by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
No matter how bad things get, some skeptics will simply never admit that what we are experiencing is unusual. We live at a time of seemingly endless wars, growing global hunger, alarming outbreaks of disease and constant natural disasters, but they just keep telling us that everything is fine. Russia and Ukraine are absolutely pummeling one another, Iran and Israel are firing ballistic missiles at each other, and we are facing severe shortages of oil and natural gas in the months ahead. Meanwhile, global food production will be way down this year thanks to a historic fertilizer crisis, unprecedented drought and a “Godzilla El Niño” that is on the way. I just don’t understand how some people can be so cavalier about all of this.
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Everything is being shaken, and that includes the ground underneath our feet.
Less than 24 hours ago, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake absolutely rocked the Philippines…
At least 32 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck an island in the Philippines, causing landslides and buildings to collapse into rubble.
Eyewitnesses on Mindanao in the south of the country said people rushed out their houses into the streets for safety as the ground shook, while footage of a school in Digos showed young children screaming as the earthquake causes an outdoor structure to collapse.
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake also triggered tsunami waves exceeding a metre that impacted nearby coastlines.
This was an immensely destructive quake, and there was a tremendous amount of panic as numerous large buildings suddenly collapsed…
Of course most of us will have totally forgotten about this disaster by tomorrow because the news cycle will be feeding us lots of new things to focus on.
But one of these days “the Big One” will hit the west coast of the United States.
In fact, scientists have determined that the amount of tectonic stress that has built up in Southern California is at the highest level ever recorded…
Since the last major earthquake to affect the wider Los Angeles region, the Fort Tejon earthquake of 1857, with a magnitude of 7.9, tectonic stress along the fault segments has built up continuously during a prolonged quiet period that has long concerned researchers, given the potential for a large future rupture.
In a new study led by Dr. Liliane Burkhard of the Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences (WP) at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern, an international research team modeled 1,000 years of earthquake history along the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems to estimate the present-day stress loading at Cajon Pass. Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Science Center in Pasadena, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego were involved.
The results show that tectonic stresses in the region have reached and, in some cases, exceeded the highest levels of the last millennium.
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