Hurricane, Earthquake Cause Search Spike
August 31, 2011
Below you can see searches for "earthquake" (blue) and "hurricane" (red) over recent weeks:
The last major U.S. spike we saw around the word "hurricane" was back in September of 2008, when Hurricane Ike caused severe damage to the coast of Texas on the Gulf of Mexico.
The east coast earthquake also caused a smaller spike in searches last week, but it was still the third largest we've seen for the word "earthquake" since 2008. The largest spike ever came earlier this year following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Second was the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
(Mouse over the spikes to view the correlating earthquake.)
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