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This Is What Would Happen If A 9.0 Earthquake Hit The Cascadia Subduction Zone…
By Michael Snyder, on March 6th, 2016
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you have
probably already heard of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It is where the
Juan de Fuca plate meets the North American plate, and it stretches
approximately 700 miles from northern Vancouver Island all the way down to
northern California.
This subduction zone is capable of producing far
more powerful earthquakes than the much more famous San Andreas fault in
southern California, and scientists tell us that it is only a matter of time
before another continent-killing earthquake hits this area. And when it
does hit, it will be far worse than any other natural disaster that the United
States has ever seen up to this point.
According to CNN, “the largest earthquake in the continental United States” took place
along the Cascadia Subduction Zone on January 26th, 1700, and one of the
reasons why it is considered to be far more dangerous than other west coast
faults is because it is also capable of producing massive tsunamis…
The
Cascadia can deliver a quake that’s many times stronger — plus a tsunami.
“Cascadia can make an earthquake
almost 30 times more energetic than the San Andreas to start with, and then it
generates a tsunami at the same time, which the side-by-side motion of the San
Andreas can’t do,” said Chris Goldfinger, a professor
of geophysics at Oregon State University.
The
Cascadia is capable of delivering a 9.0-magnitude quake — an awesome show of
force by Mother Nature.
So what would that look like?
What would a 9.0-magnitude quake that also
produced a huge tsunami do to the highly populated northwest coast?
According to an article in the New Yorker, the head of the FEMA division that oversees
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska says that “everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast”…
If
the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a
full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2.
That’s the very big one.
…By
the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be
unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division
responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything
west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”
In
the Pacific Northwest, everything west of Interstate 5 covers some hundred and
forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem
(the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some
seven million people.
Like I said earlier, it would be far worse than
any natural disaster that we have ever experienced in the history of the United
States up until now.
And it could happen at literally any moment.
In fact, many scientists believe that we are way overdue for a
continent-altering earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Tension
has been building up there for a very long time, and at some point that tension
will be released.
A recent piece by Adam Rothstein gives us an idea of what the first few moments of
such a quake might look like in the city of Portland, Oregon…
Cacophony
swells from the city as if it is howling in response to the earth’s call: car
alarms, shattering glass, the thudding of bricks popping out of building
facades, humans screaming in fright, and far off, echoes of what sound like
dumpsters clattering to the ground from the jaws of garbage trucks.
It is the
sound of shifting foundations and collapsing masonry, continuously, a roar
increasing from every direction. It is the sound of the living surfaces that a
city takes for granted becoming undone.
Since we have not experienced such an earthquake
in any of our lifetimes, it is easy to assume that one will never happen.
But that is not what the scientists are telling
us.
In
fact, they insist that the odds of “a continent-rending earthquake” in the
near future are actually quite good…
The
Pacific Northwest is due for a continent-rending earthquake. Experts believe
the odds of a Big One happening in the next half century are about one in
three, the odds of a Very Big One roughly one in ten, and that, in either case, we
are disastrously unprepared.
And
let us not forget that the Cascadia Subduction Zone sits directly along the Ring of Fire, and the Ring of Fire has
started to
become much more active in recent years.
In addition, if the region starts to become more
seismically active there is also a very real possibility that we could see a
full-blown eruption of Mt. Rainier, which has been described as “the most dangerous mountain in America“.
Let us hope that we have as much time as possible
before our nation has to deal with such calamities, but the cold, hard truth is
that we are certainly not helping matters by acting so wickedly.
If we continue to do the same things that we have
been doing, it is only a matter of time before the judgment of God comes to our
land in a major way. We are killing millions of babies, harvesting their
body parts and auctioning those body parts off to the highest bidder. To
many Americans that may seem like “old news”, but I assure you that this is not
“old news” to God.
I don’t think that it was any accident that the
series of undercover Planned Parenthood videos that were released last year
came out when they did. We were being shown our guilt and we were being
given one last chance to repent.
There
was a congressional hearing about this last Wednesday. The following
comes from CNSNews.com…
“Have we reached a point in our
society where there effectively is an Amazon.com for human parts, entire
babies?” Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) asked the
witnesses at a special hearing on bioethics and fetal tissue on Wednesday.
Dr.
Gerard Kevin Donovan, a pediatrician and bioethicist at Georgetown University,
responded that the practice of using tissue from aborted babies for
government-funded research “shocks my
conscience and it should shock the conscience of the nation.”
Unfortunately,
the buying and selling of harvested baby parts does not shock the conscience of our nation. In
fact, most surveys show that an overwhelming percentage of the American people
want to continue giving hundreds of millions of tax dollars to Planned
Parenthood each year even though they have been doing this.
Since we have not responded to God’s calls to
repent, all that is left is for Him to shake us.
And without a doubt, the shaking is coming soon…
Are
you struggling with a big decision or wondering how your eternal future will
play out?
Why
not talk to the God of the universe and let Him work in your behalf?
He
says, “I will instruct you and teach you
the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you" (Psalm 32:8).
Ask
God to show you what to do. Pray the following prayer:
“Heavenly Father,
I admit that I am a sinner and my
sins have separated me from you. I now want to turn away from my past sinful
life and begin a new life with you.
Please forgive me. I now receive
your Son, Jesus Christ as my Savior, my Master and my Lord. I believe and
confess that Jesus Christ died for my sins, was buried, and rose from the dead.
I want to receive all that Jesus
Christ has provided for me as my Savior. Your Word says, ‘Whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Romans 10:13).
I believe and confess that Jesus
Christ is the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes unto the Father,
but by Him.
Lord Jesus, I pray and ask You, to
come into my heart and be Lord of my life. I thank you that you have given me
eternal life, and according to your Word, I am born again.
Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift
of the Holy Spirit that is in me now. I surrender my life to you. Use me for
your glory.
In Jesus Name. Amen.”
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