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by robocat 811 days ago
It's a bullshit number - ignore it. The same location could have had 1, 10, 1000 or 1000000 quakes depending on the threshold chosen. Or if just talking about ones you can feel, then the count varies a lot depending on exact location (and your sensitivity).

And the time and strength distribution of aftershocks is not linear - so the number gives you no feeling for what it means.