I've been doing a little earthquake counting this morning...

For the period 12-7-08 thru 12-29-08, magnitude 2 and + quakes:
Alaska - 28
Puerto Rico - 1
Virgin Islands - 2

For the period 12-30-08 thru 1-6-09, magnitude 2 and + quakes
Alaska - 40
Puerto Rico - 22
Virgin Islands - 16

COuldn not help but notice a big spike in activity at Vanuatu and Indonesia (Indonesia made the MSM even) but I was not counting those locations. Alaska and PR caught my eye, and VI was near enough I began counting as soon as I saw it was a separate region from PR.

I am NOT a seismologist, not even a hobby of mine (until the last week!) Watching Yellowstone made me notice what looked like swarms around the entire ring of fire, but no one was talking about it. I used these sites to do my hand count, so I may be off but no by more than one or two.
Last 7 days:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quake...
8 to 30 days prior:
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

I think I'll have a Martini, shaken... maybe with or without the Martini?
I find this stuff fascinating, and would love to hear comments fomr someone who actually studied this for longer than 15 minutes...