Where will the next big earthquake be?
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Even the experts cannot predict this with any certainty!  They may get warnings before in the form of small pre-shocks but usually big shocks happen without warning....;
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Yes, to a degree. Earthquakes can be predicted using past locations, active faults, geological recurrence times, and fault slip data rates from plate tectonic and satellite data. This level of prediction is time-independent, so it will only give a likelihood of an earthquake's magnitude with path and locational effects. This is useful for building design, land use planning, and estimating earthquake insurance, but it doesn't predict when it will happen. \n\nMore and more data is being collected on past earthquake movement using trenches dug into faults and measuring the traces of paleomovements. Geodetic instruments are now collecting real-time data on the relative movement of various parts of the continent using satellite measurements. As more data is collected it may become easier to add a time-dependent portion to a prediction. The USGS is posting probabilities like this for some faults, but are often leaving the time period open for 50 or more years. \n\nResearch in the US has mostly focused on better understanding earthquakes, especially after an unsuccessful attempt to monitor precursors and predict an earthquake near Parkfield, California. In Japan there has been a growing realization that earthquake prediction may not be realistic in the aftermath of Kobe. In China approximately 30 false alarms have caused major problems and the government is discouraging predictions. \n\nThere are a number of creative methods that have been proposed such as tidal forces, animal behavior, and alignment of planets, but none of these has any statistically proven validity. In fact, many of these predictions are made so broadly that the normal occurrence of earthquakes tends to make them look successful. \n\nYou might want to read this article in Nature:\nhttp://www.nature.com/nature/debates/earthquake/index.html\nand here is a description of the Parkfield effort:\nhttp://www.geophys.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/INFO_GENERAL/eq_prediction.html
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check out this link...shows all recent earthquake activity in California.  Looks like Sacramento and north are clearest.\n\nhttp://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm
141875
back in the early 19th century a major earthquake occurred that was centered in new madrid, missouri. the entire middle section of the US is considered to be in the zone.
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The exact location of an earthquake.
460543
Pretty much the entire city rests on the Hayward Fault Zone, so I'd say everywhere. Which isn't to say that the entire place will collapse due to Earthquakes, but it is on a fault line so there will be seismic activity.
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Japan experiences an average of 3000 tremors a year. That's 10% of all the earth's measurable quakes, making them the most earthquake prone.  The pacific rim experiences 80% of the world's major earthquakes.  That includes the western coast of South, Central and contental North Americas the southern part of Alaska, across to Japan, then down to the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.\n\nIn 2005 there were 8 earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9, and one 8.7.  See link for other years.\n\nGood question!
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Here is a list: \n\nhttp://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/naturalhazards/majorearthquakes/earthquakes_stats_new.html
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I am sitting about 4 miles from the Palmdale Bulge. We have been overdue here in Southern California for a quake along the San Andreas for about 30 years.\nWhen it hits, it's gonna be MASSIVE, in the high-7's or low-8's at least.\n\nBy the way, earthquakes have NOTHING to do with the weather. There's no correlation between hot days, cold days, or any other meteorological phenomena and earthquakes. Also, earthquakes are NOT a judgement from God. They are an effect of plate tectonics and geologic stress.\n\nIf you'll forgive the following monologue:\n\nVirtually the entire Pacific Coast of our hemisphere rests on a series of geologic faults. One of the most unstable of these is the San Andreas Fault, running 600 miles through the state of California.\nSome sections of the fault are slipping. The two sides are sliding past each other, slowly. The strains accumulating are being dissipated rather harlessly, without generating large earthquakes.\nAt two points, however, the sides of the fault are locked, permitting no slippage. Elastic strain energy is being built-up. Invisibly, the land is being compressed and warped, storing energy like a colossal spring under the crust of the Earth. Many scientists feel this energy will break lose, and a cataclysmic earthquake will occur within the next decade.\nOthers feel it could happen tomorrow.\nOne of the critical points is north of San Francisco, the other just a few miles east of Los Angeles.
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No because it has come the ocean bottum, via volcanos. Japan will get larger.
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Sorry, but there is no reliable evidence for earthquake lights or any other type of prediction tool.  This is what Dr. Jackson of UCLA told me, a leading geophysist:\n\nEarthquakes follow NO predictable pattern. People have tried and tried, with no luck. They may have accidentally predicted one, but they can not predict anything consistantly.\n\nEarthquakes fall into 3 categories. Some do behave well, they have foreshocks, they show subtle signs, and have aftershocks very nicely. They are still not predictable, but they are closer to being predicted. Some have no warning at all and never show any signs of going. The third group follow no pattern at all, they go seemingly randomly, and they can not even be estimated. It is very hard to tell which fault will be in which group, and this is why prediction is still several breakthroughs away.
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The last years Tsunami was cause by the 2 plates breaking underneath the Phi Phi islands @ 8 15am. It caused the ground to rise up to 40 feet for 750 miles, which  cause an earthquake of 9.5 on the scale. They are predicting that the next country to be hit with a Tsunami is Samaliya.  And US is next... Oregon, Washington and all NW states, BEWARE.  AMERICA'S TSUNAMI, ARE WE NEXT? When they cannot predict, however, they say it might be in the next 1000 years or it might happen tommorow.
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hypocenter\nlearn more at\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/facts.php
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The normal huge storms on coastal areas around the world....this year.\n\nLarge earthquake.......Asia....2007\n\nSome big volcano news in Pacific Rim....2008.\n\nA scary encounter with an asteroid...near miss....2009.\n\nA major drought scattered world-wide......2010-2012.
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Yes.  There was even one today!  Magnitude 4.8 at a depth of 8.4km in the north east.\n\nCheck out this site:\n\nhttp://www.iris.edu/seismon/\n\n{edit}  Doh!  Someone beat me to it!
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actually yes they've been talking about this a lot recently in light of the last big tsunami. There's an island that's pretty much just a volcano (forget the name but you could find it easily) that the next time it erupts, it will lose some of it's mass into the ocean and cause a tsunami headed towards the East coast. AS far as the west coast goes, any tsunami generated here would be the sliding of the tectonic plates offshore. so if we have a heavy earthquake out there, the west coast would be hit.
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Check to following link to know more about Tsunami.\n\nIt's not possible to accurately predict plate tectonics  currently.