Sylvia's Earthquakes

[Tirdun]

9. Anytime in 2004: 6.0 earthquakes will hit both Alaska and Japan. Wrong, I think.

At the risk of adding credibility to Sylvia:

Sunday, September 5, 2004 at 14:57:18 (UTC) 7.4 (MAJOR)
NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
170 km (105 miles) SSE of Tsu, Honshu, Japan

Monday, September 6, 2004 at 23:29:35 (UTC) 7.2 (MAJOR)
NEAR S. COAST OF WESTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
180 km (110 miles) S of Tsu, Honshu, Japan

Saturday, October 23, 2004 at 08:56:00 (UTC) 6.7 (STRONG)
NEAR THE WEST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
80 km (50 miles) SSW of Niigata, Honshu, Japan

Source: USGS.gov


HOWEVER, it should be noted:

There were no earthquakes in Alaska in 2004
All of the above hit "near the coast of" Japan, none were centered under Japanese land

[Niobe]

Did she trip again? :)

[Miss Anthrope]

Predicting an earthquake in Japan of that magnitude is like predicting smog in Los Angeles.

[rjh01]

Could not find what is in the OP, but I did find these links when I did a search of +earchquake +Japan in the keywords

25 March 2007 Magnitude 6.7
http://va.water.usgs.gov/earthquakes/20070325_honshu_japan_b.html


14 Nov 2005 Magnitude 7.0
http://va.water.usgs.gov/earthquakes/20051114_honshu.html

[Tirdun]

I use the US Geological Survey (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/historical.php) for earthquake data. I had it in my bookmarks from way back in the early Paleocene era for debating Y2K nuts... er end of day-ers. They love(d) to use the "more earthquakes than evar" argument.

I had a similar one for NOAA for hurricanes, but it seems to have shifted to another page. I'll have to update that one.

Also, there was one strong earthquake near Alaska in 2004, but it happened 60 miles into the Bay of Alaska. And yes, Alaska gets earthquakes pretty regularly along the Atlantic.

So she's successfully predicted two common occurrences.