chch.live a year, in depth

2017 in the archive

182 records carry this year — up 18100% on 2016, the nearest recorded year before it — the earliest dated , the latest . Everything links out to where the original sits. A date on a record is the record’s own fact — and a record count is the shelf’s coverage of a year, not a count of what happened in it.

In the archive

The feed’s ledger holds 16,880 reports filed inside the year — up 26% on 2016's 13,406 — August its busiest month (2,066). A count of filings, not of the year’s events.

Filed inside 2017, newest first — dates somebody filed, not dates anything happened:

The ground was still moving — 20 magnitude-3+ quakes recorded inside 2017, the biggest a M4.2, 9 km deep. The whole sequence is counted at /sequence — the story in plain language.

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