Quakes Shake Rattle and Roll The Pacific

A VERY strong earthquake initially reported as 6.8 on the Richter scale though that was later amended to 6.5) occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Calfornia earlier today. The quake, in the "Cascadia Subduction Zone" 100 miles west of Ferndale. According to seismologists monitoring the area this is where "the big one" that will send a lot of high value property sliding into the water around San Francisco, will begin if it happens, and a 6.5 quake could be a signal that there's more to come!

Quake zone, California

According to the US Geological Survey, the quake struck at 9:50 AM eastern US time (0650 local time) at a very shallow depth of only 12 km. In 2015, a group studying the region released a study of the potential damage of such a quake hitting now.

Initially a Tsunami concern existed but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has reported NO TSUNAMI from this earthquake. (Report below)

There is grave danger that today's quake may be a "foreshock" and that it signals the coming of a much stronger, horrific, earthquake, within the next few days. Such a catastrophic quake can now be triggered in the Cascadia subduction zone because today's quake has destabilized the region. People on the US west coast are URGED to prepare for such a potential emergency by storing food, water, batteries for flashlights and radios, fueling up their cars in case evacuation is necessary More >>>

Later reports from the area, of a second, weaker quake hitting the same area, are as yet light on detail. The second earthquake struck along the exact same fault line as the 6.5 magnitude shaker The second quake, a smaller magnitude 4.7, stuck at a shallow depth of only 3.7 km and did so west of the initial M6.5, which means the instability is traveling west . . .toward the major Cascadia Subduction Zone main fault!!!! The map below shows the second earthquake at 11:30 AM eastern US time.


UPDATE:

Hours after reports of a magnitude 6.5 earthquake off the California coast came in, we now have reports of a larger, magnitude 8.0 earthquake near The Solomon Islands. Minutes after the earthquake struck, its intensity was lowered to still strong magnitude 7.7 shake.

Unlike the smaller earthquake that was recorded off the California coast, there are chances of large Tsunami waves with this quake. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami warning for several islands across the Pacific Ocean. According to data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake struck at around 17:38 a.m. GMT,4:38 a.m. Friday local time. The epicenter of this quake was located around 130 miles southeast of the city of Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. USGS data also revealed that the quake took place at a depth of 25 miles.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3780110/solomon-islands-earthquake-tsunami-warning-hawaii/#tkebdj1JsIMpspM2.99

California Fault Lines Are Ready For The Big One, Geologist Warns

The San Andreas fault, which was responsible for the San Franciso Earthquake of 1906, runs right through the middle of some of the most expensive property in the world, and also some of the most densely populated. The last big movement in the sourthern sector of the  San Andreas, in which Los Angeles with its millionaire suburbs such as Beverley Hills, Bel - Air and Laurel Canyon is located was in way back in 1857, the Los Angeles Times reports  .

Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, said this week "the springs on the San Andreas system have been wound very, very tight for some time. And the southern San Andreas fault, in particular, looks like it’s locked, loaded and ready to go."


Have you noticed that the crust of the Earth is starting to become a lot more unstable?

As The End of The American dream blog's Michael Snyder explains, over the past couple of months, major earthquakes have shaken areas all over the planet and major volcanoes have been erupting with a frequency that is more than just a little bit startling.

In the United States' National Park of Yellowstone in Wyoming witnesses say the ground is moving as if floating on the surface of an ocean in slow motion; the state of Oklahoma absolutely shattered their yearly record for quakes last year; numerous volcanoes are erupting on have recently erupted around the Pacific Ring of Fire and now we have a Californian geologist telling us that the San Andreas fault in southern California “looks like it’s locked, loaded and ready to go”.

Old Faithful Geyser,Yellowstone Park, watch the slall mound to the left of the geyser

This blog does not pay a lot of attention to dire warnings about climate catastrophe or asteroid hits that are based on data from mathematical models running in supercomputers, but when the director of the Southern California Earthquake Center talks about earthquakes it is wise to listen. Not that anyone can predict when a quake WILL happen, it could be tomorrow, it could be a hundred years. The following quote from Jordan however. comes from a Los Angeles Times article that was published this week that is getting a huge amount of attention right now…

“The springs on the San Andreas system have been wound very, very tight. And the southern San Andreas fault, in particular, looks like it’s locked, loaded and ready to go,” Jordan said in the opening keynote talk.

Other sections of the San Andreas fault also are far overdue for a big quake. Further southeast of the Cajon Pass, such as in San Bernardino County, the fault has not moved substantially since an earthquake in 1812, and further southeast toward the Salton Sea, it has been relatively  quiet since about 1680 to 1690.

Here’s the problem: Scientists have observed that based on the movement of tectonic plates, with the Pacific plate moving northwest of the North American plate, earthquakes should be relieving about 16 feet of accumulated plate movement every 100 years. Yet the San Andreas has not relieved stress that has been building up for more than a century.

 No conspiracy theories, no allegation of divine or satanic influences at work, just level headed conclusions based on observation and study of past events. This kind of stuff is worth listening to. So what can we do? Well nothing really, in spite of what the loonytoons variety of scientists tell us, any attempt by humans to alleviate the problem is more likely to make things worse than to improve them.

A wise President however would stop provoking Russia and China, disengage from current foreign conflicts, focus on domestic problems and prepare the military to deal with massive rescue and relief operations. Unfortunately the man in The White House has shown himself utterly incompetent to deal with such problems, or indeed anything that does not involve foreign wars or gay and minority rights.

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OMFG - Yellowstone Eruption In 2016? Can Shakespeare Help Me?

Thanks to Kelli Shrugs for bringing this to my attention (and to Shakespeare for the prescient lines -scroll down past pic.). The full headline reads:

Yellowstone Eruption In 2016? Shocking New Video Shows What Is Really Going On At Yellowstone



Over the past week, our planet has been hit by large earthquake after large earthquake, and according to Volcano Discovery there are 38 volcanoes around the world that are erupting right now. We have seen a dramatic spike in global seismic activity that is unlike anything that we have seen in ages, and that is why what is going on at Yellowstone, is so incredibly alarming. Geologists tell us that a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would have up to 2,000 times the power of the Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption of 1980, and approximately two-thirds of the country would immediately become uninhabitable. As you will see below, there are signs that something big is getting ready to happen at Yellowstone, and if it does erupt all of our lives will be permanently changed forever.
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Not being a Bible reading type of person, in times of stress I usually turn to Shakespeare for solace or inspiration. And sure enough I found these lines which helped me understand we cannot change the course of nature and must accept the inevitable.

The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird
Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.
(Macbeth, 2.3)

Good old Shaky, always hits the spot.


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