Prognostication update

A couple blogs back, I said that a large earthquake seemed inevitable to me. I am not going to claim that the Haiti earthquake was the one, as it was outside the geographical area to which I limited my prediction, the Pacific Rim. There was a 6.5 recently near Eureka, Calif., but that one isn't as large as I am anticipating, nor was the Haiti quake at 7.0. I'm thinking more in the range of 8.0 which is way bigger than Haiti's.

Haiti suffered so badly because they make no provision in their building code, if they have one, for earthquakes, even though they are known to be in a geologically risky area.

I keep wondering if the Earth has in store for us the kind of event that makes mountain ranges. In the Northeast US, there are lots of rock outcroppings with metamorphic rock, which came from deep within the earth and was formed under great pressure and then somehow got pushed to the surface. Why should that kind of geologic event be out of the question? What it would do to the people and economy of the area it might occur in is inestimable (awesome).