Earthquakes And Volcanoes

[Gary Oak]

I do believe that this quake will happen in my lifetime. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it doesn't happen in the next five years either.

Southern California Time Bomb: San Andreas Fault Is 'Rising And Sinking'

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[Blue Frost]

The other day i read a report of the fault line sticking badly, there will be a major quake at some time because of that alone.
My guess the lack of moisture plays a major part in the region, if the dryness continues that will add to the quake.

[Gary Oak]

Massive 'Lava Lamp' Blobs Deep Inside Earth Have Scientists Puzzled

http://www.livescience.com/55285-myster ... antle.html

http://www.livescience.com/46593-how-ea ... eline.html

[Blue Frost]

Very cool, oh i mean hot stuff
i wonder how they figure this is there, ground mapping radar doesn't go that deep.

[Gary Oak]

I found this very interesting as I am currently learning about electiricity. It seems like the electric universe theory is being kept under wraps for some reason.

Sinkholes The Groundbreaking Truth

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[Blue Frost]

That first part wasn't a sink hole, the second either, they where faults cracking . Also the earth is very unstable, granite, and hard rock isn't easy for the earth to build up, and all other material breaks down, and settles,
Underground water, and sand, gravel, and similar materials is very unstable. There was even some mining disaster clips in that video, and a lot of man made causes.

There is an old bible song, Build your house upon a rock, that stands true.

[Gary Oak]

The explanation for some of those cracks seems plausible to me.

[Blue Frost]

We are causing a lot of it, we are worse than moles in a flowerbed sometimes.
MY thought is we caused the eruption of Mt Saint Helen, or upped the date for it, around that time we where doing a lot of nuclear testing down south of it, underground.

[Gary Oak]

I believe that this New Madrid fault ine is closer to your neck of the woods Bluefrost.


Concern Grows That A Megaquake Is Going To Hit The Middle Of The United States

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News Image By Michael Snyder - End of The America Dream Blog September 12, 2016
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Did you know that Oklahoma was just hit by the largest earthquake ever recorded in the history of the state? And did you know that Oklahoma absolutely shattered their yearly record for earthquakes in 2015 and may break it again this year?

According to the USGS, the number of significant earthquakes in the eastern and central sections of the nation has more than quintupled in recent years, and concern is growing that we could soon see a "megaquake" in the middle part of the country.

Of course no discussion of megaquakes in the middle part of the country can leave out the New Madrid fault zone, which is approximately six times larger than the San Andreas fault zone in California.

Scientists assure us that the New Madrid fault is around 30 years overdue for a major seismic event, and when it does happen it is going to be the biggest disaster in modern American history up to this point.

Late last month, eight states took part in a major drill that simulated what the damage from a New Madrid earthquake might look like. The following comes from a news report that was posted on August 24th...

Eight states are taking part in a multi-state disaster drill Wednesday.

Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas all took part in the "Show Me Mass Care Exercise" to practice how they would react during a major earthquake along the new Madrid Fault Line, which is a major source of earthquakes in the Midwest and south.

As I mentioned above, the New Madrid fault zone is about six times bigger than the San Andreas fault zone, but because of the nature of the earth's crust in the region, a New Madrid earthquake would be felt in most of the nation. In fact, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources says that earthquakes along the New Madrid fault "shake and damage an area approximately 20 times larger than earthquakes in California"...

Due to the harder, colder, drier and less fractured nature of the rocks in the earth's crust in the central United States, earthquakes in this region shake and damage an area approximately 20 times larger than earthquakes in California and most other active seismic areas.

Even though large earthquakes occur much less frequently in the NMSZ than in California, the long term average quake threat, in terms of square miles affected per century, is about the same because of the approximately 20 times larger area affected in the central United States.

Back in 1811 and 1812, a series of earthquakes along the New Madrid fault were so powerful that they actually cracked sidewalks in Washington D.C. and rang church bells in Boston. Testimony from eyewitnesses to those earthquakes sounds like something from a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel...

The Midwest was sparsely populated, and deaths were few. But 8-year-old Godfrey Lesieur saw the ground "rolling in waves." Michael Braunm observed the river suddenly rise up "like a great loaf of bread to the height of many feet." Sections of riverbed below the Mississippi rose so high that part of the river ran backward. Thousands of fissures ripped open fields, and geysers burst from the earth, spewing sand, water, mud and coal high into the air.

In those days not many people lived in the middle of the country.

What in the world would such an earthquake look like today?

I also want to point out that there are 15 nuclear reactors sitting inside the New Madrid fault zone, so if a megaquake did hit the region we could be looking at Fukushima times 15.

And the earthquakes in Oklahoma (not a part of the New Madrid fault zone) just continue to keep getting bigger and bigger. The USGS now says that the earthquake on September 3rd was the largest ever recorded in the history of the state...

The earthquake that shook Pawnee, Oklahoma, on Sept. 3 is now the state's largest temblor on record, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which just upgraded the magnitude to 5.8.

The earthquake was previously pegged at magnitude 5.6. But further analysis of the seismic recordings from the event found the quake size to have a bigger moment magnitude, according to the USGS.

As I sit here writing this article, a magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck near Perry, Oklahoma just about an hour ago.

In the old days, you would never think of Oklahoma as a place that was at risk for major earthquakes.

