Just got this from one of my newsgroups. Any thoughts?

EARLY WARNING EARTHQUAKE DETECTION NETWORK
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> QUAKE WATCH 2004
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> Los Gatos, California
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> Phone: 408.829.4381
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> Fax: 408.376.0728
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> Press Release
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> Contact: KIM BARROW
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> Phone: 408.829.4381
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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> 11:45 AM PDT, January 12, 2005
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> MASSIVE QUAKE INDICATORS DETECTED
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> On January 9th and 10th, 2005 eight- to- nine massive main signals
> were detected emanating out of the Northern conduit for an earthquake
> with a magnitude between 7.9 to 8.4 in the furthest north-western
> quadrant of the pacific ring of fire. The quake may be greater than a
> 9.0 magnitude if it originates offshore underwater.
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> Currently the percentage of probability is 81% that a quake will
> occur in the location specified. This forecast is in effect
> immediately and will remain in effect through January 26, 2005. The
> most likely dates are today; January 13th, 17/18th and 24/26th, 2005;
> plus or minus 9 to 15 hours towards sunrise/sunset. Additional main
> signals could result in the release of seismic activity before these
> most probable dates noted above. We will continue to monitor the
> situation and bring you further news and updates as they may develop.
>
> Another earthquake forecast was issued on December 29, 2004 for the
> South Western Pacific Ring of fire. See below details of this
> forecast and subsequent updates in addition to the coles method.
>

Considering the massive shake-up the world just endured, it wouldn't surprise me if other hot spots were stressed beyond the breaking point.

Certainly. Although you can be surprised by Hawaii being forecast to have snow.

Snow in hawaii would be awesome . Everyone would be so confused ...

Its quite possible that one massive earthquake causes a chain reaction of sorts, isnt it?

and start some volcanoes going... *hides*

Not to sound skeptical, But where is the link to this story

Heres a link if you look for Quake Watch 2004, But I could not find any official site that is claiming a massive quake.

Links to quake watch 2004 at Above top secret.

This seems to be where the above mentiond information came from.

They have some significant snow accumulation now. Most of it is on White Mountain (I think that's what it's called) which usually has snow just not this much.

Really? Lol, up here in Canada, it was 20oC a few days ago. Thats 68F.

Agree with Aquatus. It would be probable this could happen nothing suprising that there are movements showing up. Unfortunately we cannot prevent nature from doing what is does only try and stay safe.

No. It isn't even probable. The Earth does not have a giant 'crust' that is all connected that way. There are places which have faults and a chain reaction would not be possible anymore than scooping up a bunch of sand on one beach would impact another beach somewhere else.

Yes, Im sorry. I shouldnt have used the word "chain reaction". I meant that wouldnt it theoretically be possible that one earthquake could cause another? Im not up on where the fault lines are located nor in which way they might be connected, but if theres an quake in one place, couldnt it nudge another plate from a neutral position into one which is slowely loosing support?

If you think about it, an earthquake as massive as the asian one could cause some kind of a reaction but I sincerely doubt it. Kind of scary though..I live in NZ and the other day there was a sucession of about 10 quakes, only smallish ones but it gave everyone a fright. My father is a seismologist (which means he studies earthquakes) so I'll ask him about this whole chain reaction thing when he gets home from work.

I asked my father and he said that one earthquake could set off another tectonic plate (because they are inter-connected) and tip it just over the edge or whatever, causing an earthquake. He said for a 'chain reaction' to occur is very unlikely because they would all have to be set up in a domino effect type of way so very unlikely.