Posted on 04/17/2016 4:34:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Roger Bilham, a seismologist at the University of Colorado, told The Daily Express: 'The current conditions might trigger at least four earthquakes greater than 8.0 in magnitude.
'And if they delay, the strain accumulated during the centuries provokes more catastrophic mega earthquakes.'
In addition to the four major earthquakes to have struck since Thursday, last week there were also shakes in the Philippines, Vanuatu and Myanmar.
All of the earthquakes have occurred in countries straddling the so-called Ring of Fire.
This is a horseshoe-shaped series of trenches spanning the Pacific Ocean where tectonic plates are shifting and seismic and volcanic activity is common.
The U.S. Geological Survey, an independent agency which monitors natural hazards such as earthquakes, says 'mega' earthquakes are rare, but not impossible.
It says there is no fault line - the areas where shifting plates that make up the earth's crusts meet - is known which is capable of generating a magnitude 10 earthquake.
However, scientists cannot completely discount a 'mega' earthquake because they've only been measuring seismic activity for the past 100 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
NASA is currently readying the release of current “conjecture” that links the earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador to fracking operations and fracking waste water wells in Oklahoma. NASA stated that “conjecture” was all that was necessary in today’s PC climate and “Common Core” educational state.
You better not have jinxed us...
anyone that knows geology knows these things will ALWAYS happen. it is the way the earth is shaped.
what no one knows is the when.
so go ahead and say the sky is falling.
in time, you will be right.
110?
Thanks.
They must be fracking everywhere!/s
And I thought “Some look at that as beautiful and wonderful. But it really is a big hairy pimple that some day will split open and release destruction for miles.” (It doesn't really explode - but will send 30-foot thick mudflows down all the way to Puget Sound.)
Just had a 3.7 in Northern Arizona. Most unusual.
Oh you mean the pucker factor.
Have seen it, as my daughter lives in Issaquah.
When she moved there, I made her watch Dante’s Peak.
She now has a new respect for the beauty of nature.
Most times there is no explosion, maybe just some vapors or some flow, but that is not the way it ALWAYS acts up.
I drove I-5 by the Toutle just after St. Helens blew. There was still ash on the overpass and a state trooper sliding all over it, directing traffic.
dfw..... rectum hell damn near killed him.
Earthquakes across the world... could herald new MEGA quake, warns top scientist
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Or maybe not warns top FR poster.
Time is everything and, in your case, a few minutes may have saved your life.
I’m almost 65 but every time I get together with some of my oldest friends that joke comes up.. Classic
“Or maybe not warns top FR poster.”
Afraid he is correct.
It just may take a few millions years, though.
I’ll make a prediction. The big one is coming soon. But not here. Big quakes happen often - elsewhere. A big one here could be 100 years away. Why worry about it until then. We have more to worry about with the time Obama has until he’s booted out of the White House.
Ever notice that the tighter the time frame, the less likely "scientists" are willing to make predictions of future events?
Actually, the 110th.
Ecuador is actually number 6 of large quakes in the last 4 days. There were three others South Asia Ring of fire before the 2 in Japan and the 1 in Ecuador. When number 4 (1st for Japan in the string) hit Japan there were articles about scientists concerned of a more catastrophic earthquake.
West Coast US is over due.
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