"Off the Richter Scale" (Huge Predicted West Coast Earthquakes)

City Journal ^ | Winter 2019 | Michael J. Totten

[PIF]

With mega-quakes the issue isn't supplies but escape routes. Does no good to stock pile stuff when it will be buried under feet of rubble, or swallowed whole by the earth splitting.

[PIF]

Here’s the executive summary. On a date and time unknown, but at some point in the future, everything west of the I-5 corridor is going to be obliterated. At which point, California, Oregon and Washington will become Republican states.

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Here’s the Addendum:
After the 9.0 mega-quake destabilizes the subduction zone, magma will rise under Mt. Rainier, placing the 14.400 ft structure under such enormous pressure that the only exit is up but the mountain is too high for the magma to push up that far - causing the structure to begin to destabilizing - instead of the standard volcanic eruption, the entire mountain will explode eliminating what remained of Republican WA and OR from Vancouver BC to Northern CA.

This release causes all the other volcanoes (Mt Baker, Mt Shasta et al) to erupt pushing the combined hundreds of cubic miles of material as gases into the stratosphere creating a planet-wide winter. This winter will be so sever that when combined with the new solar minimum, the Earth will enter into a new Ice Age replete with 2 KM high glaciers after the first 100 year period - this period will last until the next solar maximum roughly 500-1000 years later.

And people are worried about politics and stock piling ... Bwahhahahhahahahahaha

[Lurkinanloomin]

Best thing to happen to the rest of America if it happens.

[PIF]

Idaho is great for a close up of the Yellowstone eruption touched off by the events on the West Coast, meanwhile I believe I read somewhere that the only geologically stable part of the US is Wisconsin ...

[PIF]

All the coast along the the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound will be swept away from Vancouver BC to Tacoma WA.

The fault being offshore is irrelevant - a long lasting mega-quake will take out most of WA and OR as well as some of Northern CA.

[Ozark Tom]

Unless the Hayward takes out the Bay Area, and San Andreas Los Angeles, Democrats will still rule over California. Per the ‘Loaf “Two out of three ain’t bad?”

[PIF]

Check to see if you are living in a liquefaction zone. which is very likely - when it shakes big time you will be going down ... and down

Find escape routes.

[PIF]

why is this prediction so special?

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because they now have a time line, not a guess and its overdue ...

[Ozark Tom]

Richter is logarithmic-one full number jump is ten times the energy.

How much of Seattle area buildings have any steel reinforced construction with earthquake in mind? Until thirty years ago, the area was perceived as lacking any major seismic threat.

That soil under Seattle is the run-out plain for a prior Lahar event spawned by Mt. Rainier, more than ten-thousand years past.

[NRx]

Well... aren’t you Mr. Sunshine.

[PIF]

The Japanese quake pictured is nothing:

Here's what the 1964 Alaskan quake left (M9.2) - pictured are variously Whittier, Cordova, and Anchorage

Calculated Travel Time Map for 1964

[PIF]

The M9.0 quake is just filled with sunshine so I thought I’d add a bit of realism.

[Sarcasm Factory]

Your pictures win the thread! :^)

[Fightin Whitey]

The globe was angrily warming that day my friends...

[mewzilla]

IIRC, hasn’t the Richer Scale been replaced with the moment magnitude scale, especially for megaquakes? Or is Richter still used when talking about historical quakes...?

[dp0622]

yes.

[PIF]

Fiscal compensation?

[T. Rustin Noone]

Does this mean that Walla Walla will once again be the capital of Washington State?

[CedarDave]

The year 1700 was more than a century before Lewis & Clark.

Duh ... Right you are. Must be I'm still time (not to mention calendar) challenged due to changing clocks with the advent of DST! :>))

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sarcasm Factory.