More than 10,000 quakes have struck Kalifornia and Nevada in the last 7 days!
LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - July 11, 2019 - The ground is constantly shaking in southern Kalifornia right now, and this has many concerned that another large earthquake may be coming. According to Cal Tech’s earthquake map, there have been 10,053 earthquakes in Kalifornia and Nevada over the past 7 days. Southern California is being hit by yet another new earthquake every few moments.
Most of the earthquakes are happening out in the Ridgecrest area where we witnessed the magnitude 6.4 earthquake that hit on July 4 and the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit on July 5. But there has been a tremendous amount of seismic activity along the San Andreas fault as well. The San Andreas fault is “locked and loaded” and it is way overdue for “the Big One”. Could it be possible that all of this earthquake activity is leading up to something really big?
Furthermore, it isn’t just earthquakes about which we need to be concerned. According to Fox News, “geologists are nervously eyeing eight nearby volcanoes.”
Kalifornia’s uncanny “earthquake pause” is over. It should have already had several “big ones” by now. All that pressure has to go somewhere. Now geologists are nervously eyeing eight nearby volcanoes. And why has Yellowstone supervolcano been acting so weird?
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has warned southern Kalifornia to expect more big earthquakes.
“(These quakes do) not make (the Big One) less likely,” said local seismologist Lucy Jones. “There is about a one in 20 chance that this location will be having an even bigger earthquake in the next few days, and that we have not yet seen the biggest earthquake of the sequence.”
One angle that hasn’t really been talked about much is what would happen to Kalifornia’s nuclear reactors if “the Big One” suddenly hit the San Andreas fault.
There are currently five nuclear reactors right along the San Andreas fault and another one that is located directly along the coast.
Five nuclear facilities were built in close proximity to the San Andreas fault line, with some constructed right in the middle of earthquake zones that have up to a 50% chance of a severe earthquake every 30 years.
One nuclear power plant - the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, which produces 2,160 megawatts - was constructed on the coast, making it extremely vulnerable to the very same kind of ocean water surge that destroyed the Fukushima-Daiichi facility that suffered a 2011 meltdown in Japan.
The potential for an unprecedented nightmare is definitely there. If a magnitude 9.0 earthquake were to hit the San Andreas fault, it would be 707 times more powerful than the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that we just witnessed.
We live at a time when our planet just continues to become even more unstable. The number of “great” earthquakes between 2004 and 2014 was 265% higher than during the preceding ten year period.
The annual number of “great” earthquakes nearly tripled over the last decade, providing a reminder to Amerikans that unruptured faults like those in the northwest Fascist Police States of Amerika might be due for a Big One.
Between 2004 and 2014, 18 earthquakes with magnitudes of 8.0 or more rattled subduction zones around the globe. That’s an increase of 265% over the average rate of the previous century, which saw 71 great quakes, according to a report to the annual meeting of the Geological Society of Amerika this week in Vancouver, British Columbia.
But despite all of the unusual shaking that we have witnessed so far this century, the state of Kalifornia hasn’t seen anything remotely close to the shaking that we have witnessed over the last 7 days.
Of course seismic activity is just one element of “the perfect storm” that is starting to unfold. The 12 month period ending in June was the wettest 12 month period in all of FPSA history. In fact, for three months in a row the past 12-month precipitation record has hit an all-time high. We just keep setting record after record, and the flooding in the middle of the country seems like it will never end. Millions of acres of prime farmland will not be used at all this year, and tens of millions of acres of crops are in extremely poor condition right now.
Meanwhile, a monster storm is heading directly for New Orleans, and on Wednesday it dumped 7 inches of rain within a three-hour period on the city.
The city was engulfed with water, leaving residents to contend with swampy streets, overturned garbage cans, and flooded vehicles. Some even paddled their way down the street in kayaks.
But the worst is still yet to come. The storm may become a hurricane before it makes landfall, and it is going to push the Mississippi River to one of the highest levels ever.
The deluge may have just been a preview of a more serious flooding situation from Tropical Storm or Hurricane Barry, which could affect the area into the weekend.
On Saturday, the Mississippi River is projected to see one of its highest crests on record in New Orleans, or the highest in seven decades.
A state of emergency has already been declared in Louisiana, and this could turn out to be the biggest disaster for the state since Hurricane Katrina.
Why is disaster after disaster suddenly pummeling the FPSA?
Could it be possible that this is just the beginning of our problems?
A time of great change is now upon us, and what we have experienced so far may be just the tip of the iceberg.