Feel like things have been deflated since the website began allowing you to make your forecasts? That’s because indeed, seismicity has been deflated to an incredible degree. Imagine if your city received half its normal rainfall for 19 straight months. Imagine the stock market went down for 19 days in a row. Imagine that the restaurant or store your own earned half profits for 19 weeks in a row. That is precisely what we are dealing with in earthquakes… and then some.