October 29, 2019

It has been extraordinarily quiet here in Southern California for a while now. The EQs over the last day have dropped down to 12 around the region. There was a 15-hour gap between mag. 1+. If it continues to remain like this through Friday, I hope it stays relatively quiet next week as well because I will be out of town. I really want to be here for when a big one or THE big one happens. It being this quiet is concerning. If this goes on for another week, then there is an even higher chance more serious earthquake activity could follow. Nothing is ever set in stone. I'm watching it closely and will still be watching it from Tennessee next week, praying that the most of the action waits until I come home.
I have been gearing up for this for a while. It may not stay relatively quiet in Southern California that much longer. There could be something going on in Central California now. There were recently 2 magnitude 4.7s in that region - one of them being in the Oakland area. Just now, a magnitude 3.9 occurred South of Hollister - where the second tremor occurred. I would not be so surprised if that segment of the San Andreas fault snaps first - or perhaps a large one along the Calaveras Fault. It in fact, would not really surprise me at all. I started becoming concerned about that region when those twin quakes happened. Before anyone living there gets too alarmed, a large quake also might not happen there at all.
Like I said before, always take precaution just in case it is a precursor to a larger event. If there is a big earthquake up there, then that could set Southern California up for its big one even sooner. That could cause further strain on this segment along the SAF and it could potentially cause a chain reaction. However, it may not happen right away or at all for a while. I'm weighing all these possibilities and scenarios because it feels like the day the big one finally happens in Southern California is in the near future. It may not happen now or even by the end of the year, but it may not be that much longer. I just cannot imagine it being that quiet for many more years.
In terms of the rest of the world, there is still a very high chance of mag. 7+ somewhere anytime or day now. Yesterday, a magnitude 6.6 struck Mindanao(Philippines). Unfortunately, one person was killed. 2 weeks earlier, a mag. 6.4 occurred in the same area. In between there were only a couple of magnitude 6+ - one in the Vanuatu region and one in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Southwest of Liberia(Africa). There is still a very high likelihood for mag. 7+ somewhere in the world within the next 2 weeks or sooner. Regions that could be under the potential threat for dangerous earthquake activity include: Indonesia(Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Halmahera, and/or Talaud Islands), Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Northern Mariana Islands, Japan, Kuril Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula, Aleutian Islands(Alaska), Central America, Peru, Chile, Argentina, possibly New Zealand(North Island), Vanuatu, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Loyalty Islands, Andaman Islands region, Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, Greece..
I have also more recently started to pay some additional attention to the Puerto Rico region. There was recently a strong earthquake there and there has been more activity increasing there and surrounding areas of the Caribbean. There also may not be anymore significant activity going on there for now.

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