Posted on 07/15/2015 4:47:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Edited on 07/15/2015 6:39:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
To the north of California's famous San Andreas fault is a less known, but possibly more deadly, fault line. The Cascadia subduction zone runs some 700 miles from northern California to Vancouver.
In a deeply reported article for The New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz tells the tale of how this fault lies dormant for periods of 243 years, on average, before unleashing monstrous tremors. The Pacific Northwest is 72 years overdue for the next quake, which is expected to be between 8.0 and 9.2 in magnitude.
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The extinct volcanic half of the island interior is accessible by tunnels. Wonder what size nuclear demolition charge planted near the core would be sufficient to move a mountain?
I actually enjoyed the BBC special more than the movie 2012 - thought the 2012 special effects were awesome though!
If Emmerich makes enough disaster movies eventually he’ll get one right
(From the BBC special, does the Yellowstone caldera pattern really show an eruption every 600K years, making the next one due now? If so, maybe no wonder TPTB censored that segment of the BBC special when it showed here. Enquiring minds will have to check it out)
I don’t think a nudet can come close to the actual force of nature
My guess — it was “censored” to make time for commercials.
Think of it as starting an avalanche by nudging one small boulder down-slope into a field of loose rock.
“Well I thought it would be safe to rebuild here....”
And while we can't predict when the next big EQ will happen, we can be pretty sure that it will happen. The same mechanisms are still all in place. And, with the longer times between major EQ, there is the idea that more strain and energy has been built up, making it that much bigger.
According to my sources, this is just a typical training exercise. And .. now that day 2 is over; I must say I’m surprised at how quiet it is .. meaning .. there doesn’t seem to be any activity as of yet.
So, I’m guessing that all the hype from some people .. was really way out in left field .. or in other words, they didn’t have a clue what they were talking about.
Let us hope so and that all the troops lack and head home before the Shemitah
A tornado can demolish a building. So can a far-less-powerful, but strategically placed charge of dynamite. Precision versus brute force. Either can generally get the job done.
I’ve always said that Seattle would be the best place in the world to live if half the people there moved away. I guess an earthquake could accomplish the same thing.
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