There has been a lot of discussion about the 188 day cycle seen in major earthquakes. I have found a deeper cycle. If this cycle holds we can expect a strong earthquake on April 21-23.

This is a 232 day cycle. There have been 8 earthquakes of 7.0 or greater which have followed this cycle since 2008.

09/03/11 - 7.0: 233 days

01/13/11 - 7.0: 231 days

05/27/10 - 7.2: 232 days

10/07/09 - 7.7: 231 days
10/07/09 - 7.8: 231 days
10/07/09 - 7.4: 231 days

02/18/09 - 7.0: 233 days

06/30/08 - 7.0


Do I expect the cycle to hold? Not really, but if it does do I get a cookie?

Awesome. I think you should have said there have been 6 dates in your cycle where earthquakes have occured considering you have a single date which had 3 quakes.

I agree that the evidence to the 188 cycle did leave out certain earthquakes that fell outside of that frame, but who's to say there aren't multiple cycles and multiple causes of earthquakes. Maybe what causes those earthquakes every 188 days isn't the same thing that causes other earthquakes. Just trying to keep an open mind. With everything we now know in modern times, there's still so much we don't understand.

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having just read another thread where someone showed that the 188 cycle was only consistent for the last two years where there was a gap with no earthquake; it amuses me to note that your cycle goes back further without such a gap making it, at least in the short term, more consistant.

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Originally posted by Phage
There has been a lot of discussion about the 188 day cycle seen in major earthquakes. I have found a deeper cycle. If this cycle holds we can expect a strong earthquake on April 21-23.

This is a 232 day cycle. There have been 8 earthquakes of 7.0 or greater which have followed this cycle since 2008.

09/03/11 - 7.0: 233 days

01/13/11 - 7.0: 231 days

05/27/10 - 7.2: 232 days

10/07/09 - 7.7: 231 days
10/07/09 - 7.8: 231 days
10/07/09 - 7.4: 231 days

02/18/09 - 7.0: 233 days

06/30/08 - 7.0


Do I expect the cycle to hold? Not really, but if it does do I get a cookie?

edit on 3/21/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)

What I'd like to know is what do I get if you're wrong?

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The lack of not being able to see the sarcasm here is astounding.