A story appeared in the media today (3/8/2010) regarding the Turkey quake and it all being a coincidence that this quake occurred days after the massive Chile and other shakers in between. It is a known fact that if an earthquake over magnitude 7.0 on the Richter Scale occurs in one part of the world another quake of similar size will take place somewhere in the world within days. This is because the displacement of mass at the original quake's epicenter putting pressure on other points of stress thousands of miles away.