Hi all;

I've been running subsets of the far field triggering quakes and I find that the phenomena persists. But it's the opposite of the published report results. I find an excess of quakes in the 5 hours before major quakes instead of after. So this is not triggering but what is it?

I've looked at 3 time ranges; 1973-2007, 1992-2007 and 2000-2007. For each time range I've looked at 7.0+ main quakes and 7.7+ main quakes.

In each case there are more distant (>1100km) quakes before the main quakes than after.

Maybe the distant quakes are triggering the big ones?

Roger