Posted on 07/20/2024 1:05:28 PM PDT by patriot torch
Is this yet another sign that we are entering a time of increased geological instability for the state of California?
For years, I have warned that it is just a matter of time before “the Big One” arrives, and the clock is ticking.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of fish have been dying and washing up on shore in northern California…
(Excerpt) Read more at endoftheamericandream.com ...
California tumbles into the sea
That’ll be the day I go back to Annandale
“The “the Big One” is a total myth, just as dumb as the idea that yellowstone can blow up in one giant explosion, both of them are fake science.”
And the source of your opinion is…?
I agree. Just more noise and distraction from the intelligencia and media.
I suspect somebody is looking for another government grant to fund their “scientific studies”.
If I recall correctly, probability of “the Big One” is based upon an average number of times an earthquake equal to or greater than 6.0 has occurred along the San Andreas fault over the course of the available geologic data. The USGS currently estimates that the San Andres fault experiences a 6.7 - 7.0 earthquake anywhere between 10 and 300 years. That’s an average. So worse case scenario is it could happen today or 300 years from now. Or it may not happen for another 1000 years.
Again, just more noise.
I suppose you could call “the big one” mythical. But it’s undeniable California has a lot of fault lines and fissures capable of extremely violent movement. The San Andreas fault is the biggest and riskiest fault line, where two tectonic plates are moving in opposite directions. The 1906 quake in San Francisco was a 7.9 magnitude. The city burned and killed thousands. The rupture along the fault ran 300 miles - what makes it worse now is that it is much more built up with homes and infrastructure. There was the 7.4 in Oakland in 1992 and a 7.2 in Northridge in 1994 and In 1971 the Sylmar which was a modest 6.6. 😀. Those were on different faults, though one can set off others. The 1992 quake in San Francisco caused 4 faults to rupture pretty much simultaneously, which makes sense if you think about it as pressure applied to pressure. More violent and wider area.
So when people think of the big one, if they mean “Superman Lex Luther” buying up the desert because it will become beachfront, yeah that’s probably not likely to happen. The fault lines will move a few feet, at most maybe 20-30 feet in a really massive seismic event. But it could cause a hell of a lot of damage as the amplitude of the waves could knock a lot of infrastructure down - especially if they trigger multiple faults sending waves colliding in opposite directions in different regions.
I am a Christian as well but I have grown tired of arguing with them. They can believe whatever they want. In the end, either the earth is very old or God sped up time to make it seem old when in fact it is younger. It is not a tenet of the faith to believe the age of the earth is 7,000 years. I am not sure who came up with that number. Maybe counting back generations to Adam. But to God, a day is a thousand years and a thousand years is but a day.
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You should know that when posting a headline like this from a never-heard-of-before source, it is a good idea to ask yourself: “Have I read anything like this from a well known source?”
Just sayin
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‘Accelerating land movement in Rancho Palos Verdes cracks roads, sinks homes’
Matthew Seedorff
July 12, 2024
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - According to experts, land movement in Rancho Palos Verdes continues to accelerate. As a result, roads and homes continue to crack and sink.
On Friday, FOX 11 exclusively joined Alpha Structural to view the land movement up close in a neighborhood near Portuguese Bend.
“You have to think to yourself, this isn’t real,” said Damien Hammond, from Alpha Structural. “That’s how I feel here. I feel like I’m on a movie set, but in reality, this is 25 peoples’ homes.”
Drone video from the Alpha Structural team shows essentially a giant crack cutting through the neighborhood.
“This whole part just pulled away from over here, opened up a chasm,” said Joe Demers, a civil engineer with Alpha Structural. “This whole area moved about 5 feet in the last year or so, but then it really accelerated. In the last couple months, it’s moved another 4 or 5 feet.”
Water main pipes are now above ground to try and prevent breaks. While at least one homeowner uses a garden hose to get water inside. In addition, a rope has been placed at the edge of one driveway to help homeowners climb up to their house.
“In the last week it’s gotten so bad, they’re actually packing up and moving, along with the house across the street,” said Hammond.
Within the last year or so, experts believe some areas have dropped more than 12 feet. Recently, experts have said the land is moving about 12 inches per week.
“It’s possible that the unusual wet weather we’ve had in the last couple years is contributing to it, but it’s also possible it’s kind of a cycle over time,” said Demers.
Workers nearby continue to pave Palos Verdes Drive, despite constant cracking. While historic Wayfarers Chapel was forced to close.
Some homeowners Friday could be seen moving from the area with the most significant land movement, while others hope it slows down.
“It may slow down, but if you build on it when it’s not moving, it’s going to move later,” said Demers.
