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Earthquakes - Waiting for the "Big One" in California Monday, 14 March
2011 20:05 Written by Glen Asher 1 Comments
In light of last week’s massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the
northeast coast of the island of Honshu in Japan, I thought it was
time to examine the literature from various sources that discuss the
probability of an earthquake on the eastern side of the Ring of Fire,
more specifically, the west coast of the United States that is
adjacent to the well-known San Andreas Fault. Here is a map showing
the San Andreas Fault:
The San Andreas Fault behaves differently than the fault that caused
the earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011. The San Andreas Fault is
termed a right lateral strike-slip fault by geologists. In these
faults, the fault surface itself dips very steeply into the earth’s
surface. There is very little vertical (up and down) motion along
these faults, rather, the motion is offsetting from one side of the
fault to the other. In this case, if a line were painted on the
surface of the ground across the fault, after an earthquake, the line
would be offset where it crossed the fault line. In the case of
Japan’s most recent massive earthquake, the fault surface dipped
relatively steeply (but not vertically) into the ground at the margins
of a crustal plate boundary as one plate was riding under the other.
In the case of California, the San Andreas fault is found at the
boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate but,
because the motion is strike-slip, the land on the Pacific Plate (west
side of the fault) is moving slowly to the northwest and the land on
the North American Plate (east side of the fault) is moving to slowly
to the southwest. The amount of motion on the fault is roughly 1.3 to
1.5 inches per year. In other words, the east side of California is
headed south and the west side is headed north.
Here is a block diagram showing the mechanics behind the movement of
the earth's crust along the San Andreas Fault:
Earthquakes occur along strike-slip faults when the forces that are
pushing the sides of the fault in the opposite direction overcome the
friction along the surface of the fault plane. The sudden release of
energy when the two sides "unlock" is what we feel as ground shaking.
Despite advances in the tools available to them, geoscientists find it
very difficult to predict when an earthquake will take place and what
its magnitude will be when it does occur. Part of the problem is that
most of the very large earthquakes in the world, especially those in
California, took place well before the advent of seismometers that are
used to measure the magnitude of ground motion.
Using advanced (and advancing) technology, geoscientists have recently
discovered that geological records indicate that very large
earthquakes took place along the San Andreas Fault in 1417, 1462,
1565, 1614 and 1713, roughly every 50 to 100 years and averaging every
88 years (plus or minus 44 years). This was far more frequent than
earlier interpretations that had stated that major earthquakes
occurred every 250 to 450 years. The last major earthquake along the
fault, a magnitude 7.9 quake, took place in 1857, nearly 155 years
ago. By extrapolation from historical records, with earthquakes
having taken place every 50 to 100 years for the past 600 years, it
appears that the San Andreas Fault is well overdue for a major release
of stored energy.
An important issue that faces the inhabitants of southern California
is the composition of the sediment underlying major cities like Los
Angeles and San Bernadino. The material is relatively soft and
unconsolidated because it has been eroded from nearby mountains and
accumulated in basins covering large areas overlying the San Andreas
and its related faults. This material is structurally unstable and
when long amplitude earthquake waves are injected into the material,
it loses its stability and liquefies and acts in a similar fashion to
jelly. This liquifaction was seen in the February 2011 earthquake
that impacted Christchurch, New Zealand where large areas of the city
were flooded by a mud and water mixture as the fluids trapped within
the sediment caused it to become unstable when it was shaken.
Several scientific organizations in California study and track the
occurrence of earthquakes in an attempt to gain a better understanding
of both timing and magnitude. The Southern California Earthquake Data
Centre tracks earthquakes in, of all places, California (and Nevada).
From their website, here is a map showing earthquakes over the past
week, day and hour. Note that the small brown lines on the map are
faults. Most of the recent earthquakes are quite small with the
largest earthquake over the past week having a magnitude of 3.4:
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It ain't the San Andreas Fault you need worry about so much, but the
impending and IMMINENT Magnitude 9.0 Cascadia Megathrust EQ and the
eruptions of Yellowstone, Mt Rainier and Mt.St.Helens by the end of
2012.
HOOROO
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Did you not 'PREACH' here (for many years)
about the Edgar Cayce 'prophetic' vision
- about how the eastern coastline of Japan.
"will go, in to the Sea."
Now that this has actually happened here.
[as per Edgar Cayce's 'prophetic' prophecy.]
Your will to 'SEE' here - there 'Wally'
has completely SHUTDOWN !!!
Get A Grip 'Here' - My Friend.
[The world needs your 'input'.]
Just A Thought.
;< )
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Did you not 'PREACH' (many years ago)
about Edgar Cayce's prophetic vision :
about how the eastern coastline of Japan
"will go - in to the sea" here ???
Now that this has actually happened .
[as per Edgar Cayce's prophecies.]
Your WILL to "see" here - there 'Wally'
has completely SHUTDOWN !!!
Get A Grip 'Here' - My Friend.
They're not about to shoot the INTERPRETER
here; just because they didn't like the message.
Just A Prophetic Thought.
;< )
Jane
Well, hello there, Kim! Interesting new handle you have, :). I guess
that's one way to get around making your 'last post'.
Woodswun
I thought it was most of Japan that is supposed to go into the sea.
Woods
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"The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The
greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of
Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear
off the east coast of America. When there is the first breaking up of
some conditions in the South Sea and those as apparent in the sinking
or rising of that that's almost opposite same, or in the
Mediterranean, and the Etna area, then we many know it has begun."
