Last updated on September 5th, 2012
For those of you who have been reading this site for awhile know that one of my interests and curiosities is the geophysical going’s on of our planet, including earthquakes. Well, it is interesting to notice that there have been a curious number of earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater during the past week including several quakes near the magnetic poles.
The crustal tectonic plates are alive with activity, certainly during the past week. Knowing that the crustal plates are all ‘floating’ atop very hot thick soupy magma, I can’t help but wonder if it could ever be possible given the right conditions and stresses, to have a relatively sudden ‘crack up’ or shifting of the plates. It’s an apocalyptic thought, but who’s to say…
The Pacific Ring Of Fire is always particularly active compared to the rest. This last week there were quakes all over the place on various tectonic plate boundaries.
Here is a time-lapse daily map of earthquakes of Magnitude 5 or greater these past 7 days followed by an image of them all together.
The survival preparedness angle, and the take-away from information such as this, is to realize and know that the natural environment we live in could become our demise in a heartbeat. While lots of focus is targeted on man-made risks (rightfully so… the teetering global financial system, the systems of supply and distribution that most of us depend upon for survival, on and on…), we should also be prepared for natural disaster.
There certainly are plenty of reasons to be prepared.
Update:
A report from the volcanology office in Bandung (the capital of West Java province in Indonesia) shows that the activities of Krakatau (world famous volcano) has been on the rise over the past few days, reaching almost 90 eruptions per day prompting officials on Monday to issue a warning for local residents and tourists.
Update: SEP-4
A little over 24 hours since this article, 16 magnitude 5 or greater earthquakes have occurred around the Philippines / Indonesia region. These are not just aftershocks, as they are located in many different areas. Something is going on here…
Update: SEP-5
One day later, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Costa Rica! Again, something out of the ‘usual’ is and has been happening of late…
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“I can’t help but wonder if it could ever be possible given the right conditions and stresses, to have a relatively sudden ‘crack up’ or shifting of the plates. It’s an apocalyptic thought, but who’s to say…”
I guess you mean “all at once”.
If a subduction zone slipped all the way from Chili to the Pacific Northwest – that might set a new record for earthquake energy release – a record setting Mega Quake of 10 or 11 on the Richter scale. A new kind of 9/11 so to speak
@Morbid, yes that’s what I meant… all-at-once, or, in rapid succession chain reaction. Like cracking an egg shell. It all looks fine and smooth until…
And then there goes Katla and Tambora and every hot spot…YIKES
IF Planet X is real, and by so many ancient cultures around the world accuonts, the Bible mentionings, the physical evidence of past pole shifts seen in the magnetic alignment of hardened rock…
IF Planet X is real, it will be “A Most Terrible Day” per ZetaTalk
Lightnbug, I read that site too, Don’t know what to think of it ??? But if you really take any stock/consider what they say, then the great state of Illinios will become a bowl of rice krispies when the New Madrid starts moving. I’m just east of it and we have felt a few shakes! Seen some brick on the sidewalk. Maybe , I should have kept my sailboat.
@sixpence
i read zetalk 2 years ago, got depressed, then someone redirected me to Matthews Messages, and everything seems so much better.
THEN, a month ago, i’ve just been thinking, all those ancient accounts of Nibiru (aka Planet X), and my JR. HIGH teach talking about past pole shifts ()this was back in the early early 80s), and NOW all those sinkholes, earthquakes, crazy abnormal weather….then i started researching it again, and found BackToConstitution on youtube and the one video about the Insider who saw Nibiru on the Hubble Telescope, and now, i’m all re-depressed again.
because IF Planet X is real, there really won’t be a “safe” place to be.
but the worst part is if you have kids, and i do…
I don’t get depressed, don’t have time! Got thing to do. Reading that stuff should get you the urgency to prep, prep, & prep. Its not all for not, wasted time? If not for yourself, your children and service to others. The only time I get depressed is when my garden looks wilty, then I feel like the plants , droopy. Chear up, the sun will shine again, the birds will sing. Nature is just a humming, so should we!
Lightnbug,
If you set in the garden, get down real low, there is life just going to & fro, the ants, cucumber bettles, butterflies, They are busy, busy , busy, not depressed? You have too much idol time for your mind to wonder? Ever done a recipe or made something from a blueprint? Your mind can’t wonder off or you get it all wrong! Life is like that, don’t wonder off or you get it all wrong. Stay focused! Do soemthing productive with your hands, make something, dig in the dirt, raise some animals, grow something. Here on my homestead, my wife takes care of me, is always cooking, (expermenting)washing, carding, dying, & spinning wool, Learning ways to prepare food for storage. We’re just like that ant! You know, the one the grasshopper coudn’t get to stop & play!
Great advice sixpence, I already garden–have a small garden business 😉
Have a few other handmade art & craft businesses too.
Teaching my kids to cook, and I make their lunch daily so they dont have to eat that chemical-gmo-artificial fuel color-hormone laden school lunch.
Built something from a blueprint? I hold a U.S. patent on a brewing vessel, and remodelled a 113 yr victorian, although I had contractors do the labor, if that counts 🙂
My problem is I don’t have enough time in the day to do everything I want!
I had a large ($10K) collection of vintage children’s books that took me 15 years to amass because I had always wanted these books as a kid and only as an adult I could finally buy them, then a family member recently dumped while I was out of state–which was my plan for my retirement to read them while getting a tan on an island beach somewhere…
I read & watch videos while I knit, so I guess I need more diversion, lol.
Although I would love to learn how to process wool (now, just got to get a goat or some angora rabbits), and maybe one day how to fix parts on a car.
I’ve been trying to find a “good” place to relocate for 2 years ongoing now, and I just take many many factors into consideration–terrain layout, climate, water source, elevation, road access ingress & egress (fire hazard, earthquake trap), population makeup, school rating, jail locations, sex offender locations, farmers markets in the area, stores, agriculture laws (Arizona & Hawaii & California have many restrictions on importing plant material), etc. so probably more than the average person as being a single mom has certain factors, and this includes the possibility of Planet X. Thus, my re-research into Planet X lately…
ON NOVEMBER 7TH A 7.4 EARTH QUAKE IN GUATEMALA AND MEXICO DAMAGE AND DEATH TOLL IS GOING UP IN GUATEMALA, AND MANY BUILDINGS WERE DAMAGED IN THE SOUTH OF MEXICO HERE IN MEXICO D.F., IT WAS A 7.2, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY AFTER SHOCKS, I NOW AM LIVING 20 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE CITY, AND WILL LEAVE MEXICO ON THE 29TH. BUT THE VOLCANO, HERE IN MEXICO IS BEEN MONITORED 24/7 WITH A TELEVISA CAMARA, WHERE THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN STRANGE LIGHTS AND UFO’S BUT THIS WAS A LONG SHIP WITH LIGHTS THAT WENT RIGHT IN THROUGH THE CENTER THEY SAID LIKE 20 BLOCKS LONG AND 1 BLOCK WIDE THIS WAS A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE YOU CAN CHECK . NOTICIAS TELEVISA FENOMENO DE LUZ EN POPOCATEPETL.