Posted on 01/07/2020 2:17:33 AM PST by null and void
There are some collapsed bridges also on the south side of the island. Main highway (interstate-like) running along the south of the island closed west of the City of Ponce due to rock slides.
Main bridge into the town of Guayanilla collapsed.
Main power stations had started to come back online when the latest big one hit. Now they have to start all over again. It takes time to spool those turbines up, but first they have to inspect for damage.
It’s going to be messy for a while.
One fatality in the City of Ponce.
I remember when the Cypress Structure collapsed. I’d been on it several times over the years. Every time I was on the bottom deck I’d look up and wonder what it would do in and earthquake. Every. Single. Time.
Now we know...
Well the good news is you have internet!
Seriously, take care. PR has had more than it’s fair share of disasters lately, both natural and man made.
(Maybe throwing the Mayor of San Juan into a volcano would appease the earthquake gods?)
Last one downgraded to 5.8
Is the public beginning to wake up?
It appears that the public is gradually and slowly waking up and beginning to realize that we are facing some strange weather phenomena’s, along with an increase in frequency and severity of earthquakes as well as volcanic eruptions. Of course it is taking place in different and various locations on our planet. For example it stands to reason that very few people in Peoria Illinois were aware of the fact that not too long ago people in a motorboat were going down an avenue in Kuwait City on November 12-2018, the Capitol of the Kuwait nation along the Arabian Gulf. Most of us would not consider this to be normal.
Some one had the wherewithal and took a picture which I managed to safe. This incident was the result of severe and sudden flooding with records amounts of rain coming down in a very short period of time. Some may consider this to be a fluke, but the catch is that these events have been repeating itself over and over in different location, with a great potion of the general public never hearing a word about it.
Another severe flooding took place in Vancouver December 12-2018 or Washington DC July 08-2019. Or another incident were some areas in Iceland were buried under 30 (thirty) feet of snow, December 19-2019 with blizzard condition and wind speeds of 149 mph. And another, were recently large areas of Great Britain were deluged with huge amounts of rain, causing massive flooding. And then we had massive floods in Nebraska. These are just a few of many such events happening world wide, and of course we don’t pay much attention unless it hits home.
Any one of these incidents taken by itself could easily be construed to be a fluke or aberration of Mother Nature. What you just have read are just a few of these incident as there were many, many more starting way back and over time they just kept multiplying and increasing in severity. Flooding has not been the only problem, as along with it we had severe droughts in many other areas and even rivers were running dry. In other words where one area was getting too much others were getting very little or nothing at all. The same severe fluctuations could be seen in temperature variations, where one area was literally burning up, for example Australia, and in another like India in some areas people were literally freezing to death.
Along with it, again going back quite a few years we been having an increase in the frequency of earthquakes as well as their severity, joined by an increase in volcanic activities around the globe. Needless to say all these activities which appear to be on an increase don’t just happen on their on accord and appear to be a harbinger of some more and perhaps more destructive things to come.
Each of these incidents may be comparable to individual paint strokes of a picture, and looking just at one or the other stroke of paint it is only too easy to miss the whole picture. Once we begin combining all the stroke of paint the picture may become evident and some may start to wonder “What on Earth is going on?” Probably followed by another question what is the cause of it?
More recently scientists determined that we have been entering another GSM (Grand Solar Minimum) which could be just as severe as the Dalton Minimum 1790-1830 or perhaps the preceding one known as the Maunder Minimum 1645-1715 when the river Thames froze over solid. The speculation is that such a GSM may be responsible for a lot of problems such as the incident of the New Madrid Fault which moved in 1811-1812, which was strong enough to cause church bells in Boston hundreds miles away to ring. Should this happen now Saint Louis along with several other large cities would be ready to be cleaned up by bulldozers.
Several scientific papers have been written about the interaction of a GSM and how in a roundabout way it affects planet Earth. During a GSM solar action is reduced what in turn diminishes the electro magnetic shielding effect protecting the Earth from cosmic rays and more cosmic rays will penetrate Earth’s surface. This in turn can and will trigger earthquakes as well as volcanic eruptions.
Well so far so good, but the catch is and it is well documented that many of these quakes as well as volcanic eruptions along with strange weather patterns were going on well before the new GSM had its beginning. At least this time it point to he conclusion hat there may be a common denominator at play between the latest GSM and some of the strange things which been happening on planet Earth. The emphasis is on he current GSM as so far no one is quite sure what caused prior ones. So let us recapitulate the events.
Several years prior to the recent GSM strange things were taking place on our planet similar to the ones explained earlier. Astronomers also been noticing some changes in brightness amongst other planets in our solar system, Then all of a sudden a few years later our good old sun decided to join in by doing its thing, by reducing its output. So what is going on?
We live in an electrical universe where each and every planet due to its electrical and gravitational field is aware of the comings and goings of each of their neighbors and the sun is no exception. In this instance Earth has been reacting to an approaching inbound object into our solar system. And some may ask why was the sun lagging behind in its reaction?
The sun is like a big bag of gas filled with hydrogen and some lesser gases and very little solid materials. It may be hotter than hell with an active fusion process and ferocious magnetic forces, but very little actual solid material. My hunch is since Earth is pretty well composed of solid materials, especially the inner core, it will respond more readily to any electro magnetic and gravitational forces much sooner than a “Bag of gas” like our sun. I hope the sun does not take an issue with my derogatory remark. In other words Earth started to respond to this inbound object while it was still a long ways off, but as the distance is closing eventually the sun got the message and responded by reducing its output and now we have a new GSM and everything what goes along with it.
In some ways the delayed reaction of the sun, as well as the early response of planet Earth points to the fact that we have a periodic visitor which once again is coming around to leave its calling card. Hopefully this time the problem it usually creates with every visit will be less damaging.
More information on this subject may be found in some of my other articles.
I guess many of the cruise ships this winter will be detoured.
My folks were stationed n Japan with the Army back in the 1950s.
Seems like there was an earthquake every week or at least twice a month.
I’ve often wondered why Richter made it a log scale, but never had enough curiosity to research.
Seems, on the low end, where either nothing is felt or little damage occurs, there are lots of gradiations in the scale, but on the higher end, where it’s a bit more important to have more granularity, the gradiations cover huge swaths of intensity.
The stronger the quake, the more fuzzy the scale gets which seems exactly opposite of what a useful measurement would do.
Maybe I need to invent the Chrisser Scale...
May have to.
Problem is with earthquakes, it could break the island loose and it will float away or could tip it over. Either scenario is bad
I was just guessing that yesterday’s P.R. earthquake was a foreshock. The 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake had a 6.4 foreshock the day before last July 4th. Only God knows.
Thank you...I needed that!
Dat you, Jeh? :)
Don’t overlook the magnetic pole moving westward, quickly. Also, there seemingly is a very hot area in the south pacific which may be caused by some magma per Bastardi as the surface there is very thin.
One thing is certain, we will all be dead someday, just when that day arrives for each, or all of us, is not known.
There was a foreshock a few days earlier and they have had a swarm of small ones going back to last month. Whether they are stepping up in magnitude, who knows.
Last summer my son was part of a mission trip to PR and helped at a school repairing damage at a school (hurricane damage I think.) Now EQ damage. That sounds like a tough spot to live in.
It’s usually not half bad. I love it here. But lately it’s just one thing after the other!
Thanks to your son for his help!
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