As I was in Singapore, Li told me that Earthquakes were a hot subject on Japanese TV.

But the Big One did not came as Yoshio Kushida predicted. But when I called Li the next day (on Saturday 21), she told me they just had a quite a good one (4 on Japan scale).

My immediate thinking was: Is Kushida right? In all case, his prevision impresses me a lot. This could be (we can hope!) the beginning of a fiable method...

Still in Singapore, I watched on BBC World channel a long report on the next Big One in Tokyo. It was not what we call an optimistic one :-(