According to the USGS/NEIC on-line database in the first half of 2008 there are two earthquakes that belong either to M8.0+ or M7.5+ –
Date and Time
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Lat
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Lon
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Depth
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Magnitudes (mb, MS)
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Prediction
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2008/02/20 8:08
|
2.768
|
95.964
|
26
|
6.5
|
7.5
|
M8-only
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2008/05/12 6:28
|
31.002
|
103.322
|
19
|
6.9
|
8.1
|
Outside test area
|
According to the 2008b Update of the M8-MSc predictions dated Thursday, January 10, 2008 –
The first event falls within the limits of M8 TIPs for M7.5+ in CI# 31-33 (NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA) scoring a success to overall statistics of the first approximation and, in the absence of reduced area of alert, a failure-to-predict to that of the second one.
The second event, the disastrous Wencheng (Sichuan, China) earthquake, was not predicted in our Test: its epicenter hits CIs ## 250 (SICHUAN, CHINA) and 253 (YUNNAN, CHINA) in testing aimed at M8.0+ and is too far from CIs in testing aimed at M7.5+.