[Candor7]

Just so you know, my son, who is teaching in Kanazawa Japan, reported that a Mag 6 earthquake occurred off the coast about 60 miles northwest of Kanazawa. On a nearby peninsula, there were land slides. 4 killed.

Seismic activity seems to be picking up around the Pacific tectonic plates.

Maybe Hawaii will find a new volcano if this keeps up.

[Strategerist]

In the last 100 years, there have been an average of 18 Magnitude 7+ quakes a year worldwide, on average.

We're 3 months in to 2007, and there should have been 4.5 such quakes.

We've had 4 quakes over magnitude 7. So we're running a bit BELOW normal for large quakes this year, and there were only 11 such quakes each year in 2005 and 2006.