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EarthquakeResearch in China Volume26，Numberj，2012 A Review ofSeismicityin2011 JiPing，LiGang，andLiuJie ChinaEarthquakeNetworksCenter，Beijing100045，China Keywords：2011；Survey；Review 1 SURVEY OF GLoBAL SEISM ICITY IN 201l A totalof26 strong earthquakeswith Ms≥ 7．0 occurred in 2011 throughoutthe world accordingtotheChinaSeismicNetwork (Table1)．ThestrongestearthquakewastheJapan earthquakemeasuringMs9．0onMarch11(Fig．1)．The~equencywasslightlylowerandthe energyreleaseofearthquakesincreasedapparently in2011，comparedwith seismicity in2010． FeaturesofglobalseismicityofM s≥7．0areas~llows： 2O10123k20110l0l一20lI1231。 Fig．1 ThedistributionofglobalearthquakeswithM s≥7．0during2010～2011 (Graycircleisforearthquakesin2010andredcirclefor2011) Therewere26 earthquakesmeasuringM s≥ 7．0 intheworld in2011．Therfequencywas higherthantheaverage(18earthquakeswithM ≥7．0peryear)since1900，anddecreased slightlycompared tothe seismicity in2010．According to theJapanese earthquakemeasuring M s9．0 on March 11，theenergyreleaseofearthquakesincreasedremarkably in2011compared with theseismicity in2010． ReceivedonJanuary9，2012 万方数据 Volume26，Number1 143 Table1 ThecatalogofglobalearthquakeswithMs≥7．0in2011 Thestatisticaldataofnumbersofstrongearthquakessince1900fromUSGS (Table2)shows thatatotalof5earthquakesmeasuringM ≥8．0haveoccurredsince2004，thesearetheM q9．1 Indonesiaearthquakein 2004，theMq8．6 Indonesiaearthquakein2005，theM 8．5 Indonesia earthquakein2007，theMs8．8Chileearthquakein2010，andtheMs9．0Japan earthquakein 2011．Amongthem ，theM 9．1Indonesiaearthquakein2004isthethirdlargestearthquakeand theM 。9．0Japanearthquakein2011wasthefourthsincel900．Itindicatesthattheseismicityof ≥8．0 iSstillactive． 万方数据 144 EarthquakeResearch inChina T