Bogus Claim: Japan Earthquake Won't Trigger a California Quake - Yahoo! News
This guy Winchester is using the same Idea I was using about a year ago...on this Board to predict EQ's. That is that the entire Pacific Rim Ring Of Fire is connected and thus if one section gets hit it puts stress on a corresponding section at the other corner..So the whole system gets readjusted.
The only thing is that the dummy is using the recent NZ quake as a basis...he should be using the large Indonesian quakes that started i 2004. Moving to the Chilean and now Japanese. If one recalls there was a 6 something quake off of Japan about a year ago as a precursor to the recent Japanese quake. Shortly after the Japanese quake a year ago a moderate quake hit in Western China.
So the only major area that has not been hit is S CA.....Alaska had a 9 EQ in 64 so that has effectively removed stress in that area...one might even think that it was the precursor to the Indonesian quakes. As geologic time is measured in centuries and millennium and not years. The last major EQ on the S part of the San Andreas was in 1850.
What got me interested was a rather large EQ on the Mendocino fault off Eureka in early 2010.