4 Day Quake Forecast- 7.3-7.6 SAN FRANCISCO...

[Janie2006]

Well, we know earthquakes will happen, so this guy has that part 100% correct. I won't hold my breath for a forecasted time. On the other hand, I do think some animals act quite strangely just before an earthquake. Their senses are sometimes thousands of times more acute than ours. Maybe they know something we don't. Fascinating stuff, anyway.

[ncupsscweather]

You have a point... I don't hold my breath on forecasting earthquakes either but buy a couple of dogs and horses and they will tell you when something is going to happen. I would believe a forecast by watching them before i would believe a human forecasting it. ( I still have yet to seen him forecast the 6.1 magintude Earthquake that hit just south of Cuba today. ) Something that strong he should have forecasted it in his report some where now i may be over looking it so if i am some one let me know.

[Aslkahuna]

Since Earthquakes are observed and reported in the UTC timeframe, the Feb 1-4 forecast has busted.

Steve

[HurricaneBill]

Here's a list of great earthquakes in history. A great earthquake is one with a magnitude of 8.0 or higher. On average, one great earthquake happens every year.

1/13/1556 Shensi, China 8.0 830,000 dead (Deadliest earthquake on record)

8/17/1668 Anatolia, Turkey 8.0 8,000 dead

1/26/1700 Cascadia Subduction Zone 9.0 (Tsunami in U.S., Canada, and Japan)

11/1/1755 Lisbon, Portugal 8.7 70,000 dead

12/16/1811 New Madrid Region 8.1

2/7/1812 New Madrid Region 8.0

1/23/1855 Wellington, New Zealand 8.0 4 dead

10/27/1891 Mino-Owari, Japan 8.0 7,273 dead

6/15/1896 Sanriku, Japan 8.5

6/12/1897 Assam, India 8.3 1,500 dead

9/10/1899 Yakutat Bay, Alaska 8.0 (10.6m tsunami in Yakutat Bay)

7/9/1905 Mongolia 8.4

1/31/1906 Off the coast of Ecuador 8.8 1,500 dead

8/17/1906 Valparaiso, Chile 8.2 20,000 dead

10/21/1907 Tajikistan 8.0 12,000

11/11/1922 Chile-Argentina border 8.0 100 dead

2/3/1923 Kamchatka 8.5

3/2/1933 Sanriku, Japan 8.4 2,990 dead

1/15/1934 Bihar, India 8.1 10,700 dead

2/1/1938 Banda Sea, Indonesia 8.5

11/10/1938 Shumagin Islands, Alaska 8.2

12/7/1944 Tonankai, Japan 8.1 1,223 dead

11/27/1945 Off the coast of Pakistan 8.0 4,000 dead

4/1/1946 Unimak Island, Alaska 8.1 165 dead (Produced 35m tsunami; Dead includes 159 in Hawaii, 5 in Alaska, and 1 in California)

8/4/1946 Dominican Republic 8.0 100 dead

12/20/1946 Nankaido, Japan 8.1 1,330 dead

8/22/1949 Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada 8.1 (Canada's strongest earthquake since at least 1700)

8/15/1950 Assam - Tibet 8.6 1,530 dead

11/4/1952 Kamchatka 9.0 10,000 dead (The deaths occured on Kamchatka Peninsula due to tsunami)

3/9/1957 Andreanof Islands, Alaska 8.6 (Produced a 15m tsunami and also caused Mt. Vsevidof to erupt after being dormant for 200 years)

12/4/1957 Gobi-Altai, Mongolia 8.1 30 dead

11/6/1958 Kuril Islands 8.3 (Produced 5m tsunami)

5/22/1960 Chile 9.5 6,000 dead (Strongest earthquake on record; Produced 25m tsunami)

10/13/1963 Kuril Islands 8.5

3/28/1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska 9.2 125 dead (Produced 67.1m tsunami)

2/4/1965 Rat Islands, Alaska 8.7 (Produced 10.7m tsunami)

10/17/1966 Near the coast of Peru 8.1 125 dead

7/31/1970 Colombia 8.0

9/19/1985 Michoacan, Mexico 8.0 9,500 dead (Devastated Mexico City; Some claim death toll may really be as high as 35,000)

6/9/1994 Bolivia 8.2 5 dead

4/25/1998 Balleny Islands Region 8.1

11/16/2000 New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea 8.0

6/23/2001 Near the coast of Peru 8.4 139 dead (Produced a 7m tsunami)

9/25/2003 Hokkaido, Japan 8.3

12/23/2004 North of Macquarie Island 8.1

12/26/2004 Sumatra-Andaman Islands 9.1 283,106 dead

3/28/2005 Northern Sumatra, Indonesia 8.6 1,313 dead (Produced a 3m tsunami)

5/3/2006 Tonga 8.0

11/15/2006 Kuril Islands 8.3 (Produced a 1.7m tsunami)

1/13/2007 East of the Kuril Islands 8.1