The earthquake this morning near Astabula, Ohio appears to have occurred
in an area close to those at which events commonly occur following
large earthquakes in the Kermadec Islands. This event with Ml between
3.4 and 4.0 occurred north of Tennessee the general area listed in
the posted item as likely to have earthquakes in the next few days.
An earthquake also occurred in the New Madrid region and in Texas
in the past several days. For all these see the CERI site at:
http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

Information on the Astabula, Ohio quake can also be found at:

NEIS:
http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html
Western Ontario network:
http://www.gp.uwo.ca/docs/eqlist.html
Canadian Geological Survey:
http://www.seismo.nrcan.gc.ca/recent_canadian_eq/recent_canadian_eq_e.html
LaMont Doherty Labs, Columbia University, New York
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/finger?quake@chaos.ldeo

This is the largest earthquake in the eastern U.S. in at least 5 months since a
similar sized event (Ml 4.2) occurred near the same location a few minutes before
the India (Gujarat) earthquake on January 26, 2001 .

LaMont parameters for this earthquake are:
01/06/03 22:36:45 41.99N 80.95W 5.0 3.93Ml 18.2 km NW of Ashtabula, OH