Is It Beginning? 10 Significant Earthquakes Rock California
Scientists tell us that someday the “Big One” will strike California and large portions of the coastline will plunge into the ocean “almost instantly”. Could it be possible that we are a lot closer to that day than many had anticipated?
Over the past several days, there has been a lot of shaking along the North American portion of the Ring of Fire. In particular, during a 24 hour period over the weekend one area of the California coastline was hit by 10 earthquakes of at least magnitude 3.0, and this created such a stir that it made the front page of the Drudge Report. The following comes from a local California newspaper…
Ten earthquakes of preliminary magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.5 struck off the coast of Northern California between Saturday and Sunday, the United States Geological Survey reports.
Hopefully all of this shaking will turn out to be nothing, but many are concerned that they could potentially be “foreshocks” of a larger event.
Once the first quake hit early on Saturday, they just kept happening one after another…
The first earthquake struck early Saturday morning at a magnitude of 4.3, while a second earthquake, of 3.2 magnitude, rumbled about 30 minutes later. Three additional earthquakes hit between 4:30 p.m. and 5:38 p.m. Saturday in the same area, registering magnitudes between 2.9 and 3.6, USGS reported. A 3.0-magnitude earthquake struck that night, at 11:37 p.m.
The geological activity continued into Sunday. USGS reported four earthquakes near Petrolia between 2:18 p.m. and 4:05 p.m. The earthquakes ranged in magnitude from 3.4 to 4.5.
Further south along the Ring of Fire, Mexico was hit by an even larger earthquake on Friday…
A strong earthquake jolted southern Mexico on Friday, rattling nerves and swaying tall buildings hundreds of miles away in the capital, but there were no reports of serious damage, injuries or deaths.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the quake had a magnitude of 6.6. It was centered about 10 miles from the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state and struck at a depth of 40 miles.
If you follow my work on a regular basis, then you already know that I have been regularly documenting the dramatic rise in global seismic activity.
The crust of our planet is cracked, and we are just floating on the pieces. Now those pieces appear to be getting increasingly unstable, and that could mean big trouble for all of us.
I know that the weather is nice and that there are lots of good paying jobs out there, but at this point I don’t know why anyone would still want to live along the California coast. In a previous article, I shared a quote from a news story about a scientific study that had come to the conclusion that a massive earthquake “could plunge large parts of California into the sea almost instantly”…
The Big One may be overdue to hit California, but scientists near LA have found a new risk for the area during a major earthquake.
They claim that if a major tremor hits the area, it could plunge large parts of California into the sea almost instantly.
The discovery was made after studying the Newport-Inglewood fault, which has long been believed to be one of Southern California’s danger zones.
And there probably will be little to no warning when that occurs.
One day it will seem like everything is just fine, and then disaster will strike.
According to Cal State Fullerton professor Matt Kirby, it is something “that would happen relatively instantaneously”…
Cal State Fullerton professor Matt Kirby, who worked with the Leeper on the study, said the sinking would occur quickly and likely result in part of California being covered by the sea.
“It’s something that would happen relatively instantaneously,” Prof Kirby said. “Probably today if it happened, you would see seawater rushing in.”
In other words, by the time you have figured out what is happening it will be too late.
Meanwhile, scientists are alarmed by the drama that continues to unfold at Mount St. Helens.
Most Americans think that it no longer poses an imminent threat, but the truth is that the area around the volcano has been very active in recent years…
Since 1980, the area around the volcano has experienced tens of thousands of small earthquakes and numerous minor eruptions.
Most notably, as of 2004, the volcano has been continuously erupting lava, which has created a large dome that is still growing.
Scientists tell us that the dome is “now taller than the Empire State building” and that it continues to grow about five meters a day…
He added: “What is really phenomenal is how much rock is still coming out of the ground.
“It’s now taller than the Empire State building.
“It’s coming up at five metres a day, more than 200 metres wide and it’s right here in our back yard.”
It is just a matter of time before we see another eruption like the one that we witnessed back in 1980.
We live at a time when global seismic activity is going to continue to increase, and North America is going to get hit particularly hard because the entire west coast sits directly along the Ring of Fire.
