:24):
that, and there's a.
If you want to hear a podcastthat's drawing that out and
bringing new information out,then go find one that does that.
We don't want to do that.
If it wasn't for theearthquakes, we'd probably
pretty well keep it down to aminimum.
Speaking of news, though, Iguess the solar weather and the

(01:07:47):
solar winds and stuff have beenreally active.
Now.
I think they've calmed downthis weekend, but last week they
were kind of active, so thereprobably was a lot of noise on
the radio and stuff.
Anyhow, that's it for the UglyQuacking Duck podcast.

(01:08:09):
Yay, it was fun.
Bruce, you kind of bored me.
I fell asleep.
Oh no, you didn't.
Yes, I did.
All right.
Well, I'll forgive you, becauseit probably was.
I was stuttering and bummingover all this stuff, but I
wanted to get it out, workthrough it and maybe I can

(01:08:29):
fine-tune it over the timeperiod and the other episodes.
But we're hoping this willeducate us in a way that we will
see a pattern that we notnormally looked at.
So there you go.
Maybe we'll find somethingthat's not normally found.

(01:08:49):
You want to say anything else?
I just want to thank everybodyfor sticking with us.
Come back and don't forget togo to our webpage.
Oh yeah, go totheuglyquackandduckcom.
One more time, I'm telling youthat because you can find our

(01:09:10):
homepage podcast.
We've got a listing there.
You can also find a post thatwe make.
We don't make them too regular,but when we um make a new
episode, we put it on the webpage first, probably usually a

(01:09:31):
day before, so you can get it 24hours early.
All you have to do is go to ourhome page on that web page
website, scroll down towards thebottom and there'll be a
subscribe and you just put inyour email in that box,

(01:09:53):
subscribe, and then you shouldget emails from then on when we
do a post or a new episode, andthen you can go listen to it
right there early, before thepodcast gets hosted on our
regular hosting site.
So join us.

(01:10:14):
That's what I'm telling youGive.
Give us feedback.
You can send us an email.
That's the easiest way to givefeedback.
We also, if you listen to ourpodcast on a podcast 2.0 player,
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You can make notes and stuff tous.
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(01:10:39):
we'll read it out.
So there you go.
We believe in, uh, hearing fromour listeners and our family
and friends, and that's whatwe're here for.
We enjoy it, it's fun for us, Ihope it's fun for you and, uh,
we're going to say good night,goodbye, good day, good morning,
whatever dimension you'recoming to us from or we're going

(01:11:03):
to you.
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73.
May the father's blessing bewith you and ready, sonny.
I'm ready.
Okay, here we go.
Bye.
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