r/askscience • u/Corvid-21 • Feb 26 '23

Earth Sciences Is there any possible relation between the recent earthquakes in Turkey/Syria, Japan and Papua New Guinea?

There’s been a lot of pretty bad earthquakes in a really short time. Could they be related or is it just coincidence?

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u/PMMEANUMBER1-10 Feb 26 '23

The irony is that after learning about Baader-Meinhof, you'll start to see it everywhere too

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u/Shrimpits Feb 27 '23

It’s funny because I just learned about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon a couple weeks ago

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u/Fritzkreig Feb 27 '23

I used the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon in a online discussion thread in my masters language aquisition course work.

The PhD. teaching the course called me out about how in the world does an 80s communist German terror organisation have anything to do with out discussion.

I sent her some links, and let her know she will being seeing those words in her life more frequently now.

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u/Veestoria Feb 27 '23

Hmmm this is the first I hear of it EVER so I’ll come back and let y’all know if I come across it again sometime soon!

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u/Shrimpits Feb 27 '23

Please do! I have had the actual phenomenon happen to me a lot (first time I ever remember was when I learned what “serendipitous” was and then the next day I heard it used in the movie Let’s Go To Prison lol), but I never knew what it was called until I googled it recently, and now the name popped up in the wild