Question #4: What is the largest quake that is possible on Earth?
Answer #4: Since stress fields along accessible major plate boundaries can be "quite easily calculated these days" thanks to GPS; since the "amount of stress accumulating each year due to plate motion can [also] be...
Thanks for the continued commentary.
Staying focused on the original questions, because I'm thinking I have answers, but want to verify:
Q#1) Recent series of quakes seem to be related. If an individual quake is big enough, could it cause some sort of chain reaction thru a large number...
Which I already alluded to as briefly as I could in my original post:
You then asked: "Specifically ... what recent series of earthquakes are you referring to?" and I gave the specific event:
This event triggered about a week's worth of distant quakes, per the article. You pointed out...
Thanks for the preliminary answers!
This one.
From:
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3542-earthquake-triggers-quakes.html
"Huge Earthquake Triggered Other Quakes Worldwide"
I have not read the 09-26-12 <i>Nature</i> article, however.
Which is kinda what I thought. I am aware...
Since the redistribution of mass in the Earth's surface can be caused by earthquakes, sometimes the Earth's rotation is increased or decreased by a small amount.
Recent series of quakes seem to be related. To me, this makes sense, since if plate "A" should move, then plate "B" would also...