Now for EQ prognostications. The Ring of Fire might need a western release after the NZ and Japan shakers. Chile seems to get it most times. The EQ swarms at the Salton Sea a month ago make me wonder if the west coast turn is near.
Or the 6.9 in Japan was a foreshock a couple of days prior to a really big one. That also happened with the 9.1 in 2011 off Fukushima.