BTW, it's got nothing really to do with this -- I'm not a believer in the earthquake weapon, and not positive that Chavez himself said such a thing -- but it is something extremely cool and related: we actually have inadvertantly discovered how to create earthquakes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/energy-environment/24geotherm.html
I love this story from the engineer's POV -- it's like the ultimate sorcerer's apprentice nightmare come true.
Michael