Interesting thread, but I'm pretty sure nothing is going to happen. As soon as Bill Gates packs up and leaves town, I'll take things a little more seriously. Seattle is home to over 400,000 turbo geeks who pay close attention to matters such as this.

I could be wrong... Maybe I'm just saying this because I'm depressed and wishing for fresh doom.

OP: If you're right, I thank you, because whiskey and panic sex are in my not so distant future!

As I have said before, why worry about earthquakes - however large they are when everyone will be wiped out by the radiation from the nuke plants getting busted.

Each question which gets asked is continually bringing the point of the conversation back to focus our minds on earthquakes, and it is almost as if someone does not want us to realise that there is something far worse and dark than that which will happen as a result of a large earthquake. Yes, quakes are important and they will be the trigger which finally destroys half the world - and thats if we are lucky. If we are unlucky, we will all perish.

I realise this is an earthquake thread, but you cannot discuss quakes without raising the issue of the real and greater danger which comes from radiation after the quakes have done.