Posted on 10/25/2020 6:51:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Western Washington State has moved between 4 to 6-millimeters away from the mainland over the past week: seiumologist
Thousands of tiny tremors in the region are part of a predictable pattern of 'episodic tremor and shift'
These events are predictable, and not a sign of an impending earthquake.
“It doesn’t tell us that a ‘big one’ is going to happen, but it’s really a good reminder that this is an earthquake zone.”
Cassidy notes the type of earthquake people are referring to when they refer to ‘The Bing One’ is a magnitude 9 subduction quake, and we are in the geological “window” for one of those.
“It could happen tomorrow afternoon, it could happen in 500 years. It’s not something that can be determined on an exact basis,” he notes.
There have been 19 such quakes in the last 10,000 years. The last one was 320 years ago. Cassidy says the shortest time between two events was 250 years, while the longest was closer to 1,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at citynews1130.com ...
A good start!
I have family in the Puget Sound area, and in Central Washington. Cousins built the Wenatchee Rock Gardens.
All my firsts cousins in Bremerton and Seattle are retired. Maybe they should move to be with the family in Central Washington. After all, the BIG ONE is coming sometime in the next 700 years.
I’ve got New Madrid fault at midnight on Halloween in a Missouri sleet storm in the office pool for what else can go wrong in 2020...
There is a similar article from may 2018. It stated there is a slightly higher risk of the big one during a slow slip.
The map with the article showed the tremors stopping around Tacoma. This map shows them going down to the Columbia River. That’s close to double the span of these tremors since then.
lol
“Maybe they should move to be with the family in Central Washington.”
Volcanoes will get them there.
Maybe Mount Rainier will pop and take out Seattle.
4-6 millimeters?
Oh yeah, I felt that!
“After all, the BIG ONE is coming sometime in the next 700 years.
Last official estimate I heard was a 14% chance in the next 50 years.
I lived on Bainbridge Island for 10 years. We had one earthquake, which made bricks fall from old buildings in Seattle. A good shake, but no injuries or deaths. That was 20 years ago. There will most assuredly be another.
BFD
“Maybe Mount Rainier will pop and take out Seattle.”
Is that a bad thing?
Earthquakes around here do not affect all areas equally. If you are sitting on the top of a bunch of rocky glacial till generally it is not too bad. The problem areas are where structures are built on top of formerly muddy areas with a lot of fill dirt. This describes much of downtown Seattle. After a few seconds of shaking the ground starts to liquify under the foundations and roads.
The last larger quake we had at our house lasted for quite awhile but we are near the foothills on top of very rocky soil. Our house has three stories and it shook long enough that we got up and stood under a door way. Then we went outside in case we got hit with aftershocks which is common. This was almost 20 years ago. Fortunately the epicenter was far enough from Seattle that it didn’t cause them much trouble.
Did somebody have an illegal outdoors burrito/taco/hot sauce festival?
Stop continental drift now!
Dont matter. We only got about 11 years to go. Ask AOC.
Gender reveal party.
check out Dutchsinse on you tube....he has a lot of theories and a lot of warnings...
And there is this...
Alaska averages 100 earthquakes a day. Most people don’t feel any of these earthquakes because of the sheer size of the state and most of the earthquakes are so small that they barely register on the Richter scale. People who live in Alaska are extremely used to earthquakes and many take extra safety precautions just in case the big one hits.
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