if nothing happens, the people will ignore his gamble prediction. But when something happens in that quadrant. Then he gets instantaneous fame.
You can increase your gamble by limiting your best bet on the places around the ring of fire. Further away from this ring and you have lower statistically chance of an Earth quake.

This guy is playing calculated poker with his prediction. There is no real prediction only the illusion of a prediction.

Jim Berkland claims with a straight face that tidal forces "release strain" and cause earthquakes. It's pretty shameful to see a scientist doing that on national television, and then he makes it worse by invoking animal die-offs. I guess that's why he's making his appearance on FOX, and why he has a history of appearing on the woo fest Coast-to-Coast AM. In the vein of Patrick Geryl, he apparently "predicted" one earthquake in 1989, and people are suddenly ignoring all of his misses since then in lieu of making him a prophet of some sort.

Criticism of this guy's ideas:

http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/rockdef/lectures/animal%20behaviour%20california%20geology.pdf
http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/extract/75/5/607

Seriously, FOX News is only slightly better than Godlike Productions for science news. Try Phil Plait instead.

That said, of course a major earthquake in North America is "imminent." There's a subduction zone just off the west coast, and of course the San Andreas Fault resides in California. The same can be said for any earthquake-prone region on the planet, and it could come about tomorrow, next week or twenty years from now.

And the moon during Japan Earth quake was basically at it's furthest point which means weakest influence.

Could there be a earth quake? Yes.
Is it because he predicted it? NO!