Japan, Japan, Japan!!!!! Is a Major Aftershock Due?

The earthquake energy from the Joplin Tornado headed in a straight line towards Escondido, and Mexicali, California, and continued on towards New Zealand. Next, a major earthquake or aftershock, struck at Christchurch this week and practically right along that line of new earthquake energy. Japan will also now be along that line, and perhaps at about the same number of days to follow as occurred back in the February / March 2011 series of events. It is possible, though, that it will not take the same number of days, or that it could happen sooner or take a few days longer for the new earthquake energy to reach Japan. It is also possible that this new earthquake energy will miss Japan and strike Indonesia, China, or elsewhere, but let me tell you Japan is about due for an 8 Magnitude aftershock. While there is a full moon on the night of Wednesday, June 15, this earthquake energy will not be set to be released on that night due to it still taking possibly a few days yet to move the entire Indian Ocean Tectonic Plate and push it up into the Japan region. The full moon actually only increases the amount of stress on existing tectonic plate boundaries and while it may release some earthquake energy somewhere, it may not cause a major Japan aftershock to occur right on the exact evening of the full moon nor the next night. . . but something very well could happen there just the same and we do pretty much know that earthquakes do tend to strike on the night of the full moon. Example, the big Chile earthquake from last year struck just a couple hours before the full moon, and the original Christchurch earthquake from earlier in 2011 struck two days after the full moon. So watch out for earthquakes the night of the full moon, and watch out for Japan to get a major aftershock in the coming days as well, but that could occur beyond the full moon days. EQ Guy