And if you have been a regular reader of my work for a long time, than you already know that I am even more concerned about Mount Rainier than I am about Mount St. Helens. But that is a topic for another article.
I know that there are a lot of people out there that plan to leave the west coast once things start getting really crazy, but when it comes to major seismic events, you might not get any warning.
Hopefully there will not be a major seismic event in the U.S. in the very near future, but without a doubt global seismic activity is on the rise, and all of this shaking on the west coast has a lot of people very, very nervous right now.
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Joseph Olson
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It is obvious that volcanism and earthquakes are variable and are caused by the variable fission rate of 800,000 cubic miles of Uranium and 1.2 million cubic miles of Thorium in Earth’s mantle, providing heat and elemental daughter atoms, then molecules.
Review the “Global Temperature 2500 BC to 2040 AD” chart by Cliff Harris and Randy Mann and notice the uptick of major volcanoes prior to climate cycle shifts. There is NO human or CO2 component to climate change.
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Robert Beatty
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Low sunspot activity results in more cosmic (proton rich) rays reaching Earth. Water molecule creation is associated with these incidence rays, as widely reported by Professor Henrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Institute, Copenhagen. Cosmic rays also penetrate the Earth, and it seems reasonable to conclude they will add to Earth’s mass generally. This provides a mechanism for the Earth to expand as postulated by several earth scientists.
Evidence for this expansion includes mid ocean ridge structures, as well as heightened tectonic and igneous activity, both of which we seem to be experiencing just now.
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jerry krause
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Hi Robert,
Maybe I am foolish to make this comment. But I have no reputation to loose. So there is nothing to loose.
First I consider fusion of hydrogen nuclei far in the sun’s interior is a uncontrollable nuclear explosion. Possible mistake #1. Next, this sudden creation of a great, great quantity of energy has no where to go quickly and it suddenly expands a large volume of the sun’s matter (whatever it be) by ultimately raising the temperature of this localized matter whose volume is small relative to the total volume of sun (whatever that be). Possible mistake #2. This imagined picture because the extreme shortwave length being emitted by this very, very hot matter is being scatted by its many, many tiny particles surrounding the volume of matter most strongly influenced by the nuclear explosion. Possible mistake #3. Hence, because of the expansion of this volume, the density of the matter in the sun’s interior becomes less dense during periods of high activity and the rate of nuclear explosions occurring in the sun’s interior decreases with the result the interior cools and its density begins to increase. Possible mistake #4.
Now I could go on and on as I imagine what might be, But I have simply explained a possible mechanism, based upon other observed natural phenomena, to explain the sun’s observed variable activity which may or may not be random.
Now you wrote: “Low sunspot activity results in more cosmic (proton rich) rays reaching Earth.” I wish you would have provided a possible mechanism for this conclusion; for it contradicts my expectation (imagination). However, I know there is an observed relationship between sunspot activity the the phenomenon know as the northern lights in the northern hemisphere. Which observation suggests that whatever causes this phenomenon decreases with decreasing sunspot activity. Next you wrote: “Water molecule creation is associated with these incidence rays, as widely reported by Professor Henrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Institute, Copenhagen.”
And specifically you wrote: “cosmic (proton rich) rays”. I have often read words which suggest that the solar winds is primarily hydrogen nuclei (protons) (a plasma) about which I question–What happened to the electrons of hydrogen atoms and molecules? For I consider it an absolute necessity that positive charge of the these protons must neutralized by the negative charge of the electrons. So there is some chemistry to be considered in whether these protons react with the oxygen atoms in the earth’s mesosphere, or even possibly below the stratopause or if the protons react with electrons to form hydrogen atoms. Which I guess I must admit would react with oxygen atoms as the first step of forming a water molecules.
Another problem with your proposal is I had not read that Svensmark had suggested that the cosmic (proton rich) rays created more water (which I admit could be the possibility you propose) but instead that these rays had some influence upon the natural atmospheric clouds.
Etc. Etc. Etc. Which does not seem to lead to a simple understanding as Einstein suggest it should. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
Have a good day, Jerry .
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