(Poor old Japan does look completely finished off at this point in
time. Oh well, maybe it's Chinas turn to take over the reigns ~!!!!)
"Cayce also predicted the possibility of a third world war. He spoke
of strifes arising "near the Davis Straits," and "in Libya, and in
Egypt, in Ankara, and in Syria; through the straits around those areas
above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf." When asked
in June 1943 whether it would be feasible to work towards an
international currency or a stabilization of international exchange
levels when the war had ended, Cayce replied that it would be a long,
long time before this would happen. Indeed, he said, "there may be
another war over just such conditions."
Source: http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/phoebe.htm
Libya seems to get a guernsey with both Cayce and Nostry baby, so
apparently it does play a crucial or even critical role in the early
stages of the soon-to-come World War III.
We really do live in truly wondrous times, peoplez ~!!!!!!
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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Big quake question: Are they getting worse?
Seismic shockers are to be expected, but planet seems to be more
active
updated 2/27/2010 4:54:18 PM ET 2010-02-27T21:54:18
Chile is on a hotspot of sorts for earthquake activity. And so the 8.8-
magnitude temblor that shook the region overnight was not a surprise,
historically speaking. Nor was it outside the realm of normal,
scientists say, even though it comes on the heels of other major
earthquakes.
One scientist, however, says that relative to the time period from the
mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Earth has been more active over the past
15 years or so.
The Chilean earthquake, and the tsunamiit spawned, originated on a hot
spot known as a subduction zone, where one plate of Earth's crust
dives under another. It's part of the active "Ring of Fire," a zone of
major crustal plate clashes that surround the Pacific Ocean.
"This particular subduction zone has produced very damaging
earthquakes throughout its history," said Randy Baldwin, a
geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
The largest quake ever recorded, magnitude 9.5, occurred along the
same fault zone in May 1960.
Even so, magnitude-8 earthquakesoccur globally, on average, just once
a year. Since magnitudes are given on a logarithmic scale, an 8.8-
magnitude is much more intense than a magnitude 8, and so this event
would be even rarer, said J. Ramón Arrowsmith, a geologist at Arizona
State University.
Is Earth shaking more?
The Ryukyu Islands of Japan were hit with a 7.0-magnitude quake on
Friday night. News of that tremor, the Haiti quakeand now Chile may
make it seem as if Earth is becoming ever more active. But in the
grand scheme of things, geologists say this is just Mother Nature as
usual.
."From our human perspective with our relatively short and incomplete
memories and better and better communications around the world, we
hear about more earthquakes and it seems like they are more frequent,"
Arrowsmith said. "But this is probably not any indication of a global
change in earthquake rate of significance."
Coupled with better communication, as the human population skyrockets
and we move into more hazardous regions, we're going to hear more
about the events that do occur, Arrowsmith added.
A dozen killer earthquakes
However, "relative to the 20-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid
1990s, the Earth has been more active over the past 15 or so years,"
said Stephen S. Gao, a geophysicist at Missouri University of Science
and Technology. "We still do not know the reason for this yet. Could
simply be the natural temporal variation of the stress field in the
earth's lithosphere." (The lithosphere is the outer solid part of the
Earth.)
While the Chilean earthquake wasn't directly related to Japan's 7.0-
magnitude temblor, the two have some factors in common.
For one, any seismic wavesthat made their way from Japan to the
Chilean coast could play a slight role in ground-shaking.
"It is too far away for any direct triggering, and those distances
also make the seismic waves as they would pass by from the Haiti or
Japan events pretty small because of attenuation," Arrowsmith told
LiveScience. (Attenuation is the decrease in energy with distance.)
"Nevertheless, if the Chilean fault surface were close to failure,
those small waves could push it even closer."
In addition, both regions reside within the Ring of Fire, which is a
zone surrounding the Pacific Ocean where the Pacific tectonic plate
and other plates dive beneath other slabs of Earth. About 90 percent
of the world's earthquakes occur along this arc. (The next most
seismic region, where just 5 to 6 percent of temblors occur, is the
Alpide belt, which extends from the Mediterranean region eastward.)
Colliding plates
The Chilean earthquake occurred at the boundary between the Nazca and
South American tectonic plates. These rocky slabs are converging at a
rate of 3 inches (80 mm) per year, according to the USGS. This huge
jolt happened as the Nazca plate moved down and landward below the
South American plate. This is called a subduction zone when one plate
subducts beneath another.
(Over time, the overriding South American Plate gets lifted up,
creating the towering Andes Mountains.)
The plate movement explains why coastal Chile has such a history of
powerful earthquakes. Since 1973, 13 temblors of magnitude 7.0 or
greater have occurred there, according to the USGS.
In fact, the Chile earthquake originated about 140 miles (230
kilometers) north of the source region of the magnitude 9.5 earthquake
of May 1960, considered the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake
in the world. The 1960 earthquake killed 1,655 people in southern
Chile, unleashing a tsunamithat crossed the Pacific and killed 61
people in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines.
In November 1922, a magnitude-8.5 earthquake occurred about 540 miles
(870 kilometers) to the north of Saturday's earthquake, triggering a
local tsunami that inundated the Chile coast and crossed the Pacific
to Hawaii.
Because Saturday's earthquake was so huge, the amount of shaking
experienced in Chile would likely have caused just as much damage had
a similar-sized event occurred elsewhere, said Baldwin, the USGS
scientist.
"If [the quake] were in Los Angeles you'd probably have massive
destruction too," Baldwin said in a telephone interview.
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