The Cajon Pass Hell Gate

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Ahh, so it sounds like because of the age, these quakes in this area (gulf/Carribean) will only hit up to a certain magnitude? Or did I totally read something invisible that is not there? Apparantly there were two after shocks to to initial 6.1 .

If the conclusion is that they just cant get that big where I am at down here, then I  am satisfied with that.

Probably true for THAT weak point. 

But there are a few US Intraplate seismic zone that can top 7.0. The New Madrid and South Carolina. Memphis and Charleston are ALSO on a much less predictable ticking time bombs. 

But that is a failed rift, unlike the gulf. It is a massive scar where the continent tried to split apart.  So the Reel Foot Rift and Summerville Seismic Zone are the likely 7.0+ the Southeast could experience.  

But that's even harder to explain then the Gulf, because its even further from the boundary and the best explanations involve massive scars in the bottom of the crust and a fluid mantle compressing that weak point as the plate slides east to west.

[worldstarcountry]

So this Gulf incident, just a typical fart of the Earth, nothing to be too concerned for?? I just get concerned because all that lava and heat and pressure is still connected together deeper down. IS there any way whatever happened down here could in any way be a clue to the impending disaster you are referring to in the OP? Or if not by itself, what about as part of a wider pattern occurring in other locations which would have been just as surprised by an atypical very uncommon  magnitude of quake for their region?

It has been some time since I really took a deep interest in tectonics so I have not retained much of what I did learn and can barely remember anything outside of the basic introduction to it.