Dear friends,
According to the following list of earthquakes, it seems that when there is an earthquake in Myanmar, there is a subsequent earthquake (one or two days later) in the Tohoku region of Japan. (Data were obtained from the EMSC data base by using as keywords “Near East Coast of Honshu” and Myanmar).
Year 2008
21 August (12:24), Mag. 6, Myanmar --> 22 August (10:59), Mag. 5.3, Tohoku.
Year 2009
3 September (19:51), Mag. 5.9, Myanmar --> 04 September (01:18), Mag.4.6, Tohoku.
Year 2010
13 March (11:50 UTC) Mag. 5.4 Myanmar --> 14 March (8:08 UTC), Mag. 6.5, Tohoku.
Year 2011
4 Feb (13:58 UTC) Mag 6.2 Myanmar --> 5 Feb (1:56 UTC) Mag. 5.3 Mag. Tohoku.
10 March (4:58 UTC) Mag. 5.5 Myanmar (Yunnan earthquake, near Myanmar border) --> 11 March (5:46 UTC) Mag. 9 Tohoku.
24 March (13:56 UTC) Mag. 6.9 Myanmar --> 25 March (11:36 UTC) Mag. 6.4, Tohoku.
20 Jun (16:55 UTC) Mag. 5.3 Myanmar --> 22 Jun (21:50 UTC) Mag. 6.7 Tohoku.
10 July (00:40 UTC) Mag. 4.9 Myanmar --> 10 July (00:57 UTC) , Mag. 7, Tohoku.
21 November (03:15), Mag. 5.9 -->23 November (19:24), Mag. 6.1, Tohoku.
Year 2012
1 January (02:34UTC) Mag. 4.6 Myanmar --> 1 January (08:31UTC), Mag. 4.6, Tohoku.
6 January (05:28UTC) Mag. 4.4 Myanmar --> 7 January (10:43 UTC), Mag. 4.7, Tohoku.
11 January (22:23) Mag. 4.5 Myanmar --> 12 January (03:20), Mag 5.7, Tohoku.
To confirm the hypothesis of Myanmar earthquakes preceding earthquakes in the Tohoku region, I searched the whole EMSC database (
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/?filter=yes), looking for earthquakes in Myanmar with 5.9 or higher magnitude. I found only 5 earthquakes. Interestingly, all these 5 earthquakes appear in the list above. This means that there is 100% in probability that a greater than 5.9 earthquake in Myanmar is followed by an earthquake of 4.6 of magnitude or greater in the Tohoku region (6.1 Magnitude in average).
According to this, the occurrence of an earthquake in Myanmar could serve for warning Japanese people of an imminent earthquake in the Tohoku area.
Javier Ropero