Scientists Explain Why It Is Inevitable That America Will Be Hit By
Absolutely Monstrous EarthquakesBy Michael Snyder, on May 5th, 2016
Have you noticed that the crust of the Earth is
starting to become a lot more unstable? Over the past couple of months,
major earthquakes have shaken areas all over the planet and
major volcanoes have been erupting with a
frequency that is more than just a little bit startling.
Here in the United States, the state of Oklahoma
absolutely shattered their yearly record for quakes last year, we just saw a
very disturbing earthquake right along the New Madrid fault just
recently, and as you will see below one scientist is telling us that the San
Andreas fault in southern California “looks
like it’s locked, loaded and ready to go”.
The name of the scientist that issued that very
ominous warning is Thomas Jordan, and he is the director of the Southern
California Earthquake Center. The following quote from Jordan comes from
a Los Angeles Times article that was
published this week that is getting a huge amount of attention right now…
“The
springs on the San Andreas system have been wound very, very tight. And the
southern San Andreas fault, in particular, looks like it’s locked, loaded and
ready to go,” Jordan said in the opening keynote talk.
Other
sections of the San Andreas fault also are far overdue for a big quake. Further
southeast of the Cajon Pass, such as in San Bernardino County, the fault has
not moved substantially since an earthquake in 1812, and further southeast
toward the Salton Sea, it has been relatively quiet since about 1680 to 1690.
Here’s
the problem: Scientists have observed that based on the movement of tectonic
plates, with the Pacific plate moving northwest of the North American plate,
earthquakes should be relieving about 16 feet of accumulated plate movement
every 100 years. Yet the San Andreas has not relieved stress that has been
building up for more than a century.
Jordan
went on to say that when the tension that has been building along the San
Andreas fault is finally relieved, it could potentially produce a magnitude 8
earthquake.
Back in 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey concluded
that just a magnitude 7.8 earthquake along the southern San Andreas fault would
cause more than 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries and 200 billion dollars in
damage.
So we are talking about a truly historic event.
Many people out there believe that someday large
portions of California will fall into the ocean as the result of an absolutely
massive earthquake, but the USGS is convinced that is not likely to
happen. However, they do openly admit that
someday the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco will be located right next
to one another…
Will
California eventually fall into the ocean?
No.
The San Andreas Fault System, which crosses California from the Salton Sea in
the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, is the boundary between the Pacific
Plate and North American Plate. The Pacific Plate is moving northwest with
respect to the North American Plate at approximately 46 millimeters per year
(the rate your fingernails grow).
The strike-slip earthquakes on the San
Andreas Fault are a result of this plate motion. The plates are moving
horizontally past one another, so California is not going to fall into the
ocean. However, Los Angeles and San Francisco will one day be adjacent to one
another!
But
of course it isn’t just California that we need to be concerned about.
According to the Daily Mail, one team of scientists has
concluded that giant chunks of the Earth’s mantle are “breaking off and sinking
into the planet” under the North American plate, and that this is what has
caused some of the unusual earthquakes in the eastern part of the country in
recent years…
The southeastern
United States has been hit by a series of strange unexplained quakes – most
recently, the 2011 magnitude-5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia that shook
the nation’s capital.
Researchers
have been baffled, believing the areas should be relatively quiet in terms of
seismic activity, as it is located in the interior of the North American Plate,
far away from plate boundaries where earthquakes usually occur.
Now, they
believe the quakes could be caused by pieces of the Earth’s mantle breaking off
and sinking into the planet.
I don’t know about you, but that sounds rather
ominous to me.
The crust of our planet already somewhat resembles
a giant cracked egg, and to hear that pieces may be breaking off and sinking
into the interior is not exactly comforting.
And those same scientists are telling us that the
process that has been causing this is ongoing and will continue to
produce more earthquakes…
The
study authors conclude this process is ongoing and likely to produce more
earthquakes in the future.
‘Our
idea supports the view that this seismicity will continue due to unbalanced
stresses in the plate,’ said Berk Biryol, a seismologist at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lead author of the new study.
‘The
[seismic] zones that are active will continue to be active for some time.’
Those that follow my work closely know that I have
been writing about seismic activity a lot lately, and that I believe that major
earth changes are coming to the North American continent.
I am deeply concerned about the New Madrid fault, the Cascadia
Subduction zone, the major faults in southern California and Mt. Rainier up in Washington state.
In the end, I don’t believe that we will see just
one or two major seismic events in the years ahead.
For those of us that are fortunate enough to live
long enough, I believe that all of those areas that I just mentioned will
experience major events.
So what do you think?
Am I being irrationally pessimistic?
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*About the author:
Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of End Of The American Dream.
Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture
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