Scientists Warn California Earthquakes Set To Trigger Catastrophic Mega-Quake

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Scientists warn California earthquakes will trigger global catastrophe

A spate of recent earthquakes off the West Coast of America looks set to trigger a catastrophic mega-earthquake, scientists have warned. 

According to a map provided by USGS, 11 earthquakes ranging from 2.8 to 5.6 on the Richter scale all recently occured on the seabed of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, 6 miles below the surface of the Earth.

The plate is pretty active and has been moving east-northeast at approximately 1.6 inches per year, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN).

Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center, says the plate’s unusual motion is going to cause strain to build up “until the fault breaks and a few meters of Juan De Fuca slips under North America in a big earthquake.”

Fox News reports: PNSN noted that it would take a lot of slip (approximately 10s of meters) over a very large area to generate a M9 (magnitude of 9.0) level earthquake that could hit the region, but noted that it does occur approximately every 550 years on average.

The cause for concern is what happens when the Juan de Fuca plate eventually submerges under the much larger Pacific plate. For approximately 330 years, the plate has continuously been pushed down, an activity that will eventually lead it to be pushed under the North America plate, causing the region to sink six feet on the minimum and may result in one of the largest earthquakes in human history.

If the entire 650-mile long Cascadia Subduction Zone (which includes the Juan de Fuca plate) were to experience a full rupture, it could not only trigger a 9.0 earthquake, but a tsunami as well.

The Juan De Fuca plate stretches from Northern California to British Columbia and the Cascadia Subduction Zone stretches from N. Vancouver Island to Cape Mendicino, California.

Recent studies have highlighted how vulnerable we are to the proverbial “Big One.”

Last month, one study detailed that there is a 15- to 20-mile-long stretch of the San Andreas fault ‒ called the Durmid ladder structure ‒ that could result in an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 or greater.

“This newly identified Durmid ladder structure is a voluminous, right-reverse fault zone that broadens across Durmid Hill around rotating domains of regularly spaced, left- and right-lateral cross faults,” a research article on the study reads.

The research put the odds at 75 percent that it would occur in both northern and southern California sometime over the next 30 years.

The “Big One” has been warned about several times before, with the USGS writing extensively on the topic, including how to use past earthquakes to better predict the future.

6 Comments

  1. What they are really trying to say is the the cabal has a little artificially created earthquake treat in store for we Californians.

    • Glenn: exactly what I thought when I read this. Bingo! I live in No. Calif and have lived here almost all my 63 yrs. I’ve heard this all my life “the big one is coming!” However, I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened soon, due to reason you stated above. Seems the world just keeps getting crazier.

      • Agreed Emmett. I live in Healdsburg not far from Santa Rosa. I get suspicious when normally careful scientists suddenly predict there will be an earthquake within the year. In the same way they appear to be stoking up the Hawaiian and Wyoming volcanoes. What surprises me is how gullible Americans are. I think they’re probably too frightened to admit the truth to themselves. Keep an eye on them Emmett.

        • Thanks for your response Glenn, appreciated. Agreed about volcanoes in Hawaii/WY and also that Americans are too afraid to admit the truth. Stay safe in Healdsburg and be prepared.
          ANd yes, I’m keeping an eye on it all and not backing away from anything that is true. I was raised by a mustang admiral, grew up in my dad’s navy LOL – he raised me to be a patriot, to always seek the truth and to keep my govt in line. He died in 2003 and I miss him dearly everyday. would love to share all that’s happening right now with him.

          • Sounds like special relationship you had with your father. I wasn’t so lucky with my dad, but his father, my grandfather, and I were great friends all my life.

          • Yes, grandparents can be a very special blessing, glad you had a close relationship with your grandfather, that’s something quite special. Because they have lived so much longer than us, they can teach us alot. Anyway, stay safe and I’m sending you many blessings to stay safe. We live in bizarre times!

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