There were 10,357 foreclosure notices published in February for the 13-county Metro Atlanta area, up 27 percent from January and 34 percent from February 2009.

Alpharetta-based Equity Depot released the numbers in a report today, according to a post by Henry Unger in his “The Biz Beat” on the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Web site.

I guess the brief slowing in January’s numbers was the calm before the continuing of the storm that is devastating neighborhoods across Atlanta.