NO WAY. The guys is wrong. It’s 71 years late. Not 72.
I wonder if that would interact in any way with the Yosemite volcano.
Yosemite is a Caldera, or super volcano. Overdue already, and when it goes it will make Mt St Helens look like a popcorn fart. Thought to be capable of covering the western half of the US with up to 6 feet or more of ash, and producing an ash cloud that could block the sun for months on end.
Also not that far away, geologically speaking, so is it possible one could set off the other? Then you have to consider the San Andreas fault, which is also not far away and overdue for a big earthquake as well. The ones we’ve seen int he 20th century have been relatively tame compared to what this article talks about and a really major quake along the San Andreas.
If I were out there I wouldn’t be worrying about stocking up, I’d be seriously thinking about moving here to Texas...it might be far enough away to not get shook all to hell or covered in 6 feet of ash...maybe...
And if one sets off the other, it will destroy the entire western US. If the one in Oregon, San Andreas and Yosemite all set each other off...it will be a year at least before you can expect help to be able to get close, even helicopters might not be able to fly in a huge ash cloud.
OK did a little digging, it seems this type of volcano can be initiated by an earthquake, and Yosemite may not need one to make it blow...
I’d be thinking about moving way east...