I was actually looking for a video of earthquakes over a decade- maybe less- to see if there was a discernable pattern....Instead I came across this video which actually quite interesting;
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About 50 years of that graphic is at best, moderate speculation. The world didn't have the sea bed sensors available, much less in place back 100 years ago.
Krakatoa, East of Java the movie..late '60s..remember? The name btw, is a misnomer. Krakatoa is actually West of Java.
Well, that was disappointing, didn't even spill my coffee ! ~ 5 - 9 = 10x10x10x10 so, like giant, this 5 was a precursor, the M9 will collapse all the manmade structures on the West Coast, south to San Francisco, the Golden Gate bridge falling, all the bridges on the PCH, the Bixby too. The M9 will be felt here as a mild tremor, all across the Continent. Doomed, I tell yah ! I think a calamity of that scale will wreck Vancouver, Seattle, Portland into rubble, the Olympic Peninsula moving northwest a few yards, creating massive tsunamis. Better be prepared, survival beyond a few weeks may be arduous without a stash of supplies, prepare, like, for a Nuke War, like. No water, no food, no electricity, no fuel, no nothing, for like six months, a year, like in LA, no water, because incompetence. Canned foods, bottled water, all the meat you can buy, fish, tons of food and water. Canned vegetables too, fruits, nuts. What will you be eating six months after a disaster ? Gotta have a plan, man.
Waiting for the end ! Yeah ! Total destruction of all the cities south to San Diego, the San Andreas triggered by the Cascadia M9, San Francisco fallen to bricks, slipping 90 ft North West, the Golden Gate bridge in ruins. Disaster Forn, LA on fire, again, still no water, a landscape, an ashen moonscape, smoldering, nothing lives in LA. ' Here it comes ! Get Ready ! ' $50K, $500K in emergency supplies, stashed in a secure location, safe from vandals, robbers, the starving zombies, a store of sundry food staples, a year's food for a family, a few tractor trailers filled with life, buried to protect it all from hazards. Frozen goods in reefers, tons of food. ' If you don't prepare you will croak of starvation. ' ~ Noah Thinking.. ' I think I'll do some shopping at Costco, buy some beans, wieners, canned corn, potato chips, chocolate bars, fruit and nut bars, sugar, flour, bread, pita, frozen Pizza, Chicken, Beef, Pork, Fish, all the goodies I'll want to eat in a year or so, after the holocaust, like, waiting for an Asteroid to hit, like. ' ' Water, a lot of water, bottled water, tanks of water, a stainless steel tanker for a water stash, protected from contamination. ' ' Fuel, lots of fuel, several year's supply of fuel. ' See, it's a huge undertaking, Noah did it because he was informed of coming doom. Now, you are too. Yeah, it's deep.
At first there was a relatively low rumble. I thought it might've been a rather large raccoon jumping onto the roof from an adjacent tree. And then one to two seconds later... Bang! It was one sudden jolt, rather loud, that shook the whole house. It felt like a truck had hit the foundation, except there was no further "breakage" sounds afterwards.
It's not the first earthquake I've experienced, and living on the west coast, I doubt it'll be the last.
' What has been ', well, 10K years of M9 Quakes has migrated Vancouver Island some portion of the 60km from the mainland, a few meters at a time. Big waves washing up the Fraser Delta, inundating way upriver, Chilliwack overwashed by 20ft of Tsunami, Vancouver falls down on liquified soil, towers literally falling sideways, a disaster of Biblical proportions, Seattle too, Portland, San Francisco, LA subsides, San Diego collapses. Disaster Forn ! ' Lo ! Thou art Doomed ! ' Like out of a science fiction comic book, a gigantic wave from the Olympic Peninsula's movement, slamming into White Rock, totally destroyed, the horror. If the Big One has been triggered by this recent 5, preparing for calamity is a wise action, getting ready for Mother Nature's shake. Seven minutes of severe lateral tremors, vertical displacement, like nothing experienced for 325 years, anywhere on Earth. ' Big Badda Boom ! ' Escape Pods, get one soon ! ' Yeah ! I think I want to survive to see the fury of Nature, like a Tornado, or, like, an M9.9 Megaquake ! Be floating on top of all the destruction ! ' Yep ! ' A report by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, published in Science on 2 December 2011, concluded that the seabed in the area between the epicenter and the Japan Trench moved 50 meters (160 ft) east-southeast and rose about 7 meters (23 ft) as a result of the quake. ' science.org
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I want to tell you all something about earthquakes- I may have said this somewhere here before but it is good info that needs repeating;
Back when I worked at the Coast Guard air station (Haz Mat, Fuel and Parts) I taught a simplistic course about preparing for an earthquake...I noticed that some of the guys would immediately start ignoring me- on their cellphones, etc.
