It is truly unfortunate that the people who are supposed to be running our global earthquake forecasting programs are so incurably myopic. If that were not the case then they themselvers could be looking at the data being discussed here.

My earthquake forecasting program can recall specific past Chart A data and enable the user to look at them in a number of ways. I reloaded my February 5, 2013 data and used the global tectonic plate map feature for the background for the data for individual time window lines on Chart A.

The results are quite interesting. And unfortunately at the moment I can’t stop and store a lot of maps on my Web site to show those results.

You can see groups of earthquakes around 166 E at the edge of the small tectonic plate just southeast of where the Solomon Islands earthquakes occurred. And there is another grouping of earthquakes around 137 E at the edge of another small tectonic plate that is to the southeast of Japan. Offhand I can’t remember the actual names of those plates.

So, I am guessing that the approaching Solomon Islands earthquakes’ fault zone might have been transferring some strain to that Japan area plate. And my forecasting program pointed to that area as well.

These are personal opinions.