http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/08/us/nevada-earthquake-swarm/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews
CNN) -- Hundreds of small earthquakes have rumbled under northwestern Nevada like a seismic drumroll since midsummer, and in recent days, they have built to a crescendo.
But the Nevada swarm buzzing in and around the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge has gone on since July 12. In recent days -- since October 30 -- they have grown stronger, with three over magnitude 4.0. The strongest one weighed in Tuesday at magnitude 4.6 -- approaching the threshold of a lightly damaging quake. "There is a slightly elevated risk of a larger earthquake while the swarm is active," said seismologist Ian Madin from neighboring Oregon.
REMARKS: People think about California and the big one all the time whenever earthquakes and the west coast are mentioned, but Oregon is in a bad position too.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/14/us/earthquake-preparedness-oregon/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Nearby Oregon sits on a huge fault line that separates two of the Earth's tectonic plates. One plate lies beneath the Pacific Ocean, off Oregon's coast, and it is being shoved beneath the North American continent, according to Ian Madin, a geologist and chief scientist at Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.
The fault line, known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, could one day cause an even larger quake.
On top of that, we have a lot of mountainous terrain that is highly susceptible to landslides, large areas that are susceptible to liquefaction, and 300 miles of coast that will be inundated by tsunamis that will arrive within 15 to 20 minutes of the earthquake and may locally reach elevations of 100 feet above sea level," he says.
It is these factors that led the Oregon Resilience Plan to conclude that in a worst-case scenario, 10,000 people could be killed, and large areas of Oregon could be without transportation, electricity, water and sewer for several months to several years.
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is actually made up of different clusters, according to Goldfinger. On the south end of the fault, the data shows that an earthquake with a magnitude between the high sevens and low eights occurs every 250 years. "We're 300 years into a 240 year cycle," says Goldfinger.
REMARKS: The prophecies of Edgar Cayce predicted that when the Earth Changes happen it will begin with the Pacific Northwest, after that, California, then South Carolina and Georgia and then NY with quakes and ocean inundation. The timeline was when California has the big one, four months later NY will take the hit. How accurate is this? Well with the severe quakes that have happened Banda Aceh and Sumatra, Fukushima, Christ Church, New Zealand and the massive quake in Chile (that trapped those miners) the axis of the earth was changed each time those quakes occurred. Still you should be mindful.
Still you should be mindful.
Thx, gotta remember to bolt my water heater to the wall, been putting it off for way too long, I live by the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Hope this scenario occurs before the rest of California and New York and New Jersery migrate here.
Yes, Oregon and Washington are just as susceptible to earthquakes is California. This is nothing new. The earth is ever changing and if techtonic plates didn't move the earth would be flat and we wouldn't have mountains. One of the principles of geology is that the processes that formed the earth in the past are still taking place today. Any prophecy that says "when earth changes happen" is really silly, as the earth is dynamic and there are major earthquakes each and every year. Predicting that there will be major eartthquake in the world in any given year is about as easy as predicting that there will be snow in Alaska in any given winter.
