Michael Snyder
End of The American Dream
The ground is constantly shaking in southern California right now, and
this has many concerned that another large earthquake may be coming. I
have been keeping my eye on Cal Tech’s recent earthquake map,
and as I write this article it says that there have been 10,053
earthquakes in California and Nevada over the past 7 days. I have never
seen that number so high, and 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 4th and the
magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit on July 5th. But as you can see from Cal Tech’s map, there has been a tremendous amount of seismic activity along the San Andreas fault as well. As I discussed the other day,
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?
And it isn’t just earthquakes that we need to be concerned about. According to Fox News, “geologists are nervously eyeing eight nearby volcanoes”…
California’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 California to
expect more big earthquakes to come. Some, they say, may even be more
powerful than those experienced in the past few days.
“(These quakes do) not make (the Big One) less likely,” local
seismologist Lucy Jones told The Los Angeles Times. “There is about a
one in 20 chance that this location will be having an even bigger
earthquake in the next few days, that we have not yet seen the biggest
earthquake of the sequence.”
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Andrei Kislyakov
Sputnik
The world geological community is warning that today's seismic activity on our planet is nothing compared with what's to come.
Over the past three years, Pakistan, for example, has been hit by dozens of earthquakes. In March 2005, 80,000 people died under the rubble there. On October 30, the last time nature went on the rampage, there were hundreds of victims. Tens of thousands of people drowned during an overwhelming Asian tsunami at the end of 2004. China and Afghanistan have been rocked by quakes again more recently.
These natural disasters, which have swept our planet in recent years, indicate that the world has entered an era not only of a political, but also of climatic instability. Most scientists - biologists and environmentalists - tend to blame the human race for the catastrophic climate change on the Earth. No doubt, the greenhouse effect due to industrial activity plays a considerable role in global warming, but there are other reasons worth considering. The Earth is rotating around its own axis slower. The International Earth Rotation Service has regularly added a second or two to the length of a 24-hour day in recent years.
This is the main reason, according to Igor Kopylov, professor at Moscow Energy Institute, why the planet - a gigantic electrical machine - has had its energy balance upset. He expressed this viewpoint in 2004. Kopylov is convinced that the Earth has entered the first phase of a global change. A weakening of the Earth's magnetic field was first registered early in the 20th century, and a consistent drop in the speed of rotation, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It has been established that when the Earth's rotation slows by one second a year, it releases a tremendous amount of heat, hundreds of times the volume of energy released by human industrial activity.
If we accept that all processes on Earth run according to cosmic cycles, which, in turn, depend on the Solar System's position in our Galaxy, then humankind may be facing another Great Flood.
The Solar System, including the Earth, travels through the Galaxy in spiraling elliptic paths. The cycle time for the larger spiral is 200-210 million years, and for the smaller one, which determines minor galactic cycles, 26,000 years. Correspondingly, half a cycle lasts 130 centuries. This period almost exactly coincides with the date of the last Flood, the occurrence of which was real. The myths and legends of many peoples including that of the Bible recorded the event.
The Flood has been dated rather precisely: at 11,100 BC. If we accept that the civilized society on Earth has been developing for 400,000 years, then this period saw 30 great floods, and we are witnessing the beginnings of the thirty-first flood.
The cosmic cycles are so gigantically long by human standards that they have little impact on the life of people, but the active initial phase of the galactic cycle is of vital importance for the development of civilization. In the view of Russian scientists, the Earth currently finds itself at precisely this point in the cycle.
The transitional process in the electrical machine "planet Earth" can be divided into three phases. During the first - lasting 300 to 500 years - a relatively quick change in the direction of cross current (according to the law of electric machines) will alter the Earth's magnetic field, with the Northern magnetic pole shifting to the eastern part of the Arctic Ocean.
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The San Francisco Bay Area could be struck by a major earthquake "any day now", says a scientist with the US Geological Survey.
The Hayward fault historically causes a huge earthquake every 140 years and it has been 147 years since the last major quake on the fault.
Hayward caused a magnitude 4.0 earthquake on Tuesday that caused no major damage, but Tom Brocher of the USGS says it will not be long until the next massive quake, which would cause loss of life and economic damage on a large scale.
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The Independent
Incredible footage has emerged showing a 26ft (8m) deep crack in the in the farmland of northwest Mexico, which stretches for over a kilometre.
The crevice which appeared last week, has disconnected Highway 26 between Hermosillo and the coast, Sky News reported.
Drivers, including farm workers, have been forced to navigate around the colossal trench.
The video showcasing the crack that in some parts is 16ft (5m) wide, was shot using a camera attached to a drone device.
It shows vehicles stopped beside the crack, while a green tractor drives away from the scene. People below the drone appear to be discussing the situation.
