Thursday, September 15, 2011

Major Earthquake Today?

I first learned about this back in April, but since today is the target day, I thought I would mention it to see if anything actually happens. In the past year, there has been a significant earthquake at 3 of the 4 points of the "Ring of Fire" with each earthquake occurring 188.5 days after the last.

Things began with the 8.8 magnitude Chilean earthquake on Feb. 27, 2010, 06:34 UTC.

Then came the 7.1 magnitude Christchurch earthquake on Sept. 4, 2010. However, if you measure per UTC time, the earthquake occurred on Sept. 3, 2010, 16:35 UTC. This was the primary earthquake that caused a great deal of devastation, although all of the deaths there occurred in the large aftershock on Feb. 22, 2011.

After this came the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, 05:46 UTC.

If you measure these out at universal time, each occurs 188.5 days apart (plus or minus a couple hours) going around the Ring of Fire in a clockwise pattern. Going forward from this, the fourth and last point to be hit would be the west coast of North America on Sept. 15, 2011, ~17:00-18:00 UTC (That would be between 9 and 10 AM PDT).

Of course, earthquakes don't behave in regular patterns so the viability of this is highly questionable. But it is certainly worth watching for. Once is happenstance. Twice is a coincidence. If a major quake does happen today, it is suggestive of a pattern of some kind. What that pattern means though is beyond me.

1 comment:

Rob said...

Well, it wasn't exactly at the right time or place, but within just a few hours of your prediction: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/09/15/fiji.earthquake/index.html?

And it was on the ring of fire... interesting coincidence, or something more?