It is possible that my U.S. West Coast news service contacts had something to do with that Reuters news report. Just a guess. I think that it is also interesting that the story appeared in Reuters instead of a U.S. based news service.

Here is a Web address for it:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021019/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_quake_1

• Quirks predict California quake (Reuters news story)