Increasing Earthquake Probabilities Near Tokyo, Japan 1/10/2013
In the December 29, 2012 blog we saw that earthquake probabilities have changed dramatically in the region devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami off the Tohoku coast of Japan. It is therefore interesting to see that the chance of a M>6.5 earthquake during the next year seems to be increasing in the area of Tokyo and Chiba, Japan, even over a period as short as 2 weeks. The screenshots below document this change.
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Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at
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John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics
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the Executive Director of the APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations. He
chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southern California Earthquake Center from 1994 to 1996. Read John's blog.