QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, once you had been right here in New Zealand, you talked about how earthquakes clustered. Is that this occurring once more?
YD
ANSWER: Oh sure. It’s been some time. Exactly. Here’s a checklist of the highest 20 earthquakes, and you will notice a cluster of intently associated quakes. The Pacific Ring of Hearth may be very energetic with volcanoes and earthquakes all coming alive and clustering. We are going to in all probability see even a 9.0 quake off the coast of Japan, most certainly quickly, maybe between April and July. These occasions are likely to cluster. Shifting the plate in a single space ends in stress in one other area. That is simply 8.0 or larger. The 1906 San Francisco April 18, 1906, quake was devastating, nevertheless it was 7.9.
1. Valdivia, Chile; 1960; magnitude 9.5
2. Prince William Sound, Alaska; 1964; magnitude 9.2
3. Sumatra-Andaman Islands, 2004, magnitude 9.1
4. Tōhoku, Japan; 2011; magnitude 9.1
5. Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia; 1952; magnitude 9.0
6. Offshore Maule, Chile; 2010; magnitude 8.8
7. Off the coast of Ecuador, 1906, magnitude 8.8
8. Rat Islands, Alaska; 1965; magnitude 8.7
9. Assam-Tibet, 1950, magnitude 8.6
10. Off the west coast of northern Sumatra, 2012, magnitude 8.6
11. Northern Sumatra, Indonesia; 2005; magnitude 8.6
12. Andreanof Islands, Alaska; 1957; magnitude 8.6
13. Unimak Island, Alaska; 1946; magnitude 8.6
14. Banda Sea, Indonesia; 1938; magnitude 8.5
15. Atacama, Chile; 1922; magnitude 8.5
16. Kuril Islands, Russia; 1963; magnitude 8.5
17. Close to Kamchatka Peninsula, 1923, magnitude 8.4
18. South of Sumatra, 2007, magnitude 8.4
19. Arequipa, Peru; 2001; magnitude 8.4
20. Sanriku-Oki, Japan; 1933; magnitude 8.4
