QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, when you were here in New Zealand, you talked about how earthquakes clustered. Is this happening again?
YD
ANSWER: Oh yes. It’s been a while. Precisely. Here is a list of the top 20 earthquakes, and you will see a cluster of closely related quakes. The Pacific Ring of Fire is very active with volcanoes and earthquakes all coming alive and clustering. We will probably see even a 9.0 quake off the coast of Japan, most likely soon, perhaps between April and July. These events tend to cluster. Moving the plate in one area results in pressure in another region. This is just 8.0 or higher. The 1906 San Francisco April 18, 1906, quake was devastating, but 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. Near 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
