Posted on 03/13/2024 5:59:25 PM PDT by Libloather
Scientists have detected a 'great swarm' of earthquakes off the coast of Washington clocking as many as 200 in a single hour during one day.
Geologists at the University of Washington said the quakes could lead to the Juan de Ruca Ridge erupting within a few weeks or years - but the effects are believed to be mild and not likely impact anyone on land.
The underwater volcano sits more than 16,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean and about 150 miles off the coast of Washington.
With more than a thousand tiny quakes detected in one day, this is the most activity detected at the site since 2005 - and researchers said the volcano could soon erupt.
The team said data collected when the volcano erupts could reveal how Earth's crust formed over time by cooled magma - but noted that could happen in a few weeks of few years from now.
On March 6, the group's real-time monitoring network detected the earthquakes, which registered a 4.1 magnitude - relatively mild compared to famous damaging quakes like the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 which registered a 7.9 magnitude.
That quake and the city-leveling fires it touched off killed about 3,000 people.
The 'great swarm' of earthquakes followed multiple days of increasingly frequent quakes, according to Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), which is collecting the data for researchers to study.
The spike indicated a possible 'impending magmatic rupture,' the research group reported.
A magmatic rupture, which occurs when the Earth's crust splits open for some reason and spills molten rock out, is a natural phenomena that can form new ocean floor, according to Zoe Krauss, a marine seismology PhD candidate at the University of Washington.
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He’s on a permanent vacation
I went salmon fishing there once. All I did was chum the Pacific.
‘Juan de Ruca’ ?
pretty sure white males are to blame. SARC
San Juan de FUCA anyone? Do these people know anything?
If it incinerates congressperson Pramila Jayapal bring it on
I am seeing far more unusual activity in Alaska.
The west coast is a good place to be from; far from.
Might be time to start easing away from that area.
.”the effects are believed to be mild and not likely impact anyone on land”.
The tsunami will do that.
Is that supposed to be Vesuvius in the background?
Rumblings caused by the deluge of human feces and fentanyl being washed into Puget Sound off the Seattle streets when it rains.
Or maybe Atlantis?
Wherever I go I hope there’s rum!
😆 Yes. That’s Pompeii.
A shame it couldn’t wipe Redmond off the map, for the public good.
That is Joe bastardi’s take on it.
Hope it doesn’t spew any greenhouse gases!
Years ago a scientist predicted that should an earthquake cause a tidal wave in Puget Sound, the wave would move so fast that it would pass by Seattle and then pass by Tacoma to crash up into Olympia where Puget Sound ends.
It is really flat in that part of Olympia so likely the wave could travel a fair distance. Maybe get as far as the Capitol Builiding!
I think it’s Trump’s fault.
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