The 'aftershocks' of earthquakes, major or otherwise involve, so some degree the surrounding geology of the area.
There have been many terrible earthquakes in the USA, among the worst was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
The 1906 San Francisco (click here) earthquake measured a magnitude 7.9 and ruptured 300 miles of the San Andreas Fault, which slipped as much as 20 feet in some places. Historians estimate that more than 3,000 people died in the quake and the ensuing fire, making it the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history.
We live on a dynamic Earth. While predition is convenient and can save lives, that alone does not interpret the future. There are many reasons for Wall Street to 'wager' on the future, but, to degrade a nation such as New Zealand because of unpredictable movements by tectonic plates on a hot plant fueled by carbon dioxide from human activity sets up a fiscal dyanmic the global community should never accept, appreciate or reward. The WTO needs to address the punitive wrangling of the global financial markets and their degrading of countries with trouble due to dynamics out of their reach to 'direct.'
