Spent some time while traveling today trying to calculate the maximum magnitude of the upcoming Major Earthquake that I had been thinking might be a Mega-Thruster and came up with the following. Yes, there was 2 or 3 inches of movement at New Zealand and Cook Strait, and I did accurately guess Easter Island, AND my phone just chimed tonight with yet another 5 Richters Shaker at Easter Island. That does now equal three at Easter Island, but in previous HUGE swarms or huge foreshocks. . . 3 x 5 is usually NOT an indication of a MEGATHRUSTER! NO! 3 x 7 might be. Do you see where this basic math is headed. So I want to write today to say that the range of this still Major Earthquake that looks like it might be headed on a direct course for South America, although our West Coast is now getting some of this, might now be in the range of 7.0 to 8.4 still big enough that the biggest Santiago or Chile earthquakes should not go over that number, but it does not mean to expect an 8.4 to strike Van Nuys, either.
Here is the listing of both all the earthquakes that have struck at Hilo, Hawaii since Flossie, and the Washington Swarm from today that initially looked like it was Mount Saint Helens shaking!!! @ http://eqalert.blogspot.com/2013/08/lots-of-earthquakes-strike-hawaii.html
As soon as I can gather all of the information I will have names of places along the straight lines that look like they are all heading towards South America. Until then if someone wants to try lining up the tectonic plate boundary between Australian and Pacific Plates with the epicenter of recent New Zealand 6.5 with Easter Island Earthquakes on a globe and see where abouts in Central America that line makes landfall. . . then YOU might have the exact epicenter of the very next Major Earthquake, hopefully not a megathruster! Finished my Forward and Introduction today for latest book Bringing Earthquakes To Life! Thank-You for Reading!!! EQ Guy
JUST saw this after posting!!! 4.5 Near EUREKA, California!!! 12 Miles West of there @ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72042291#summary
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How about Yellowstone?? The last 2 days I have checked Usgs,there seems to have a few shakers in Yellowstone. ???
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