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Japan is in a very precarious situation. Geologically, they catch it from every direction. The Pacific plate is diving underneath Japan, causing periodic earthquakes, and tidal waves from quakes in other locations is also a possibility, and the friction of one plate diving under another causes heat in addition to the weak spots in the earth’s crust, resulting in volcanoes. I can’t come up with a specific geological explanation, but that’s the situation in basic terms. Can’t find my geology book...

Now we also have a solar minimum cycle starting, which historically is related to greater geologic activity, including some of the worst earthquakes and volcanoes in history. One of those was along the New Madrid fault in the early 1800’s, 1811 or 12 if I remember correctly.

A number of similar locations are in South America, particularly in Chile. There, the Pacific plate is rotating in a counter clockwise direction, same as along the San Andreas fault in California. These faults are not smooth and straight, rough and jagged instead. When pressure builds and it suddenly lets go, the entire region lurches a certain distance at once, instead of the slow creep of maybe half an inch a year as usual, that’s an earthquake. One documented years ago, I think along San Andreas, moved the California side of the fault 6 feet at one time.

Both are occurring in Japan. When the plate diving under Japan suddenly lurches, they have some pretty nasty quakes, and the friction from that plate diving down causes volcanoes, and I hate to say it but they will be facing more of this in the next 30 years or so, we’re already into a cycle of minimum solar activity. That’s why the past 2 years have been pretty serious winters here in the US. Another being predicted for this year. Nepal had a major 7.8 magnitude quake in April, probably related to this as well.

Here’s a pretty good article about that one.

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/nepals-quake-may-primed-area-another-big-one/

Here’s a good but rather technical article about the 200 year sunspot/solar activity cycle

http://personal.inet.fi/tiede/tilmari/sunspot5.html

A number of good articles on climate in general and what’s actually happening:

https://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com/category/history/dalton/page/3/

Why am I posting this? We all need to start getting ready. This will catch most of the planet off guard if all they listen to is buffoons like Obama. Climate change is for real, but it’s the exact opposite of the agenda he’s pushing and we can do absolutely nothing about it. The sun drives the planet’s weather, same as every other planet, and we have as much control over that as a mouse in Paraguay has over the space station.

Crops will start failing in their usual latitudes, we’ll be growing things here in Texas that won’t even think about producing now. Geological activity will increase, and the resulting volcanoes will produce huge ash clouds capable of blocking out sunlight entirely for months at a time. Maybe years...Nothing grows at all without sunlight.

I sympathize with the people of Japan, they’ve had enough problems recently, including floods in the past week or two. But we can all look for more in the future. Look up some info about the Yellowstone Caldera...it’s close enough to both the San Andreas and Oregon fault lines either could set it off. It’s been estimated it could produce enough ash to cover at least 1/3 of the US in a layer 6 feet deep. And it’s long overdue...

Fun ain’t it...