On 6 Mar, 08:53, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 at 19:40:20, Weatherlawyer
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Another one of those crazy nights.

You're going to sing a Phil Collins cover?

The MetO ssp chart is giving the same notice. What is that Low just on
the verge of the Arctic and off the map? The isobars look compressed.

Here is something mo

"According to traditional Japanese lore, the fish rise to the surface
and beach themselves to warn of an impending earthquake - and there
are scientific theories that bottom-dwelling fish may very well be
susceptible to movements in seismic fault lines and act in
uncharacteristic ways in advance of an earthquake - but experts here
are placing more faith in their constant high-tech monitoring of the
tectonic plates beneath the surface.

"In ancient times Japanese people believed that fish warned of coming
earthquakes, particularly catfish," Hiroshi Tajihi, deputy director of
the Kobe Earthquake Centre, told the Daily Telegraph.

"But these are just old superstitions and there is no scientific
relationship between these sightings and an earthquake," he said."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...for-Japan.html

They had a major quake at the start of this spell or rather the end of
the last, just before the Chilean blast.