Reply #5: Oh my God, another great earthquake possible further south !

[allemand]

"At his speech to the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, he pointed out that, historically, such events have occurred in clusters.

Sieh believes this means another quake could be on the way: “There is some evidence that the stresses on the tectonic plates south of the epicentre may now have increased and raised the chances of another major earthquake.”"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1422669,00.html