Response to Natural Disasters Assignment

When doing the assignment, i have to say i was very surprised at the amount of earthquakes and volcanoes that are constantly active on a day to day basis. I thought that certainly the Pacific Ring of Fire would be more active than other regions, but the fact that just within the two weeks preceeding me looking at the maps, in California alone, there had been so many earthquakes that the whole west coast looked like just a blob of dots rather than a map of the state. Many of the earthquakes that hit were relatively small and could not be felt, but just knowing that the landscape that seems perfectly still while looking at it is really almost alive and always changing was something that this assignment really helped me grasp in full detail.