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Earthquake rattles Washington state
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WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.
sKiZo
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Looks like the whole Ring of Fire is active. Central America is getting bounced around pretty good with 8 4.0+ quakes in the last week, and four in the Aleutian Islands.
https://www.642weather.com/weather/earthquakes-world.php
Maybe time to put a deposit on that beachfront property in Arizona, eh.
https://www.642weather.com/weather/earthquakes-world.php
Maybe time to put a deposit on that beachfront property in Arizona, eh.
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We’re fine.
It was about 10 miles from me.
Woke me up, which is a feat in itself, but I realized it was a quake, figured because of California, same plate. Missed most of it so I rolled over and dreamt of busted houses.
Business as usual at work.
No biggie.
Our new kitty does more damage tipping stuff over.
It was about 10 miles from me.
Woke me up, which is a feat in itself, but I realized it was a quake, figured because of California, same plate. Missed most of it so I rolled over and dreamt of busted houses.
Business as usual at work.
No biggie.
Our new kitty does more damage tipping stuff over.
damacman
Resident Psycho
soonLooks like the whole Ring of Fire is active. Central America is getting bounced around pretty good with 8 4.0+ quakes in the last week, and four in the Aleutian Islands.
https://www.642weather.com/weather/earthquakes-world.php
Maybe time to put a deposit on that beachfront property in Arizona, eh.
Sandy G
Retired Member
I keep hearing that the REAL Mother of All Quakes is gonna come from a small group of Islands off the coast of Africa-There's one that has a fault line, subduction zone that splits the island half in two, & when IT decides to go, we can kiss the Atlantic coast Buh-Bye from the immense tidal wave. Heard we could likely say "Sayonara" to Richmond, Va., Winston-Salem, NC, Atlanta, DC.
Florida is just a big sandbar, and I live on it lol.
I totally feel left out
I like quakes as long as they'r not killing people.
You're not consuming enough Quaker Oats.
SoCal Sam
Lunatic Member
Judging by this scenario, anything in the Caribbean islands and the east coast of the USA less than 25 feet above sea level will be obliterated.
gslikker
Super Member
"I keep hearing that the REAL Mother of All Quakes is gonna come from a small group of Islands off the coast of Africa-There's one that has a fault line, subduction zone that splits the island half in two, & when IT decides to go, we can kiss the Atlantic coast Buh-Bye from the immense tidal wave. Heard we could likely say "Sayonara" to Richmond, Va., Winston-Salem, NC, Atlanta, DC.
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We go there on a summer vacation to La Palma, 3 weeks from now. If it happens, I do not know if the wifi is there to report on AK
. Although, living below sea level I do not think it would go unnoticed where I live.
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We go there on a summer vacation to La Palma, 3 weeks from now. If it happens, I do not know if the wifi is there to report on AK
. Although, living below sea level I do not think it would go unnoticed where I live.
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I have an app on my phone that reports quakes of whatever magnitude I set it for. I keep it set at >4.0 for anything within 1000 miles of me and >6.0 world wide. I am always surprised to see how one big quake can set off others further away a month or so later. The west coast they seem to move northward up the coast.
Several years ago there were some in the Vancouver island area and a few months later another further up in the Queen Charlotte Is area, then another in SE Alaska, and then a pair of 6.2's about 30 miles from my house which made us run outside at 2am and again at 4am!..
Then a over a year ago there was an undersea one that was 8.0 in the gulf of Alaska, then some months later directly north several hundred miles Anchorage got a 7.0 centered directly under the city.. I think that stresses released in one area causes plates to shift and build stress in another.. I do hope these are isolated incidents.. As someone who has been through many of these, including the one in Seattle in 2000 and the big 9.2 Alaska quake, I have learned to dislike them quite a bit!
Several years ago there were some in the Vancouver island area and a few months later another further up in the Queen Charlotte Is area, then another in SE Alaska, and then a pair of 6.2's about 30 miles from my house which made us run outside at 2am and again at 4am!..
Then a over a year ago there was an undersea one that was 8.0 in the gulf of Alaska, then some months later directly north several hundred miles Anchorage got a 7.0 centered directly under the city.. I think that stresses released in one area causes plates to shift and build stress in another.. I do hope these are isolated incidents.. As someone who has been through many of these, including the one in Seattle in 2000 and the big 9.2 Alaska quake, I have learned to dislike them quite a bit!
Look at post #15 lol."I keep hearing that the REAL Mother of All Quakes is gonna come from a small group of Islands off the coast of Africa-There's one that has a fault line, subduction zone that splits the island half in two, & when IT decides to go, we can kiss the Atlantic coast Buh-Bye from the immense tidal wave. Heard we could likely say "Sayonara" to Richmond, Va., Winston-Salem, NC, Atlanta, DC.
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We go there on a summer vacation to La Palma, 3 weeks from now. If it happens, I do not know if the wifi is there to report on AK
In the incredibly brief geo time between the truly "big ones" the quakes we as the dominant species have, with a few notable exceptions, experienced were only love taps in most of recorded history. Most of the few of the biggest quakes >9.0 have been at safe distances from major population centers. But with the recent population explosion (7 fold in a little over 100 years) the chances of a larger quake or eruption doing major damage to larger population center has increased considerably.
Face it, The earth is not a really safe ride to be on. The trick is to live and die in the spaces of time and distance between the massive quakes, tsunamis, eruptions, asteroid collisions and what not. Yes the west coast, in fact the entire planets land masses have been and will continue to be reshaping itself. Whether in 10 years or 500,000 years there will be many more massive events far greater than what we have seen with the likes of Mt St Helens etc.
Face it, The earth is not a really safe ride to be on. The trick is to live and die in the spaces of time and distance between the massive quakes, tsunamis, eruptions, asteroid collisions and what not. Yes the west coast, in fact the entire planets land masses have been and will continue to be reshaping itself. Whether in 10 years or 500,000 years there will be many more massive events far greater than what we have seen with the likes of Mt St Helens etc.
