Please forgive my paranoia. I have the misfortune of being an ex-Alaskan NOAA oceanographer who conducted tsunami modeling studies.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories...ami_damage.jpg

3 of the 6 biggest recorded quakes have happened in the last 7 years. Based on this data, I think a little panic is acceptable.

That's a tad alarming.

The world is slowly ending. We'll all be surfing in Bennett Springs before you know it.

Things don't happen every "X" number of years.

http://www.youtube.com/citizentube?feature=ticker

Youtube has a bunch of eyewitness videos up.

Hey Donger, it's still March. ;-)

And you were only off by a few thousand miles.

Well, in my estimation, with the way things are going, I doubt this is the last one. The high volumes of earthquakes the Earth's has been having, based on all reports that I've read, are highly unusual.

I stand by my original assessment. Hope it doesn't happen though, and hope that the Earth's crust settles down.

But it sure is looking like the Mayans knew some things that we still don't know.

On another note, Arkansas has only had like 4 earthquakes this week... much less than last week. So, maybe it's chilling the **** out.

I hear that an entire train was simply "lost". Presumed washed away, but the death toll here is not going to stay <100, unfortunately.

You estimate that there will be another earthquake?

Way to lay it all on the line.

Not to fuel the paranoia fire here, but isn't our solar system about to past through the galactic equator? I remember seeing some report of this and how some were theorizing that kind of galactic shift could have a massive effect on our magnetic poles? I'm sure it's appropos to nothing here, just the thought popped into my brain....

IMO, we will see 2-3 or more 8.0s or greater in the next 2-3 months.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_all.php

As far as Japan goes... they are getting some major aftershocks on this bad boy. like 7-10 5.0+ per hour. Jesus.

They are already well above 300 people lost in and around Sendai. I'm very glad that I left Japan last week....Many of my friends and co-workers are sleeping tonight in our Tokyo office as the JR train lines have been shutdown and they can't get home.

Yep. Who knows on the other shit. But the Mayan's sure think that this will be a trying time, as we move into the new cycle of time. Crossing that galactic equator is a big deal, as supposedly humanity "wakes up". They said every other time we have moved into a new "age" there have been tons of crazy catastrophe's.

So, none of this surprises me.