Hi All. I received the following article in my e-mail this evening. It indicates what some seismologists have been saying for quite sometime now, but others weren’t listening. At any rate some are talking and some are listening now. Take Care…Don in creepy town

Quakes caused by others
By Kenneth Reich
LOS ANGELES TIMES

Beginning just minutes after the 7.3-magnitude Landers earthquake in 1992, a series of temblors occurred hundreds of miles away, at Mammoth Lakes, Mount Shasta and Yellowstone National Park. Scientists agreed they had been "triggered" by the Landers quake.

After the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake, magnitude 7.1, there was a triggered magnitude 4.6 quake scores of miles away near a geothermal zone alongside the Salton Sea.

The two episodes inspired a California scientist, Sue Hough of the U.S. Geological Survey office in Pasadena, and two New York scientists, Leonard Seeber and John Armbruster, to do research to determine whether triggered earthquakes had followed other major temblors in more stable settings in the East and Midwest.

The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America reported this week that the search has been successful in relation to both the New Madrid, Mo., quakes of 1811-12 and the Charleston, S.C., quake of 1886.

• Sue Hough