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.
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If Yellowstone blows, that’ll take care of those and then some.
Freeper “Holyscroller” has written 3 books on Mt Rainier.
Oh BULL!
Oh BULL!
The New Madrid Fault is long overdue. Memphis and St. Louis will be riot torn shambles if the fault were to awaken in the near future. The damage from the earthquake will be responsible for only half the carnage.
2016 - 1906 doesn’t equal 100??? ;P
My brain thought 110, my fingers typed 100.
Agree. It's past the average interval for large quakes. I've read of the damage from the last one, sparsely populated, where the course of the Mississippi River changed in multiple places, and the ground erupted skyward with outbursts. Gonna be lots of carnage around that river and people aren't preparing for it like we do on the west coast.
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