I’ve been expecting a big quake in California for years. Won’t be surprised if it happen before long. With all the recent earthquakes and volcanic activity around the pacific “Ring of Fire”, things seem to be heating up lately, and I already expect more.
I’m not a geologist, but have studied it on my own time, it’s not looking good. The Pacific plate is rotating counter-clockwise, as well as diving underneath Japan. Japan just had an earthquake, a volcano not long ago in Nepal, other activity in South America, it all seems to be getting more active recently. ‘
Then we have the climate issue. No, not global warming, it’s actually the opposite. We just got started in a period of reduced solar activity, a cycle that runs ~206 years. Sunspots have already almost disappeared entirely, solar activity is reduced, and along with this reduction in solar activity historically we have seen periods of much colder winters, called mini ice ages, and increased geologic activity.
That is why I’m expecting it to get worse, I’m not sure anyone understands the correlation between reduced solar activity and the increase of geologic activity here on earth, I certainly don’t, but after doing a bit of research on climate I found the corresponding geologic activity to be interesting and disturbing. If it’s going to happen, and it is, while the sun is in a low energy period is when it will happen, I’m betting. And we’re there right now. According to the book I studied, LA will be part of Alaska in about 5000 years, (or was it 500??) I think 5000.
Right now, the fault is locked mostly in place by jagged edges that don’t want to move, since it’s not a straight line. At times it lets go and just lurches a bit, maybe a couple of inches, other times San Andreas has been recorded as moving 6 feet at once. It just depends on how much pressure has been built up. But now we have a period of increased activity, I don’t think anyone can predict what will happen. Most are nowhere near ready for anything like what is right around the bend...Geologists have been predicting a major quake along San Andreas since I was in high school on the early 70’s.
Look up “Dark Winter”, and keep an eye on the Newsmax TV Channel to see when they air it next. Do some poking around online, that book and documentary is the only time I’ve seen anyone make the connection.
A number of good articles here, but most only deal with climate, but not geologic activity in conjunction.
https://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com/category/history/dalton/page/5/
Sorry, I forgot to post the other link to Newsmax...also tried a search for dark winter, it has several links there, I’m not sure if it will work, if not use the search box at top.
http://www.newsmaxtv.com/tvsearch
They will have to bring the structural geologist’s mantra into consideration: “stress - strain - shear”. They are good at telling us what happened but like volcanologists, they haven’t got near term predictions yet. It can be mapped out as to how the current land masses came to be and what it’s likely to look like in 20/40 million years but the day to day is hard to predict in a manner that saves lives. They are definitely working on it though.
Thank you.
Uh no, that won't happen for about 24 million years.
A check of the USGS page right now shows NO quakes greater than 2.5 on the west coast in the last 24 hours.
That makes me nervous.