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Thru no fault of global warming.
So Seattle, Portland, and SF will go kaput simultaneously....
So they are linked through no fault of their own.
Further proof that humans have no say so when it comes to controlling this mother earth.
““This is mostly a circumstantial case,” he says. “I don’t have a smoking gun.”
However, with a Billion $’s to study these faults, I can link them to Gorebull warming.
Makes sense though, doesn’t it? Faults activity and earthquakes are all about relieving pressures. If an adjacent fault gives in to some pressures are on it, then more pressure moves to it’s neighboring faults. On the larger scales, the plates have a small degree of elasticity to them. Combine that with frictions at the fault points, and what you have are endless series of various faults moving and elastically putting more pressure on other faults that haven’t moved.
I think Rummy’s unknowns quote oughta hang in the office/study/sanctum sanctorum of every geologist.
When asked if he expects us Left Coast residents to be scared, Doctor Goldfinger replied:
“No Mr. Bond! I expect you to die!”
Two major earthquakes of 8+ in the Pacific Northwest (with likely accompanying tsunamis here) and in California hitting one right after the other would be catastrophic. I see this a good horror story to tell at a conference to get the scientists all in a lather and to convince the government to give them more money.
When faults unite!!!
I have decided I don’t need to store any more emergency dog food since I have decided to eat the dog first at any sign of trouble.
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Does that mean we can flush the entire West Coast at once?
My dream has come true!
I think I read about that in the 1950s.
In 1700, an earthquake with an intensity of about nine on the Richter scale shook what is now the coast of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. It generated a tidal wave that struck Japan. There were no white people in the area at the time, but according to oral tradition among local Indian tribes, the tidal wave apparently wiped out several Indian communities.
That’s seismology for you; always finding fault.
Not my fault
I hate science articles that say, “may have been”. It makes me think the article is nothing more than a plea for more research money.