fault lines here, people sometimes ask, you know, is there any relation? we just had a quake down here in the christchurch, new zealand area not that long ago. obviously, it s a considerable distance, but it s in this fault line. is this just the risk you pay for being along these fault lines out here? i m not really a seismologist, but i would think that the connection would be very slim as you move very far away from the trerchg trench, but on the same trench what happened today could put more stresses on some other parts of the trench that haven t moved yet, and so this remains to be seen and studied, but it could be that in the next near future i wouldn t want to venture a forecast, but we could see another part of this particular trench that would move as a result of additional stresses that have been put on that part of the trench, but not for