I asked one of them later why, and he stated "I am transferring out of California so I don't need to worry about earthquakes anymore"
The next time I did the course, I led off with "Before 1906 (SF earthquake), what was considered the "Big One"...? The 1886 CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA earthquake...almost exactly the same series of events" (Quake, then fire- whole town razed)
Some of the guys would sit up and start paying attention...But, lets hit them with another one; "Where were the three BIGGEST earthquakes in the Continental United States? New Madrid, Missouri! They actually had a swarm of over 400 earthquakes 1811-12, with the three biggest being 8s!"
They all listened to me then- over a few years I had several of them come in my shop/office and exclaim "Wow, dude- I had no idea...You were right- I looked it up on the internet!!"
Critical safety suggestions; Bolt things to the wall so they cannot tip over (Cabinets, TVs, etc) Also, eliminate GLASS from picture frames, etc- replace with Plexiglass (Consider, where do you spend the most time in your home? In bed for (Basically) 8 hours every night- >>Barefoot<<, so eliminate the chance of broken glass on the floor and>>>Have a pair of slippers/shoes under the bed). Also, have some emergency supplies, including food, water and first-aid...
Last but not least; EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, should be prepared for disaster...could be an earthquake, could be a wild storm/tornado, could be a flood or fire- be Prepared!
Some of the guys would sit up and start paying attention...But, lets hit them with another one; "Where were the three BIGGEST earthquakes in the Continental United States? New Madrid, Missouri! They actually had a swarm of over 400 earthquakes 1811-12, with the three biggest being 8s!"
SNIP
Critical safety suggestions; Bolt things to the wall so they cannot tip over (Cabinets, TVs, etc) Also, eliminate GLASS from picture frames, etc- replace with Plexiglass (Consider, where do you spend the most time in your home? In bed for (Basically) 8 hours every night- >>Barefoot<<, so eliminate the chance of broken glass on the floor and>>>Have a pair of slippers/shoes under the bed). Also, have some emergency supplies, including food, water and first-aid...
Last but not least; EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, should be prepared for disaster...could be an earthquake, could be a wild storm/tornado, could be a flood or fire- be Prepared!
While I do agree (this is the second time I've lived near the Mississippi River/New Madrid), there are some things that makes sense, being fully prepared for every potential disaster is a bit overwhelming IMHO. I'm not all that far from New Madrid, we also still have evidence of a recent tornado, we get a lot of thunderstorms with high potential rain, wind, lightening and hail. Flooding in this area does happen although, my property has never been affected, it's always possible in a huge weather event. Oh, and don't forget the (always possible) nuclear attack by someone.
My whole point being, if we let all the potential dangers in life rule how we live, then there's no time for enjoying life. Yes, any one of those potential events should be considered but one also needs to remember that when events occur, it's not all that predictable. And, if science was good enough to predict any or all of the potentials, would it be in sufficient time for me to do something about it, doubtful.
Simple things like you suggested are good ideas (especially if one lives in a active zone) but there are always other priorities if, those potentials are not common. If, I lived on the west coast, I'd make different preparations from what is most important in TN. New Madrid is monitored to a certain extent, I'm not all that worried. My attention is more about greater potential threats. Trying to talk the love of my life into building a Storm/Tornado Shelter and installing a whole house generator (Just in case.) There are risks in every location anywhere on this planet, learn to accept and or address the risks or move to another location with different risks.
Rams
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"There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague, or a huge volcano or a giant earthquake that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT!"
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"There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague, or a huge volcano or a giant earthquake that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW THINK ABOUT IT!"
OMG! I hadn't considered the bolded threats listed above! Have to get onto those right after lunch, maybe dinner. Damn, so little time, so much to do. Think'n I'll sleep on it.