The City of Rancho Palos Verdes has a meeting scheduled for Tuesday, July 16 at 7 p.m. at McTaggart Hall in Hess Park to discuss planned repairs on Palos Verdes Drive, a section known as the “ski jump.” The meeting can be accessed on Zoom.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/accelerating-land-movement-rancho-palos-003304478.html
Land movement cracking roads, sinking homes
FOX 11 Los Angeles
Land movement in Rancho Palos Verdes continues to accelerate and as a result, roads and homes continue to crack and sink.
Fro some reason, my link didn’t work. Just go to Wikipedia and look up Lava Creek Tuff.
Sinking terrain destroying neighborhoods in California goes back a long way, there’s also oodles of vids (I happened to notice one from 11 years ago) of news segments about these. San Pedro (if memory serves) consists of just some stretches of its former streets. Early in one of this week’s mornings, after the first voided specimen, I saw what I thought was a new news story, showed pipes and flexible tubes draped over the landscape, and a local talking about how many of his neighbors had bailed. This is a different video. Fossils! Neat! :^)
Land Movement in Palos Verdes Creates a New Beach and Uncovers Fossils in Stretch of Shoreline
12:58
Jason Buck - Realtor
1.21K subscribers
9,401 views
July 15, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5gt6bVfk4c
www.JasonBuck.com takes you through Land Movement in Palos Verdes Creates a New Beach and Uncovers Fossils in Stretch of Shoreline.
The Trails and Access to the Coastline has been CLOSED and there is NO ACCESS to this area.
I have been a lifelong native of Palos Verdes and visited Portuguese Bend Beach Club since the 1980’s. in the 1950’s while cutting the road for Crenshaw to come down the backside of the hill to PVDS a natural spring was ruptured which started the land movement. Before 2020 this land had moved approximately 600 feet and many homes were not on their land anymore. The entire area had been moving as well as PVDS which is constantly under repair.
The City of RPV has several zones within the Portuguese Bend are and many have had a “moritorium” for building. There was a lawsuit where several homeowners proved that their land was not moving and were granted the ability to build known as the Monk lots which was finally approved in 2009.
On September 15, 2009, the city council adopted Ordinance 498, which established a new exception to the 1978 moratorium, allowing plaintiffs to develop their 16 lots. Section 8 of the ordinance set forth the application process: a signed “Landslide Moratorium Exception” (LME) application submitted to the director of planning, building, and code enforcement; a letter setting forth the reason for the request and a full description of the project; a site plan; a grading plan (if grading was proposed); geological, geotechnical, soils, and other reports required by the city to demonstrate that the proposed project would not aggravate the existing situation; and an application fee. Ordinance 498 took effect on October 15, 2009.
Those slopes have been failing since long before anyone ever even thought of building there. It is SoCal geology.
Chuckle
:^) Mostly moonbattery.
San Pedro (long ago, but 20th c)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=san+pedro+california+sunken+city
11 years ago, also Cali:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQnJNLMoHYI
more about Rancho whatever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXMXsm4tcU8
Oh hey, got $25 million to burn?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcxNpLJQjzQ
All due to climate change...I’m certain
Or they just built homes where, using common sense, they shouldn’t have?
Born and raised in Kalifornia, when it was California and Reagan Country.
Earthquakes and land movement is a regular occurrence all over the State. If an earthquake is about a 4 on the scale, native Californians almost yawn at them. The 1989 quake was much different. My brother and I were in a furnished basement on the San Francisco Peninsula, watching the World Series. As the rumbling began, we moved to the door jam. I had my hands holding the door frame when the big wave hit. The house was jerked out of the my hands.
When the Earth started to shake, the look of the announcers at the San Francisco Ball Park were priceless “Why the heck are we in San Francisco” was all over their faces.
Ummm...
They have scientific evidence - GEOLOGICAL - of ‘big ones’ both at Cascadia and San Andreas. They do occur, but this movement posted by the OP is being hyped (the opposite occurs to prompt a large earthquake). So make of it what you will.
Additionally, no non-hollywood b-rate film show I’ve ever watched - to state nothing of all the papers I’ve read on the topic - EVER state that a supervolcano event is “one giant explosion.”
Deviate from youtube once in a while and you’ll learn something. /s
“Hype” is right.
My read: Desperation to get control of the headlines, i.e., control of the NPCs...
Yup.
I’ve never been shot in the ear.
So it can’t happen. Even to DJT. /s
So goes their loony logic this weekend...
>What is this talking about?
It’s a peninsula just west of Long Beach. The elevation is somewhat above the rest of the LA basin and it attracts money. It’s eroding into the Pacific, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, like it’s doing now.
I’m about 3 miles from the epicenter of what’s described as ‘Loma Prieta’.
Had a few glasses in a cabinet break. not a BFD.
That’s a three letter acronym for big f****** deal.
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