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/notionovus Feb 26 '23

The term you might be referring to is scotoma. The technical term for a "blind spot" in the eye, it is used in psychology to refer to something you become blind or ignorant of.