We're next

The earthquake that happened on Friday in Japan is probably not the last one we will see. It all started with the earthquake that registered to be an 8.8 last year in Chile. Resting on more or less the same family of circum-Pacific fault lines is New Zealand, which received a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. And guess which country also rests on the same group of fault lines? Japan. All these earthquakes seemed to have followed a pattern so far, bouncing across the Pacific Ocean. If the trend continues (the average quake being an 8.3), the next earthquake could happen in the Northeast of the Pacific plate. San Francisco is right above the major fault line there, so it is possible that at least one more earthquake will rock the world. And this time, very close to home.