Earthquake map -- Focus on Japan

[davidpdx]

20. A few things I noticed

And this is very unscientific, there were several large quakes directly to the south of Japan right before the large one. Second, I can't believe how inundated the quakes continued to be even after the major one. It seems like they never really stopped (even if some of them were small ones).

I have been living over in Korea for some time and have felt quakes which happen in Japan. Thankfully we aren't near any fault lines. We do have the North Koreans though.

Edit:

I just watched the world map. Seeing that whole region become so active at once just scares the hell out of me. I wouldn't want to live in Japan, NZ, The Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia or any of those other countries that have big quakes.