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2020 in the archive

27 records carry this year — up 2600% on 2019, 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 34,257 reports filed inside the year — up 6% on 2019's 32,406 — February its busiest month (3,632). A count of filings, not of the year’s events.

Filed inside 2020, newest first — dates somebody filed, not dates anything happened:

The ground was still moving — 20 magnitude-3+ quakes recorded inside 2020, the biggest a M4.5, 10 km deep. The whole sequence is counted at /sequence — the story in plain language.

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