Thanks rdl6989. Monkeys and Typewriters ping -- enough monkeys and enough typewriters, one will seem to correctly predict a major earthquake.
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Posted on 05/06/2016 7:42:51 AM PDT by JimSEA
Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.
The San Andreas fault is one of California’s most dangerous, and is the state’s longest fault. Yet for Southern California, the last big earthquake to strike the southern San Andreas was in 1857, when a magnitude 7.9 earthquake ruptured an astonishing 185 miles between Monterey County and the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles.
It has been quiet since then — too quiet, said Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
That will always be a gift to “disaster promoters and conspiracy nuts” but since California, in particular, has hundreds of recorded earthquake daily and numerous dangerous fault systems, maybe there are reasons for a “chicken little” mentality.
Ping.
Actually, the tectonic plate movement is in the opposite direction. The land is moving from Mexico into the United States. Mexico is so corrupt that even the land itself is trying to flee.
ROFL....and then there’s that!!!
“I sure don’t miss the tornados.”
You are probably saying that in jest. I really doubt if 95% of those living in Kansas or Oklahoma have even seen a tornado.
Risk = propability of a disaster hitting you * impact of the disaster
Tornadoes do not go the same tract every year ... so, even if there are tornadoes going through your town every couple of years, they rarely actually impact you. Even if we assume that the probability of tornado hitting you is greater than the earthquake hitting you, the impact of tornadoes is very minimal. Earthquakes affect at the macro-level. And they are unpredictable. There is no escaping the earthquake.
Tornadoes, on the other hand, can easily be escaped by going into the shelter. Beside that, there is ample warning with a tornado. You get tornado warning some 15-30 minutes before hand. And tornado conditions are discussed days in advanced. Those that heed the warnings and are prepared, they do not usually die from tornadoes. Homes and properties are all insured, so they can be replaced quite easily.
Sorry for my rant, but I just want to make sure that the hype of tornadoes is just a hype. Those are are prepared, like everything in life, can easily escape tornado. You just have to be weather aware in spring time and have a plan in place in case there is a warning.
OK. I admit that got a chuckle.
Earthquake ping.
Not to deminiah the SA fault, but the loaded big one is the subduction zone Cascadia Fault running of the coast fron Northern CA, Or and WA to Vancover Island. Could easily be a 9 and they have happened every couple hundred years for the last ~20,000 yrs. Last one was Jan 1700.
SA will top out in the 7s because it’s a slip fault.
Agreed, but I was referring to where all of California would run to.
I am so sure Mexico and further down would just love us all arriving over the boarder for free lodging, education, healthcare and great jobs for us first as a primary goal.
They will of course do more for us if we call them racist.
Grew up in KS in the 50’s. Never personally hit, but most every year we saw destruction somewhere in the state.
We had a huge basement and a buried railroad tank car, which I think was there as a civil defense shelter. Us kids used it as a submarine.
Been in CA many decades now and have been thru many quakes, a few really dramatic. So far the worst has been a cracked driveway.
I hope everyone is prepared. I know they advertise to people there to have a few weeks of water, food, etc. When I lived there I did and told everyone I know about it.
I lived in Kansas for a time and Virginia for years. I saw my first tornado (small) outside of Sacramento in March.
Being a geologist, I’ve always been stoked to be in a decent quake. Felt a few pansy level ones, they end up having a 5.8 back in Virginia where I lived...
DOH!
Sounds like you were not hit by a tornado in Kansas, but in Cali, you have a cracked driveway from earthquakes. And the big one is still coming.
Perhaps the Kansas tornadoes had more psychological impact due to seeing those destruction. The future big California quake will likely be far more psychologically damaging.
If you want to see earthquakes, head to Kansas or Oklahoma! lol
Nah, assuming they're in or near Fresno, that's considerably north-east of the San Andreas danger. Heck, JimRob might even find it's now a shorter drive out to the beach!
I’ve been expecting a big quake in California for years. Won’t be surprised if it happen before long. With all the recent earthquakes and volcanic activity around the pacific “Ring of Fire”, things seem to be heating up lately, and I already expect more.
I’m not a geologist, but have studied it on my own time, it’s not looking good. The Pacific plate is rotating counter-clockwise, as well as diving underneath Japan. Japan just had an earthquake, a volcano not long ago in Nepal, other activity in South America, it all seems to be getting more active recently. ‘
Then we have the climate issue. No, not global warming, it’s actually the opposite. We just got started in a period of reduced solar activity, a cycle that runs ~206 years. Sunspots have already almost disappeared entirely, solar activity is reduced, and along with this reduction in solar activity historically we have seen periods of much colder winters, called mini ice ages, and increased geologic activity.
That is why I’m expecting it to get worse, I’m not sure anyone understands the correlation between reduced solar activity and the increase of geologic activity here on earth, I certainly don’t, but after doing a bit of research on climate I found the corresponding geologic activity to be interesting and disturbing. If it’s going to happen, and it is, while the sun is in a low energy period is when it will happen, I’m betting. And we’re there right now. According to the book I studied, LA will be part of Alaska in about 5000 years, (or was it 500??) I think 5000.
Right now, the fault is locked mostly in place by jagged edges that don’t want to move, since it’s not a straight line. At times it lets go and just lurches a bit, maybe a couple of inches, other times San Andreas has been recorded as moving 6 feet at once. It just depends on how much pressure has been built up. But now we have a period of increased activity, I don’t think anyone can predict what will happen. Most are nowhere near ready for anything like what is right around the bend...Geologists have been predicting a major quake along San Andreas since I was in high school on the early 70’s.
Look up “Dark Winter”, and keep an eye on the Newsmax TV Channel to see when they air it next. Do some poking around online, that book and documentary is the only time I’ve seen anyone make the connection.
A number of good articles here, but most only deal with climate, but not geologic activity in conjunction.
https://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com/category/history/dalton/page/5/
Sorry, I forgot to post the other link to Newsmax...also tried a search for dark winter, it has several links there, I’m not sure if it will work, if not use the search box at top.
http://www.newsmaxtv.com/tvsearch
OK It didn’t work, decided to try it, here’s a direct link to the documentary online version.
http://www.newsmaxtv.com/vod/Dark-Winter-DVDmp4/vid/Y3a3B3dDq20KqnLIU2Q8zVBUxzONK0G6/
Prepping is all great, but if you are in the midst of millions of zombies you have larger problems. I kept moving further and further out from the L.A. area to make sure I had an escape path. Finally said to hell with it and completely left.
Thanks rdl6989. Monkeys and Typewriters ping -- enough monkeys and enough typewriters, one will seem to correctly predict a major earthquake.
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