Magnitude 8 Earthquake in the Solomon Islands
It wasn't the great earthquake in Japan, but the epicenter did land in a region that was identified as a high probablity location. Tsunami warning has been issued. Figures (screenshots) below. More details later. Probability of an M>8 in the blue polygon in Figure 1 was estimated as 6.2% within 3 years. Reasonably high, but not nearly as high as Japan.
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Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at
the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz. He specializes in the quantification and simulation of
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John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics
and Geology at UC Davis and
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.