Hey Michael:

Actually, I think you mentioned it below...I was just running with it....

Well, scientifically "proving" it's a hot spot will be another matter.

I still have hopes that Roger will also build a program to do ringmap probability statistics.

Maybe dividing the world up into 3 x 3 boxes and geting background rates per box for each range of quakes woould be a first set-up step (e.g. mag 1-2, 3-4,5-6, etc.) These would then be recallable for getting the probability per ring by adding the relevant boxes up.

The findings might be surprising ... then again maybe not....

Are programming a database ?

Nosey as usual,

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