Here's going a bit overboard on one threat preparation IMHO. At least for where I live.
I will tell you about something even more scary than quakes- Volcanoes- specifically, Yellowstone; Although there have been numerous small eruptions over the last 2 million years, the three big eruptions happened 2.1 million years ago, 1.3 million years ago, and 640,000 years ago.....looking at this pattern, you can see that approximately every 700,000 years there is an extremely large eruption....and we are (Basically) close to being due for another....
Also, here is a map of the "Yellowstone hotspot" which has been...."causing problems" for 16 million years- it looks like the hotspot is moving, but the N. American plate is actually moving in a westerly direction, so sliding over the hotspot...similar to the Hawaiian hotspot creating the chain of islands, starting at Midway....
Based on the above, appears my California friends need to relocate in the next few million years.
Rams
No- the Continent is moving west so the hotspot is moving east....here is a map of the Historic ash-fall patterns of those three big eruptions- and it includes Mt. St. Helens "tiny" eruption...And also the Long Valley eruption (Dotted line);
No- the Continent is moving west so the hotspot is moving east....here is a map of the Historic ash-fall patterns of those three big eruptions- and it includes Mt. St. Helens "tiny" eruption...And also the Long Valley eruption (Dotted line);
The reason I said my California friends need to move is, do it before CA gets pushed west into the ocean. Some may be able to tread water for a while but, none are great swimmers.
Originally posted by Patrick on 02-21-2025 04:34 PM Here:
> Damn, we just had an earthquake while I was typing this. <
And now we just had another one, only two weeks after the last one. I wasn't in the middle of typing a post this time, as it was 5 AM... but it woke me up. I heard the house "crack", although at the time I wasn't sure whether I had actually heard something or if I had been dreaming.
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Originally posted by Patrick: I heard the house "crack", although at the time I wasn't sure whether I had actually heard something or if I had been dreaming.
When I say I heard the house "crack"... I'm not saying it split in two like an egg. It's the noise a wood-frame constructed house makes when it shifts a bit. It's the sound of studs and sill plates and joists all flexing against each other. No harm done. If/when the gyproc starts falling off the ceiling, then I'll be concerned!
Originally posted by Patrick: When I say I heard the house "crack"... I'm not saying it split in two like an egg. It's the noise a wood-frame constructed house makes when it shifts a bit. It's the sound of studs and sill plates and joists all flexing against each other. No harm done. If/when the gyproc starts falling off the ceiling, then I'll be concerned!
Sill plates and joists flexing against each other. Great analogy.
Earthquakes are caused by the sudden movement of tectonic plates along faults in the Earth's crust, which releases stored energy in the form of seismic waves. This movement can occur due to the buildup of pressure from the plates sliding against each other.
. Lectures that could save your life. NPC'S can't answer ~ See, nature has a way to thin the herd, it's cruel and necessary, more resources for the survivors, more food, more water, more life. ' Thank you Mother Nature ' ' Yeah ! That's a great idea ! I better get ready for the calamity that's gonna happen, like clockwork, time for an M9 MegaQuake ! '
. Big Vibrations ! Coming soon to a West Coast city near you, for sure, like. Doomed to sustain the terrible destruction, ruining all that mankind has built. Vancouver's buildings fallen, failing on liquified soil, skyscrapers falling sideways, unreinforced brick buildings crumbling. No water, mo food, no power, no fuel, no transport, no nothing, forever, decades even. Prepping for calamity, like, like, that Noah dude, the original dude, wayback, we're told an Angel warned him, gave him plans, drawings, instructions, to float above the Flood, the forty days. ' I think I want to stay above the water, the waves of the Earth, M9 vertical amplitude, lateral acceleration, big, massive, huge, totally, like. ' ' Hmmmn ! ' Emergency balloons, survival capsules, water, food, power, fuel, the very basics in supplies, stashes for survival. ' Come with me, if you want to live ! ' ~ Arnold
Vancouver's buildings fallen, failing on liquified soil...
A place such as Richmond BC (which is built upon river sediment) would probably disintegrate and sink in a mega earthquake... whereas most of the city of Vancouver sits atop solid bedrock.
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NOT SO MUCH. 
