British Virgin Islands - EARTHQUAKE swarm...when CALIFORNIA Starts Virgin Island stops..definite correlation

Update...as of 09/10/2012 there were 548 quakes in the last 30 days so swarm has slowed down in the Islands....but have noticed there is som sort of a correlation between the VIrgin Island quakes and the Californian/Mexico events...there have been three occasions in the last 21 days where a quake in the Mexico region has been followed by a ramping up of Quakes in California...the last 24 hours being a great example...where there was a 6 magnitude in the GUlf Of Mexico and this has been followed by quakes all along California.....and the Virgin Islands has all but stopped with only two quakes on the hot spot in the last 24 hours...

There is definitely a correlation between the two areas and their earthquake 'swarms'..I believe there is obviously a an exchange of pressure going on between the two areas and its gonna be a case of one or the other letting off a big amount of energy soon....

End of update...

I have attempted to find Historical precendence for such an enormous amount of quakes in this small area in the British VIrgin Islands...and I can't find any.
Unlike the Brawley Quake swarm where similar swarms have occurred in the last century I cant find any record of a swarm at the British Virgin Islands.
And this is one hell of a swarm...the following image shows the spread of the quakes in the last 30 days ( and there are 993 quakes pictured on the map...but most on one on top of the other...)


The following image shows the topography and location of the same area...


What could this mean....a sign of great stress building up in this region?

That is an enormous amount of earthquakes for such a small area..and there have been several more in the last few hours since I made that map too....

I was under the impression that it is too close to the subduction zone to be volcanic...so why all the on-going quakes?

Last Edited by taniatarn on 10/08/2012 04:33 PM