Posted on 06/16/2015 11:52:52 AM PDT by SandRat
What caused the fires in the countryside?
Bump
Sounds like it might have been part of a pattern of nervous earth coming less than a year after the summer 1886 Charleston Earthquake. Other nervous earth events in our part of the world for an approximate 30 year period before things quieted down include The major eruptions in 1902 of Mt. Pelee in Martinique, La Soufriere in St. Vincent, Santa Maria in Guatemala and the monster 1911 eruption of Katmai/Novarupta in Alaska. San Francisco 1906 was part of this restless pattern. I think/hope we may be nearing the end of another such cycle which I see starting with Pinatubo in 1981 and perhaps ending with the great Japan earthquake. But perhaps not, and maybe the culmination will be an 8 or plus earthquake in the US or a major volcanic explosion.
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