A powerful preliminary magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck near Taiwan, China earlier this morning. The stress increase observed along the Pacific-North American Plate Boundary appears to have been reacting to an event, which was located on the opposite side of the Pacific Plate. However, remote-triggering of stress is now my major concern. Several deep focused earthquakes were epicentered in the region of the Equatorial Pacific Plate near the Fiji Islands-Tonga Trench during the past couple of days prior to this seismic event. My work is to estimate how this change in stress over there has also affected the opposite side of the Pacific Plate. It appears to be the result of changes induced by the recent solar X-class flares, and their energy surge reaching the core-mantle boundary, as inferred earlier this year within many of these reports. The M9.0 Great Sumatra Earthquake was exactly two years ago today. As for the Pacific-North American Plate boundary, we are now definitely "skating on very thin ice" along the San Andreas Fault Zone. That information is based upon all of the data collected and analyzed over the many years that GeoSeismic Labs has now been in operation. The fact is that Southern California is long over-due for its next strong seismic event epicentered along the Southern San Andreas Fault. The last time an earthquake as powerful as that which struck Taiwan earlier today was epicentered between the Cajon Pass, and the Salton Sea was in 1690. In 1857 another strong earthquake was epicentered at Cholame in Central California, which ripped the fault like a zipper from near Parkfield all the way to Wrightwood, CA. An earlier strong seismic event in 1812 appears to have also affected the same region, and may have been epicentered close to Wrightwood, CA. 1812 was also the same year that the New Madrid, MO Earthquake struck the mid-section (intra-plate) of the North American Plate.Geo Seismic Labs Inc
