Don, In response to your query regarding the effects of recent earthquakes on
Bangladesh, I might point out that this area is located at the shadow zone
boundary (103-106 degrees away) from the New Zealand earthquake. The author
of the far-field forecast notes "Nepal". This is a region where seismic energy
is strongly concentrated and it would not be surprising to see some far-field
aftershocks in the Bangladesh area. Given the upswing in seismicity you
discuss here, one of these aftershocks could be in the magnitude 6 range. There
were events in the general region (see far-field aftershock forecast) in Andaman
Islands (Ms 7.2), in 1914 and in Myanmar (Burma for the current-event uninitiated)
in 1930 (Ms 6.3, 6.0) after similar N.Z. events, so the historical precedent is
certainly there.
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