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Up to 200 earthquakes PER HOUR are detected off the coast of Washington - signaling an underwater volcano eruption
Daily Mail ^ | 3/13/24 | Peter Hess

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Local News; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; donatefreerepublic; earthquake; eruption; noticeme; ocean; volcano; volcanoes; washington
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To: Libloather

This may be, I think, the precursor to the Cascadia Subduction Zone letting go.
I kind of hope it is.
Washington and Oregon deserve to be destroyed based on all the evil that is being allowed by the state governments and by the people who live on the west side of both of those states.

Yeah I live here too. If it ends up killing me, oh well. “I’m tired, boss”.


41 posted on 03/13/2024 7:49:52 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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To: Libloather
...erupting within a few weeks or years.

I.E. Holding your breath is not recommended.

42 posted on 03/13/2024 7:53:54 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: oldasrocks

I detest those bird killers. Years ago, weather in northern Texas was unusually cold and the wind farms froze up. We were all laughing about gas-powered helicoptors flying up to spray some kind of antifreeze on them to make them work again.


43 posted on 03/13/2024 7:57:25 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: Libloather

Juan de FUCA Ridge is the actual name. No joke.


44 posted on 03/13/2024 8:04:41 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: Libloather

I still remember when Mount Saint Helens had her little burp. I hope it doesn’t happen to a volcano with three miles of water on top!


45 posted on 03/13/2024 8:06:57 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: Libloather

Someone please post a Fred Sanford meme saying, “It’s the big one, Elizabeth!”


46 posted on 03/13/2024 8:09:50 PM PDT by rey
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To: Libloather

This stuff always sounds scary to me. “The Juan de Fuca Plate is being pushed east underneath the North American Plate, forming what is known as the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. The plate does not subduct smoothly and can become ‘locked’ with the North American plate. When this happens, strain builds up until the contact suddenly slips, triggering massive earthquakes up to or greater than magnitude 9. Major earthquakes along this zone occur on average every 550 years and can have major impacts on the physical structure of the North American continent and seafloor” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Fuca_Ridge


47 posted on 03/13/2024 8:17:34 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: rey
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48 posted on 03/13/2024 8:21:01 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Libloather

Speaking for a friend in California, the company data backup is NOT in California.


49 posted on 03/13/2024 8:22:01 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: rey

50 posted on 03/13/2024 8:23:08 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

An earthquake could disrupt the naked bicycle races, the Lenin statue, the queer meetings, chop/chaz celebrations, the massive homeless camps, and pot sales


51 posted on 03/13/2024 10:05:11 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Libloather; Liz; Red Badger; SunkenCiv; Kaslin; BenLurkin

Interesting.

(In before next Mag 8 - 9 Earthquake triggers off in the fault offshore of Oregon-Washington coast )

The Cascadia Fault line offshore of Oregon and Washington state regularly trips a Magnitude 8.5 to 9.5 earthquake every 350 to 380 years.

The last earthquake occurred there in Jan 1700, recorded by devastating tsunamis in Japan that destroyed many cities and towns. (Documented by the tax records for 1700. Well, the zero taxes received from the towns and counties destroyed.)

324 years later, we are due.

ANY volcano or earth movement offshore should be reported with caution. If not actual alarm.

Instead, we get TV-hyped hysteria about Yellowstone. And the Canary Island mudslides.


52 posted on 03/13/2024 10:42:06 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: hoagy62

You saw that connection too, eh?


53 posted on 03/13/2024 10:44:34 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Libloather

Well, on the bright side, if Seattle is hit by a tsunami at least its street denizens who are “experiencing homelessness” would finally get a bath.


54 posted on 03/14/2024 12:34:01 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: oldasrocks

well a wind turbine accident closed I-84 in Oregone for many hrs today......just think of how much wasted energy and extra fumes created by all those having to wait with their heaters on for the road to clear....


55 posted on 03/14/2024 12:45:02 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Libloather

“Happy campers poop in their pampers
When the mountain becomes a fountain
Of white hot lava, molten magma
Supersonic plate tectonics”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwzSPc0FoA


56 posted on 03/14/2024 3:41:09 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s what I thought too. Modern news is trash. I would guess the other info in the story could be suspect also.


57 posted on 03/14/2024 4:16:32 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Pronouns are zee/Zeph/Zinganthropus....when everyone intermingles (euphemism for interethnic copulation) with everyone else...eventually there will be NO apparent diversity. We’ll all be the same skin color, height, weight, aptitude, and live the same way in a sanitized human hive. Discrimination will be based on differences in genetic mutation history.


58 posted on 03/14/2024 4:33:08 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Libloather

And the big one, in the range of 9+, will trigger Mt Rainer, which will erupt explosively, totally burying Tacoma, and laying waste to Seattle with major damage as far north as Bellingham.

Biden will go on another vacation.


59 posted on 03/14/2024 5:20:32 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Dogbert41

I hope it doesn’t happen to a volcano with three miles of water on top!

There was one last year somewhere in the Pacific. Spew stuff into the stratosphere. Volcanoes are no joke. We live in a relatively quiet period. Previous peoples have not been as fortunate.


60 posted on 03/14/2024 5:24:18 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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