Oh My God

[David]

Oh my God. I'm not in the habit of spreading dire warnings about quakes that I think are imminent, but oh ... **** ...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...kes/uslhbe.php

M5.6 right on the subduction zone in the northern Chilean seismic gap since the large 8.5/9 quake in 1877.

An 8.0 on the southern end of the gap in 1995 had an M6.2 foreshock six months prior.

And the giant southern Chile M9.5 (1960) had a variety of foreshocks.

Odds are it isn't a foreshock, or if it is it could be a long time till the main shock, but worth watching, I guess.