Unfortunately, those days are long gone.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... vLyy8b4.99

[Blue Frost]

We had one not many years ago, it actually unnerved me a bit, a bigger one I'm not sure is we could take it without a lot more damage.
I'm guessing some 200+ miles in Missouri is where it came from.
The last big one the Mississippi flowed backward, and sand came up from in geysers.
We all here just about live on sediment, dirt, sand, and then gravel with more sand, and gravel, it's not good to be on in a quake, the ground is like waves in water. In the open you can see it rise, and fall.

[Gary Oak]

i wonder if huge swathes of middle America will go underwater then ?

[Blue Frost]

We used to have an inland sea, you never can tell.

[Gary Oak]

What the @#$% ? earthwuakes happen in Oklahoma ?

‘Significant damage’ in key US oil hub Cushing after 5.0 quake shakes central Oklahoma

[Blue Frost]

We had that 3.something quake a few years back, it cracked the foundation of our house in two spots that I know of. I would hate to see what a 5 would do.
I feel for the people there.

here is a little on the Oklahoma quake http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/07/da ... ahoma.html

Dozens of buildings sustained "substantial damage" after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck an Oklahoma town that's home to one of the world's key oil hubs, but officials said Monday that no damage has been reported at the oil terminal.

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Cushing City Manager Steve Spears said 40 to 50 buildings were damaged in Sunday's earthquake, which was the third in Oklahoma this year with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater. No major injuries have been reported, and Spears said the damage included cracks to buildings and fallen bricks and facades.

CHURCH SEEKS FUNDING TO REPAIR ICON DAMAGED BY ALASKA QUAKE

Oklahoma has had thousands of earthquakes in recent years, with nearly all traced to the underground injection of wastewater left over from oil and gas production. Sunday's quake was centered 1 mile west of Cushing and about 25 miles south of where a magnitude 4.3 quake forced a shutdown of several wells last week.

Fearing aftershocks, police cordoned off older parts of the city about 50 miles northeast of Oklahoma City to keep gawkers away late Sunday, and geologists confirmed that several small quakes have rumbled the area. Spears said an assisted living community had been evacuated after damage was reported. The Cushing Public School District canceled Monday classes.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation reported Sunday night that no highway or bridge damage was found within a 15-mile radius of the earthquake's epicenter.

The quake struck at 7:44 p.m. Sunday and was felt as far away as Iowa, Illinois and Texas. The U.S. Geological Survey initially said Sunday's quake was of magnitude 5.3 but later lowered the reading to 5.0.

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"I thought my whole trailer was going to tip over, it was shaking it so bad," said Cushing resident Cindy Roe, 50. "It was loud and all the lights went out and you could hear things falling on the ground.

"It was awful and I don't want to have another one."

Cushing's oil storage terminal is one of the world's largest. As of Oct. 28, tank farms in the countryside around Cushing held 58.5 million barrels of crude oil, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The community bills itself as the "Pipeline Crossroads of the World."

Cushing Assistant City Manager Jeremy Frazier said two pipeline companies had reported no trouble as of late Sunday but that the community hadn't heard from all companies. Gov. Mary Fallin tweeted that no damage was reported at the storage tanks at Cushing's oil storage terminal

Megan Gustafson and Jonathan Gillespie were working at a Cushing McDonald's when the quake hit.

"It felt like a train was going right through the building, actually," Gustafson, 17, said Sunday night as she and her co-workers stood behind a police barricade downtown, looking for damage. "I kind of freaked out and was hyperventilating a bit."

Gillespie said the building shook for about 10 seconds, but that he wasn't as alarmed as Gustafson because he lives in an area that has experienced multiple earthquakes, especially in recent years.

"I didn't think it was anything new," he said.

According to USGS data, there have been about two dozen earthquakes in Oklahoma in the past week. When particularly strong quakes hit, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission directs well operators to cease wastewater injections or reduce volume.

A 5.8 earthquake -- a record for Oklahoma -- hit Pawnee on Sept. 3. Shortly afterward, geologists speculated on whether the temblor occurred on a previously unknown fault.

"I was at home doing some work in my office and, basically, you could feel the whole house sway some," Spears, the Cushing city manager, said Sunday night. "It's beginning to become normal."

[Gary Oak]

Maybe nowhere is earthwuake safe now

[Blue Frost]

The last decade or so there has been a lot in unexpected places, but we don't have a long timescale of data to tell if this is normal, or something new caused by us.
Oil drilling, fracking, ground water depletion, underground nukes even, it just might be doing a lot of damage.

[Gary Oak]

New Zealand got another monster quake.There are a lot of impressive photos and a video worth taking a look at in this article.

Destructive tsunami waves hit New Zealand's South Island after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes killing two people - as LOOTERS prey on vulnerable residents forced to leave their homesA 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Christchurch in New Zealand around midnight on Sunday
The NZ Government said the earthquake was felt throughout the country and aftershocks followed
A two-metre high tsunami hit the east coast of South Island, people told to head for higher ground
The touring Pakistan cricket team were in the middle of prayers and forced to evacuate their hotel in Nelson
Prime Minister John Key confirmed at least two people have died in the massive earth quake


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[Blue Frost]

WOW, I really feel for those people affected by that, lets hope the after quakes isn't that bad.
The looters make a bad situation worse on some.

[Gary Oak]

I have only met decent New Zealanders however I have heard there are some very violent Maori gangs.

[Blue Frost]

i know one, can't say I think much of him, but not been around him.