That “Ring of fire” is sure as hell burning hot during this past year! Can’t help but to think there’s more to this, given the pattern. Never during my 30(something) short years do I recall activity like this in such a short amount of time. Read that the quake yesterday shifted the Earth’s axis by 10 inches. (can’t find the link)
The Indonesian quake in, hmm, 2005 (the horrible one with all the tsunami-related deaths) shifted the Earth’s axis, it’ll be interesting to see how much this big quake did something like it.