Hi Gerry,

I don't think I'd say it was a coincidence, as I fully expected it.

Since the Olympia, WA earthquake I have been specifically watching Oregon and Northern Canada for activity to begin in these locations. Oregon to me seemed to be a given.

For a visual of the way I saw it, just imagine placing your hands together out in front of you. When together that's Olympia, now spread each hand outward. From the center point you have a slab of rock that disturbed an area, thus by cause and effect, it also disturbs the area's north, south and east by land mass and west into the ocean. Seems simply logical to me.

Another example is to think of digging in the garden. If you use a spade or shovel and you dig into the earth, what happens? The main area where the tool is used comes up, but also around this point the rest of the ground moves as well. Depending on how deep you placed the shovel it can be a narrow area or a much broader one. In the earthquake in Olympia, it was significantly deep, thus one has to look at a much larger distance away from the epicenter, ie: Oregon or Northern Canada.

Though we are talking about rock movement, it still has the same effect. Outward from the epicenter it most likely jars other rock structures loose from where they were previously.

Suppose Canada is still not out of the equasion, then we might look at Yellow Knife in the Northwest Territories.

But for today, I'm quite curious as to what's happening in the Mendocino Triple Junction. Are they having their usual cluster of earthquakes that happen from time to time, or is it going to bring on something from the ocean that is much larger?

Should the Olympia quake be classified as unexpected? No. The events north of its location in the 5.0+ range for weeks before should have been a clue to that area being on the brink of a major event. The only problem that exists now is determining the location of that major event. Yes?

Petra