Hi EQF. The energy released by nuclear explosion is nothing compared to one major earthquake. There is nothing there to indicate that all of the nuclear explosions combined had any affect on any of the faults world-wide.

I used a new calculation that one nuclear explosion is equal to an M>5.0 quake to see how many it would take to equal one M>8.0 quake. The new calculation is that it would take 1,185,921 detonating at the same time. The 2,036 nuclear explosions don’t even remotely come close to equaling one M>8.0 quake. From my point of view I really and truly don’t see anything there that nuclear explosion upset the occurrences of major quakes. There are most likely other reasons that for right now remain unknown to us.

The following is the ANSS quake catalog. As you can see it is different then the NEIC catalog.

A 30-year database is extremely small. If you had a 30,000-year database you might be able to make something of it. Take Care…Don in creepy town

1899/09/04 00:22:00.00 60.0000 -142.0000 25.00 8.30 ML 0 AK
1899/09/10 21:40:00.00 60.0000 -140.0000 25.00 8.60 ML 0 AK
1900/10/10 12:28:17.60 57.0900 -153.4800 0.00 8.30 ML 0 AK
1903/06/02 13:17:21.40 61.5600 -158.5400 0.00 8.30 ML 0 AK
1906/08/17 00:10:47.20 50.7700 179.7300 0.00 8.00 ML 0 AK
1929/03/07 01:34:39.00 51.0000 -170.0000 50.00 8.60 ML 0 AK
1938/11/10 20:18:43.00 55.5000 -158.0000 25.00 8.70 ML 0 AK
1949/08/22 04:01:12.20 53.6200 -133.2700 0.00 8.10 ML 0 AK
1957/03/09 14:22:32.15 51.4700 -175.7200 33.00 8.60 ML 0 AK
1963/10/13 05:17:57.10 44.8000 149.5000 60.00 8.25 un 75 0.00 NEI 196310134006
1964/03/28 03:36:13.90 61.0500 -147.4800 23.00 8.50 ML 0 AK
1969/02/28 02:40:32.50 36.0080 -10.5730 22.00 8.00 Ms 188 0.00 NEI 196902284001
1971/01/10 07:17:03.70 -3.1320 139.6970 33.00 8.10 Ms 113 0.00 NEI 197101104006
1976/01/14 16:47:33.50 -28.4270 -177.6570 33.00 8.00 Ms 43 0.00 NEI 197601144010
1994/06/09 00:33:16.23 -13.8410 -67.5530 631.30 8.20 un 676 1.13 NEI 199406094002
1994/10/04 13:22:55.84 43.7730 147.3210 14.00 8.10 Ms 672 0.93 NEI 199410044031
1995/04/07 22:06:56.89 -15.1990 -173.5290 21.20 8.00 Ms 670 1.10 NEI 199504074040
1995/10/09 15:35:53.91 19.0550 -104.2050 33.00 8.00 Me 615 1.26 NEI 199510094032
1996/02/17 05:59:30.55 -0.8910 136.9520 33.00 8.20 Me 370 1.33 NEI 199602174017
1998/03/25 03:12:25.07 -62.8770 149.5270 10.00 8.10 Mw 418 1.10 NEI 199803252006
2000/11/16 04:54:56.74 -3.9800 152.1690 33.00 8.00 Mw 254 1.20 NEI 200011164015
2001/06/23 20:33:14.13 -16.2650 -73.6410 33.00 8.40 Mw 518 1.05 NEI 200106234053
2003/09/25 19:50:06.36 41.8150 143.9100 27.00 8.30 Mw 669 0.88 NEI 200309252070