threat of large quake on horizon

[Richard]

The earth is and always has been tectonically active. There are literally dozens of quakes ranging the entire scale on a daily basis. An very few places as active as that region known as the "Ring of Fire"...which also encompasses Japan, Indonesia and New Zealand to name just a few areas in the news lately. But all of those areas have a continuous history of earthquakes and volcanoes.

There is no way to differentiate one earthquake from another. And there is no increasing trend in large earthquakes over previous years.

There is, however, the internet and 24 hr worldwide cable news. Hard to say which of those is more inaccurate.

Richard