Weatherlawyer wrote:

5.0 2008/04/04 13:30:15 44.625 148.035 52.0 KURIL ISLANDS
5.5 2008/04/04 04:03:03 -15.315 -172.850 47.0 SAMOA ISLANDS REGION

It's been more than 24 hours since the last major quake to occur. I am
using the 5M and up list from NEIC. In my experience since I first
noticed the phenomenon a few storms back, there is an hiatus with
these events when a major tropical storm is brewing and with the last
one there was only that low that I noticed.

We had a tremendous Low in the Atlantic the time before that too.
Searcxh for yourselves and see:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
http://www.gdacs.org/cyclones/?q=2006&submit=Search

That last link only holds data from a few years back. The MetO holds
stuff going back nearly twice as far but it is suspect. Neither holds
data from storms in polar or temperate regions.

However it is pretty revealing if inconclusive.